jameshart

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by jameshart 4d ago
You can only defend your trademark with respect to product categories that you actually market. Unless IKEA were in the business of selling parody video games, their trademark doesn't apply. Wait... is that why IKEA just put out a paro
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by jameshart 4d ago
There’s some great thinking on this topic from Nicklas Lundblad in this Hannah Fry video on AI Agents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR5aOElvw He talks about how agents/delegates extend the agency of the people w
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by jameshart 5d ago
To be fair to yourself, the fact that C# terminates pending tasks when the main method exits is something most C# devs don’t have to deal with because they’re mostly working in the context of long running servers and apps.
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by jameshart 5d ago
> destroyed the yardstick … that has traditionally been used to measure how much they have contributed This goes much broader than mathematics or academia. This is the entire basis via which society distributes its wealth: based on a lab
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by jameshart 5d ago
You’re portraying a lot of these things as if they exist in a continuum along a fuzzy line from ‘not cheating’ to ‘cheating’, but the reality is it isn’t fuzzy at all. It’s cheating to submit work you didn’t do for assessment as if it is yo
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by jameshart 5d ago
It’s not so much ‘we are not in a position to verify’ as the fact that the person who said the thing, and what they said, is itself newsworthy . If you’re reporting that “Government sources say Houthis have ‘taken control’ of an island” th
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by jameshart 5d ago
Of course the best way to have your ideas dismissed is to label them a ‘manifesto’, but there’s some interesting ideas in here. I’m particularly struck by the fear that we might be becoming less collaborative as developers turn away from on
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The Multiplayer AI Manifesto(fullstackdeeplearning.com)
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by jameshart 5d ago
This touches on some of the topics that drove Sergey Karayev to write about ‘multiplayer AI’ - https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/working-with-ai-agents/mul... The fact that work is retreating into private chat sessions
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by jameshart 6d ago
We have the same. Do you know why the ‘every audio connector known to man’ box contain every audio connector known to man but yet never a stereo 1/8” headphone-jack to headphone-jack cable?
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by jameshart 6d ago
Put a USB C to A adapter on each end and you’ve got yourself a perfectly serviceable USBC cable.
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by jameshart 6d ago
Embedding spaces are all about analogy. I’m confused why there seems to be a dismissal of the most basic ‘strange loop’ of the LLM - the fact that it’s evaluating a context to choose the next word, then reevaluating in a context where that
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by jameshart 7d ago
With computer generated maps, you can just always use a minimally distorting conical or polar projection centered on the exact point you’re focusing on. That also happens to be broadly what you would get looking straight down at the earth f
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by jameshart 7d ago
The prime meridian being the least skewed area of the equal earth and Robinson projections, with their bulgy nature, actually serves to make them both offer somewhat inconvenient depictions of places like Alaska and New Zealand and Japan. M
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by jameshart 7d ago
To test this, change the history in the context to indicate that the model did or recommended something completely different than it actually did, and then ask it to explain why. You’ll still get a plausible explanation.
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by jameshart 7d ago
I learned this from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency , which I strongly recommend.
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by jameshart 8d ago
Possibly an inevitability, since LLM text is specifically generated to be low entropy. It’s smooth, optimized for minimal perplexity. And if you don’t find any of the word choices a little bit perplexing, your brain can just gloss over it.
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by jameshart 8d ago
Chicago is lowest for adjusted risk because it just scores very low for physical risk on their scale. Compared to other cities the adjustment to its risk score for resilience is about typical - not great and not terrible - which suggests th
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by jameshart 8d ago
Joe said it right in Halt and Catch Fire : > Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing. That was that character’s take on Jobs’s ‘bicycle for the mind’ concept.
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by jameshart 8d ago
A lot of professional skill nowadays is misdirected from ‘knowing how to do the thing’ into ‘learning how to use a computer to do the thing’. The role of music producer includes a large chunk of ‘knowing how to program synths and samples an
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by jameshart 9d ago
Probably phoned Ballmer, and Ballmer told him who to send his rant to. The degree of overthinking going on in this thread…
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by jameshart 9d ago
Lower level than the former CEO And President of the board . The point is this was not a round robin reply all buckpassing exercise with BillG and the senior corporate leaders still on the reply list. This is a specific downstream chain of
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by jameshart 9d ago
Most of the thread is lower level staff specifically trying to address the raised issues. We have no idea what conversations this triggered among the exec team about the broader strategic issues Bill raised.
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by jameshart 9d ago
This was an email Bill Gates sent in 2003. Not sure you can hold the ‘TikTok generation’ accountable for that.
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by jameshart 9d ago
Really? You’ve got this guy Dave Fester on there saying he was going to own the website issues and was coordinating everything to do with how the products surfaced on the web. That seemed like pretty clear accountability and ownership to me
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by jameshart 9d ago
This email was literally BillG sending an email to the people he holds accountable for this, pointing out to them that he believes his experience resulted from a systematic lack of attention to end to end user experience. I’m not sure why y
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by jameshart 10d ago
Or the neuralese could be hidden steganographically in the chain of thought.
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by jameshart 10d ago
If your issue is that if you already have some changes to some files staged, and you have made subsequent changes to your working directory, if you git add . then it will not be possible to revert the cache to the state it was in before… we
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by jameshart 11d ago
Ah the classic programmer mistake when encountering the legal system of thinking ‘but surely this act, in and of itself, could not be considered illegal?’ When what the law criminalizes are not mere acts but actions carried out with inte
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by jameshart 11d ago
The black market also prices in a risk premium for ‘this is illegal and you could go to jail for selling me this’. Google is only paying for the vulnerability; the exploit market is also paying for your mortal soul.

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