akprasad

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by akprasad 5mo ago
Maybe it's just the frequency illusion, but "X. Not Y." in particular is a pattern I strongly associate with LLM writing. > That’s confabulation. Not a metaphor. The same phenomenon. > Published. Replicated. Not fringe.
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by akprasad 1y ago
A similar idea from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, ~7th century BCE > 'And here they say that a person consists of desires. And as is his desire, so is his will; and as is his will, so is his deed; and whatever deed he does, that he
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by akprasad 1y ago
What is the strategy, in your view? Maybe something like this? -- 1. All government employees get access to ChatGPT 2. ChatGPT increasingly becomes a part of people's daily workflows and cognitive toolkit. 3. As the price increases, Ch
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by akprasad 1y ago
I can't find an exact quote either, but AFAICT he wrote extensively on extensions and amputations, though perhaps less concisely.
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by akprasad 1y ago
As a side project, I'm creating resources for learning Tamil, my parents' native language: https://akprasad.github.io/tamil/ It's been a lot of fun getting the basic tools going: transliterators, morphol
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by akprasad 2y ago
I use something similar: .. , .2 , .3 , etc.
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by akprasad 2y ago
The author agrees with you: > Not all requests for help are predatory. It’s part of your job to help out engineers on your team, and cross-org impact really does involve helping others sometimes, even if you get nothing in return. Predat
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by akprasad 2y ago
For context, Andreessen is talking here about the Biden administration, and his revulsion to this approach is why he endorsed Trump: > I, you know, look, and I would say like when we endorse Trump, we, we only did so on the basis of like
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The Airbus Cockpit Philosophy [pdf](icao.int)
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by akprasad 2y ago
In Hindi and some other Indian languages, it is common to drop the last short “a” of a Sanskrit word, hence Ram for Rama, Vikram for Vikrama, etc.
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by akprasad 2y ago
You're thinking of koans [1], which are a specific kind of Zen speech used to shift the mind out of conceptual thinking. Outside of that context, Zen teachers often just talk in conventional language. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by akprasad 2y ago
I cut a digression on forgery to keep my comment short, but my focus is less on provenance and the habits of art owners and more on what it feels like to look at a painting that you know is forged (or copied, etc.) The mental story around t
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by akprasad 2y ago
For many people (most?), part of appreciating art is to engage with it beyond mere color and shape. I mean context about the artist themselves, and their life and work, and what they were trying to articulate, and why they made the choices
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by akprasad 2y ago
Those were fun times! (& great to see you again after all these years). It's astonishing to me how far the tech has come given what we were working on at the time.
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by akprasad 3y ago
The title suddenly reminded me of this beautiful story [1] I read more than a decade ago, where spondylus plays a key role: > [I]t was a sense of morbid attraction that led me to Diane Ackerman's newest book One Hundred Names for Lo
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by akprasad 3y ago
This quote is from Larry Page, one of Google’s co-founders.
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by akprasad 3y ago
Of course it is an improved experience, but I don't then get to say that I'm a good cook. I've updated my comment to explain my view, which I think closely aligns with yours.
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by akprasad 3y ago
Yes, much in the same way that hiring someone to cater a dinner party makes me a great chef. (edit to give some body to my comment above: Hosting a great dinner party is hard work and requires coordination between food, decor, seasonality,
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by akprasad 3y ago
I'm trying to point to the set of all jobs a human being could do, which includes future jobs enabled by future technology. This is not as nebulous of a set as it sounds because it has real human boundaries: there are limits to how
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by akprasad 3y ago
> do we really have any data to back that up By definition, we don't have data for events we haven't seen before. So instead I reason as well as I can: Consider the set of all jobs a human being could do. Consider the set of al
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by akprasad 3y ago
Sentence 1 seems historically illiterate, and I think pg knows how ridiculous it sounds because he walks it back almost immediately. "Historically people made a sacrifice, but not intentionally, for the most part" is incoherent. &
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by akprasad 3y ago
I'm reminded of Maciej Cegłowski's "The Website Obesity Crisis" (2015): https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
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by akprasad 3y ago
The article agrees: > Of course, businesses have long segmented customers The article's argument is that: - This kind of segmentation is more widespread and automated than it was previously. - It's appearing in areas it wasn&#x
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by akprasad 3y ago
You might also be interested in the Charvaka school of ancient India [1], which is a close counterpart to Epicureanism. The Charvaka school was likewise influential and widespread, and it likewise become obscure over time, for reasons I don
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by akprasad 3y ago
> for the “smart” person, failing at a task takes a stab at the heart of their identity. Self cushioning in a cloud of rationales “well, I can’t do X but at least I’m smart” means that if “being smart” is ever questioned, the possibility
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by akprasad 3y ago
The piece defines its use of "soul" quite clearly: > But there is a fourth sense in which when we talk about [a soul], we all mean more or less the same thing: what it means for someone to bare it, for music to have it, for eye
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by akprasad 3y ago
Also Embraer [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer
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by akprasad 3y ago
I'm not so sure. Where a hypothesis is vulnerable to evidence, a butterfly idea seems vulnerable to emotion: > I’ve been on the butterfly crushing end of this myself- I’m thinking of a particular case last year where my friend broug
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by akprasad 3y ago
The author mentions "dropping [his] religion" here [1], which undercuts the idea that he is lying to himself about his religious doubts. I don't think much good comes from analyzing a private stranger in this way, especially
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by akprasad 3y ago
I'm glad that the author enjoys Ruby! As someone with limited Ruby exposure, these quotes stood out to me: > The language is meant be joyful to use. [...] Everything else that Ruby is stems from this value. This is important and und

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