ddawson

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by ddawson 6mo ago
I'm going to hold them to the same standard no matter if they use crappy sources, plagiarize, or hallucinate on their own. If someone asked, when and if I am in a position where I have to tell them, I would remind them that LLMs priori
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by ddawson 7mo ago
They're finally laying the silly "Macs cost too much" complaint to bed.
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by ddawson 8mo ago
Culture has been affected by Toxoplasmosis which humans are primarily exposed to through cats so this makes sense.
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by ddawson 10mo ago
Wow, I'm reading this very differently. I don't know why there has to be emotional violence erupting. Handling something that's fundamentally changed at the core of a relationship and at the core of one's identity will b
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by ddawson 1y ago
Cormac McCarthy was deeply interested in physics and mathematics and was a trustee at the Santa Fe Institute, which has a heritage connected with Los Alamos National Laboratory. I don't know a lot about this side of him, only reading a
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by ddawson 1y ago
Bonkers. This is a lot of fun.
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by ddawson 1y ago
I'm so happy i work on a team. Early in my career I substituted my speed for what I saw as deep experience of others around me. I was the one willing to move fast and break things and I'm still doing that. Fortunately, I've l
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by ddawson 1y ago
For years I was screaming at Google because I just wanted answers rather than endless blue links for me to research my answer. LLMs were such an amazing innovation in that it provides answers instead but now I'm finding my way back to
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by ddawson 2y ago
Exactly. It's also exciting to see things at the frontier, just because they're new. I wasn't planning to release the game, just get something working for myself. By the way, this was July 2024 shortly after Anthropic introdu
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by ddawson 2y ago
I'm not asking for an award. lol. I'm not sure exactly what you're after here, with asking what was particularly positive. It's a personal attempt to see how much I can do with an automaton. I could pay someone to do my
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by ddawson 2y ago
I do not know how to code, nothing beyond the simplest things but I am obsessed with AI development. Several month’s ago I decided to see if Claude could do the work for me. My test was to create a tower defense game that would run in a web
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by ddawson 2y ago
He's eager to get before the Supreme Court and has people whispering in his ear that the Impoundment Control Act is unconstituional. I think the shock and awe campaign has politician gains at deployment and any fights can be turned to
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by ddawson 2y ago
Poland is very clear advocate for Trump's new target of 5%.
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by ddawson 2y ago
Certainly depends on what you mean about US interests. I'm a US citizen and am very pleased with what they have done enhancing trade, feeding people, addressing malaria and TB, education, sanitation, and lots more. It's easy to co
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by ddawson 2y ago
I feel like that's what's happening to my neurons when I'm browsing Reddit. And Hacker News.
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by ddawson 2y ago
https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-devices-echo-losses-st...
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by ddawson 3y ago
So, a metric billion?