garyrob

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by garyrob 13d ago
The reason I did it the way I did is that I believe that Fable writes better prose than I do. I could write it so that people would be less likely to think it's written by AI, but I wouldn't think it's as good. So, I'm h
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by garyrob 13d ago
It involves one life, drawn at random, from human history. I can't imagine how you could miss that if you read it. But I am realizing that AI writing is so offensive to many people that if they get that vibe, they just won't read
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by garyrob 14d ago
Yeah, I think the AI probably shows. But in fact it is the result of many iterations. But what I was trying to get across are the ideas, not the language. I think it you were to read the whole thing, you'd probably find it interesting.
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by garyrob 14d ago
I wrote a short story based on a similar scenario. (Caveat, I did it with AI help, but my ideas and many iterations and me doing final editing to get it the way I want). https://garyrobinson.net/2026/08/18/eve
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by garyrob 14d ago
I must admit that with both ChatGPT and Claude experiencing issues, I wonder if we're under attack from China. Doesn't seem likely, but...
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by garyrob 1mo ago
Deeply unsatifying, and 100% true at the same time.
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Everyone Who Will Ever Be Born(garyrobinson.net)
2 points by garyrob 1mo ago|0 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg Disapproves of Centralization of A.I. Power(nytimes.com)
3 points by garyrob 2mo ago|2 comments
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by garyrob 2mo ago
I had cancer, it came back twice in 5 years, but now I'm 10 years out from the last time and my odds are good. Just mentioning it, in case it's helpful to hear a positive anecdote. Sending my hopes for your recovery. You're r
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by garyrob 2mo ago
I'm doing work with fairly complicated cryptographic algorithms and math. I'm finding Fable 5 to be a significant stop better than Opus 4.8, but that Opus occasionally comes up with something small but nontrivial that Fable missed
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by garyrob 3mo ago
"The final major downside is having to switch apps out of navigation to control music then switch back". That's no longer true for CarPlay. It now has a mode where you see Maps and Music at the same time.
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by garyrob 3mo ago
The icons in menu items is one of the reasons I'm still on Sequoia. This settles it; I'll just stay on Sequoia until Golden Gate is released. I can't say the following for sure, but there's evidence of it: One of Apple&#
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by garyrob 3mo ago
For what it's worth: I had an idea for a special reminder app I wanted for myself. It's complicated enough that it comes to 9,000+ lines of code. I wanted to write it using the C++ UI library wxWidgets, because I like that wxWidge
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Ferrari's First Electric Car Runs into Backlash in Italy and Beyond(nytimes.com)
1 points by garyrob 4mo ago|2 comments
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by garyrob 4mo ago
I get that effect while walking, but also from multi-hour highway (not local) driving when the road isn't crowded. Somehow, having my body do something that takes only a slight amount of continuous awareness, but not zero, seems to ena
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by garyrob 4mo ago
This goes back a LONG way for me. I really enjoyed his Notes From The Field column in InfoWorld, which was both reliably funny and reliably interesting, from around 1987-1995.
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Sundar Pichai discusses AI search(nytimes.com)
4 points by garyrob 4mo ago|0 comments
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by garyrob 4mo ago
The software isn't so good these days, even while the hardware has been the best in the world. Now that the guy responsible for the hardware will be CEO, maybe quality will come back to software too.
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by garyrob 5mo ago
I wrote a lot of APL for my undergraduate Senior Project in 1978/1979. I really enjoyed it because it was fun. You could do an incredible amount of work in a single line of code. The only problem was, that line would then be almost imp
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by garyrob 5mo ago
It may have been, I never used it, but it was also a very early, innovative (at the time) product made by a company called Vermeer. There is a truly fascinating, and even inspiring, book about the company and the sale of FrontPage to Micros
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by garyrob 5mo ago
I used it when I was in college for my Senior Project. That would have been 1978/1979. I had a keyboard with the APL symbols molded onto the keypad.
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by garyrob 7mo ago
"If you delete your account, we will delete your data within 30 days, except we may retain a limited set of data for longer where required or permitted by law." "where required".... hmm, that seems OK. We don't want
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by garyrob 7mo ago
I'm 70. Most of my high school and college friends are on Facebook, and some other friends. So I use it (including its Messenger component) a lot to keep in touch! I know it's a generational thing. Just thought I'd mention it
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by garyrob 8mo ago
With external SSDs plugged directly into a USB port, it's worked 100% fine for me and saved my butt a few times. But, I haven't installed Tahoe. I may skip it entirely, hoping that they do a Snow Leopard-like clean-up-the-mess rel
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by garyrob 8mo ago
https://garyrobinson.net
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by garyrob 8mo ago
Took a look at inkjet. It looks quite nice. I'm going to give it a try!
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by garyrob 9mo ago
> Whether any one country should be global police or not is a very difficult question to answer, but at the same time I could easily see situations where some of these could be beneficial for the greater good. I would argue that it shou
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by garyrob 9mo ago
> I'm not aware of a single cynic who successfully predicted how things actually ended up turning out. Let's change that here and now! :) I was one of the optimists in the very early 2000s when I attended a talk by Columbia pro
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by garyrob 10mo ago
It seems like the antivaxxers, and many people in general, seem to just think that whatever they hear from their friends and family and favorite TV talking heads, whether it has any research behind it or not, is automatically and magically
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by garyrob 10mo ago
> POTS = Plain Old Telephony System I worked for NY Telephone for years in the '80s, and it was referred to there as "Plain Old Telephone Service" not System. Not that it's a big deal at this point!

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