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by waffletower 2mo ago
I had to use Google to find the comments after I read the story. Y-combinator moderation is far from invisible.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
The more you interact with LLMs the more likely their language and tropes will become a load-bearing part of your own.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
First of all, 'prune' is French for 'plum' ('prugna' in Italian). Plums which are suitable for drying are named 'prunes' and even 'prune plums' in English. My tree is an Italian Prune (Pru
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by waffletower 2mo ago
I am not sure that visitors will spend enough time to get the art. I attempted to give the carrion crow its due, noting 18 legitimate votes. But when I tried to add my rank it landed "the democratic process has collapsed".
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by waffletower 2mo ago
This reminds me of an engineer that tried to explain to me that my prune tree in my backyard was in fact a plum tree. All prunes are plums but not all plums are prunes.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
Load-bearing is a decidedly load-bearing metaphor for Claude. Fable actually used "money shot" the other day which I found much more hilarious and edgy.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
A sequel that diverges from and dwarfs its predecessor -- Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus (translated into English) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816614028/a-thousand-plateaus...
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by waffletower 2mo ago
I noticed the scarcity a bit in the last few months. I have been giving them to my dog for years for the low mercury omega 3s -- I even had a veterinarian stamp of approval.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
While there are bad engineers, I imagine that teams that have evolved alongside AI and have maintained their size and consistency without adjustment may have structural issues. I would argue that team size counts ought to be smaller now th
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by waffletower 2mo ago
It absolutely does not absolve them of sin. But let's give them credit where it is due. Open models are a really good thing. Hopefully I won't be lynched by a mob in 3 years for once saying this.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
While Zuck's contributions are probably overwhelmingly more negative than positive, Meta initiated both pytorch and llama which have had profoundly positive effects on AI research. And I really am not a fan of python :D
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by waffletower 2mo ago
ごちそうさまでした。「gochisousama deshita」 This can be said to the cook. I heard "いただきます！"「itadakimasu」more frequently for a variety of reasons. But it is common to shout out to thank the cook when you leave a restaurant. I became comfor
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by waffletower 2mo ago
Money is deep on both "sides". It didn't help Harris to have the most either. But you can't deny that some political steerage toward donor agendas occurs.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
It couldn't have been Teenage Engineering: the keyboard was priced less than $999
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by waffletower 2mo ago
Caps Lock is such a tragic throwback. Even after decades of ridicule "Caps lock is cruise control for cool" keyboard designers don't get that we don't want it.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
I actually like the number font, the presence, but the loss of visibility for the shifted symbols is a huge loss. I know where the numbers are -- I admittedly need more reminding for the symbols as I never explicitly practiced them. The m
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by waffletower 2mo ago
Cramming the fn key into the sacred ctrl-alt-cmd triumvirate is disagreeable. Would require learning and remapping. I prefer fn to be distant as I have chorded for decades with the said trio.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
I live in an American city. I have a yard large enough to play frisbee with my dog. I walk downstairs to go to work. I can walk to a good taqueria and take pole dancing classes a few doors up (someday). There is an evil bank that I coul
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by waffletower 2mo ago
It sickens me when people use the word plagiarism to describe LLMs. Particularly when they use words and language that they themselves have plagiarized -- words like "love" and "economic" -- where do you draw the line?
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by waffletower 2mo ago
I don't think the open source models are anywhere near ("we’re talking around four months of lead time") Anthropic's Fable for long-horizon context planning. Sol isn't either. The benchmarks are quite misleading.
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by waffletower 2mo ago
This article is revisionist and lost -- it decidedly disagrees with my direct memory. I had Snow Leopard on a vm for years -- not because I was misguided, but because it was a very stable release in many dimensions and deserved its status.
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by waffletower 3mo ago
I am much later in my career, and I have established many skills that have atrophied which I have restored in need and/or desire over a span of decades. I think it is fair for younger people to be much more cautious with AI assisted c
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by waffletower 3mo ago
I have not worked on a project with 20 AI-assisted contributors. I have worked on a team with 4. While smaller, I can already see that the code churn, and conflict resolution is more a kin to a larger team. However, we also have been int
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by waffletower 3mo ago
Hmmm, I use Claude Code to make those two worlds work together -- where a GUI is an obvious complement (visualization, discoverability)
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by waffletower 3mo ago
I think people have forgotten what year it is and how ubiquitous SoC and unified memory designs have become.
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by waffletower 3mo ago
I was hand-rolling NEON SIMD 15 years ago, and in many cases the compiler (clang/llvm) simply out optimized me. I kept the attempts that were better than what the compiler could already do. That was ARM NEON, quite new at the time, n
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by waffletower 3mo ago
The cumbersome and poorly designed workflows surrounding passkeys are a significant hindrance to their adoption as well. It surprised me how bad they were when they emerged -- it was as if the UX was intentionally designed to kill passkey
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by waffletower 3mo ago
The "race" has multi-dimensional impacts. This story parallels only some of them. "Nobody wins from the race" completely ignores the generality of AI. Xi Jinping highlighted this week that he clearly understands this
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by waffletower 3mo ago
You can't be blind to training costs. And you can't be blind to Meta dabbling in the openish strategy (Llama) before the Chinese labs did.
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by waffletower 3mo ago
Babashka is really nice indeed. Am hopeful for the C++ hosted Clojure dialect, Jank ( https://jank-lang.org )

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