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by nkoren 5d ago
When I moved from the US to the UK, the use of quotation marks in news headlines was something that confused me. In the US, these would be "scare quote", with the quotation marks basically standing in for the words "so-called
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by nkoren 11d ago
Fun fact: French Guiana is a part of France -- and very much part of the EU -- despite not actually being in Europe. In roughly the same way that Hawaii is a part of the United States of America, despite not actually being in America.
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by nkoren 11d ago
FANTASTIC accomplishment, congratulations!!!! Now: please make it rapidly reusable and at least 10x larger. Europe desperately needs sovereign launch capabilities in that class. Today, you were the first to cross the starting line. AWESOME.
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by nkoren 21d ago
I also don't have time to watch the video, but am somewhat familiar with the topic. One of the primary themes of the dreamtime stories is about the origins of various landforms: how this hill got here, how this valley got there, etc. T
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by nkoren 22d ago
I'm in a borough of London, and did a bit of a double-take when they told me that Dolly Parton would be sending my daughter a book every month. But indeed she did, and it had exactly that effect, and now she's an absolutely avid r
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by nkoren 2mo ago
Those are his actual accomplishments.
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by nkoren 2mo ago
The issue is the sheer odiousness of Musk's political machinations. Claude has never tried to inject racist "white genocide" conspiracy theories into every unrelated conversation. You don't have to be much of a pearl-clu
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by nkoren 2mo ago
Yeah, I've learned that it's only worth deploying Fable for the most challenging problems. For a while, my Fable workflow was looking like ths: Me: Hey Fable, I've got this massive, theoretically challenging, totally novel, i
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by nkoren 3mo ago
Massive kudos to the whole team. I've been waiting 30 years for this announcement, ever since I first heard about the scrolls. Fantastic work!
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by nkoren 3mo ago
Correction: Europe is much warmer than similar latitudes in North America. Madrid is north of Denver. Istanbul is north of New York. London is north of Calgary.[1] 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments&#x2
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by nkoren 3mo ago
Yeah, and with 95% of those videos, there'll be something they gloss over which I don't understand; or I'll have a concern which they don't address; or, conversely, they'll assume that their target audience was born
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by nkoren 4mo ago
For the past 18 months, I've been creating an in-house GUI application which is starting to approaching Photoshop-level complexity. By which I mean: it's still probably a solid order of magnitude less complex than Photoshop -- but
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by nkoren 4mo ago
I had an an interesting experience with a bird brain today. There's a robin who often sits in the fig tree in my back yard, giving friendly little chirps whenever I'm near. (I have no way of knowing whether it's the same ro
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by nkoren 4mo ago
There are many ways that America could be more democratic, and simultaneously produce less stupid results: 1. Eliminate / work around the electoral college system, which makes it so that people in the most diverse, educated, and econ
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by nkoren 4mo ago
...while correctly spelling "strawberry"...
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by nkoren 5mo ago
I agree with this. I'm not arguing that LLMs are conscious. We don't understand the math behind how our brains work; we don't know how close or far LLMs are to that; and we don't know how many different pathways to consc
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by nkoren 5mo ago
And that is dogma. It's unthinking circular reasoning. It wasn't very long ago that scientists were certain that animals did not posses thoughts or feelings. Any behaviour which appeared to resemble thinking or feeling was simply
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by nkoren 5mo ago
I could describe the electrical and chemical signals within your neurons and synapses as proof that you are merely a series of electrochemical reactions, and can only mimic genuine thought.
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by nkoren 5mo ago
On the off-chance that psychosomatic suggestibility is on this list, I'm not even looking at it.
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by nkoren 5mo ago
Sure there are goals -- but the problem is, you can't make automated tests for them in the same way as you can for (many) software engineering outputs. So you can A/B test something for conversion rate, and find that instead of ge
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by nkoren 5mo ago
As someone who does both development and design, I agree. With some caveats. At this point, Claude now writes > 99% of my code. I wasn't an enthusiastic early adopter; it took me a while to be willing to let go of the reins. But in
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by nkoren 5mo ago
I thought it was about replicating a mossad supply chain attack.
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Are self-driving cars safer than public transit?(thenextmile.substack.com)
2 points by nkoren 7mo ago|1 comments
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by nkoren 7mo ago
This makes me a very happy Claude Max subscriber. Finally, someone of consequence not kissing the ring. I hope this gives others courage to do the same.
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by nkoren 7mo ago
Zubrin's "Hydrogen Hoax" from 2007[1] is basically an ironclad critique. The physics are inescapably poor, and always will be. (Zubrin makes other points in that article which should probably be taken with more salt, but his
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by nkoren 7mo ago
Yes, this. I miss the old social media. I'd love to have it back. Having moved several times to various corners of the world, I have dear family and friends who are scattered across multiple continents. It's difficult to maintain
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by nkoren 8mo ago
In other news, Kessler Syndrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ag6gSzsGbc
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by nkoren 8mo ago
Recovering architect here. This made my night. Bravo, no notes!
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by nkoren 8mo ago
Great, now how do you make that actually happen at a political / regulatory / cultural level? It's already an uphill battle, because humans in large organisations seem to have an innately conservative bias which says that &qu
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by nkoren 8mo ago
Glad you've done so. I'm at a point in my life (personal bandwidth hovering near 0%) where I'm not getting involved in anything unless I have not just a good reason ("this is a noble agenda; somebody should do somethin

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