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by bcoates 1y ago
I am doing the review in good faith though--by default, I scroll past to the first result, then if it seems unsuitable and I'm desperate enough I check the LLM thingy. If it were providing any value it would sometimes be both novel and
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by bcoates 1y ago
Honestly that might be a mistake, when the consensus is greedy get scared and when it's scared get greedy
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by bcoates 1y ago
Every once in a while I bother not ignoring a Google AI overview, then I waste some time fact-checking it and find out it's wrong. Most recently about a python library (where it hallucinated a function that doesn't exist, complete
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by bcoates 1y ago
So why does the little guy gallop forward when you turn the brain on?
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by bcoates 1y ago
Reminds me of the excellent sci-fi novel Semiosis
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by bcoates 1y ago
This article leaves me super unclear on the metallurgical process going on here--you fire gold ore on a bed of glass rubble and the impurities are adsorbed into the ceramic or ???
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by bcoates 1y ago
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by bcoates 1y ago
The only winning move is not to play. My grandfather tried his hand at chicken farming about 100 years ago (didn't go well). It was a bad business then and it’s a bad one now.
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by bcoates 1y ago
I use the local LLM-based autocomplete built into PyCharm and I'm pretty happy with it
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by bcoates 1y ago
If you're already built around Redis I'd just keep using it, but if you're doing new development there's not so much a single drop in replacement as a substantially better alternative for any given feature (and not parti
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by bcoates 1y ago
Oh God people are still using Mongo in production? Why? Kafka exists but is deeply obsolete and mostly marginalized outside of things with dependencies on the weird way it works (Debezium, etc) I've always liked Redis but choosing it a
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by bcoates 1y ago
The idea of a medically relevant neutrino dose is absolutely wild
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by bcoates 1y ago
"right, don't do that." As a non-user of Monero, how do I find out what the security properties are and what information is leaked when various actions are taken? The OP's analysis is deeply lacking in this and the appar
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by bcoates 1y ago
Perfectly ordinary terrestrial mammals like elephants have much, much larger skulls at birth than humans, so it’s clearly a matter of tradeoffs not an absolute limit.
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by bcoates 1y ago
In the nosql era the idea that you could run even the basics for a >1m user SaaS platform on an ordinary, free, single-node transactional SQL database would have been considered nuts.
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by bcoates 1y ago
I think the underlying problem is that lots of orgs have siloed out security stuff into its own workflow and its own class of bugs. It's basically Conway's law applied to the security/feature development split. So even if the
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by bcoates 1y ago
Either I'm wildly misunderstanding or that can't possibly be true--if you sample at high temperature and it chooses a very-low probability token, it continues consistent with the chosen token, not with the more likely ones
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by bcoates 1y ago
Marshall Brain's been peddling imminent overproduction-crisis-but-this-time-with-robots for more than 20 years now and in various forms it’s been confidently predicted as imminent since the 19th century
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by bcoates 1y ago
Maybe I'm nuts, but I absolutely love timesnapper (the non-LLM predecessor of Recall, but the same screenshot every few seconds concept). I originally got it for it's main advertised function--making it easy to record hours for co
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by bcoates 1y ago
Lol at the loving description of the manufacturing process for plywood (I think technically pressure-treated oriented strand board, but, you know, plywood)
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by bcoates 1y ago
I don't think the adverse selection problem is anywhere near as serious as the author seems to think--insurance companies aren't selling superior knowledge of their client's situation--they're selling against their clien
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by bcoates 1y ago
Wow, you're real proud of not understanding what a TN visa is or how to do the most basic of HR functions. You’re doing anyone you don't give a job a favor.
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by bcoates 1y ago
100% agree with you that it's worth going back and reading The Books You Should Read as an adult who can just read them as books and not some sort of obligation. That said. some of them are still stinkers that only a weird boomer could
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by bcoates 1y ago
From the article: It was also a matter of method. Education scholars often narrate the development of high-school-English pedagogy as a clash between two competing schools of thought. On one side is the “student-centered” approach typified
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by bcoates 1y ago
Maybe I can rent other people's compute and prompt engineering, a sort of uber-for-openai-for-airbnb-for-x operation
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by bcoates 1y ago
Sure, but I'm gonna assume you're outnumbered by the absolutely deranged like 10:1 Source: look at online reviews of literally anything
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by bcoates 1y ago
A nugget in this that seemed significant: Quote “I don’t know if I want to call it a social network, because of the stigma associated with it,” says Ari Balogh, Airbnb’s CTO. So they employ a fuzzier term. “We think of it as a connection pl
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by bcoates 1y ago
I don't get airbnbs because they're cheaper, I get them because I want to rent something other than a hotel room. If best western had in-laws or 1br quadplexes I'd be happy to stay there, but most hotels I've stayed at a
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by bcoates 1y ago
As someone who doesn't have whatever lead poisoning makes people post reviews on yelp the review system is worse than useless. I'm not gonna leave a mixed or negative review because snitches get stitches and I can't imagine a
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by bcoates 1y ago
1. Build atomic power plants sufficient to supply electricity needs for projected future AI megaprojects 2. Inevitable AI winter 3. Keep running the plants, clean energy achieved, stop burning coal, global warming solved

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