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by w10-1 2mo ago
unending thanks, as much for pandoc as for the example of a clear design+implementation that lasts.
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by w10-1 2mo ago
But displacing individual ability is a feature, not a bug. How else could mind-virus like philosophy or religion or science or political legitimacy transit highly-variable humans for generations? Religious organizations, governments, corpor
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by w10-1 2mo ago
> Do it consciously Yes > These words apply to any investment [...] the entire culture has to change I think that's fatalistic. There are plenty of people and legal structures that limit the influence of investors to reasonable
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by w10-1 3mo ago
Interesting reminder: Wall's statement of virtues was provocative as a counter to programmers following corporate rules and various software design fads. But both emphasized personal virtue and reputation in a way that seems quaint in
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by w10-1 3mo ago
These are the right bits to call out. But the effect is to make success more dependent on networks. (If they are using AI as an excuse to make networks more relevant than skills, it relieves competitive pressure.) First, a main draw of law
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by w10-1 3mo ago
> mistake verbosity for authority Isn't that the essence of "attention is all you need"?
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by w10-1 3mo ago
Willa Cather? Homer, or the Homeric tradition, arose as rootless people displaced by drought and war in ~1,000 BC needed to sell the idea that entertaining stranger guests who had only stories from afar was worth doing, and that they shared
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by w10-1 3mo ago
> Apple could take the ChatGPT app down No. If Apple did that without a basis in their own App Store policies, they'd spawn antitrust cases. OpenAI damages are a droplet compared to the App Store revenues. > It's insane to
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by w10-1 3mo ago
motivated reasoning: study in advance of nursing union contract negotiations The sad thing is that there are many issues, but the study didn't really address them. One would hope for more effective critics. The AI application I'd
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by w10-1 3mo ago
> Sounds like Correnti didn't negotiate well Are you sure this is negotiable?
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by w10-1 3mo ago
Note that the objection is as much to the abruptness as the scale of the price increase. Large customers sinking millions into (here aviation) assets rightly expect that their vendors respect their market lifecycles. Starlink's behavio
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by w10-1 3mo ago
pandoc purportedly can run as wasm: https://github.com/haskell-wasm/pandoc-wasm
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by w10-1 3mo ago
Loved it. I would change the timer from text (which I'm constantly reading as it changes) to a progress bar or set of dots which don't require thinking. Also I would use 3 strikes instead of one you're out, because a single
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by w10-1 3mo ago
If decisions are actually being made based on analogies instead of analysis, the whole thing is brittle. The entire military is predicated on physical possession and distance; that's the main reason Ukraine is a quagmire, Iran was a no
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by w10-1 3mo ago
also, asbestos is too small to interact with T-cells, so it must be safe.
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by w10-1 3mo ago
"Fair use" was always fuzzy. To be honest, I care a lot less about slurping up the public internet and private books to make models than about every profession on the planet being forced by their employers to create skills that a
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by w10-1 3mo ago
As prior art, see also djot (~2023), from the pandoc folks: carefully crafted as more well-formed than markdown. Notwithstanding the provenance and engineering, it had minimal uptake. - https://djot.net - https://git
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by w10-1 3mo ago
In wikipedia-land, I read "primary source" as "motivated source", given their need to prune biased edits.
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by w10-1 3mo ago
Paper title: Disinhibitory signaling enables flexible coding of top-down information in cortical networks (should be qualified as in-silico visual systems) Method: replicate fMRI findings of visual abstraction using simple networks to model
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by w10-1 3mo ago
Hey investors: companies will pay big to save salaries! Hey people: not to worry, new jobs will come! 1 + 1 = 3 because growth!
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by w10-1 3mo ago
This has a lot of potential; true disruption can happen for existing markets only when the transaction cost features change, and CloudFlare is ideally positioned to drive a new standard. Ideally they create a service that can be open and r
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by w10-1 3mo ago
I like this distinction, but it reminds me to cherish the people who don't require such confidence games. Feynman has a famous anecdote about sitting around the table with senior scientists in contentious argument where he was perplexe
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by w10-1 3mo ago
Apple open-sourced their container tooling and they also support Linux in their Virtualization framework. Anyone can run any compatible Linux now in a VM, with bare-metal speed but limited to virtio devices. To me it's baffling that
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by w10-1 3mo ago
At Javasoft there were Solaris test machines that had been up for 2+ years, and we had to reboot the windows test machines multiple times a day. It felt really good to leave a large queue of work at the end of the day on the Solaris/S
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by w10-1 3mo ago
> change units to "natural log" Great tip, but I didn't see "natural log" specifically. Perhaps "Compounded rate of change" is most applicable? That's still mostly above 0 historically, indicating
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by w10-1 4mo ago
dumb peripheral question: memory as a circuit would seems easy to add directly on-chip for a company like Apple. Is that blocked by time-frame, IP, technology, cost?
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by w10-1 4mo ago
re: dissolving into compilation, I think the machine/human separation has been at work for some time. Modern languages (e.g., rust, swift) are already pioneering tracking aspects like effects, lifetimes, regions, etc. and then using w
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by w10-1 4mo ago
The idea of this post - to write separate requirements for each concern and let LLM's integrate them - is much closer to the Leo version of literate programming, which allowed documents to be composed (roughly via scatter/gather o
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by w10-1 4mo ago
It's not just the second-guessing. It's the getting in the ballpark but striking out: explaining in detail why they are not correct. A little bit of patient knowledge requires a tremendous amount of doctor time to explain away t
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by w10-1 4mo ago
It's a great movie and a great scene, in some respects. But I don't think the realness of being an orphan or being in war or being in love has much to do with the problem of AI slop, nor would I rely on some human essence to privi

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