Dr_Birdbrain

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by Dr_Birdbrain 7mo ago
Thanks!
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by Dr_Birdbrain 7mo ago
Sorry for being dense—does this include a tiny LLM to power the agent? Or is it just a wrapper that needs to be connected to the internet?
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by Dr_Birdbrain 7mo ago
For Reddit, you can select an option so that it only shows you things from subs you follow. Dramatically improves the experience!
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by Dr_Birdbrain 7mo ago
How do you use it to remember names?
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by Dr_Birdbrain 7mo ago
I don’t work at a dating company, but I do work in machine learning applications. My best guess is this: they are not optimizing for good vs great matches, and they are probably not even building a model of what that would even mean, not ev
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by Dr_Birdbrain 8mo ago
I think this problem existed before AI. At least in my current job, there is constant, unrelenting demand for fast results. “Multi-day deep thinking” sounds like an outrageous luxury, at least in my current job.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 8mo ago
My feeling is that AI-generated code is disposable code. It’s great if you can quickly stand up a tool that scratches an itch for you, but there is minimal value in it for other people, and it probably doesn’t make sense to share it in a re
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by Dr_Birdbrain 9mo ago
Maybe all the engineers, but not the executives who created this problem to begin with
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by Dr_Birdbrain 9mo ago
Would love to read about the impact on SE Asia that continue until today. Do you have a recommended resource?
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by Dr_Birdbrain 9mo ago
I’m unclear what has been gained here. - Is the work easier to do? I feel like the work is harder. - Is the work faster? It sounds like it’s not faster. - Is the resulting code more reliable? This seems plausible given the extensive testing
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by Dr_Birdbrain 9mo ago
Don’t automation technologies improve the productivity of labor? If I can make one widget per hour, and some new tool lets me make 10 widgets per hour? Conventional economic theory suggests the gain will be split between the widget-maker an
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by Dr_Birdbrain 9mo ago
I had some eye strain, chatGPT recommended a Lutein + Zeaxanthain supplement. It has worked great!
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by Dr_Birdbrain 1y ago
I actually don’t like python type hints! At my work we have a jit compiler that requires type hints under some conditions. Aside from that, I avoid them as much as possible. The reason is that they are not really a part of the language, the
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by Dr_Birdbrain 1y ago
What would your employer say if you said “I don’t own a smartphone. What alternatives exist?” My current employer has a little nub on my laptop that I touch, but my previous employer was big on making me check my smartphone.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 1y ago
George Washington was dubbed “The American Cincinnatus”. Cincinnati was named in honor of George Washington being like Cincinnatus. That should tell you everything you need to know.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 1y ago
Coffee has longevity and health benefits that are not due to caffeine alone. It has so many antioxidants you can count it as a serving of vegetables. I tried caffeine pills in my misguided youth. They feel different, and one time I forgot
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
There are illegal moves and there are illegal moves. There is trying to move your king five squares forward (which no amateur would ever do) and there is trying to move your King to a square controlled by an unseen piece, which can happen t
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
I don’t know how to square this with the recent statement by Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) on the Lex Fridman podcast saying that in his opinion the scaling hypothesis still has plenty of room to run.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
I’m not familiar with this—why would the rent be related to the amount of footfall?
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
Or, it will be amplified, and will become the basis of a religious-nationalist movement.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
Additional context on why phenylephrine was ever approved to begin with—apparently it is effective if you use it as a spray, but apparently nobody bothered to check what happens when consumed orally, and it turns out your digestive system d
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
The insomnia effect is no joke! It’s an amphetamine. I used to take 24-hour allergy medicine with pseudoephedrine, and it took me years to realize it was the thing that was giving me insomnia during allergy season—for years I thought I just
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
(deleted because I was wrong)
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
Honest question, couldn’t Biden have just changed it, as president?
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
I agree, linear algebra or pseudocode.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
Ok, well, I understand it may have been invented with that goal, but it frankly does not look like blackboard notation at all. This is not lower effort than your rebuttal “yes it does, in fact it was invented that way”. I agree with a sibli
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
> APL code can be directly mapped to algorithms or mathematical expressions on a blackboard and vice versa After looking at the code, I find this claim questionable.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
But even if everybody moved out of California, there would still be wildfires that blow smoke two states over.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
In California, we have a fire season.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago
Do you have a recommendation for a modern text?

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