ElFitz

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by ElFitz 11d ago
And there I was, honestly thinking Terry Pratchett had come up with it all on his own. Thanks!
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by ElFitz 11d ago
There was a line in Discworld about some people in Ankh Morpork taking to breeding rats to collect the rat catching fee.
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by ElFitz 12d ago
> Copyright is serving exactly nobody today. As a budding wannabe fiction author, I certainly hope you are wrong.
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by ElFitz 13d ago
Maybe I'm just 2026's Dropbox guy, but... yes, and?
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by ElFitz 14d ago
Maybe, I wouldn’t know. I just find it fascinating that other people have such a radically different way of experiencing thought. No idea what it’s like.
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by ElFitz 14d ago
Some humans apparently only or almost only do non-verbal thinking. It’s called anendophasia.
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by ElFitz 14d ago
Thanks!
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by ElFitz 16d ago
You seem remarkably confident about vast, complex topics.
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by ElFitz 18d ago
I’ve been to quite a few deserts that get the occasional seasonal torrential rain. They still remain deserts nine to ten months out of twelve. The water saturates the soil, can’t percolate to underground aquifers where it could otherwise be
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by ElFitz 21d ago
I have that in CC when I resume a session. Suggests either starting from a summary, a new conversation, or keep going.
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
Or words, and language, just provide a sort of sensory input, which provided an environment and a selective pressure can shape an organism or neural network into predicting and producing the kind of reaction or output required for its conti
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
No, not everyone. A few simply don’t have an inner monologue. Many only know that way of thinking, and can’t begin to imagine what it would be like to think, or be, without one. Plus all the people somewhere between those two, whether or no
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
Makes sense. Probably how one would approach it during a system design interview. > How many times do you buy things during a day? Once? twice? Maybe thrice? None most days. But then some days eight or nine subscriptions go through. Gues
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
And yet anendophasia is a thing. Some people think without an inner monologue, without words[^0]. And they seem to do so quite well and quite successfully. [0]: https://johnrmiles.com/life-without-an-inner-monologue/
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
And even the ones who trained it can’t afford to offer it at a price covering their training capex, since any good open-source model will see other providers selling inference without any training expenses to cover. Didn’t see it, but it’s
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
Ah! Makes sense. Thanks!
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
> At a payments company, 500 payments per second is considered high throughput and 1000 payments per second is a huge amount of volume. I realise I live in a strange world when my first thought reading this is "Worldwide? That’s low
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
> and providers don't have to cover training capex. How so?
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
I guess the only option nowadays is to buy an old used car. Soon some of us will be back to using typewriters.
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
What makes it even more ridiculous is that one could think grown fish are a fine solution over-fishing. But it turns out, many fish farms use caught fish for (part of) the fishmeal and fish oil used to feed the fish they grow. Because many
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
From the description and picture it guessed dehydration caused by either lack of water or excessive heat, and that matched the context: leaving for two weeks during a heatwave. I had filled up the water reservoir compartment before leaving,
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by ElFitz 1mo ago
Meanwhile, ChatGPT correctly diagnosed what was wrong with my plant from a single photo, identified which leaves I should cut, and annotated the picture showing where to cut and what not to touch. I honestly expected a made-up useless gener
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by ElFitz 2mo ago
As another commenter said, I wouldn’t compare the Islamic world’s influence on Europe to China’s or Japan’s on the US. One invaded what became a major power, stayed there for centuries, and up to nearly a third of a second one, staying ther
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by ElFitz 2mo ago
Medieval Europe absorbed a great deal of philosophy, mathematics, medicine and science through the Islamic world. Including from Arabic translations of and comments on Ancient Greek texts. Meaning even some of that Greek lineage was mediate
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by ElFitz 2mo ago
Funnily enough, I grew tired of having to do that myself and sort of automated it by triggering calls to the same (or smarter) model, with the recent agent actions, turns, and outputs, and the user’s last n and first x messages. Two trigger
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by ElFitz 2mo ago
The Monnaie de Paris could still do a coin series with him, just to spite Farage.
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by ElFitz 2mo ago
That thread is fascinating, to say the least.
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by ElFitz 2mo ago
That’s part of why, since Firebase, I’ve tried to never depend on Google products for business, especially not GCP. Features stay in Beta for ages, whatever that actually means, and released ones get deprecated things fast. Where some of th
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by ElFitz 2mo ago
> I can’t help but wonder whether constant use of “agent” harnesses will lead to an atrophy of the software engineering (or really any field) muscles. Used to think so, but they actually can also be used to train and strengthen skills, a
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by ElFitz 2mo ago
> I don't buy this. Tons of people in the West live on welfare and don't contribute shit to the economy, they are net takers. No one is plotting to kill them, in fact they're (arguably) getting more than they did 50 years

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