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by vector_spaces 10d ago
Judgments are not generally impossible to automate -- judgements are typically binary or quantifiable interpretations, so in some sense are perfect targets for automation, but the sheer volume of judgements needed to build something coheren
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by vector_spaces 11d ago
The certitude with which you condemn your peer without the slightest consideration for subtlety or alternate explanations for what you've understood to be true -- this comment is such a beautiful encapsulation of the state of discourse
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by vector_spaces 15d ago
Do you "know", in any meaningful sense, any of OpenAI's recently publicized proofs? Do you suppose that there is any large community of non-academics that does? One of the points the parent makes, along with the TFA, is that
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by vector_spaces 16d ago
"What if I made X?" is basically Product Development Antipattern #1. Most feedback you get here is incredibly low signal. The stakeholder you're talking to isn't a technical person in all likelihood, so they probably are
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by vector_spaces 17d ago
There have been a few papers recently suggesting that ChatGPT responds differently to different demographics. Specifically, depending on your gender, education level, socioeconomic status, race, and other characteristics, or how it reads th
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by vector_spaces 23d ago
I have never been in the situation of knowingly taking salary from any fascist and would never tolerate it. I've left jobs I needed over this. My "walking away" was more about wanting to work on stuff in my day job that felt
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by vector_spaces 23d ago
I completely agree with your critique here but I will say that I have had difficulty understanding pure math texts because of 'colorful' language -- e.g. "chattier" treatments of mathematical analysis. But I will also sa
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by vector_spaces 24d ago
For the record I am with you and OP in the sense that I personally would struggle with such proximity. But the reality is that even if you do what I did and give up quite a bit of salary in exchange for something so mundane as the same work
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
> the majority of the public This requires some citation or justification. Diagnosis is not a criminal conviction in a North American court of law. In particular, reasonable doubt -- particularly among casual, non-clinical, self-deputize
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
Buying a company is very rarely about buying the tech, at least principally. It is true, as others have pointed out, that Nvidia could have "rolled their own" Hugging Face far more cheaply and probably in about the same amount of
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
RE AI writing and slang, the particularities of the examples aren't so important. My point wasn't to comprehensively catalog of every instance where we're losing something by not having timestamps on textlog specifically. The
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
By "mints" I meant the family lamiaceae, so pretty broadly which contains sages, rosemaries, basils, teak, verbena, and in hindsight of course contains examples like this which straddle medicine (depending on dosage and circumstan
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
There has been some research on spearmint suggesting anti-androgen effects in PCOS, which is a bit unexpected to me as I wouldn't expect mint-family herbs to have much hormone modulating effect at all. I would imagine there to be simil
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
The irony here is that modern social algorithms actively conceal these for exactly the same reason. Social feeds want to show you a steady stream of content that you are likely to engage with. They are incentivized to frame content as liter
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
One tip: I suggest that you stop cluttering your writing with parentheticals. If it's worth saying at all then it's likely not actually a parenthetical. If it's not worth saying, then you should cull it. Yours seem to mostly
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
Likewise online you run into claims that full remote or hybrid can't and doesn't work for anyone, and we all interpret observed dynamics at work to construct theories supportive of whichever configuration is our favorite (WFH&#x2F
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
I expect that people who mention MUDs largely do not expect anyone to know what they are talking about, since these games have nearly always been tiny and nowhere near even nerd pop culture. At least this has been my experience -- so I will
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by vector_spaces 1mo ago
The comments on this HN thread are all very confusing to me and making me wonder if I read a different article altogether. For instance, I am wondering what exactly you are responding to with this comment, since the game described in the ar
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
ADHD is known to be able to affect speed and consistency of output, even of mastered material, and in a variety of ways -- hence "I have no idea..." Standard diagnostic questionnaires commonly reference this. The last part of your
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
The site guidelines also say to assume good faith, to converse curiously, edit out swipes, not go fulminate, and to avoid grandstanding. Before calling me dishonest, did you stop to consider that maybe you didn't understand my comment,
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
You are assuming that because you are giving the operator money that you are entitled to use their website however you please -- that's not how it works. If you enter a brick & mortar establishment and break their rules, even as a
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
I had that one too. I remember I used to crunch on the rice from the bag it came with (I was like 8).
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
I will say that yes, sadly, I have browsed through code written by people, and sadly also have browsed through code written by LLMs. Who do you suppose wrote the code the LLM was trained on? Divinity? I'm being tongue and cheek, but as
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
I'm genuinely a bit floored reading the comments here, but I guess my idea of the average HN commenter's ability to talk to non-technical folks about technical topics is biased because I work and socialize with lots of people who
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
No worries, I thought so, and agree with your point -- I'm a fan of your work and datasette historically was something I leaned on often at work and in personal projects. I have read some interpretations of recent developments that mis
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
> One of the arguments for open source software for end-users has always been the freedom to examine and modify how that software works. A corollary is that more people will have eyes on the source code than the original developer(s), so
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
Beyond what was provided natively in ChromeOS, you could often get something like GalliumOS working on them. My old Chromebook was fairly painful to use as a Chromebook, but GalliumOS made it pretty snappy and fun. Unfortunately that projec
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
What is the point of a sock puppet if you can't be explicit about what specifically you found worrying there? And I thought I was neurotic Anyway recently I watched a video in which Alan Derschowitz compared Jews who voted for Mamdani
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by vector_spaces 2mo ago
I recently googled the phrase "German Jews who voted for NSDAP" after seeing it mentioned in passing The AI overview contained the construction "Consensus on Reddit is..." What a time to be alive, I guess

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