ksenzee

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by ksenzee 6d ago
I regret to inform you that the equivalent has been around for some time already. They're calling it "GEO," for Generative Engine Optimization.
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by ksenzee 7d ago
He had a perfectly good example of how to do that productively. His friend Dries Buytaert over in Drupal land has had a commit credit system going for years that has worked well enough that people are constantly trying to game it. Instead h
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by ksenzee 12d ago
Eh. It was pretty great in 2008, when I used my spotty cell service to tweet road trip updates by texting 40404. O tempora, o mores, etc. etc.
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by ksenzee 15d ago
You can start typing words that were in either the title or the URL of some thing you vaguely remember visiting last month, or last year, and the Awesome Bar will reliably surface it for you. I hardly even use bookmarks; I just count on the
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by ksenzee 21d ago
No, you hire more of them, you give them what they need to do their jobs, and you actually listen to their recommendations. It's not even complicated. It just takes time and money, neither of which companies want to spend on reliabilit
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by ksenzee 23d ago
Superhuman intelligence? Really? These leading-edge advances indicate intelligence beyond the level of humanity?
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by ksenzee 23d ago
To clarify: We are not training LLMs on any information that humanity does not already have access to.
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by ksenzee 24d ago
Are you making a serious argument that superhuman intelligence is a plausible outcome of training LLMs on everything humanity knows so far? Or are you making the generic assertion that AGI is theoretically possible via means other than emul
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by ksenzee 24d ago
LLMs are not emulating the human brain. Somebody may well be able to do that someday, but right now nobody is even trying to.
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by ksenzee 1mo ago
They were buying a home and a yearly family vacation on two modest incomes, though. Try doing that now.
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by ksenzee 1mo ago
Housing is not more expensive because people have granite countertops. If anything it's the other way around. The land houses sit on has grown exponentially in value regardless of the quality of the building itself. Take any modest US
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by ksenzee 1mo ago
"You will be annoyed" and "you will be served malware" are two different classes of need. The first is enough to get me running Firefox/uBlock Origin on my own devices. The second is what got me to run it at work.
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by ksenzee 1mo ago
yeah good idea, I'll just pop it into my xbox -- oh.
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
This was Washington, D.C. during the Bush years. I could more easily have admitted to an ongoing affair or a cocaine habit.
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
There's a large middle ground between saying nothing in the face of bigotry and proceeding immediately from "oh you're a member of <group>?" to an itemized list of hypocrisies, without stopping to find out what the
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
Having previously been a member of such a religion, and having left it specifically over human rights issues, I am delighted to inform you that there are many individuals who identify as members of such religions but who are not personally
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
Of course people know how to hide things that aren't safe to tell everyone. I do, however, genuinely mean what I'm saying. I worked somewhere once where the nature of the work meant almost everyone was of a particular political pe
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
I don't own a company, and nobody reports to me. I simply said I want my coworkers to feel safe being themselves. I've had jobs where that was true, and they were better places to work all around, probably because "I feel saf
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
Maybe not your whole self, but I'd like the people I work with to feel safe talking about their family, their disabilities, their religion, their culture or subculture, the things they love doing, whatever makes them human.
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
It's fascinating reading if you're interested in finding out the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station)
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
To clarify my point, I am fairly sure the issue is not fountain pens requiring less pressure to write with than everything else, but rather ballpoint pens requiring more pressure than all earlier pen technology. I have not used a dip pen my
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
The cursive thing is almost certainly because he's using fountain pens. Pencils and ballpoint pens lend themselves to printing more easily, because they require pressure to write, and when you let the pressure up between letters, the l
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
I don’t know whether you wrote this by hand in the most painfully LLM style you could gin up, or whether you got an LLM to do it for you, but either way I tip my hat to you.
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
Oh sorry, I didn’t mean to imply you didn’t. If you were lucky enough to get a doctor to diagnose you before you figured it out yourself, congrats. That should be more common than it is. There are way too many doctors out there brushing off
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
Not OP, but this is fairly common knowledge. Here's a reliable source - search the page for VAPP: https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-detail...
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
Autonomic neurologists are the relevant specialists. I invite you to look for one in your local area and see how rare they are. The last I checked, the Seattle metro area (and in fact the whole state of Washington) had precisely one board-c
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
I read novels voraciously, all of them on my phone. I haven't bought a paper book for myself in maybe a decade.
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by ksenzee 2mo ago
As someone with a degree in literature, I'm gonna disagree there. It depends on both the novel and the programming.
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by ksenzee 3mo ago
All of those may be correlated to the rise in obesity. I see no evidence that any of them is causal. I don't even think all of them are correlated, honestly. The rise in the number of calories available certainly is, but cars and subur
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by ksenzee 3mo ago
What evidence do you have that it is a cultural shift, rather than, say, a chemical in the environment that wasn't there before, or a difference in the food supply?

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