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The Harness, the Horse, or the Hay(queener.substack.com)
6 points by mithr 16d ago|0 comments
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by mithr 2mo ago
As a father of two young children, LLMs have been kind of amazing. I’ve historically been someone who has project ideas and has fun building them. But for a few years now I just haven’t had the headspace for it — all I’ve wanted to do in th
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by mithr 2mo ago
> An LLM isn't human. I don't really understand this thread of "humans do it so of course an AI does"... Why is it not reasonable to expect it to adhere to rules better than a human does? Because while it's not h
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by mithr 2mo ago
> Paying a professional to talk to lawmakers about something that is in your best interest And I believe that if it were that above-board then many fewer people would complain. But it's not. Because the professional will host a fanc
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by mithr 2mo ago
I don't know anything about this company and what it may or may not have done, but to be clear, the link just says that when you star their github repo, they add your email address to their marketing list. I think that sucks, but it&#x
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by mithr 7mo ago
> AI doesn't add anything to the ability to do mass surveillance I recommend reading Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus for a deep discussion around this. He makes the point that what makes this AI age much more dangerous for mass surve
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by mithr 7mo ago
My apologies, internet stranger, for thinking I had different goals than the ones you so cleverly picked up on in my one paragraph comment. Clearly you were more correct about my goals than I was.
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by mithr 7mo ago
Others covered specs etc, but just came here to say the intro video is so much fun! I really enjoyed that.
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MasterClass Executive(masterclass.com)
1 points by mithr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mithr 7mo ago
It's not meant as a perfect analogy for global warming, but rather an illustration of how a constant state isn't necessary for something to be said to be "changing", which was OP's claim.
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by mithr 7mo ago
It doesn't; that's kind of a first-glance reading of the phrase without really thinking about it. Something can said to change from a certain standard even if it wasn't perfectly constant to begin with. For example, if I alwa
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GitButler is super cool but not ready for the real world
4 points by mithr 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mithr 11mo ago
Electricity costs are a big factor in this, imo. Rates for my northeast town increased by ~25% in 2024 and are going up by another ~10% this year. It's a hard sell to spend a large amount of up-front money (even after rebates, which d
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by mithr 1y ago
I agree with some aspects, and think the author perhaps misunderstood some others. > If I collect 100 XP, what does it mean for my language skills? For that matter, why do I collect extra XP when I receive a potion? Can the XP I collect
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by mithr 1y ago
I'll respond to the content, because I think there are some genuine questions amongst the condescension and jumping to conclusions. > telling kids the truth before they're ready and without typical parental censorship Does AI t
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by mithr 1y ago
This. The idea is super cool in theory! But given how these sort of things work today, having a toy that can have an independent conversation with a kid and that, despite the best intentions of the prompt writer, isn't guaranteed to st
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Pokemon shaped cheeto sells for $90k(nytimes.com)
2 points by mithr 2y ago|0 comments
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by mithr 2y ago
Is it just me that finds the angle here odd? "The cost of treating illnesses has gone up due to X" rather than "more people are getting sicker due to X". Makes it more of a detached conversation about pricing than abou
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by mithr 2y ago
In Massachusetts, Kia has disabled Kia Connect for all vehicles purchased over the past few years. Any data collected by cars must be made accessible to third-party shops, and Kia opted to disable any data collection (and thus disable Conne
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by mithr 2y ago
I don't know that I completely agree. To some degree, sure — most folks probably don't notice the year-to-year updates in e.g. computing power. But my 70yo mother, who is pretty far from being technologically savvy, uses continuit
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by mithr 2y ago
I'd say > "Ground-Breaking" New Magnet Free of Rare Earth Metals Developed Using Machine Learning Would've been a more accurate, but less click-baity title, that didn't imply the existence of an artificially inte
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by mithr 2y ago
Whoa, TIL that suspension railways exist! My first thought after seeing the end of the video was "why is this video flipped?" until I realized that it was only the train that was "upside down".
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by mithr 2y ago
Really nicely delivered, and a pretty great practical illustration (to the right audience) of the effects of global warming.
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Dave Letterman Crushes Things with an 80-Ton Hydraulic Press (1985) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by mithr 2y ago|1 comments
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by mithr 3y ago
I do think this modified scenario makes the solution much clearer. At the same time, I also think that it feels like a significantly-enough different scenario from the original that saying the two scenarios have the same probability then
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by mithr 3y ago
I think the reason it's so hard to understand is that we try to break the problem down into more digestible problems, and in this case, if you only consider the last stage of the game, it certainly seems like it should be 50:50 odds.
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by mithr 3y ago
This post brings back memories about the Johnny Mnemonic "interactive action movie" game, back in the 90s!
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by mithr 3y ago
The biggest drawback for me is that AVP only works if you're watching things alone. You can easily watch an iPad with your SO, with your kid, with your friends — and AVP may be a better experience, but only for you alone. It may be ama
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by mithr 3y ago
I think change in the remote work world is that we can no longer take these casual relationships for granted, or assume that they will just come into being. In this new world, we have to be intentional about building them. Whereas in an off
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by mithr 3y ago
Same here. I also find myself peeved at the article author, who for some reason decided to spend half a paragraph essentially parroting the company's PR over just how justified this delay is, despite earlier mentioning that they promis

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