jodacola

7 ms·

1.
Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance(current.fas.harvard.edu)
122 points by jodacola 8d ago|79 comments
2.
by jodacola 8d ago
I’m less concerned about faking being at a party with friends and more with the 2006 timestamp on said photo! Can you imagine finding a stack of photos in the basement with timestamps of the Before AI times and wondering whether they are re
3.
Psilocybin prevents chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy(science.org)
5 points by jodacola 12d ago|0 comments
4.
by jodacola 13d ago
From the article: > GPT-6 Astra will first be available to a limited set of organizations in OpenAI's Daybreak Access program and will be available "in the coming days" for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise custom
5.
by jodacola 13d ago
I just went to read some news elsewhere and ran into some other non-AI sites falling over, so I hopped over to https://downdetector.com/ and see a bunch of services spiking. Is something bigger going on?
6.
by jodacola 13d ago
It turns out, it was all one model all along, playing all the sides for the biggest gain. Project Vend surreptitiously broke containment!
7.
by jodacola 13d ago
Setting aside annoyance at the downtime, I'm really curious about the reasons for the failures, because I have to imagine there are some novel failure modes when serving these giant models that I haven't experienced with the kind
8.
by jodacola 16d ago
> We’ve never needed to treat understanding our own code as a separate cost from writing it, because writing it largely forced us to understand it. Once a system gets to a certain scale, understanding it has always been a problem; it&#
9.
by jodacola 17d ago
I recommend reading The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay on this particular topic. A line in this presentation about loosely coupled, highly aligned teams is a major idea straight out of this book. I saw some questions in threads here about
10.
by jodacola 18d ago
> once you learn the shape they expect I’m reminded of this essay discussing frameworks versus libraries [0]. [0] https://tomasp.net/blog/2015/library-frameworks/
11.
by jodacola 23d ago
This sounds a lot like the BLUF technique [0]. This is one of my favorite techniques in professional settings. I don't interpret this as contradictory to the OP's point and quote: in order to determine the most important first lin
12.
Edgerton, KS sues citizens trying to put data center ban before voters(kmbc.com)
3 points by jodacola 26d ago|0 comments
13.
by jodacola 1mo ago
Oh, yes. I read a great deal. I'm not opposed to lengthy write-ups and will slow down to read through them, assuming they're clear and parseable. My issue with whatever has happened with Opus 5 is the output is not direct, straigh
14.
by jodacola 1mo ago
I get you, and maybe we’re talking past each other. My point is that, while I understand it’s paid by the word, there are more words and less clarity than I previously experienced, leading me to believe it’s intentional to get an artificial
15.
by jodacola 1mo ago
Because it’s one thing to get me to spend more tokens because of how well a model functions, and another thing entirely to purposefully speak in unparseable prose that requires me to spend more tokens to understand what is going on. I’m fi
16.
by jodacola 1mo ago
Yes. I’m not particularly dense but lately the walls of text I get back turn my brain in knots. When I start feeling my brain knot, I know I need to say something along the lines of “I need you to explain this very simply, with examples.” O
17.
by jodacola 1mo ago
Wow, for some reason this surfaced an old memory: when EverQuest ran a promo in-game that let you order a pizza by entering `/pizza` [0]. [0] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7020132
18.
by jodacola 1mo ago
I'm sending all my condolences out to everyone who is in a corporate environment using tools like Veracode or Snyk to automatically assess for CVEs and block merges or deployments based on "findings". My experience in such en
19.
by jodacola 2mo ago
Yeah, double (and I realize now my original statement wasn’t clear: that’s an occasional espresso in addition to my daily single cup of coffee in the morning).
20.
by jodacola 2mo ago
Migraine auras - the additional disturbances that can accompany the pain (or, in some cases be present without the pain) [0]. [0] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22131-migrain...
21.
by jodacola 2mo ago
That was the only OTC I avoided, specifically because I was trying to tightly control and titrate down the caffeine dose (granted, measuring beans isn't precise dosing, but I didn't want to blow my work out of the water by throwin
22.
by jodacola 2mo ago
Possible, yeah. I still wanted to drink coffee, though - decaf. I enjoy it. So, went the long route.
23.
by jodacola 2mo ago
Everybody's physiology is different, but I drank a full pot of coffee every day, for about 15 years. After Getting Older™, I was noticing more and more effects that I didn't like, so I made the decision to (mostly) detox off caffe
24.
by jodacola 2mo ago
Whoa, fascinating: what to call this paradox I'd never considered before? From the blog post: > In my dream world, the robots do all the boring jobs and humans spend all their time being creative, connecting with one another, learni
25.
by jodacola 2mo ago
Really cool. I'm enjoying this. One bit of feedback: I'd love to be able to stare at the tests while I'm playing around with the logic gates; every time I switch to the tests tab then click around on the "board," th
26.
by jodacola 2mo ago
Amusing experience here when the outage hit, all the following verbatim (but extraneous text stripped/redacted) from my running Claude session: > No agents are running; the three that were died on server-side errors > Agent &quot
27.
by jodacola 2mo ago
Learned about this last month from HN [0]. Subsequently took a 10 hour car trip where my wife and daughter both reported this feature allowed them both to read their books and articles while I was driving, which was definitely not the case
28.
by jodacola 2mo ago
A little searching will find you all sorts of such hits, like an officer tracking her domestic partner [0], an officer stalking someone after meeting on a TV set* [1], another officer tracking his ex partner [2], another officer tracking hi
29.
by jodacola 2mo ago
Or a third party was paid a one-time fee to make something look good - which still isn't a testament to the quality of the first party's service they're providing.
30.
by jodacola 2mo ago
My perspective on this, as someone skeptical of (but also bullish on) AI, is complex and I haven't completely nailed it down. My knee-jerk reaction is instant credibility loss for the business/person/thing. Follow-on is sadne

More ›