thornton

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by thornton 11mo ago
I was imagining to click a link to an indie hacker’s blog about a story outlining how it’s beneficial to “fish in the wrong place” to solve a problem or something
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by thornton 11mo ago
This is one of those times when I want someone to explain the value to me. Like is this to help coding agents be more efficient? Forgive my ignorance!
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by thornton 11mo ago
We’ve done similar work. Use case was identifying pages in an old website that now 404 and where they should be redirected to. Basically doc2vec and cosine similarity. Totally nonsensical matching outputs to the point matching on title tag
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by thornton 11mo ago
Weird unethical employer hack aside.. No one that works with/for me has the interest in an adjacent position with a more promising career trajectory.. so how common is this?
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by thornton 1y ago
Agreed!
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by thornton 1y ago
that AI is trained on the old way of doing things. So AI can continue coding or can continue generating UIs that are all You know, Predictions based off of what the past was like. But then we’re at this weird inflection point too where you
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by thornton 2y ago
The main problem with Google anti competition is how chrome is being leveraged to mine user behavior signals for search engine algos. That is the unfair advantage that needs to be killed off
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by thornton 2y ago
That’s 20.83% I don’t think it’s that far off. I just opened screen time in my iPhone, checked devices for phone, selected weekly tab, and flipped back last few weeks to get average of 42 hours per week, with 168 hours in a week puts me at
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by thornton 2y ago
These systems will collapse over time because the incentives are being removed for them to exist. So you won’t be able to point to your answers in quora or whatever but they’ll live in the training records and data and in some shape in neur
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by thornton 2y ago
Google is doing this because political content is harder to fact check and they do have initiatives to fight misinformation online. Autocomplete/suggest results are an aggregation of related searches so people could search something f
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by thornton 2y ago
Yeah this. Sounded like a specific flavor of ADHD I’ve been lucky enough to build a toolset and team around my ineptness in a bunch of places including memory. Ironically poster sounds pretty smart and good communicator