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by tmvphil 1y ago
I simply do not care if advertisers form an accurate view of my desires and beliefs.
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by tmvphil 1y ago
I think for me personally, such a linear breakdown of the design process doesn't work. I might write down "I want to do X, which I think can be accomplished with design Y, which can be broken down into tasks A, B, and C" but
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by tmvphil 1y ago
Waterfall might be what you need when dealing with external human clients, but why would you voluntarily impose it on yourself in miniature?
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by tmvphil 1y ago
Sorry, I'm going to be critical: "We follow a strict 5-phase discipline" - So we're doing waterfall again? Does this seem appealing to anyone? The problem is you always get the requirements and spec wrong, and then AI s
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by tmvphil 1y ago
The way it totally disregards the many explicit instructions given in the "four panel" comic strip.
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by tmvphil 1y ago
Fundamentally we still have the flat namespace of top level python imports, which is the same as the package name for ~95% of projects, so I'm not sure how they could really change that.
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by tmvphil 1y ago
Kind of have one with the missing image benchmark: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/#more-honest-resp...
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by tmvphil 1y ago
As opposed to a hypothetical scenario where it is legal to participate in illegal transactions?
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by tmvphil 1y ago
I don't think a chipotle burrito is actually 1600 calories unless you do something non-standard. Probably 800-1100
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by tmvphil 1y ago
I turn that stuff off and just use `q chat` for everything, which actually works very well in my experience.
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by tmvphil 1y ago
You can define AGI however you want I suppose, but I would consider it achieved when AI can achieve at least about median human performance on all cognitive tasks. Obviously computers are useful well before this point, but it is clearly mea
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by tmvphil 1y ago
> There's already a big meaningful gap between the things AIs can do which humans can't, so why do you only count as "meaningful" the things humans can do which AIs can't? Where did I say there was nothing meanin
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by tmvphil 1y ago
According to this presentation at least, ARC-AGI-2 shows that there is a big meaningful gap in fluid intelligence between normal non-genius humans and the best models currently, which seems to indicate we are not "already there".
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by tmvphil 1y ago
> A theory that demands we accept consciousness emerging from millennia of flickering abacus beads is not a serious basis for moral consideration; it's a philosophical fantasy. Just saying "this conclusion feels wrong to me, so
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by tmvphil 1y ago
ZX calculus is very interesting framework for doing cutting edge research in error correction and gate compilation, but it seems wildly off base as a means of making quantum computing accessible to a broader audience. Anything beyond the si
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by tmvphil 1y ago
Just compared the time to check on a fairly large project: - mypy (warm cache) 18s - ty: 0.5s (and found 3500 errors) They've done it again.
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by tmvphil 1y ago
It's seemed to me that all the productivity gains would be burned up by just making our jobs more and more BS, not be reducing hours worked, just like with previous technology. I expect more meetings, not less work.
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by tmvphil 2y ago
I'm a bit stuck on this, maybe you can explain why an LLM would have any difficulty writing REST API calls? Seems like it should be no problem.
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by tmvphil 2y ago
They have no qubits at all, "logical" or not. yet. They plan to make millions. It is substantially easier to release a plan for millions of qubits than it is to make even one.
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by tmvphil 2y ago
They are currently in the process of creating their own build system: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/3957#issuecomment-265...
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by tmvphil 2y ago
I work in the field. While all players are selling a dream right now, this announcement is even more farcical. Majoranas are still trying to get to the point where they have even one qubit that could be said to exist and whose performance c
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by tmvphil 2y ago
As someone working with it day to day, coming from around 18 years of mostly python, I wish I could say my experience has been great. I find myself constantly battling with the JIT and compilation and recompilation and waiting around all th
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by tmvphil 2y ago
Since 1800 congress has used its constitutional power to establish agencies. It is congress who has the constitutional power to shut them down, not the president. The president executes the laws passed by Congress.
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by tmvphil 2y ago
Only dictionaries. Sets are still unordered. As a person who was just burned.
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by tmvphil 2y ago
Reserving dinner and booking flights is like .01% of my time. Really just negligible, and they are easy enough. Groceries are more time, but I don't really want groceries delivered, I enjoy going to the store and seeing what is availab
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by tmvphil 2y ago
Not the first sentence of the new AP link target, which is much more vague. Kind of annoying for HN to swap it out like this.
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by tmvphil 2y ago
I don't think that's right. It's specifically about China, an adversary we are teetering on the brink of open conflict with. If ByteDance was a south Korean company, I don't think this would have happened.
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by tmvphil 2y ago
By NFC, you mean amiibo? I think "in game perks for buying collectible junk" is not actually a good feature. Motion controls, eh, they're supported on ps5. They could just sell the switch pro controller.
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by tmvphil 2y ago
I am much more depressed by our crushing lack of new housing construction that keeps cities unaffordable for the middle class than I am about new buildings not being sufficiently pleasing to my eye.
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by tmvphil 2y ago
I get this is Nintendo, so it'll never be fixed, but I honestly hate having to buy Nintendo hardware just to play the three or four big-name platform exclusives per generation. It would be so much better for consumers if they would jus

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