timcobb

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by timcobb 5d ago
> Ebook sales are at least 20% of book sales.
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by timcobb 6d ago
~so then how does one even understand this post? you have a person who appears to have done some sort of expert-level thing; however, their approach doesn't even make sense...?~ edit: GPU discussed here https://cognition.com
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by timcobb 10d ago
I imagine you can perform operations on query plans to transform them and determine equivalence?
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by timcobb 10d ago
I feel like this is always the best design whenever possible.
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by timcobb 11d ago
With the motivation of then being able to use it in closed or non-GPL products down the line?
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by timcobb 11d ago
> There are people who genuinely think quality does not matter as log as it is written in Rust as Rust is memory safe. Is this hyperbolic? Such people are in leadership places?
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by timcobb 11d ago
> The reason for existence of uutils is ideological, not technical. which ideology? Are people saying that there's an ideology of pushing rust for things without concern for quality? Sincere question, because I'm seeing that on
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by timcobb 11d ago
Cargo culting is still a thing, the power imbalance is still real here. Kicking people out is generally much trickier than letting them in, these aren't simple things. Remote populations aren't global idea consumers at the interne
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by timcobb 12d ago
Twitter itself doesn't even suck too much for me it's the broader context that makes it a no go
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by timcobb 12d ago
Haha thanks for the check, I am, tbh, pretty surprised. It's within the same order of magnitude, which is interesting too.
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by timcobb 12d ago
I doubt our flying machines are anywhere near as energy efficient as birds. Our flying machines combust jet fuel, birds can fly by ATP. Not to mention earth-destructing. And going into space is pointless why would any animal ever develop su
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by timcobb 12d ago
And yet
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by timcobb 13d ago
> But the AI is not the problem there; the economic system is These two things are surely related eh? > Torches and pitchforks should be properly applied to the economic and the political elites, not to data centers. What's the d
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by timcobb 13d ago
> why cant people here just read this for face value? Because that would be foolish. What part of public good is stealing giant corpuses from their owners and selling them back to them? People who show contempt for laws do so pretty cons
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by timcobb 14d ago
Just cause something has already happened many times to other people doesn't mean it's not special or interesting when it happens to you. It's been extraordinary seeing this unfold before me. And I think it's worth notin
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by timcobb 14d ago
So what's your function now?
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by timcobb 14d ago
Yeah I agree but I think the question these days isn't about the workplace anymore, it's about the meaning and value of human endeavor.
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by timcobb 14d ago
My first thought after reading this was, good for this person to have only been broken, or nearly broken, I guess, by society finally now. I was broken long before AI. I learned that no one was interested in my doodads even before generativ
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by timcobb 14d ago
This is interesting but as always these days the slop effect just makes it feel like I'm reading Claude which sucks too much and makes me not want to read this. Add to that that this is content marketing, and the whole thing really col
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by timcobb 14d ago
> Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory If only though, because: > There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life
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by timcobb 14d ago
What does success look like?
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by timcobb 15d ago
> but a full data trail of all inputs is difficult to trace through. Great use case for AI agents
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by timcobb 17d ago
I imagine Astra is/will soon will be on Cerebras?
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by timcobb 19d ago
> who clearly isn't a sociopath Or is a sociopath, just not *clearly*.
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by timcobb 19d ago
He could have done this if he was from a more privileged background for sure.
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by timcobb 20d ago
But I meant, isn't saving articles for personal record a legitimate use of Fair Use? Do you really need to paraphrase them first?
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by timcobb 20d ago
So does Fair Use in the states?
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by timcobb 20d ago
I'm confused and disturbed by the need to invoke Pangram (a model) as the arbiter of slop here. Slop, like smut, is self evident. You know it when you see it. Yes, some effort may be required before realizing that something is slop, wh
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by timcobb 21d ago
Is that context rot or model deficiency?
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by timcobb 22d ago
Try codex! This is not the case there at all.

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