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by toss1 1y ago
A top expert in US Trust & Estate Tax law whom I know well tells me that although their firm is pushing use of LLMs, and they are useful for some things, there are serious limitations. In the world of T&E law, there are a lot of med
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup, I find LLMs are fantastic for surfacing all kinds of "middle of the road" information that is common and well-documented. So, for getting up to speed or extracting particular answers about a field of knowledge with which I&#x
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by toss1 1y ago
There is no question LLMs are truly useful in some areas, and the LLM bubble will inevitably burst. Both can be simultaneously true, and we're just running up the big first slope on the hype curve [0]. As we learn more about the capab
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The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful(iflscience.com)
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by toss1 1y ago
Excellent work here, on exactly the nits with this great mouse. I came to the MX Ergo when having shoulder surgery and found it worked perfectly only 1-2 days post-op, just putting it in the sling, but it is so much more efficient to use,
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by toss1 1y ago
Convenient — your hike (or climbing with skiis) starts immediately at the train platform!
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by toss1 1y ago
Yes, it's definitely degraded, but there are some categories where it is handy to just get a survey or discover some options. But to really try to actually complete a purchase, it is nearly completed its enshittification.
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by toss1 1y ago
YES, fully agree, and your kid is definitely doing it right! I've also found LLMs to be very helpful in proofreading to find inconsistencies, missing items, stray edits, etc.. Here's one variant of prompt I've used with ChatG
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by toss1 1y ago
YUP. It used to be that people would use local brick & mortar stores to examine the item and then buy it cheaper on Amazon. I now use Amazon to search, then go buy more reliably at the source company itself, a specialized online store,
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by toss1 1y ago
Don't blame it on the PMs (except to the extent they are separating the engineers from the customers). The closer you can get the engineers to the users, the better your product will be, and this goes all the way to the backend and a
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by toss1 1y ago
>>What makes LLMs different? Good question! Writing or calculators likely do reduce our ability memorize vast amounts of text or do arithmetic in our heads; but to write or do math with writing and calculation, we still must fully loa
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by toss1 1y ago
Worked fine here on Firefox/Win11.
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by toss1 1y ago
No, it is not the same thing. Money is NOT the entire (nor even accurate) scorecard for all things. The "free market" is not the best solution to all problems (e.g., start with the Tragedy Of The Commons, which "free markets
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by toss1 1y ago
I hope Kristopher Kortright stays well. He's done great work here. But it seems a major OpSec flaw to allow one's identity to be publicized after cracking into the wartime systems of a genocidally aggressive state known for epidem
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by toss1 1y ago
Got it. So in your world, everything where you don't get the best service for the cheapest price is extortion because you think you are entitled to that. Paying extra for expedited service is standard almost everywhere. Next you'l
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by toss1 1y ago
Call a plea bargain a distortion or corruption of due process, but even with plea bargains, due process is far less bad than extortion. Plea bargains, within limits and when not abused are also sensible for both sides. An accused who is gui
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by toss1 1y ago
"only difference" and the quotes around "due process" are doing a lot of very heavy lifting there, trying to falsely equate due process and extortion The entire point of Due Process is that it is NOT extortion. It is ent
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by toss1 1y ago
OK And exactly ZERO of those licenses allow you to get anywhere near an autopilot system. Those licenses are for Visual Flight Rules only. You are not even allowed to fly in conditions that require you to use instruments. To get to use an
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by toss1 1y ago
>>Why would they call it anything else when it can drive itself from point A to point B without any interventions most of the time Why? Because the FACT is that you must put in the caveat MOST OF THE TIME , or someone is likely to
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by toss1 1y ago
^^^^ Excellent idea and thinking ahead. Great suggestion to make in advance placeholders to contain side projects.
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by toss1 1y ago
Driving a car in the USA with a license requires passing about a 5-minute written test about rules of the road and five minutes of a driving test. It is an almost universal event for residents of the country. Piloting an aircraft with an au
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by toss1 1y ago
Yikes You entirely miss the distinction between trained professional and ignorant consumer, "industrial use only" equipment and materials vs everyday consumer goods, things that require technical training and even certification
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by toss1 1y ago
>>Why would they call it "mostly" if the idea has always been that it'd be "full" when it's done and out of beta? Because "Mostly..." is the truth, and then when it is actually "Full...&q
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by toss1 1y ago
The "Autopilot" on planes is a lovely technical distinction. Hardly any non-aviator knows the details, and the common idea is that the plane pilots itself in most phases of non-emergency flight. And indeed, some autopilot functi
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by toss1 1y ago
Musk joined Tesla with the Series B round in 2005. Doesn't seem that way, but it's been 20 years. He first started talking publicly about "Autopilot" or "Full Self Driving" in 2013, so 1.2 would be referred to
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by toss1 1y ago
Yes, that is exactly Tesla's line, and it is entirely beside the point. The point is the EXPECTATION set by decades of basically flat-out lying about the capabilities of "Autopilot" and "Full Self Driving". Hell,
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by toss1 1y ago
This is specifically about long distance running, where basically no animal can keep up. A key hunan advantage was persistence hunting - track and run after a deer (or similar) prey. Tgey can burst outrun the human, burt hemshe keeps on run
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by toss1 1y ago
Yup, +1 for cycling! For me, it's some ankle cartridge destruction from an old fracture that finally put a halt to my formerly extensive trail & XC running & recreational racing. But cycling is coming back to the core of my e
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by toss1 1y ago
The 'elite' are, as a whole (i.e., some exceptions), not the brightest
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by toss1 1y ago
YUP Terms and phrases I've heard verbatim from investors and/or founders: "There's a thousand ways to screw minority shareholdeers." "Cram-down" (repeatedly, like it is an ordinary thing to do, effectively

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