kaechle

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by kaechle 28d ago
I use both Claude and Codex for a lot of code- and prose-adjacent tasks, and I'm increasingly convinced that language models are quite terrible at, well, modeling. Not sure if that's ironic or not. With the right blend of context
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by kaechle 2mo ago
You're arguing semantics; maybe missing the point entirely. The writer is using the analogy to emphasize personalization, not quality, or some other nebulous characteristic applicable to artisanship.
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by kaechle 11mo ago
Correct. To decimate is the infinitive form of the verb decimate .
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by kaechle 11mo ago
Using "literally" figuratively or, more precisely, as a hyperbolic intensifier [0], is a tradition employed by notable English writers who lived and died long before you were born. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by kaechle 1y ago
Those are some bounding leaps you made without much context. Are you in sales? Kidding aside, my first reaction was: perhaps the occasions they were aware of their own influence were ones in which they didn't much care for the outcome.
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In an era of split attention, there is more than one type of ADHD(psyche.co)
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by kaechle 1y ago
I’ll see your pedantry and raise you ... more pedantry. The sentence may be a bit clunky, but there’s nothing grammatically wrong with it. And you’re leaving out the first sentence, which frames the comparison: > ASML gross revenue was 2
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by kaechle 2y ago
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by kaechle 2y ago
Location: Brazil (US Expat) Remote: Preferably Willing to relocate: Never say never Technologies: Python, asyncio, Pydantic, LLM integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic), Meilisearch, WebSockets, Redis, Postgres, REST/HTTP APIs, Fro
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by kaechle 2y ago
This is the way. Blending two or more styles also works well, especially if they're on opposite poles, e.g. "write like the imaginary lovechild of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway." Also, wouldn't angry Charles Bukow
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by kaechle 2y ago
Location: Brazil (American expat, legal address in Las Vegas) Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, Asyncio, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, HTMX, Tailwind CSS, P
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by kaechle 2y ago
Great points. We're pattern-matching shortcut machines, without a doubt. In most contexts, not even good ones. > When I go to the doctor, I don't study medicine first, I trust the doctor. Trust takes the place of genuine unders
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by kaechle 2y ago
Every time I read "stochastic parrot," my always-deterministic human brain surfaces this quote: > “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation
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by kaechle 2y ago
This. Em dashes are—as punctuation goes—downright sexy, so I committed shift+opt+- to muscle memory long ago. And it's arguably less work than a bucked-toothed double hyphen. Btw, if you haven't already, check out Karabiner on mac
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by kaechle 2y ago
:clown + :pointright + ?! (Surely, you jest?!)
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by kaechle 3y ago
Location: American living in Espirito Santo, Brazil (with residency) Remote: Preferably Willing to relocate: Never say never Technologies: HTML, CSS, Tailwind, Svelte, JS, Python, Node, SQL, Linux, nguni, Docker Résumé/CV:
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by kaechle 3y ago
Trite and rehashed groupthink—marketing garbage at its finest. But you should still write. As should every other human being, vocational identity notwithstanding.
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by kaechle 3y ago
> Sums up 94.7% of the internet. Fixed.
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by kaechle 3y ago
I'm still in the early stages of learning how to code, but I've started doing something similar to help me get into the right mental state. As someone with severe ADHD, it takes serious effort to get the brain waves waviating at t
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by kaechle 3y ago
The test states at the end that dogmatism is measured based on the answers to a subset of the questions—the game is simply a correlate.
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by kaechle 3y ago
Likewise interested and exploring the same area.