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by cafebeen 12d ago
I agree, for at least some listed, though many people blow past the amount of money actually needed. Money starts as a proxy measure for attaining these things, but it eventually replaces them as the goal, per Goodhart's law.
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by cafebeen 27d ago
For sure, I find many of the LLM-isms to be useful writing techniques and terms (although there's something uncanny-valley about the repetition and density of them). But what I was more thinking about are truly unique jargon terms &#x2
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by cafebeen 28d ago
One danger in acclimating to this style of communication style is that we may accidentally use it in your own communication with other people. If the other person hasn't grokked the dialect, it can make things quite confusing (to say
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by cafebeen 1mo ago
Yes, and also possible they've gone too heavy on verifiable rewards (RLVR) for agentic coding work, and too light on human feedback (RLHF)
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by cafebeen 1mo ago
Thank you, just what I was imagining! I would prefer a bigger wireless box as well.
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by cafebeen 1mo ago
Yes, agreed. Beautiful keyboard, but when I heard "magic" I hoped to find a touch ID. That sensor so useful that even though I use a mechanical keyboard, I keep an apple magic keyboard off to the side of my desk just for the tou
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by cafebeen 2mo ago
It's a known issue now! I have have all notifications silenced, so I haven't seen this behavior. Will reproduce and try look into a fix, thanks
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by cafebeen 2mo ago
Yes, I had a related experience of reading a book and observing what I thought were claude-isms, only to realize it was written in 2019. Some of the common tells are actually good writing practices, but I guess they are best in smaller dos
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by cafebeen 2mo ago
Indeed, if only Apple still made an 11-inch macbook air...
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by cafebeen 2mo ago
I agree this should be built-in. Many apps have their own "focus mode", but I wanted something that works uniformly across all apps. There is a full-screen mode in macOS, but it stretches the widow and context to full width, whi
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by cafebeen 2mo ago
Would be great, and it's technically possible to spotlight multiple windows in this setup. But I wonder about the mechanics of picking the right apps. One way is to use named sets, e.g. dev=(iTerm2, Safari), each with their own short
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by cafebeen 2mo ago
Author here, I made this macOS tool "Zen Mode" to provide a global focus mode that works across apps. There are plenty of things approaching this (HazeOver, Stage Manager, built-in full-screen mode, etc.) but nothing quite like I
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Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS(github.com)
30 points by cafebeen 2mo ago|12 comments
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Is Math Art? Werner Herzog Says Yes(news.artnet.com)
2 points by cafebeen 6mo ago|0 comments
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by cafebeen 7mo ago
Yes, and one of my favorite anecdotes like this: at one of the greatest jazz concert ever recorded, Charlie Parker played a cheap plastic saxophone because he hadn't brought his own. https://jazzfuel.com/charlie-parker-
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by cafebeen 7mo ago
While not a cure, there are many known modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer’s, so to some extent we know enough to deflect / mitigate dementia: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-
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Introducing Merge Labs(merge.io)
3 points by cafebeen 8mo ago|1 comments
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by cafebeen 8mo ago
This is great and echoes my experience. Although I would add a caveat that this mostly applies to solo work. Once you need to collaborate or operate on a team, many of limits of self-hosting return.
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by cafebeen 8mo ago
I believe slash commands are all loaded into the initial context and executed when invoked by the user. Skills on the other hand only load the name and description into initial context, and the agent (not user) determines when to invoke th
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by cafebeen 9mo ago
Thank you for publishing that paper, which I think greatly helped address this problem at the time, which you accurately describe. I guess things have to be taken in their historical context, and science is a community project which may no
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by cafebeen 9mo ago
This study was really highlighting a statistical issue which would occur with any imaging technique with noise (which is unavoidable). If you measure enough things, you'll inevitably find some false positives. The solution is to use
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by cafebeen 9mo ago
In a practical sense, I would argue the scientific is primarily about churning out grants and papers.
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by cafebeen 9mo ago
To a large extent, I think this could be solved by labs having more long-term permanent research staff (technicians, data analysts, scientists) and reducing the number of PhD students. Many students would gladly stay on in that position in
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by cafebeen 9mo ago
Thanks for your work great work on Claude Code! One other feature with CLAUDE.md I’ve found useful is imports: prepending @ to a file name will force it to be imported into context. Otherwise, whether a file is read and loaded to context i
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by cafebeen 1y ago
When asking customers how well they were helped by the customer support system (via CSAT score), I've found industry-standard AI support agents will generally perform worse than a well-trained human support team. AI agents are fine at
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by cafebeen 1y ago
Taking a shot at this, one concrete definition might be that the business model is essentially white labeling, that is, the base LLM is rebranded, but task performance in the problem domain is not functionally improved in some measurable wa
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by cafebeen 1y ago
Yes, this feature might be a prime driver of user engagement and retention, and it could even emerge "naturally" if those criteria are included for optimization in RLHF. In the same way that the infinite scrolling feed works in s
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by cafebeen 2y ago
Budgets are finite, and most science funding involves some decision making about how to allocate resources.
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by cafebeen 2y ago
It’s more like keeping a fire extinguisher in your kitchen. Some people may never need it, but grease fires happen often enough to plan for it.
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by cafebeen 3y ago
Greg Lemond wrote about fitness, "it never gets easier, you just get faster", which perhaps applies as well to programming.

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