vehemenz

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by vehemenz 2mo ago
No one denies that the congenital blind have aphantasia. The problem is that many people default to thinking that their experience is exceptional, when in reality it's completely typical. Once you get past that, there's no "t
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
I wonder what it's like to be born blind and have zero visualization ability. Then I wonder what it must feel like for that person to read sighted people on the Internet debate their supposed lack of visualization abilities.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
I have doubts about aphantasia as a legitimate phenomenon, but whether it is or it isn't, it seems likely that many of the positive reports are a result of a misunderstanding, semantic or otherwise.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
It is a red flag to me too. If you have working vision, the brain is doing a ton of post-processing that you're unaware of. The eyes are part of the brain, after all. Closing them with your eyelids doesn't magically turn off those
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
"Exist" is probably the wrong framing. It doesn't seem unreasonable that such a phenomenon could occur after a traumatic brain injury, for instance. I'm sure there's some evidence of it, neurologically (like split-b
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
You're right. My prices were a few years off. Still, nowhere near the $50k mark.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
It cuts both ways. A GPU in your basement is a depreciating asset with fixed computing power and consumes electricity. Switching model providers is trivial.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
That's only half the reason it's expensive. The other reason is that it would likely take years to spend $4000 (plus the real cost of electricity) worth of tokens on a 3rd-party provider that's running a similar limited, DS F
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
The median price is high because Americans tend to buy more car than they can afford and/or need. If we look at what you can realistically buy OTD (out the door) prices, the picture changes. New Odyssey/Sienna are coming in the lo
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
That’s compatible with the thesis though. Read past the headline. He says good founders learn actual stuff at college and get good at something, without any ambition to make it profitable initially.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
The hukou reforms in May were a good first step, but for now, you're right.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
Small nitpicky correction, but in China, city tiers are designated by policy and generally correlate to the quality of life for the middle class there. The US doesn't have a tier system. If it did, it wouldn't make much sense beca
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
Sign in to Vercel? I don't even know what Vercel is. Sign into Codex, but no Claude Code? However good this software is, it's not going see mainstream adoption.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
The real number has been stable, in the 30-35% range, since 2015. Show you can engage the issue seriously before calling most of the country morons.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
I'd chime in, but I haven't been deemed important enough to get access to delta yet.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
Given that like omnigent and qm already integrate with Slack, it's not a huge surprise that Slack is building agent capabilities directly in. Personally, I'm getting ecosystem fatigue. Who even has the time to set up pilots to fea
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
My org's GitHub Enterprise never goes down. The feature set is almost the same, though it lags a few months behind. At least you don't have to learn anything new.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
My convictions are pretty hollow because I'm demonstrating the pointlessness--or arbitrariness, if you like--of gatekeeping the ranks of the "well-educated," as the author tries to do here.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
> This of course is the cornerstone of Western culture and no well-educated person can be without a knowledge of what is in [the Bible]. Knowing what's in the Bible isn't sufficient. You need to understand the full genealogy of
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
If one builds something with an agent, the process itself is largely opaque. Preserving the transcript shows the reasoning of the agent and the decision process of the builder. This way everyone's on the same page instead of re-prompti
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
Exactly. They're rejecting 85% of applicants because they're not qualified, but the 15% they admit are, by and large, not qualified either. I'm at one of Michigan's peer institutions, and we have the same problem.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
Context limit is far too small to do anything serious, tbh.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
This is unneedfully obtuse. Double hyphens are a stand-in for em dashes in most contexts.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
I switched to auto mode after using manual mode long enough to understand how it works. That takes at least a few days of babysitting prompts. Will new users feel intimidated by being in auto mode right away? More likely they won’t notice.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
You mean the guy hired by the Metaverse guy?
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
Whatever the legitimate issues were, the letter undermines its own credibility with its overbearing and self-righteous tone. Aside from Determinate Systems and the Anduril bit, the complaints lack specificity. The Blueskyisms thrown around
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
I wondered this too. Also, the duration of the task depends on the quality of the prompt and the model used. I have a feeling a lot of these day-long tasks are bogged down by suboptimal tool use and on-demand python slop.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
I’m not saying it’s decisively correlated, or anything on its own, but there sure are a lot of anime avatars in this community.
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
I've been using it for a week or so. The main draw for me is that I can keep my sessions in one database regardless of the model/provider I use. The webapp can access everything remotely, which is convenient when I'm on my ph
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by vehemenz 2mo ago
Trump was elected because of rural/exurban white insecurity and white cultural decline. An election wasn't the cause of all this--it was more of an effect. In other words, even if there's a feedback loop, an election won&#x27

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