estetlinus

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by estetlinus 9d ago
I am yet to find a skill useful. It’s usually just vibecoded slop-bloat for a one-off somebody thought they document in a markdown file.
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by estetlinus 12d ago
I can recommend the book telling the full story behind Fermats Last Theorem (by Simon Singh). It’s quite fascinating, and paved with really, _really_ weird characters each chipping in on the final solution.
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by estetlinus 12d ago
Sure, go on and try it ;)
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by estetlinus 13d ago
Just say “box plot” and 99.9999% of the working force gets watery eyes.
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by estetlinus 13d ago
Very nice idea! I think some number are of by a magnitude (DIED BEFORE AGE 5: 4%, for Scandinavium in 1990 - according to UN it’s ~0.6%).
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by estetlinus 13d ago
That definitely reframes it
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by estetlinus 14d ago
LLM: produces a toolbox of an id and a clock User: use them both Made me giggle.
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by estetlinus 17d ago
I think it happened when it solved one of those Erdős problems, while also knowing everything there is to know about birds, mitochondria, history of Uganda, etc. Even my most contrarian friends have a hard time justifying coding by hand. To
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by estetlinus 18d ago
That reframes it and one thing worth knowing before reading the article. The gap — and this is a real one — is AI-fatigue.
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by estetlinus 18d ago
Either I am hungry, or that article was genuine word salad
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by estetlinus 19d ago
Something like this? https://www.homerow.app/
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by estetlinus 21d ago
The product is becoming load-bearing. That’s not new. That a word salad factory, and you just punched in.
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by estetlinus 25d ago
I guess what you mean to say is ”read as much BOOKS as you can”. God knows I am reading all day long, but it’s usually news papers, blogs, weapons grade sloptonium from a colleague, etc.
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by estetlinus 26d ago
The abstract is clickbait. What the hell?
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by estetlinus 29d ago
Ive been thinking about data accumulated from all the out-of-business companies. Interesting to see data is being auctioned like an asset.
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
Phew. I am sitting here in my fleece feeling attacked.
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
A smart kid can be anything from not eating rocks anymore to multiplying numbers at an early age. Most of us turn out like the rescued exotic bird which turns out to be a seagull covered in curry.
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
I was in a project where we sent the whole taxonomy every request, 40k tokens + one article, ”plz classify”. This was before structured outputs. It was extremely expensive and still hallucinated. Good ol’ days.
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
+1 the vpn is called dev-test-prod and some containers are stored in a dev subscription, but still used in production. Some intangible network error forces you to use the production cluster for testing (the bucket is at least called test).
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
> London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as “The Knowledge” that takes three to four years. What the hell. I passed all the test for driving cabs in Stockholm, Swe
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
I think this is even worse for music. There’s almost no way to tell if a track is produced by humans or AI.
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
Pretty convenient that the prompt is too dangerous to share. We just have to take them at their word.
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
I don’t know if this helps, as kids don’t make it easier BUT they do make you much more aware of how valuable your time is. One free hour as a parent feels like a full free day to someone without kids. TL;DR get kids.
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
An escaping AI is such a better narrative
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
> My company spends millions on ai token every month How much profit does the AI company make from those tokens?
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
And I am still waiting for the Apple Reminders AI to sort Milk in the right category…
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
> absurd Rube-Goldberg contraption of microservices Such a lovely analogy. FYI it’s mine now.
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
The AI is just like me, then.
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
It is the only fruit that requires no washing before consuming. And also, it makes my tummy hard.
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
It the synthetic IQ goatse

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