LeftHandPath

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by LeftHandPath 4mo ago
Claude with Jira is the first time I've applied AI and felt like it was truly saving me time. The UI and search tools are so clunky, it feels much better to say "Find jira tickets like xyz" and read through their titles/
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by LeftHandPath 4mo ago
One of the rare articles that distills a lot of abstract experience into something clear and actionable. Reminds me of Spolsky's more famous blog posts on software engineering.
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by LeftHandPath 9mo ago
Moved to NYC. Have a good team at my new job. Satisfied with my income. Have enough free time. Made a lot of good friends really fast, and now I see a rotating cast of them 3-7 days a week. Happy with my apartment. Have an east facing windo
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by LeftHandPath 9mo ago
For the first time in a long time, I can look at a title like this and not feel like it necessarily relates to my current situation. The past few months have been the happiest and most satisfied with life I have been in many years. Grateful
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
This tracks very well with my experience... Too much time in a cubicle away from windows -- say, just for a week -- and my vision gets noticeably worse. A few days away from the screen, like a week on the lake, and it gets much sharper. I&#
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
If the books are set in 55 BC, how would the characters know it was 55 BC?
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Agreed.
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Wow, never saw 2D programming languages before. That's neat! Reminds me of a lighthearted meme video about esolang enthusiasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieqsL5NkS6I
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Hiking is my go-to when I need to figure something out. I think walking also helps chew on complex problems, more so than more intense exercise like strength training and running (though that's also beneficial).
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
"Networking" makes it sound more active than it really is. It's just who they are meeting over those four years. The friends they make, the professors they meet and perhaps work with, the guest lecturers they're able t
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
This is a flawed idea. It presumes, in the abstract and conclusion, that changing admissions preferences to artificially increase diversity would result in a more diverse group of leaders in the country, because elite colleges tend to produ
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Great list. I remember being called in to look at software my company was thinking of buying, once... Only our finance/accounting people had looked at it so far. The thing barely worked. The desktop window kept flashing. Special charac
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
The posts I see most often on LinkedIn are ones that try to capture a trope of "flipping expectations" that people associate with great business people. Silly, inane conclusions are made about everyday events so that people who ar
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
> Pricing is good, but profits may continue to be elusive; still no clear technical moat. It's quite ironic that the technology that is displacing so many people from so many industries, has yet to make a profit. I fear the "cr
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Really, really love the interface and the way you have the calendar, FIA docs, etc available too. Shout out for the delay feature -- I was able to sync it perfectly with my TV stream! The big problem I had was desync. Every 5-10 minutes, ra
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
What a lovely essay. Reminds me of the way I loved the liberal arts growing up. I missed having classes like that in college (AP'd and ACT'd my way out of most requirements). English teachers seem especially prone to that friendly
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
This is really slick. I remember when I used to have the F1TV version pulled up on my laptop during sessions - eventually I decided it wasn't that helpful. The radio and race control panels on this are awesome. Definitely giving it a t
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Or taking up any white collar job! There's a reason I spend a lot of my free time swimming and hiking.
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
The best way to make a happy, healthy person into an unhappy, unhealthy person is to keep them lonely and keep them still. It should come as no surprise that the inverse also tends to hold true. On a tangent, I think that's part of why
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
The discussion of how the medium affects what you build reminds me a bit of The Beginner's Guide ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginner's_Guide ). If I recall, it had a bit of dialogue about how the game-
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German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software(dw.com)
9 points by LeftHandPath 1y ago|1 comments
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Describes the growing use of surveillance and AI for things like predicting crime, detecting a migrant's region of origin using their dialect, etc. The video in the article has a lot of detail and discusses the potential benefits and d
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
I really miss some of the companies from that era... Red Storm Entertainment, Tom Clancy's vision, comes to mind. The early Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games had a dedication to immersion that their modern counterparts totally lack. Gh
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Jeez, that arxiv paper invalidates my assumption that it can't model the game. Great read. Thank you for sharing. Insane that the model actually does seem to internalize a representation of the state of the board -- rather than just hi
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Yes, really! Smaller models may hallucinate less: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... The RAG technique uses a smaller model and an external knowledge base that&#x27
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
I was worried about that a couple of years ago, when there was a lot of hope that deeper reasoning skills and hallucination avoidance would simply arrive as emergent properties of a large enough model. More recently, it seems like that&#x27
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
There are some things that you still can't do with LLMs. For example, if you tried to learn chess by having the LLM play against you, you'd quickly find that it isn't able to track a series of moves for very long (usually 5-1
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Interesting. I don’t use GPT for code but I have been using it to grade answers to behavioral and system design interview questions, lately. Sometimes it hallucinates, but the gists are usually correct. I would not use it if it was for some
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
I picked up Player Piano, which had been collecting dust on my shelf, yesterday, and quickly found myself having blitzed through it in its entirety by the evening. The book has many elements and predictions that feel dated, and a lot more t
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In Search of Dignity: Kurt Vonnegut Predicts AI (In "Player Piano")(thefordhamram.com)
3 points by LeftHandPath 1y ago|1 comments

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