durumu

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by durumu 1y ago
I think that short film is AI generated. I only watched like 30 seconds of an office scene in the middle but it spontaneously changed from daytime to nighttime with zero explanation.
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by durumu 1y ago
Even if most of the code you write is solving repetitive plumbing tasks, today's models are incredibly bad at API design taste. IMO designing software in a way that minimizes side effects and is easy to change and test is more than 1%
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by durumu 1y ago
Yes, LLMs are currently useful and are improving rapidly so they are likely to become even more useful in the future. I think inevitable is a pretty strong word but barring government intervention or geopolitical turmoil I don't see si
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by durumu 1y ago
I think that's more reflective of the deteriorating relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft than an true lack of demand for datacenters. If a major model provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI) were to see a dip in available fundin
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by durumu 2y ago
I like those vehicles, honestly -- delivery trucks are going to park in the bike lane regardless and these are much smaller and safer to maneuver around. I want to see more of them and hope it leads to more bike lanes being built in NYC.
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by durumu 2y ago
Neovim is fully backwards compatible, no? I'm not sure what the downside of switching is.
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by durumu 2y ago
Most LLMs do this due to the proliferation of ChatGPT-generated content in the training data.
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by durumu 2y ago
I doubt there is a service that bundles a bunch of API access for one subscription fee and works with vim. But there are a few plugins that provide cursor like functionality and let you bring your own API key. Avante and code-companion are
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by durumu 2y ago
I think AI capabilities perception in general is being greatly damaged by the Google search AI summary. Whatever model they use is so cheap and crappy, yet I can't opt out of it or even get my eyes to skip the box... Claude or Perplexi
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by durumu 2y ago
In Manhattan ebike access is excellent -- there are tons of bike lanes and bikeshare stations. They are typically as fast as Ubers for getting around the city since traffic is so bad here, and much cheaper. The main issue is that it's
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by durumu 2y ago
I agree NYC is not wisely spending its $100 billion per year, but I think the congestion tax makes sense as a way of pricing in externalities. As a non-car-owner in lower Manhattan I dislike passenger cars -- they make it much less safe for
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by durumu 2y ago
Reminds me of competitive programming, a la Codeforces or IOI, where you solve incredibly challenging algorithmic problems that are wrapped in some silly story about a cow in a garden or something. (In my opinion, that is part of the challe
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by durumu 2y ago
I believe Reddit in particular actually has gotten much more optimized in the past 15 years. I don't think this is rose colored glasses, the content really is much more engaging and addictive, with more short form videos and content th
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by durumu 2y ago
I think that has more to do with being a kid vs being an adult. Kids are probably still buying gfs on Roblox and Minecraft today (disclaimer: I have no idea what kids play these days lol)
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by durumu 2y ago
Sure, but the current 2-3% annual growth rate is probably not going to hold if we invent actually powerful AI in the next decade. I imagine a step change in the exponent.
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by durumu 2y ago
I agree the average tutor is better than the average lecturer. But if I watch a YouTube lecture, then I might have access to the best lecturer in the world, or at least a 99%ile lecturer, e.g 3blue1brown. This only works because of the scal
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by durumu 2y ago
I think it's not clear which way that effect goes -- the Cold War was also the closest humanity has ever come to destroying itself. If all nations depend on each other, there's less nuclear conflict risk and less risk of war in ge
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by durumu 2y ago
I feel like this comes up with me in programming too! Like if I write some really beautiful function as part of solving a problem, I will be a lot sadder if it doesn't make it in, sometimes to my detriment. Similar energy to "catt
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by durumu 2y ago
IMO using a lowercase l as a numeric variable is cursed. It is way too easy to read it as 1 in many monospace fonts.
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by durumu 2y ago
I think it's i & 32. Agreed on that being more readable.
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by durumu 2y ago
I've used NOCOMMIT. Less verbose, equally clear.
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by durumu 2y ago
> I hope that at some point most people will acknowledge implicitly that the fewer the number of measures the more probable is that it is a simplification that hides stuff. But the larger the number of measures, the more free variables y
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by durumu 2y ago
That seems way too high. I live in Manhattan and I pay $2.50-$2.75 for onigiri depending on the filling.
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by durumu 2y ago
I think there's a useful distinction between plausible-seeming text that is wrong in some subtle way, vs text that is completely fabricated to match a superficial output format, and the latter is what I wish people used "hallucina
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by durumu 2y ago
Which came first, the computers or the code?
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by durumu 2y ago
> The people who like living in dense cities already live there. One would then think that dense cities would build more housing, but that doesn’t seem to happen. NYC, SF, and Boston are the densest cities in the country and build barely
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by durumu 2y ago
Was this the one you were thinking of? https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-12-stranger-video/
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by durumu 3y ago
That graph is productivity growth , and it's consistently positive.
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by durumu 3y ago
Here is the model here: - Apple's software (particularly macOS) is extremely high quality. Best game in town. - Their hardware is also high quality, but it is often overpriced. - You must use their hardware to get the best experience u
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by durumu 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean -- I would think the ISP is analogous here, so Comcast, AT&T, Verizon et al?

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