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by trescenzi 3mo ago
By the standards of someone as articulate as Le Guin it's definitively a rant.
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
The fundamental reason that climate change is an issue is because it happens over timescales which the ecosystem and human society struggle to keep up. No one reasonable believes we can cool from where we're headed, minus some extreme
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
The thing that sucks is it doesn’t matter if you don’t get sucked in. Society is and as a result even if you the individual feel valued society largely will not value you. Of course it’s better for your mental health to escape the trap of b
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
No one reasonable is concerned for publishers they are concerned for the books. Assuming the allegations are correct historical artifacts are being destroyed with no trace. It doesn’t even matter if they republish it. The artifact itself an
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
I really enjoy working with Gleam which is a rather boilerplate heavy language. However most of the work is managed by a really well built LSP. If you're writing a strongly type language it's easy to programmatically manage all of
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
Another git command I love using is `git add -p`. I always want to commit in chunks as I go but sometimes I wait to long or realize later I could have broken it up. Being able to select only pieces of a file to add to a specific commit is s
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
The truth is that they are tools for language manipulation. Advanced mathematics is language manipulation. Multiplication is not. Using it to describe them as having a critical flaw is a red herring. Using it to help people understand what
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
Yea to be more explicit than the other reply they are being fined for the theft of the books not training on them. They trained on tons of legally procured books by destructively scanning and OCRing them. It was discovered in legal filings
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
Plus on top of that it's been ruled that training on copyrighted material is allowed because it's transformative. As a result even if the model output is copyrighted training on it would be as allowed as training on books.
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
Well in this case that’s a valid complaint. The tax code changes yearly. If the primary reason an llm can get through a return is because it’s been trained on some example returns then it’ll work for a year. Which I don’t disagree that’s us
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
Natural language is an imprecise interface. It really ideally is the interface of last resort. If you have a straight line from problem to solution you do not need natural language. It’s only if there isn’t one that you do. And in that case
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
That’s what I pay in Connecticut for electricity. I believe most of New England and California are in the price range. I’ve got a Prius Prime and only at around $4+ a gallon does it start to become cheaper to charge than just use gas since
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
A large study linked higher consumption of several *artificial* sweeteners to faster declines in memory and thinking skills.
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
Yea we saw an anonymous question “Are you using AI to be more efficient” start at 30/70 yes/no and flip to 90/10 after a mandate. I know that’s a very different question but it shows that anon questions are still directly inf
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
In a piece that is making a persuasive argument facts are usually included to back up the argument. So I think it is fair to assume the author of the piece believes this is a key part of their argument, which they seem to also think given t
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
This is something you could empirically study. Looks like this NASDAQ study from a few years back has some numbers. At 3 months, that’s what’s in their chart, it’s still about 50/50. At 3 years it’s 29% with returns greater than 10% an
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
It depends upon why you have issues with LLMs. If you’re just concerned about quality then sure the dissonance isn’t intolerable. If you’re concerned about their ethics then this becomes a much more challenging position to have.
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
There is a we though. Society might not act collectively or via central planning but culture can function as such to a degree. The culture in the US is currently that it is ethical to seek returns on your capital regardless the source. This
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
It’s sort of all over the place but it’s mostly the other way round. The poles might see like +5-8c. It’s also the overall temperature. Today’s high temperature where I am is 33 and the low is 25. 33 isn’t super unusual, maybe a dozen days
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
Hoot[1] already exists and does a very good job of running scheme in web assembly. Everything Spritely is working on is pretty cool. 1: https://spritely.institute/hoot/
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
There’s two kinds of Effective Altruism(EA). The kind Peter Singer and others promoted for decades and the kind that’s now part of Silicon Valley and finance. The Peter Singer kind basically just says “reduce the most suffering you can” and
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
My stance is more that compute isn’t the limiting factor anymore. These models are useful if you’re a software dev. What we need is time to integrate these models in ways that are useful to normal people. I do not share the belief that if w
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
It’s because speedometers aren’t showing a fraction of a whole. Analog clocks work by showing how far through the minute/hour/12 hour period you are. Speedometers are just sticks pointing at numbers. Analog speedometers do however
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
Totally agree. One thing the AI bros believe though is that growth == useful. If you strongly believe that the larger the model the smarter it is then you think through growth we get AGI which implicitly is useful because reasons.
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by trescenzi 3mo ago
Yep this is why I prefer analog watches. They are much faster to internalize the time but slower to convert to numbers. Because it’s an abstraction I innately know as someone who learned to read them as a child they are very familiar and ea
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by trescenzi 4mo ago
This is a large part of why I went with a Retroid Pocket over buying a Switch 2. It’s not nearly as powerful but it’ll run Linux and most indie games I buy on GOG. It’s more work of course but knowing that the games I buy I’ll be able to pl
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by trescenzi 4mo ago
Huh what is dystopian about that? I’m just referencing how MMT prescribes to solve for inflation and the reality that it’s hard in a democracy to raise taxes.
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by trescenzi 4mo ago
Yea the covid money printing is regularly pointed to as a reason why MMT is clearly bad but that ignores that there’s literally a solution to this problem in MMT. Raise taxes to reclaim the money. It’s a trivial solution which is sadly poli
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by trescenzi 4mo ago
1999, 2006, 2010, 2011. There are others with multiple 100+ days but no others with 100+ in a row. This is the source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search?datasetid=GHCND Not all of the stations have temp data so
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by trescenzi 4mo ago
I was curious how extreme this was in comparison to the past. I grew up near Philly so I looked at the Mount Holly historical data set. Since 1996, that’s the cutoff of the data I found, there’s been 4 summers with two 100+ days in a row in

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