grayclhn

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by grayclhn 29d ago
I’ll just point out that the management consultants don’t seem to be the problem in this story…
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by grayclhn 1mo ago
I prefer the law of evens — every thing that can be counted is an even number, or one away from an even number. Ergo, each year should be two days, and however many rotations of the earth it takes to get there is the only answer that makes
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by grayclhn 1mo ago
> I for one am just a tiny bit chuffed about that because I'm certain that more and better progress on LLMs (and beyond) would have happened had Lisp been used instead of Python as the primary vehicle for AI exploration. Yeah… clear
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by grayclhn 2mo ago
If you take an initial draft of a paragraph from someone else’s work and reframe it into your own wording, that is considered plagiarism unless you properly attribute the original source. You should follow the same guidelines for the llm. I
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by grayclhn 2mo ago
This is a little silly — if I quote a large passage from an encyclopedia (or whatever), I cite the source. If I use an LLM to write some of a paper or report, I’m not writing that part (even if I edit it or rephrase it or whatever) so I’d
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by grayclhn 2mo ago
Too late to edit - should have looked at comment history and not profile I guess, because like an idiot I spent time replying to a clearly ai-written comment… Well GP isn’t going to learn anything from my (gracious! beautiful! dare I say, h
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by grayclhn 2mo ago
Just skimmed your resume and, assuming it’s up to date, it looks like you mostly work independently. If that’s the case, I can totally see why my argument doesn’t resonate. “The author doesn’t understand the material” isn’t an ad hominem —
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by grayclhn 2mo ago
I can indeed use AI to do research on topics I learn about on HN. That’s a different activity than what I come to HN for, or when I’m reviewing a proposal for something at work, or if I’m interested in an article and want to learn more abou
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by grayclhn 2mo ago
Oh for sure. My only point is that IME (and I’d assume many other commenters) the quality of discussion and engagement around an imperfect ai-written doc is considerably worse than the same doc written by a human. Work is where it’s most ob
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by grayclhn 2mo ago
I think classifying it as an allergy or a status thing is a little too glib. I’ve read and reviewed, conservatively, hundreds of AI generated documents for work, and “written”/commissioned a bunch too. My biggest issue is that it’s imp
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by grayclhn 3mo ago
IME a bad abstraction results in the same thing, just with a lot of wasted effort coming up with the abstraction first, and a lot more resistance to fixing it because people are too emotionally invested. I’d rather have something clearly ch
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by grayclhn 4mo ago
Algebra is the class where I learned I shouldn’t try to figure out how to prove theorems named after people during tests. And I think you’re underestimating the jump from discrete math and linear algebra to abstract algebra… I think I atten
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by grayclhn 4mo ago
matplotlib has an xkcd style for a different sort of handmade aesthetic. And as reluctant as I am to bring this up as a comment to this post, “plot xyz and make the graph look like it was published in the financial times (but without rippin
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by grayclhn 3y ago
We sure as fuck developed specialized parts of our hands…
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by grayclhn 3y ago
It does. Getting your stomach good at that (and figuring out what food you can personally tolerate best) is a nontrivial part of training for longer ultramarathons.
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by grayclhn 3y ago
I was expecting something a bit more comprehensive and damning after the link… but if one of the most objectionable and controversial claims in the book is about adverbs modifying “unique” I think I’ll continue to recommend elements of styl
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by grayclhn 3y ago
Climbing gym :)
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Wow, it's almost like ADHD is independent of mental health.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
When I jump, do I become a satellite?
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by grayclhn 4y ago
If the MVP isn't good enough to get useful feedback from customers, you need to either 1) narrow the set of people you consider as early customers or 2) it's not an MVP yet.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
IME “bad Bayesian analysis” is when people use plausibly defensible priors to manufacture outcomes… which happens all the fucking time.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
That has not been my experience of dating at all fwiw
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Dude, if I trusted myself I’d be so fucked.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Some of the things you listed are bad practices, some are bad outcomes. Change the bad practices (no version control, no beta environment, etc) and use them to prioritize and change the bad outcomes over time. At least half of the stuff you
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by grayclhn 4y ago
The secret is — when you’re a senior IC, if you think that it’s important to spend 2 days a week coding, you’re expected to tell people to fuck off so you can spend 2 days a week coding.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Not sure that list of example injuries supports the “risks of serious injury or death” claim, but ymmv. If “contusions and abrasions” needs to be spelled out, it seems like someone’s padding the list. :)
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Switching AirPods over from phone to watch and back is pretty nice. That’s the only example I can think of offhand though.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
I’d love to not have to charge my watch on a 10 day backpacking trip. I’m old enough that most of my formative camping trips were before cell phones, and taking a charger and battery on a hike seems crazy to me. :)
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by grayclhn 4y ago
A lot of these questions (not just yours) indicate that bad management is rare… that hasn’t been my experience. :) I’m sure the impact to the parent commentor could have been mitigated, but absolutely sure that it almost always isn’t.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
+1000. "Do you have 5 minutes to join this conversation?" is totally fine. The alternative of > Them: "Hi" > ... > Me: "What's up" > ... > Them: "Do you have 5 minutes to join this conv

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