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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
:)
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
I am not a religious person, but this feels to me, intuitively, for lack of any better word, and with only the mildest flippancy, satanic. ‘Tech’ culture has gotten very, very weird. It’s turned sour. It’s so far past the point where I no l
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
“Now I know exactly what is going on” is what Claude says right before it commits a baffling blunder.
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
This Fox has a longing for grapes: He jumps, but the bunch still escapes. So he goes away sour; And, 'tis said, to this hour Declares that he's no taste for grapes.
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
It costs advertisers three whole dollars for a user to click on one of these things? That’s hilarious. I’m switching to ChatGPT and I’m going to click on every one. Maybe I’ll even write a browser extension that does it for me.
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
Assertions are for testing at runtime. They demonstrate that the behavior is correct on one input when it runs. Formal verification proves that the code is correct on _all_ inputs _before_ it runs.
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
Only four Maya codices survived destruction by the Spanish…
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
They do. Often for different kinds of things. It’s not “government good, private bad” or the other way around. Both are facile views.
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
They do, and they often do collect accurate data. Philip Morris, for example, knew about the danger of smoking for decades, and Exxon knew all about the greenhouse effect. They didn’t publish that data, of course, and publicly argued to the
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
It’s astonishing how quickly attitudes have shifted on this forum since engineers have been reminded which side of the labor/capital divide they’re really on. I can scarcely believe some of the comments I’m seeing on here these days.
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
comment reads clean. drafting response when it lands. ＊onanizing…
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
Me too. It feels like I’m taking psychic damage from reading so much of this stuff. Contrary to the theory that it’s “just the contract workers’ Nigerian English,” I think the models are developing an ultra-terse hyper-stylized dialect of t
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
I literally will not buy a car that has a microprocessor in it (I will, apparently, never buy a car)
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by throwaway_7274 3mo ago
Correlated events :) The team behind this post is (or at least was as of a few months ago) working with Midjourney.
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by throwaway_7274 4mo ago
Indeed. The most self-important butthurt dweeb I knew in college is now a self-important butthurt founder-influencer with a massive following on X of the sort of unkempt right-winger engineers who are driven by high school revenge fantasies
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by throwaway_7274 4mo ago
In my lifetime I have seen the tech ethos shift slowly, then quickly, from “don’t be evil” to “don’t be a pussy.” It took me utterly by surprise when, after finishing my PhD, I decided it would be less damaging to my soul to go into finance
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by throwaway_7274 4mo ago
LLM-written drivel. Painful to read, and (weak) evidence that the project is equally sloppy. The “author” evidently does not respect their readers.
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by throwaway_7274 5mo ago
I was glued to the window while flying over southern China recently. There is so much infrastructure you can see from the air, even in fairly rural provinces. So many bridges. So many wind turbines. It is visibly a country on the move, a co
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by throwaway_7274 6mo ago
does anyone else detect llm tone in this post?
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by throwaway_7274 7mo ago
kqr didn't make that claim
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by throwaway_7274 9mo ago
It bugs me so much when people say that those black hole pictures “aren’t ‘real’ photographs, they’re composites created from reams of data and math.” All audiovisual media are like that!
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by throwaway_7274 10mo ago
Sorry, I'm not sure I follow what the disagreement is? I don't claim that moving fast necessitates that something is a scam. In any case (and I don't think this bears on your point, it's just something I'd like to a
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by throwaway_7274 10mo ago
Here's an analogous situation that might clarify the dynamic somewhat: 1. Sam Altman: [tells a tall tale to raise 100 quintillion dollars] 2. Outside observer: "hey, these so-called AI researchers have been pulling the wool over o
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by throwaway_7274 10mo ago
Maybe I should clarify that this isn't meant in a combative way, although it is in defense of scientists, who shouldn't be liable for other people's marketing. Here's what's going on here: there's a way that pe
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by throwaway_7274 10mo ago
It’s not, but I can understand how it might look that way to a tech industry professional used to dealing with scams (indeed, there are lots of scam-adjacent startups with quantum-flavored branding). Real science and engineering are just ve
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by throwaway_7274 10mo ago
An old friend of mine went to work at a similar company, seemingly with no qualms. He praised how “nice” the ceo was. It was a sad and eye-opening experience of losing respect for someone. The thing is, a lot of ordinary people in tech are
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by throwaway_7274 11mo ago
Right, yeah, it’s a funny piece of terminology! The sense in which a ‘variable’ ‘varies’ isn’t that its value changes in time, but that its value is context-dependent. This is the same sense of the word as used in math!
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by throwaway_7274 11mo ago
I was hoping the preprint would explain the mysterious ancient runes on the device chassis :(
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
Switching from LaTeX to Typst is like getting introduced to Python after a lifetime writing assembly... except it's also 10x faster
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by throwaway_7274 1y ago
In fact... https://github.com/micheledusi/Griddle

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