willtemperley

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by willtemperley 2mo ago
With all the myths and hyperbolae circulating regarding AI, I'd love to know what it's like at large software companies adjusting to this brave new world. It's easy for a small team to adjust workflows and roles, but I just i
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
I tried that but Claude thought I was already outstanding in my field.
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
I would only take this article seriously if you have to support old iOS versions. NavigationStack has been around since iOS 16, @Observable since iOS 17. and I'm not sure if the author is aware that GeometryReader hasn't been nece
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
> The latest is NavigationStack, which is still pathetic. The only way to navigate more than a level deep is to create an array of one datatype to serve as NavigationStack's "path." But this is designed to be an array of a
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
No. What isn't reasonable about this approach? I think most people have got GeoAI backwards, creating derived imagery via AI is a terrible idea. Building better tools than we have with AI, using existing geoscience principles is absolu
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
> how is anyone going to determine what is real or fake anymore Through using AI to build tools that generate results with a verified chain of provenance.
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
This is absolutely the headache I’m having today, an enthusiastic contributor pasting AI generated wall-of-text comments to justify their 500 line PR. How can we have a conversation and reach a shared understanding if one of the participan
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
My jaw drops every day. Small change in comparison, but today Fable created and benchmarked an RTree which was 100x faster to populate and 5x faster to query, compared to a previous attempt with Opus 4.6 a couple of months ago. That took ab
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Yes it does sound like a value judgement made by someone who "fits in", probably after drinking several pints down the pub. However I think the poem may be deeply ironic, given Robert W Service was probably a member of the "L
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
> I don’t want to be sold the same thing over and once again. I don't want to be sold the same music, algorithmically recreated again and again to maximise profit while circumventing copyright law. A lot of people like analogue musi
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
I wonder if this is this just the law of diminishing returns at play? My thinking being, it's been a few months since I thought the code generation machine was the problem, rather than my interactions with the machine. A month is a lon
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Also on a macbook, it took me a while to realise pinch to zoom doesn't do anything except zoom the page, pan is click and drag, and scroll is zoom. Cool project except for the controls, surely scroll should be to scroll up and down?
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Looks like Apple are making an effort to get agents to create decent code with Xcode skills, which someone has extracted here [1] but there is near zero mention of accessibility. Worth a read though I think, I learned a few things. [1] htt
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Vim is a bad example to use here. I certainly have no hacker-vibe pretensions, I use Xcode almost exclusively, but with the Vim key bindings which have been integrated very well. The productivity gains with Vim commands are impressive.
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Yes. I'm not sure whether Amodei's motivation for attempting to ban open-weight models was for safety or to strengthen Anthropic's position though.
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
I do hope Anthropic are better with IP, and I think they may be. Given Dario Amodei hasn't been sued by OpenAI while building Anthropic this seems likely. I think Amodei may actually be quite a good human, despite my trust in big tech
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
This is a really bad look for a company that has vast quantities of our IP stored on its servers.
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Can you provide a source? Otherwise your comment is useless.
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
I loved his Algorithms course on Coursera which I did during the brief moment Stanford MOOCs were all free. So useful for a non-CS grad doing any kind of algorithmic programming. Those were good days.
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Yawn. So people are discovering SWE hasn’t actually changed in its basic principles. Is this going to be the new “how I use LLMs” article? Good night
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Cool. I wish I could choose British English as an option though, I failed to get words like Humor or Color because they’re just not in my lexiy.
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Well quite. So why are we living in this surveillance hellscape?
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
In the same sense that a blockchain can be forked by using software that only accepts certain types of block, is it possible to fork the WWW in a similar manner? e.g. with changes that neuter the ad-mongers. For example coming up with a way
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Not really. Every activist that made a real difference for the good caused some kind of havoc.
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Are you aware of any projects to replace the current web implementation? I've noticed the current version is largely accessed by Chrome which appears to be a trojan.
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Hard to say without hearing what the product is, but personally I'll avoid anything that wants to lock up my data and charge me for it.
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
20 year GIS dev here. Looks pretty useful for data exploration. I'd say one of the more compelling GeoAI things I've seen. The problem is there's really a lot of data out there and it's a lot of work to move it around, e
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Nobody is questioning the longevity of AI. The internet itself wasn’t affected by pets.com but a lot of retail investors got burned. It’s going to happen again, I think perhaps in a different way. For example many are treating vibe coding l
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
Is there any way to get raw digital numbers from a phone camera sensor that can be verified as reality, e.g. though a hardware provided hash of the image?
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by willtemperley 3mo ago
> Personalization will grow right at the vendor offering I think so. There will be a short period, like now, where many will attempt to build their own products and the five good ideas out of five thousand will be incorporated into produ

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