dougb5

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by dougb5 1mo ago
That fills my heart with brobdingnagian joy, thank you!
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by dougb5 1mo ago
Thanks so much! It's a joy to make it every day.
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by dougb5 1mo ago
Hey, I'm the developer of OneLook. I'm so glad to see it here! The concept clusters on the site are directly inspired by Roget's work. Like the author, I see a thesaurus less as a synonym dictionary and more as what the word
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by dougb5 5mo ago
Without the scammy crypto angle ("Worldcoin") it's less ghoulish than before. And a company collecting biometric data to run an identity service isn't necessarily evil. But this one is not to be trusted, because the
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by dougb5 5mo ago
If "people are confused" I think it's because you are rejecting empirical evidence that The Onion is relevant without offering any counter-evidence of your own. Is it possible it's just no longer relevant to you personal
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by dougb5 5mo ago
""Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely
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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance(arxiv.org)
20 points by dougb5 5mo ago|4 comments
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CPSC Warns Consumers to Stop Using Male-to-Male Extension Cords(cpsc.gov)
5 points by dougb5 6mo ago|2 comments
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by dougb5 6mo ago
Amicus brief is here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.46... I'd be curious to know how OpenAI and Google employees came to learn about and sign on to this brief (and, relatedly, why my
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by dougb5 6mo ago
https://archive.is/KpWS8
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Employees at OpenAI and Google support Anthropic's lawsuit against The Pentagon(theverge.com)
6 points by dougb5 6mo ago|2 comments
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LLM Prose Tells(git.eeqj.de)
7 points by dougb5 7mo ago|1 comments
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by dougb5 7mo ago
Yes, it would help so much. Especially if a lot of people with money and power voiced their honest opinions at the same time.
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by dougb5 7mo ago
Minor correction: "sparks of AGI" was in reference to GPT-4, which came out 5 months later in 2024. ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 )
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Words Without Consequence(theatlantic.com)
5 points by dougb5 7mo ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 7mo ago
Not to be confused with The World Almanac and Book of Facts, which is still publishing after 140 years. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Almanac )
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by dougb5 7mo ago
> I am far from a SamA stan, but this line was pretty good a zinger: That zinger seemed similar to how Trump deals with criticism from the media -- he tends to begin with an attack on the ratings / popularity of the speaker.
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Vim 9 Plugins for Lean(vim.castedo.com)
2 points by dougb5 7mo ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 8mo ago
I too loved that song as a kid, but it's from 1985. It felt like the right song for that era too!
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by dougb5 8mo ago
You can tell the message was written by committee, or by a large language model prompted to respect "both sides". No human with a soul could honestly characterize the situation as passively as this: "The recent challenges fa
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by dougb5 8mo ago
We've had it for a few years in SF and, while it's very convenient, I haven't witnessed the revolution you speak of. Judging from the traffic, people still mostly get around in their personal vehicles. There's about as
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by dougb5 8mo ago
To clarify the headline, this is the effect for households that use a GLP-1, not the country overall. > Within six months of starting a GLP-1 medication, households reduce grocery spending by an average of 5.3%.
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Schwarzman, OpenAI's Brockman Boost $102M Trump War Chest(finance.yahoo.com)
16 points by dougb5 9mo ago|0 comments
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Please, Don't Automate Science(togelius.blogspot.com)
2 points by dougb5 9mo ago|1 comments
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by dougb5 10mo ago
Maybe colleges shouldn't have accepted these kids in the first place or shouldn't move them along. But I think the author is raising a different alarm -- the number of kids who "do nothing, want nothing, and try nothing&quot
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"Many students are simply refusing to do *anything*."(bsky.app)
22 points by dougb5 10mo ago|10 comments
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Jack Conte on "an algorithm that doesn't rot your brain"(nytimes.com)
4 points by dougb5 10mo ago|1 comments
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by dougb5 10mo ago
It reminds me of how Sam Altman recently said: "I'd rather hear from candidates about how they are going to make everyone have the stuff billionaires have instead of how they are going to eliminate billionaires." But the hyp
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by dougb5 10mo ago
The "↑11" bucket -- which Saul labeled as "Megacorps ($300b-$3t)" -- now contains at least one individual human. How far we've come (or fallen?) in just a year.
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by dougb5 10mo ago
It's an order-of-magnitude notation used in Saul's "MagWorld" writings and podcast. Recommended: https://saul.pw/mag/

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