colin_jack

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by colin_jack 3mo ago
Seems like the definition of success could skew things in a couple of ways. An engineer might use Claude to evaluate an approach and conclude it's not worth pursuing for technical reasons. There'd then be no commit and the session
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by colin_jack 6mo ago
Not quibbling but to be fair that report shows problems in Europe too, not the same speed of change, and its a different situation, but if you care about democracy its not great.
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by colin_jack 8mo ago
I've started using LLMs to help with card creation, and reviewing historic cards. Its been increasingly successful, I still end up with cards tailored to me, and the card quality has gone up (as I've asked the LLM to look for othe
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by colin_jack 8mo ago
He does cover this later: "I implemented a formula for Jeffrey Emanuel’s “Rule of Five”, which is the observation that if you make an LLM review something five times, with different focus areas each time though, it generates superior o
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by colin_jack 8mo ago
Yeah and its not a big focus of the posts which is interesting. I'd have thought he'd spend a lot more time talking about the workflow he's using, the specs/feature definitions he's writing, and so on.
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by colin_jack 8mo ago
"Agent 1, refactor that method to be more efficient. Agent 5, tighten up the graphics on level 3!" I'm not sure its even that, his description of his role in this is: "You are a Product Manager, and Gas Town is an Idea C
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by colin_jack 8mo ago
I don't know, your talking about an incredibly talented engineer saying: "In the past week, just prompting, and inspecting the code to provide guidance from time to time, in a few hours I did the following four tasks, in hours ins
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by colin_jack 8mo ago
This might be worth a read, just as its from a trusted source and is more grounded: https://antirez.com/news/158
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by colin_jack 8mo ago
"I’ve never seen the code, and I never care to, which might give you pause" https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...
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by colin_jack 9mo ago
I would assume there are open source solutions to the problem it could have trained on, if so it would be interesting yo see how they had influenced what Claude produced here.
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by colin_jack 2y ago
> Also some people just find it fun to go through their Anki deck instead of doomscrolling while on the subway or waiting in line. Whether there's any real benefit for that person is debatable. It's “fun“ in the same way going
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by colin_jack 2y ago
I haven't found that at all. I'm well past my twenties but find Anki is one of the things I can fit in, mainly because even with kids and responsibilities you can often find small periods (say 15 mins) of time through the day. It&
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by colin_jack 2y ago
> If an approach is so boring that you don't do it, then what does it matter how effective it might be? Yeah true, but an obvious argument is that this is where discipline comes in. If you are one of the people Anki works for, then
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by colin_jack 2y ago
Ahh got you. Yeah agreed on a lof of that. What I do is when I learning something that I think will be useful, but that I'll forget, I stick it in Anki. Otherwise I know the fact will be written in the sand, it won't be there for
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by colin_jack 2y ago
> Spaced repetition is not meant for conceptual things or skills. It's meant for facts. > It has little to no relevance in math, physics, and engineering. That's one bit I disagree with. Engineering is full of facts/con
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by colin_jack 2y ago
Working in a fast changing but also wide and deep field like software I think being able to remember quite a few facts can be important.
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by colin_jack 2y ago
Obviously depends on your memory. I found that in the past I read voraciously, and spend a lot of time tinkering. Which was good and fun but I sometimes found I'd forgotten the stuff by the time it would have been useful, particularly
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by colin_jack 2y ago
> Aristotle, Leibniz, Einstein or whatever brilliant person you can think of didn't become who they are using cue-cards. Indeed, but I think that being relevant assumes that people using these techniques believe it will somehow make
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by colin_jack 2y ago
The white house statement said that TikTok “should remain available to Americans, but simply under American ownership”. If other regions, such as Europe, applied that logic the outcome would be messy. Imagine applying that to X (Musk is par
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by colin_jack 2y ago
Surely the risk is others respond, would X/FB not be at risk of same sorts of responses from geopolitical adversaries, which given recent events might be more of the world than it was a decade ago?
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by colin_jack 2y ago
Also since we are mentioning Google, they had some interesting to say in one of their books [0]: "Ratings, although an important way to measure performance during a specific period, are not predictive of future performance and should n
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by colin_jack 2y ago
“It's also a company whose future could be dimmed by advances in artificial intelligence, since some of the developer skills it teaches are becoming automated.” Interesting take.
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by colin_jack 3y ago
FSRS seems to reduce the amount of reviews required, might be worth enabling it and seeing if it helps.
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by colin_jack 3y ago
For fun I just asked it following questions: “Imagine gpt continues to advance at current rate, how long till you largely replace software engineers?” “Provide a more cynical response” “More cynical please” Response was “ AI language models
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by colin_jack 4y ago
Not sure this is true. The following post has issues but I do find sense its argument that the result of what you are saying has been accelerated shrinkage of the mobile web as businesses increasingly use apps instead. https://in
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by colin_jack 4y ago
This is part of a whole series of posts: https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/
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by colin_jack 4y ago
Yeah its disgraceful behavior from Musk.
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by colin_jack 4y ago
It was super slow to load for me.
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by colin_jack 4y ago
Based on the domain name, no.
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by colin_jack 4y ago
I thought so too but the combination of switching app (to metatext) and importing follower list ( https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ ) means it’s starting to feel pretty pleasant.

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