cheesecakegood

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by cheesecakegood 5d ago
If luck = something you didn’t choose or had no control over, sure. If luck = it could have gone otherwise, that’s nonsensical; if you had different parents you wouldn’t exist to begin with, as you are literally a specific fusion of your
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by cheesecakegood 5d ago
I’ve seen about 8 therapists and 3 coaches at various times in the last 15 years. 5-6/8 and 2/3 respectively were, I eventually realized, mostly in it for the money and didn’t actually care too much (if at all) about me making any
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by cheesecakegood 8d ago
Yeah, because sleeping directly on the ground leaches heat from your body too fast, because of said lack of insulation. Sleeping too directly on the ground is also particularly dangerous in survival scenarios, doubly so if you are cold or w
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by cheesecakegood 10d ago
Yeah, I really think this should be the new universal standard. Mostly for respect reasons, but also going through and saying “what DOES my app actually do?” (which is something writing a README forces you to think about) is pretty much the
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by cheesecakegood 12d ago
AI is not deeply unpopular, that’s just nonsense. The complaint ratio is just relatively high from a loud minority. Don't believe me? Just check Pew. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/a
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by cheesecakegood 12d ago
I do get the sentiment for sure. Personally though? I’ve made peace with the fact that I might have a 20/month subscription indefinitely. It’s slowly working its way towards being like a cell phone or Internet bill, although there’s re
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by cheesecakegood 14d ago
It also works as extremely effective engagement farming, for lack of a better phrase
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by cheesecakegood 14d ago
I’ve personally found that Google’s AI mode is surprisingly capable and almost absurdly fast, although the hallucination rate is somewhat proportionally higher too to match its seeming over-responsiveness. Which means Perplexity in effect d
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by cheesecakegood 15d ago
I’ve long been curious what you (and a lot of people that express this) feel the cutoff is to know how to code? Because obviously there’s a sliding scale between truly knowing very little, being able to adapt similar work, extensive modific
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by cheesecakegood 15d ago
When I looked at “Claude Science” which is a beta, separate desktop app, I came away with the impression that it was mostly for biology and a bit of chemistry - presumably there’s some value it can get from consulting obscure literature and
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by cheesecakegood 16d ago
So many of these apps in fact that the relevant subreddit has a literal spreadsheet to keep track of them all and if memory serves last time I checked, there were over two dozen entries. Does no one even check the space before building an a
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by cheesecakegood 16d ago
Now chemistry on the other hand… OK there’s still no intent to deceive but almost all of the “rules” you learn have giant exceptions
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by cheesecakegood 16d ago
Fully justified text looks much better when it’s more narrow columns, especially multiple; full page width text is usually not the main use case
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by cheesecakegood 17d ago
That’s… not really accurate. Some factions in the US flirted with taking over more or even all of Mexico for the grand total of like, a few months, and even then it never would have passed Congress. Additionally “the US elite” is a flawed a
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by cheesecakegood 18d ago
I mean no one is arguing that it is the best or even an OK format for serious data storage. Other solutions exist for a reason. But it’s evergreen and won’t go away precisely because of its simplicity. You will be able to use a CSV more o
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by cheesecakegood 18d ago
Interesting point, but the article absolutely reeks of Claude output slop-speak. It’s too distracting at this point, I can’t take an article seriously. If these are your own experiences, why do you feel like you can’t use your own voice t
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by cheesecakegood 18d ago
Very neat! Love it! However, I’m a stubborn one who still is rocking the pre-liquid glass so sadly it’s not for the current me :(
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by cheesecakegood 22d ago
I feel like we need to take a page from the past. Apprenticeships with lock-in. Sponsorships. And so on. Imagine if even one billionaire dedicated themselves to be a modern “patron of the arts” on a more down-to-earth level. Imagine if peop
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by cheesecakegood 22d ago
It’s almost impossible to prove that you aren’t one of these people though. People like me get hurt by this, collateral damage.
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by cheesecakegood 25d ago
I think it was Karpathy that suggested he preferred “simulated reasoning” but sadly it didn’t catch on.
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by cheesecakegood 26d ago
Popular yes; based on good quality research… no, not really. It’s really pretty unfortunate timing with the AI boom, because the field of education research is not very high on the science quality totem pole. And the field as a whole was an
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by cheesecakegood 28d ago
To be frank, I think the real risk is still just… war. A big enough war where one side goes “no holds barred” in the cyber sphere will be a rude wake-up call. And we can’t do non-proliferation the same way we do with nukes. Otherwise as you
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by cheesecakegood 29d ago
Yeah, the pity is that Amazon almost went this direction. They have a set of filters! They just don’t work. Not only do they clearly not want you to use them (the filters prematurely reset if you do virtually anything), but their coverage i
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by cheesecakegood 29d ago
The library ‘ryp’[1] now exists that does the same, the data lives in an arrow format so you can write R inside Python without re-writing to disk [1] https://github.com/briscverse/ryp
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by cheesecakegood 1mo ago
My personal opinion for the last two years or so has been that current AI agents are forever going to be highly limited so long as they don’t possess a real “memory” process. Right now they just have absurdly big working memories, and a few
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by cheesecakegood 1mo ago
Something about this is deeply funny to me: > In an iterated prisoner's dilemma game with communication, agents all settle upon the same strategy and they all defect at the same time, tanking their overall rewards. It’s not always c
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by cheesecakegood 1mo ago
The talk around KL divergence is oversold. People talk about it as if it’s not a benchmark, but at its core it is in the same neighborhood! You get a different KL divergence number on different “calibration datasets”, so in other words it’s
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by cheesecakegood 1mo ago
I wonder if this is enough to push people back onto Luna with their comparative price drop
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by cheesecakegood 1mo ago
Also 6-9pm Pacific I think is (coincidentally) peak so it hits the ‘after work hobbyists’ still, which is I suspect is their current main audience.
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by cheesecakegood 1mo ago
I guess it’s not unexpected per se, but the peak hours are solidly Chinese daytime work hours with an extended lunch break, and hitting a bit of Europe’s morning. But no American peak hours, unless you count after-work hobby coding (6-9 pm

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