nimonian

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by nimonian 8d ago
I am freaking out. This is a huge moment. I don't want to drag the discourse away from this achievement, but I hate how this is announced with blatant corporate advertising (our internal model, here are the benchmarks, gpt astra TM you
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by nimonian 27d ago
Climate change, most likely.
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by nimonian 1mo ago
Agreed. Opus 5 is doing just fine, slightly better than 4.8. It's personality is insufferable, but I find myself catching fewer problems at code review. It generally understands my conventions and isn't so eager to accrue tech deb
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by nimonian 2mo ago
Both. Command the author to use the style, then command a reviewer to check it. Write one skill called review-prose with your rules, and another called write prose which tells the author they will be judged by review-prose, so you only writ
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by nimonian 2mo ago
_Exactly_. Both the article and the parent comment treat "happens to have Kik account" as an independent discovery that affects our Bayesian inference. No. The innocent was identified exactly _because_ they have a Kik account, so
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by nimonian 2mo ago
What you're describing is very close to what education theory calls "assimilation" and "accommodation". When we assimilate knowledge, it just fits into our schema of understanding. When we accommodate knowledge, we
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by nimonian 2mo ago
The article presents hypothesis as fact with insufficient science. I have no problem discussing speculation, but if the author wants to promote their claims to any more than that I would want to see more journalism.
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by nimonian 2mo ago
I completely agree with this you. The article is NOT about product ideas. Your parent has misunderstood the article.
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by nimonian 2mo ago
This is pretty unfair. If the author didn't establish some context there would be someone else here saying "Check out this dilettante telling me what to think." I have a degree in mathematics followed by twenty years in softw
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by nimonian 2mo ago
Neat! I think agents making Word docs and PowerPoints is going to go away. I think something like small docs is the future.
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by nimonian 3mo ago
Online chess is taken seriously as an e-sport, especially at the top levels, and is played for cash prizes. Imagine if the best cs:go or competitive programmers were found to be cheating. They would be ostracized.
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by nimonian 3mo ago
Very close to this at my company. We have docs each of which having its description in the yaml. An MCP tool lists the doc sections, a full section with its descriptions, or the entire contents of a doc. A kind of progressive disclosure. Wo
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by nimonian 3mo ago
Fable is really good at front end (Opus 4.8 is decent too) but it really needs a verification loop - it can't always infer the output from the code alone. Give it Playwright to check its work, and it'll generally do a good job. Al
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by nimonian 3mo ago
I do quite a lot of what this post describes in a reasonably large project. Here's what works for me: - write gherkin features for new features; update them for enhancements; don't touch them for refactors. Label your PRs with the
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by nimonian 3mo ago
Ghostty with Claude Code. That's pretty much it. For each new feature, I open a worktree, spar with Claude to work up a gherkin spec with @todo on each story. Each agent pushes commits to a WIP PR in GitHub where I review and leave com
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by nimonian 4mo ago
This is a tangent but I'd also mention sli.dev -- slideshow-as-website is really great and fun to make with llms
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by nimonian 4mo ago
I read a lot of AI prose three days and this bears none of the hallmarks. If this is AI, if really live to see the prompt. I'm confident this is human.
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by nimonian 4mo ago
It's a delightful counterintuition that your gut feeling is mostly wrong: https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf Far from being motivated by some applications, the most useful discoveries
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by nimonian 5mo ago
If you think of it as being an accumulator function it can feel a bit more natural - the _definition_ of this accumulator is that, F(x) is the area from 0 to x The fact that the derivative of this accumulator function is equal to the origin
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by nimonian 5mo ago
I'm with you on this (I think). Digitising my org is much easier if I can assume my colleagues' agents will be acting on their behalf. Even if I can't convince most humans to cooperate with solutions, I can usually trust thei
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by nimonian 6mo ago
I am building _exactly_ this for my org for the past month, using Nuxt Content. A "draft" is a row in a database with live preview. Users can click a button to make a checkpoint (git commit, by GitHub API, but they don't know
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by nimonian 6mo ago
Writing to the board is not customary. When you do so, it is customary to do it through the secretary.
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by nimonian 6mo ago
I still believe looking up the answer in the back of the book is completely fine. It creates a moment of tension. It invites you to justify in your own head that the answer is right before checking. The cognitive dissonance when you see you
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by nimonian 6mo ago
Sorry for the late reply. When I was studying my A Level physics me and my teacher read Angels and Demons at the same time. It is a silly story really but just scratched that sci-fi bit of my brain in the right way at the right time. It is
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by nimonian 6mo ago
I have a vitepress package in most of my repos. It is a knowledge graph that also just happens to produce heat looking docs for humans when served over http. Agents are very happy to read the raw .md.
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by nimonian 6mo ago
The mention Dan Brown in the article! This book occupies a special place in my heart and I was glad to see it mentioned.
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by nimonian 6mo ago
> These aren't edge cases. This is... me stopping reading
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by nimonian 6mo ago
I consider this a form of performance art. To really expose the absurdity of the system, you can't just point at the cracks; you need to actually stick your fingers in.
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by nimonian 6mo ago
I completely agree. This is a good list, but a poor prompt. Also, I sometimes find a sort of Streisand effect: when you tell the LLM to avoid something is starts doing it more. Like, if you say "don't use delve" it contains t
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by nimonian 7mo ago
I hope the irony of this comment isn't lost on the author of the article

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