lordgrenville

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by lordgrenville 7d ago
For some reason, Firefox thinks this article is in Portuguese.
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by lordgrenville 14d ago
n00b question I guess but what is the value of a standalone password manager? Seems like most browsers and operating systems offer this capability nowadays.
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by lordgrenville 16d ago
I think what makes Shazam magically "just work" is that they are searching for the exact embedding of the recorded version of the song - it doesn't work for a cover version, acapella, etc even if it is very similar. (Everyone
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by lordgrenville 1mo ago
If you want to be pedantic, it actually dates back to 1980, in a talk at the Naval War College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap
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by lordgrenville 1mo ago
Lucky we have the counterexample of a tech company run by a guy who did a humanities PhD under Jürgen Habermas...Palantir.
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by lordgrenville 2mo ago
I don't think Claude's writing style is peculiar, it is just that we are being flooded with it. Everything becomes stale with overuse.
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by lordgrenville 2mo ago
"Any eighth-grade boy or girl who is 'all there' should solve it in about thirty seconds" is hyperbole (it took me a couple of minutes), but in general the public reaction to this seems like a demonstration of the Flynn
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by lordgrenville 2mo ago
Yes, except if you launch a process with nohup, then close your terminal and open a new one how do you reconnect to it? I assume there's a way to do it but I don't know how (probably someone with more unix-fu will reply), plus you
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by lordgrenville 2mo ago
Reiterating what I wrote above, sharing these would have been more interesting imo than sharing the pipeline output.
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by lordgrenville 2mo ago
Great, then rather post that! Although that repo looks like 100% AI artifact, not human intervention. (What does "flagging issues for human review at scale" mean in this context?)
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by lordgrenville 2mo ago
While it's really cool that this is possible now, this project seems to be a thin wrapper around running Claude. Presumably, someone who wanted to read one of these books could just run it through Claude themselves with comparable resu
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by lordgrenville 2mo ago
> I am able to make React changes much faster and the changes are higher quality, given frontend dev has never been my job role Man, if I had a dollar for every time someone said "I'm not good at X, but LLMs are so impressive a
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Deciphering basmala(blog.plover.com)
85 points by lordgrenville 3mo ago|33 comments
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by lordgrenville 3mo ago
There was a post on here the other day explaining this exact phenomenon: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06/19/waiting.html
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by lordgrenville 3mo ago
> Many made the same prediction about Twitter, and it seems to be more or less the same or higher activity than before, and Bluesky is continuing to rapidly decline Not at all correct, they are plummeting. "In June 2025...X year-ove
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by lordgrenville 3mo ago
Almost every comment here is appealing to personal experience. By contrast, OP refers to two studies that compare performance on some kind of standardised test over a range of models. Can't speak to how good those tests are, but they c
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by lordgrenville 3mo ago
I've never heard it before, but immediately understood it and found it a useful term for something I didn't have a single word for.
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by lordgrenville 4mo ago
It's not really an attack surface though. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/932/
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by lordgrenville 4mo ago
"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing
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by lordgrenville 4mo ago
I recently read Tarka the Otter [1], which is the story of a life of an otter. At the end he is hunted by a farmer and a pack of otter hounds. It is pretty brutal. Reminds you that at the time they were seen as vermin and a nuisance, not cu
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Rotten Dot Com(theparisreview.org)
135 points by lordgrenville 4mo ago|126 comments
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by lordgrenville 4mo ago
I think OP meant that Farmville was built by a different party (Zynga). FB was trying to encourage other businesses to build apps on its platform, not build them itself.
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by lordgrenville 5mo ago
Wow, yeah. "The result is an app that the creators say is 90% accurate". https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/photo-calorie-app-cal-ai-d...
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by lordgrenville 5mo ago
Are you sure these are actually issues, or are you just trusting that the AI criticism is correct?
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by lordgrenville 5mo ago
As Matt Levine often points out, there are two possible cases for ESG 1/ This will bring worse returns, but I'm willing to accept the loss in order to forward values I support 2/ This will bring better returns, since the
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by lordgrenville 5mo ago
More to the point, in the US losing teams get rewarded in the form of draft picks, which sometimes creates perverse incentives. This doesn't exist in European football. (Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about American sports.)
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by lordgrenville 5mo ago
n=1 But interesting nonetheless, thanks for sharing your findings.
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by lordgrenville 5mo ago
I was surprised that this article is about food wasted by people not finishing their plates. Would have guessed that a lot of the unserved food is discarded (sure, some of it can be served at tomorrow's breakfast, but only within limit
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by lordgrenville 6mo ago
That's what traditional time-series modelling does. This is a foundational model, which means it's just a neural network trained on lots of time series. (So maybe OP's question still stands? But it's the same question as
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by lordgrenville 6mo ago
Nice idea, would be good to add a third option for "these look indistinguishable" (and then I guess they could be bundled together in later stages).

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