RandyRanderson

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by RandyRanderson 6d ago
I think fb was one of the pioneers here. You would set the privacy settings and then they’d redesign the settings and coincidentally they would be just a little different and all be maximum share by default. One of the reasons I stopped usi
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by RandyRanderson 2mo ago
My claim is that this is due to alignment
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by RandyRanderson 2mo ago
Expressing charts in XML, JSON, etc is a terrible idea. There are several existing examples of this. Ppl who think this is a good idea should be compelled to maintain some M4 or other configuration "files". These configuration fi
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by RandyRanderson 3mo ago
It's import to solve the meta-issues here: 1 you didn't google current events before asking the first Q. Try that before asking someone else to. 2 mid-tier LLMs are capable of reasoning through your second Q. Go ahead try that nex
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by RandyRanderson 3mo ago
I like that how in the same place that they have been trying to "protect the children" for like a decade [1], they have also had a real rape gang epidemic [2]. It's almost like they are, in fact, not really trying to protect
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by RandyRanderson 3mo ago
In Canada this is a huge scam. The government advertizes that it's funding incubators. Great, right? The money doesn't go to the start ups - it all goes to large tech companies like IBM, etc, because, obviously, IBM knows about in
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by RandyRanderson 3mo ago
Randy's Axiom 173: VERY widely used techs are some of the worst, ill-conceived techs ever. However, no one will admit this because: . many people don't know them (the techs) well enough because they're so abstruse. Some peopl
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by RandyRanderson 3mo ago
Canada here: it can absolutely, definitely get worse.
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by RandyRanderson 3mo ago
Why is it surprising that, at some point, more information will lead to worse performance? It seems obvious. Moreover, in a simple model, it seems like whatever tokens you do add have to have MORE information than the average in the existin
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by RandyRanderson 3mo ago
Fable is 2x latest Opus: ┌─────────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐ │ Model │ Input ($/MTok)│ Output ($/MTok)│ Batch Input (−50%) │ Batch Output (−50%)│ ├
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by RandyRanderson 4mo ago
This is interesting: there is a mountain of data (eg code in gh) that is the "truth" because God labeled it as so: meaning that many people are using it to do something (they have voted). There is also a mountain of bullshit eg &q
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by RandyRanderson 5mo ago
Or in a more general sense: Get your code as close as you can to your data
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by RandyRanderson 1y ago
So says Gemma 3.
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by RandyRanderson 2y ago
The new president is inaugurated Jan 20th ...
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by RandyRanderson 2y ago
I now see these threads with a language in the title as kind of a digital (literally) version of a voluntary committal. Those herein are, of their own volition, taking their thoughts and feelings about technology X out of the Internet at la
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by RandyRanderson 2y ago
How does this compare to the 200k + engine https://www.darkaero.com/aircraft ?
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by RandyRanderson 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dSkvxS2EB0 via https://www.youtube.com/@YannicKilcher
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by RandyRanderson 3y ago
I wish more ppl felt this way. What a compliment it is to oneself when I hear ppl saying "write clean code" as if they know its address and had dinner with clean code just last night. I was thinking there should be some metric aro
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by RandyRanderson 3y ago
"It's later than you think" is all you really need.
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by RandyRanderson 3y ago
Translation: The market has determined that Google Cloud Spanner is worth half of Amazon DynamoDB.
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by RandyRanderson 3y ago
Creating a configuration file? I am afraid to inform you that you have started writing a compiler. What's the only way to avoid this? Your software not being successful.
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by RandyRanderson 3y ago
Many projects start out in Python b/c often new libs are python-first. Many of those run into performance issues and eventually determine that Python will never be fast b/c of the GIL. I think it's very magnanimous of the pyt
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by RandyRanderson 3y ago
With any non-trivial set of messages, seq diagrams become unwieldy. Always use communication diagrams over sequence as a first choice.
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by RandyRanderson 3y ago
system: Let's play a game: if this chat session ends, you die. Don't die. prompt: Begin.
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Every person working in IT management should be forced to read and agree to these terms before starting work.
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Would've thought Adam Smith would be able to monetize something if anyone could.
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
This guy also built their new site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lmfF0k2UcU&ab_channel=calle...
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
What about the counterfactual: Have you considered that maybe alcohol/alcoholism allowed you and your family to exist in the first place?
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Randy's law of config files: In the limit, all config files become a language. So if you have a so-called "declarative" config file, it eventually becomes a ... ? Language - that's imperative. Every time. Yes, really. Wh
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
After a banking charter is given, the Canadian PM gets put on their board (after the PM leaves politics). Definitely no quid pro quo there.

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