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by jrumbut 18d ago
I think the author undersells the significance of this. I could easily picture someone writing code that boils down to the example, all it requires is a flood of signals and a print statement. If your program generates signals, it could gen
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by jrumbut 27d ago
I am genuinely confused. Are they telling me this because they expect me to be reassured that this anonymous organization is not using my prompts or are they saying "don't expect this particular model to improve as you use it?&quo
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by jrumbut 3mo ago
> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. Well, he did diagnose the situation correctly. He couldn't comprehend the confusion of ideas that provoked the question. I'
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by jrumbut 3mo ago
What's most bothersome is there is work for them to do. How about assigning a real copy editor with subject matter expertise? How about publishing open source libraries that automatically validate and output visualizations for their fo
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by jrumbut 3mo ago
They used it for both and as a source of vitamin A and whatever other nutrients are in it. They used it for everything. There is an episode of I Love Lucy where a recipe for homemade baby formula is described which includes cod liver oil. I
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by jrumbut 3mo ago
It could be my use cases, which have always seemed to be outside the wheelhouse of these models, but I find it very hard to downgrade after accessing a more capable model. Opus 4.8 produces output in 15 minutes that is 3-4 hours of my work
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by jrumbut 3mo ago
Yeah, I think the missing piece on this is that the first thought they had was "we can do the same with less" instead of the growth mindset that made me interested in technology in the first place. And it's amazing they didn&
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by jrumbut 3mo ago
If you've ever been to the beach, you can smell the salt air and rotting seaweed and hear the birds. It's all gonna get on the glass (from above and below), and eventually the salt left behind is going to build up. The salt left b
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by jrumbut 3mo ago
If you have triggers I don't see why you wouldn't put them in a migration. That addresses one of the most problematic aspects of triggers (invisibility, no version tracking, etc) without reducing their usefulness. With some clever
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
> identify and weed out the worse teachers By and large, everyone knows. Data might be useful to tell you "hey that longtime great teacher approaching retirement has checked out early" or "the new hire who was struggling l
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
Part of this is the changes wrought by the Internet already. At one point, almost nobody got into fly fishing out of an idiopathic urge to capture little trouts. I got into fishing because my neighbor liked to take his kids out and I came w
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
We need to invent new reasons to be together. I love people, I love spending time with them. Even though I am married, a parent, and living near to several relatives I still get lonely because of a lack of some forms of interaction. At the
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
The boundary on this is kind of fuzzy. You obviously wouldn't donate if 100% of it was stolen, but also if you wait until the world is in a perfected state before helping anyone you'll never help anyone.
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
And for anyone who says "hey that looks familiar, but I've never been to Cincinnati" it was the inspiration for Justice League headquarters.
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
Yeah there has been a weird belief here for a long time that if something bad happens to us then extremely generous welfare benefits will materialize. Ask the people who used to work in the auto plants if that's how it goes. No one wil
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
Without knowing more about their methodology, it seems like a lot of the recent improvements have involved the AI itself taking time to complete the task. At first the models turned a 5 minute task into a 5 second task (by 5 seconds I mean
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
It's also by far the best in my experience at a request like "it's 3:55 and I need a few slides on the topic of the Gettysburg Address for a 4PM meeting." I wish it was more integrated into PowerPoint but it's still
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
I've lost access to plenty of Claude stuff without canceling anything. I am careful not to leave anything important in there and back up regularly. It's funny because sometimes it will remember stuff that is lost and not be able t
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
I think it's possible that this idea would work as a communication/branding strategy for senior developers, though I don't think it's strictly true. I am really skeptical of arguments based around "I can do things t
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
Oh yeah, I'm sure that $300 microscope comes in handy but a cheap loupe gets you started. I've found all sorts of other uses for it too.
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
Or there's an efficient market and when you mail yourself 9,999 $1 bills and take them to the bank you find out 30% are counterfeit.
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
My typical practice is to write a reply using my own brain and whatever practices are called for, then attach any interesting chatbot responses that were generated as documents. So there's a clear separation, a reply from me which I st
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
My father was a big HP calculator fan. I used to forget my TI calculator for class and he would lend it to me. I was never more unpopular at school than the day we had an exam and I was learning RPN on a calculator that beeped every time yo
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
The past couple of years have been chaotic and fearful. Hopefully that won't last forever. If we can get a little stability, people will begin thinking less in terms of "how do we do the same thing cheaper" and more in terms
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
I agree with this sentiment but I think LLMs are really close to the Brooks idea of a silver bullet. I don't know if, overall, it's a 10x improvement or 6x or 14x but it's a serious contender. Part of it is the LLMs are very
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
As someone who transitioned from working in startups and technology to a university, it is hard to describe how different the environment is. It looks very weird and is hard to understand from the outside, and unfortunately all technology v
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
I agree entirely. Those of us old enough to have experienced those dreams are naturally going to mourn the loss of the Internet as a place for wild experimentation because we know so much good came from it and there isn't any true repl
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
The location it chose was laughably inaccurate (and since I'm the kind of person who posts here I know why). Censoring the IP address was a little cheesy, but down at the bottom it gets better. It knew how much my phone was charged and
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
> have no issues paying for childcare I guess this depends what you mean by issue. One can pay for it but eventually (especially for multiple children) it crowds out other things. The price forces a consideration of marginal costs and be
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by jrumbut 4mo ago
The problem with up front spec writing was that it created this long, very high risk period where there was no code, no prototype, no hard limits. So you're arguing back and forth about exactly which fields should be collected where an

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