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by zem 1mo ago
even apart from the plagiarism issue, what sort of slimy company thinks "oh, here's someone using our models to work on a problem, let's throw more compute at it and scoop them"?
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by zem 1mo ago
css actually is hard, but layout is hard in general. it's a surprisingly difficult and computationally expensive problem to do things that look instinctively easy to humans.
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by zem 1mo ago
btw for people into science fiction and fantasy I highly recommend Ursula Vernon (writing as T Kingfisher) as someone who has me deeply invested almost from the get go. I mention it not just because I'm a fan, but because I consider th
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by zem 1mo ago
growing up (in the 70s/80s), the first time I was shocked at the exponential destructiveness of human civilisation was when I learnt that we had polluted the oceans . the second was when I found out that ubiquitous natural resources l
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by zem 1mo ago
you are eventually going to have a very bad time if you do not have a solid mental model of the code the LLM is writing, and indeed if you cannot steer the LLM so that its code conforms to your mental models. learning ocaml is a great way t
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by zem 1mo ago
got to love the name!
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by zem 1mo ago
what I would love to see along those lines is something that can answer "what packages do I have installed to do task $foo"; I keep installing things that I use for one thing and then forget about when I need to do the same task s
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by zem 1mo ago
https://mvakde.github.io/blog/44-on-arc-1/ makes a good case that all the performance on the arc agi tests is overfitting, based on the fact that v1 performance did not translate directly to v2 performance
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by zem 1mo ago
I don't use brave, and I'm mostly going by this comment thread, but if the free brave is user hostile by default in an attempt to steer people over to the paid brave, that's a very legitimate thing to complain about. you can&
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by zem 1mo ago
up/dn is cute
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by zem 1mo ago
I was briefly impressed that https://hylang.org/ had released a 4.0 version!
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by zem 1mo ago
sounds more like grapheneos blocking paypal!
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by zem 1mo ago
I've found a more productive workflow is to ask claude how it would do the task, go back and forth with it a bit until you both agree on the steps, then have it work through them. i also emphasise the need to have every step in its own
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by zem 1mo ago
at least for Indians, going to Mexico/Canada and renewing to the same class were both very large use cases. consulate appointments in the home country are super backed up.
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by zem 1mo ago
the "only in your home country" change happened very recently, late 2025 or early 2026
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by zem 1mo ago
I think you misunderstood the comment you are replying to - they are arguing that running fibre to rural communities is a good use of subsidies, and contrasts pleasantly with the usual sort of subsidy that only a few large corporation own
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by zem 1mo ago
that reminds me of the time there was one particular combination of my laptop dpi, screen resolution, and windows 2000 font renderer that made lucida sans typewriter look perfect, but when I switched to linux the same font seemed less crisp
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by zem 1mo ago
timing is everything!
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by zem 1mo ago
could we have a moratorium on twitter links here?
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by zem 1mo ago
this is specifically about the psychological reasons why humans don't seem to care about climate change, despite it being a huge catastrophe in the making, which is exactly what the OP was asking.
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by zem 1mo ago
think of them as standing their ground
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by zem 1mo ago
"milliard" gave us this delightful little poem https://allpoetry.com/Atomyriades
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by zem 1mo ago
the problem solving aspect is great too, but I mean specifically "this is what it means for a computer to know something, and this is what it means for it to do something" expressed in terms of data stored in memory, and algorithm
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by zem 2mo ago
"learn to code because it will get you a good career" perhaps, but "learn to code at at least a high school level, because it will give you a very good mental model for how computers do things" is still very useful.
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by zem 2mo ago
> The author is surprised that so few other parents took up his pick-up/drop-off offer. I would not have taken such an offer from most of the other parents I know, because I don’t trust anybody I don’t know very well (including othe
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by zem 2mo ago
it's the clearest layman-accessible overview of all the issues at play that I've seen. if you know a better one feel free to recommend it.
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by zem 2mo ago
"rote" is the wrong framing, the real point is that however sophisticated your task it a lot of it will probably consist of problems they have a good solution already in the training set.
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by zem 2mo ago
this is perhaps the best thing written on the topic https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-02-op-gilbe...
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by zem 2mo ago
sure, but no one claimed that the usa was not malicious and just wanted peace. it's as vicious as china.
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by zem 2mo ago
> By and large China is not malicious and really just wants peace pretty sure the tibetans would disagree, to cite but one example

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