tunesmith

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by tunesmith 5mo ago
I recently tried to launch a site for friends and family that allowed people to make confidence predictions on various outcomes so they could track their calibration over time. It was like "I'm 84% certain Kansas City will beat Bu
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by tunesmith 5mo ago
Happens to songwriters too, sometimes it goes somewhere. I had a dream once, on the morning of a July 4th, that for some reason took a really common cliche jazz/blues riff and slowed it way down while I was dreaming of a bunch of Ameri
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by tunesmith 5mo ago
How so?
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by tunesmith 5mo ago
I think as it becomes more common for executives to think we can replace software engineering with agents, I wonder if they might be basing their decisions off of unrealistic perceptions of the average software engineer. I guess I'm mu
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by tunesmith 6mo ago
I'm working on https://concludia.org , a site that helps groups of people collaborate on arguments and conclusions. I don't really have any revenue plans for it currently as I suspect it will be rather niche -- I certai
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by tunesmith 7mo ago
It feels like an appreciation for hypotheticals or givens is missing here. One can simultaneously be against the war and the bombing in general, and also accept it as a given and then think about a certain situation being understandable wit
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by tunesmith 7mo ago
Really fascinating article. Bits of bias here and there, like "The US military has been trying to close the gap between seeing something and destroying it for as long as that gap has existed" -- you can respond to seeing and under
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by tunesmith 7mo ago
What's your therefore??
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by tunesmith 7mo ago
haha. Nervous to. :)
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by tunesmith 7mo ago
The article says it's from first principles and looks pretty deep, and I didn't have the time to exhaustively read it myself, so I used my side project concludia to try and analyze and graph the argument... you can see the argumen
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by tunesmith 7mo ago
Isn't most of the positive impact not going to be "new projects" but the relative strength of the ideas that make it into the codebase? Which is almost impossible to measure. You know, the bigger ideas that were put off befor
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by tunesmith 7mo ago
Not even close, not when all things are considered. $50/hour is 100k/year, which is still considered a decent salary. 24k/year in 2000-2002 was definitely not considered a decent salary. $12/hour for sw engineers was evi
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by tunesmith 7mo ago
In Portland, there was a time in 2000-2002 where Nike and Intel had contract offers out to SW developers for $12/hour, and were getting slammed with applications.
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
That's not on my radar right now. I'm not explicitly rejecting the path, but I'm more intent on figuring out ways to make it easier for people to collaborate on arguments together, which means one destination for now.
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
While each of these are good to keep in mind while reading, I don't find them very exhaustive or derivable. I prefer the Theory of Constraints (Eli Goldratt)'s "Thinking Tools", specifically the "categories of legit
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
Yeah... so far, I have found that trying to fully justify a political conclusion has a way of moderating the conclusion. But it's still possible to arrive at very different well-reasoned conclusions just from different axiomatic person
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
Coincidentally, I've been toying with using concludia to make the argument behind a tech design for an upcoming project... when one of our teams is enamored with graph database for it - probably neptune in our case. So far I'm hav
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
Yes - currently, each argument/graph is independent, but I've designed it in a way that should be compatible with future plans to "transclude" parts of other public graphs. Like if some lemma is really valuable to your o
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
Yeah I usually ask what open questions it has, versus when it thinks it is ready to implement.
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
ah, so cool. Yeah that is definitely bigger than what I ask for. I'd say the bigger risk I'm dealing with right now is that while it passes all my very strict linting and static analysis toolsets, I neglected to put detailed layer
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
I guess this is another example - I literally have not experienced what you described in... several weeks, at least.
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
You can actually register now (with a waiting list) and make your own private graphs, if that's what you meant by a personal version. (You'd be like member #4 haha) I've actually had a lot of fun hooking it up to LLM. I have
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
I tend to be surprised in the variance of reported experiences with agentic flows like Claude Code and Codex CLI. It's possible some of it is due to codebase size or tech stack, but I really think there might be more of a human learnin
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
Frustration at that kind of debate has been a large part of the motivation, how it occludes so much of what ideally should be a dialectic. I especially dislike how if someone gets flustered, they're seen as losing.
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
Yeah, I only just yesterday got it to the point where people can create their own arguments. I was just using it to check my own assumptions on why I have such a complicated "end-of-month finances" list of things to do. :) But I a
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
https://concludia.org/ - I've mentioned it here before, it's a site to help people reason through and understand arguments together. No real business purpose for it yet, it's more an idea I've had for ye
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
I think a super common problem with any todo system is the "capture anything" mindset. They've even redefined what "focus" means, like now it just means to focus on whatever thing you're focused on at that mome
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
Well that's what akrasia is. It's not necessarily a contradiction that needs to be reconciled. It's fine to accept that people might want to behave differently than how they are behaving. A lot of our industry is still based
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by tunesmith 8mo ago
If you have a ChatGPT account, there's nothing stopping you from installing codex cli and using your chatgpt account with it. I haven't coded with ChatGPT for weeks. Maybe a month ago I got utility out of coding with codex and the
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by tunesmith 9mo ago
I love rebase locally, especially when I have a few non-urgent branches that sit around for a little while. I hate rebase after pushing. The rule of thumb that has worked for me is "don't rewrite someone else's history".

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