herdcall

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by herdcall 3mo ago
Oh, I'm not talking about using only LLMs, for sure. I am currently taking a college sequence (currently French 3), with textbooks, homework, and everything. 100% agreed on the value of traditional texts/flows. On the matter of LL
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by herdcall 3mo ago
I'm surprised by the pushback by some people here; I wonder if they're actually learning French (or another language) themselves or just reacting generally against use of LLMs vs. humans here (a common trend on HN). I am learning
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by herdcall 4mo ago
I'm no longer sure you have to, actually. I mean, we do trust the assembly that compilers produce without having to read it, don't we? We're rapidly getting to that stage with LLMs, IMO.
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by herdcall 7mo ago
Yeah, I guess OpenAI is so upset with the Department of War that they signed a deal with it! Hypocrisy all around. https://x.com/grok/status/2027769947913425390?s=20
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by herdcall 7mo ago
We pay 7.25% sales tax in California, the highest in the country. Plus, county taxes can go up to 3.5%, adding up to 10.75% total. It's not too much to ask for basic stuff like maintaining the streets when paying this kind of money. Th
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by herdcall 7mo ago
The problem is that biases tend to be built in via even rudimentary stuff like bad training material and biased tuning via system prompts. E.g., consider the 2026 X post experiment, where a user ran identical divorce scenarios through ChatG
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by herdcall 11mo ago
I'm not a fan of Meta, but I like their open source contributions, specifically PyTorch.
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by herdcall 11mo ago
Articles like this keep popping up because they're catnip to those who hate AI or feel threatened by it. On coding, I routinely see people trashing vibe coding and jumping on the slightest mistake agents may make, never mind that huma
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by herdcall 1y ago
There's a BIG difference, at least with tools like Claude Code: plan mode. I'm now using Claude Code a lot at at work, and the first thing I do is enter plan mode where I can have a "conversation" asking it explain how i
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by herdcall 1y ago
Well, I'm sure we've all seen code produced by human developers that is 10x worse than what my Claude Code produces (certainly I have), so let's be real. And it's improving scary fast.
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by herdcall 1y ago
Questioning science is not automatically "anti-science," IMO it's best to remain skeptical and stay focused on the evidence. The fact of the matter is that current "best medical advice" is not the best either in ter
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by herdcall 1y ago
Well, compare it to the really good answer from Grok ( https://x.com/i/grok/share/MMGiwgwSlEhGP6BJzKdtYQaXD ) for the same prompt. Also, framing as a question still pointed to the non-existent postgres-arrow wi
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by herdcall 1y ago
It badly hallucinated in my test. I asked it "Rust crate to access Postgres with Arrow support" and it made up an arrow-postgres crate. It even gave sample Rust code using this fictional crate! Below is its response (code example
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by herdcall 2y ago
Yes. Global EV sales were 1.9 million in Dec 2024, 1.3 million in Jan 2025, and 1.4 million in Feb 2025. This is apparently typical after the holiday spending each year.
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by herdcall 2y ago
I've been using the latest v13.2.2 and it regularly goes 100% on its own door to door over 1-2 hour trips that I've driven, navigating side roads, highways, lane changes, road blocks, everything, without a single intervention from
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by herdcall 2y ago
You're correct. But throwing a disc may be fun activity, but by no means is it a mark of "greatness." If a pro sport can't entertain, IMO it's a waste of time and contributes little to humanity. I would be happier i
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by herdcall 2y ago
Also check out Grok, it's surprisingly good, especially at organizing the results to get the job done for you. You can access it as part of X.
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by herdcall 2y ago
Weight loss did it for me. I was on 40mg Nexium and couldn't survive without the med every day. Then I was on a 3 month trip to Europe during which I dramatically lost weight and also ran out of the med. Quite incredibly, I realized I
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by herdcall 2y ago
To me, the value of abstraction is more about making the code flexible than hiding complexity.
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by herdcall 2y ago
Apparently the sale has been reversed and is being contested. https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1857261507010052306?s=46
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by herdcall 2y ago
You should be able to stay on Following, they made that change a while back. I.e., once you choose Following, you will keep going there till you change it.
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by herdcall 2y ago
Is there anyone here who uses Bluesky for its own sake rather than protesting against Twitter/Musk/etc.? Trying to understand if it have any inherent pros in terms of design or operation. IMO all these platforms thrive on network
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by herdcall 2y ago
What is server side WYSIWYG? Genuine question.
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by herdcall 2y ago
Same here, but I tried the new 12.5.4.1 yesterday and the difference is night and day. It was near flawless except for some unexplained slowdowns and you don't even need to hold the steering anymore (it detects attention by looking at
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by herdcall 2y ago
In fact, Flouride may be actually harmful in children. According to a peer-reviewed finding, "aggregate fluoride exposure from all sources in an amount equivalent to 1.5 mg/L in drinking water is consistently associated with lower
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by herdcall 2y ago
The problem isn't that there isn't money, but that there isn't enough money for scientific research. The view that building bigger and bigger LHCs is coming at the expense of more deserving research is IMO worth consideration
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Jack Dorsey Leaves Bluesky Board and Calls X 'Freedom Technology'(msn.com)
28 points by herdcall 2y ago|22 comments
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by herdcall 2y ago
I've been seeing strange downtrends on my VO2Max numbers with Apple Watch: they have dropped from 40's to 20's over a matter of a few days and have been steadily trending down. I haven't changed my exercise patterns at a
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by herdcall 3y ago
There is "pandoc" if you folks haven't tried it, it is amazingly simple and effective and will convert from a ton of input formats (including markdown) to a ton of output formats (including html, word, whatever).
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by herdcall 3y ago
I think what you're seeing is due to bandwidth limitations: when the picture pans the info changes rapidly and places a bigger demand on the bandwidth, so streamed shows will suffer in quality and show pixelation. If this is what you&#

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