wnmurphy

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by wnmurphy 5mo ago
Exactly. It's a tangent, but clearly a pain point for enough users.
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by wnmurphy 5mo ago
100%. I have to hold the floor by filling the space with "ummmmmmmm.... uhhhh...." which inevitably distracts me from my point altogether. Poor user experience.
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by wnmurphy 5mo ago
Strongly agree, some of us like to choose our words more carefully when interacting with an LLM. I've tried to convey this to OpenAI through various available channels (dev forums, app feedback, etc.). Grok solves this by having an opt
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by wnmurphy 7mo ago
I agree with your categories. The majority of the usage for me is (1) and (3). (1) LLMs are basically Stack Overflow on steroids. No need to go look up examples or read the documentation in most cases, spit out a mostly working starting poi
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by wnmurphy 9mo ago
Tangential, but you used to be able to use custom instructions for ChatGPT to respond only in zalgotext and it would have insane results in voice mode. Each voice was a different kind of insane. I was able to get some voices to curse or spi
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by wnmurphy 10mo ago
Not saying that the stock isn't a meme stock, but my car literally drives itself everywhere. Tesla has many business models.
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
I heard he used to be _The_ Whitney Brown.
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
Our understanding of the world is overfit to the macro level, where we project concepts onto experience to create the illusion of discrete objects, which is evolutionally beneficial. However, at the quantum level, identity is not bound to s
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
> Essentially all intelligent life is a pachinko machine that takes a bunch of sensory inputs, bounces electricity around a number of neurons, and eventually lands them as actions, which further affect sensory inputs. This metaphor of th
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
I recognized the word "glymphatic" from recent articles about the discovery of the brain's self-cleaning system, and then understood from the headline that these authors identified that the mechanism by which this occurs is d
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
> I know how to plug this black box into this other black box and return the result as JSON! To be fair, most of software engineering is this.
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
At some point, we will have no idea that the majority of the commenters we're interacting with are actually just generative AI. Related: I've found that the internet becomes significantly better when I use a Chrome extension to hi
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
> Introduce intermediate variables with meaningful names Abstracting chunks of compound conditionals into easy-to-read variables is one of my favorite techniques. Underrated. > isValid = val > someConstant > isAllowed = conditio
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
The very first sentence is highly biased and draws an invalid conclusion. They attribute this to vehicle demand, without basis. It's likely due to retooling for a planned lower cost trim. Elektrek mostly writes misleading articles like
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
I think the argument is in whether "thought" only applies to conscious articulation or whether non-linguistic, non-symbolic processes also qualify. We only consciously "know" something when we represent it with symbols.
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
100%. Test names should include the word "should" and "when". Then you get a description of the expected behavior.
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
I'm always amazed at how many nurses take your BP with your legs hanging off of the side of a table, back unsupported.
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
This is actually really simple to solve: product articulates the problem, engineering designs the solution. When product tries to design the solution, tosses it over the fence, and engineers who don't know any better just implement it,
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
Ah yes, "do your own research."
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
I feel this too, I think it's because Java is an artifact of layers of innovation that have accumulated over time, which weren't present at its inception. Langchain is similar, but has been developing even more rapidly than Java d
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
I would agree with you, except that it knew exactly what her smile looked like. It animated a photo of her not smiling, into one of her actual smile. The only way to get that information is from other photos of her smiling.
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Google Photos is creating a deep fake of you and calling it Cinematic Memory
22 points by wnmurphy 2y ago|9 comments
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by wnmurphy 2y ago
Yes, this is a huge win for labor from a very pro-labor administration.
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by wnmurphy 3y ago
Correct, there's no internal state, but CoT techniques simulate this by providing a space for the model to generate tokens which represent intermediary thoughts.
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by wnmurphy 3y ago
I think it's fairly simple: you're creating space for intermediary tokens to be generated, where those intermediary tokens represent "thoughts" or a simulated internal dialog. Without that, it's analogous to asking
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Ask HN: For devs, what activity other than the job most improved your skills?
2 points by wnmurphy 3y ago|4 comments
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by wnmurphy 3y ago
When you're junior, it's really common to feel like everyone else but you knows everything already. The single biggest revelation of my career as a junior was when I realized that the core trait of more senior devs was not that th
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by wnmurphy 5y ago
Honestly, just spending time reading through any good code, well-maintained repos, official CTCI solutions, other people's LeetCode/CodeWars solutions, etc. (The absolute best way I've found to learn a language's convent
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by wnmurphy 5y ago
I do this as well, I think the idea that code is physical is underrated. We've evolved to intuitively understand physical things; physicalizing something so abstract seems like a natural way to understand it.
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by wnmurphy 5y ago
I think there are two learning styles, one is to learn by doing, filling in the gaps as you go. The other is to front load information first and then apply it by doing. For me, I learn the most by getting a broad overview of the material fi

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