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by tunesmith 1y ago
So if not graphql, then what's the latest "in-favor" thinking to solve the problem of underfetching and overfetching? Especially in an environment with multiple kinds of frontends?
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by tunesmith 1y ago
It's just still so complicated when you are dealing with any level of digestive issues. Sometimes you're supposed to lay off high-fiber fruits like apples. And then there's soluble versus insoluble fibers (sometimes you need
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by tunesmith 1y ago
I've been working on a calibration website / app. Along the lines of predictionbook, metaculus - something that helps you be "well calibrated", but more playful/fun than metaculus. It doesn't have a lot of upsi
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by tunesmith 1y ago
I think the definitions of complex/complicated get muddled with the question of whether something is truly a closed system. Often times something is defined as "complex" when all they mean is that their model doesn't inc
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by tunesmith 1y ago
It just means they haven't modeled the externalities. A plane on the ground isn't emergent. In the air it is, at least until you perfectly model weather, which you can't do, so its behavior is emergent. But I think a plane is
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by tunesmith 1y ago
I find it disappointing that openai doesn't really mention anything here along the lines of having an accurate model of reality. That's really what the problem is with sycophancy, it encourages people to detach themselves from wha
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by tunesmith 1y ago
What of the theory that they just want to inflate their way out of a debt crisis?
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by tunesmith 1y ago
I think the effects are more indirect. For instance, GenAI can enable Google to serve summarized content (rather than just search results) that users find useful, which then cuts in to the margins of companies that manually generate that co
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by tunesmith 1y ago
Pretty much any advanced music theory question. Or even just involving transposed chord progressions.
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by tunesmith 2y ago
I've heard that there's polling lately to indicate that's not true (unsure on source, it might have been an interview at Vox.com), and that higher turnout would have advantaged the Republicans further.
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by tunesmith 2y ago
I like to think of problems as having two components: specification and implementation. With using GenAI (and/or "being a manager") aren't they somewhat inversely related? I find implementation level programmers to gener
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by tunesmith 2y ago
In music school, I was in the position of having excellent relative pitch and zero perfect pitch. In the ear training courses, I actually scored better than the peers with perfect pitch, as it seemed they had difficulty with a lot of the ex
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by tunesmith 2y ago
You mean the whole local-maxima problem?
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by tunesmith 2y ago
I'm actually surprised to read the opinions of people who watched it and didn't like it. I thought the problem was always just that not enough people knew it existed, but if they watched it, they would have loved it. I guess I mus
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by tunesmith 2y ago
My point is that despite what people say, it doesn't seem that AVP is abandoned.
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by tunesmith 2y ago
I feel like I keep getting tricked by the naysayers on this one, sometimes it's people saying Apple is abandoning the project, or that the next model will come out in the next 12 months, or that it's useless. Meanwhile, Apple actu
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by tunesmith 2y ago
I get the most value out of diagrams that are fast to create during conversations, and largely ephemeral. A tool for sharing understanding, not a resource to be shared widely for long periods of time. I'll often draw very similar diagr
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by tunesmith 2y ago
We've just gotten through a big second generation of available models, but at least for the projects I'm on, I still feel just as far away as ever as being able to trust responses. I spent a few hours this weekend working on a sid
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by tunesmith 2y ago
The best "Paper Apps" concept I've ever experienced was the "Ace of Aces" series of books, published by Nova. Two books, one for you and one for a friend, in a airplane dogfight, where through a complicated page-fli
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by tunesmith 2y ago
I played later, still I thought perfectly, but was 4-5 hearts short. Then I played again and cleared the board with 2 hearts to spare, and another time with 1 to spare. I've scored 303 and 302 points. It might be possible to score high
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by tunesmith 2y ago
Huh, I thought I played perfectly, but when I cleared the board (aside from the dragon), I had only 14 hearts left.
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by tunesmith 2y ago
If your loud agreement with a lie is disseminated far more widely than your loud agreement with a truth, does it feel like you have free speech?
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by tunesmith 2y ago
There's a metaculus prediction of whether TikTok will be lawfully banned on 1/20, and they were 99.9% confident it would be in effect. ( https://www.metaculus.com/questions/31247/tiktok-ban-in-effe... ) I
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by tunesmith 2y ago
First I've heard of this one. I never got into Inform7 because I didn't find the language very discoverable; it felt like writing AppleScript. Do you know of any links to larger examples of Dialog code, like a full open source gam
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by tunesmith 2y ago
This is fun, and holds true in the creative writing group I run. We use a website I programmed that helps us collaborate on writing branching fiction. We have a mapping utility that creates graphs like in the article, except more animated (
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by tunesmith 2y ago
It's the distinction between the terror of the victim, and the terror of the witnesses.
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by tunesmith 2y ago
That's for sure. I've had a lucky career where I feel like I've made above average compensation the entire time, but my upside is that I can maybe retire in my mid-50s rather than mid-60s. Which is about when (I fear) ageis
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by tunesmith 2y ago
What a wonderful story. I've also had an experience of someone in a writing community being able to name a story I read in my youth, it is really a unique feeling to have a distant hazy memory made real due to the wisdom of another. It
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by tunesmith 2y ago
Well, I'm blown away. "Show me how information propagates through a neural net." I feel like this is the one thing that's been missing from all the LLMs: actual visual explainers, whether image or video. python plots onl
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by tunesmith 2y ago
push it too far and inflation goes up though. It's "the dosage makes the poison". Then, printing even more money leads to hyperinflation, etc, etc

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