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by paultopia 1mo ago
Please no. The last thing we need is mindreading AI
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by paultopia 2mo ago
Yeah, isn’t this a classic kind of scam the would-be scammer situation? If you think there’s some way to buy one cheap device and somehow get around subscribing to streaming services[1], then of course you’re going to be in a market with f
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by paultopia 2mo ago
Honestly I’m shocked this took so long. For years and years this has smelled like a massive vulnerability to me, just because so constantly I find myself getting docusigns from people I have some kind of business with, without any warning i
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by paultopia 2mo ago
When you get other people’s money, you have to be accountable to them. Sorry. I don’t release apps, but I do teach at a university. I’m also accountable to the people whose money I get. Sometimes student evaluations are terrible, and it
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by paultopia 2mo ago
What. The author of this post ought to be ashamed of their desperate effort to avoid being called out for making shitty and/or obnoxious software by blaming the people to describe to future victims that it is shitty and/or obnoxi
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by paultopia 2mo ago
bash scripting has ergonomics?
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by paultopia 3mo ago
Good rule to apply to companies too. If someone sics AI on me through their customer service line, I feel totally free to sic AI right back at them
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by paultopia 3mo ago
I was thinking of this when I got to the bit about color assignments and happiness levels too!
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by paultopia 3mo ago
I feel like this is a lost cause, but why do people who publish these online free book-like-substances never make the files available as a single download? Do I really need to run a scraper if I want to read this as an epub on my kindle?
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by paultopia 3mo ago
Ooh thank you!
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by paultopia 3mo ago
Does anyone know of any good write-ups on how to carry out this sort of task, for people who are reasonably technical (i.e., know how to code) but aren’t deep in the AI world? I feel like “customize a model based on a corpus of documents”
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by paultopia 4mo ago
Ok this might be the coolest thing I've seen all month. You must be a Recurser, right? This is so very Recurser.
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by paultopia 4mo ago
Glad someone finally stopped pulling punches in describing Yarvin's wickedness and imbecility. There's a kind of elegance and charm to this style of just heaping abuse on people who richly deserve it---Hunter S. Thompson was its g
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by paultopia 4mo ago
Hah, can we do that for recipes next?
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by paultopia 4mo ago
Do people actually do this in things like slack? (One of the best things about being a professor in a non lab field is that I don't have to use things like slack.) This seems like open contempt for the reader.
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by paultopia 4mo ago
There are actually really interesting tech intersections here, possibly. 8 years ago I published an article[1] that ended with some speculation about the possibility of automating organized consumer action to permit, for example, people to
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by paultopia 4mo ago
I mean, yeah, if you’re selling someone a product it’s pretty fair for them to expect, or at least hope, that it will reduce their workload and advance their personal interests…
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by paultopia 4mo ago
While this strategy is fine for clueless users, I suspect that it will lead to immense frustration for the ones with clues
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by paultopia 5mo ago
I'm a little puzzled by what this actually is supposed to be. The marketing material on this website suggests that it's meant to be used with a firm's Gemini or Claude API keys. ("A chat interface that reads your docume
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by paultopia 5mo ago
Do people really not use it? I use my iPad cellular all the time. Constantly. One of these days I'm going to buy one of those old MS Surfaces with cellular and stick Linux on it. But for the installation/drivers hassles I'd
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by paultopia 5mo ago
Hard disagree. The iPad is a fantastic mac replacement for many purposes. I use the iPad Pro w/ the “magic keyboard” case for working essentially whenever I’m not physically in home or office in similar ways that I do my Mac, for two
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by paultopia 5mo ago
Based on the name I’d thought it was going to be another militarization project, thank god it isn’t.
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by paultopia 5mo ago
Hah, what I wish Cloudflare would supply in the email space is a “prove you’re a human” except for access to my inbox
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by paultopia 6mo ago
This is awesome… the code of federal regulations would be a fantastic next project.
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by paultopia 6mo ago
So the next question becomes: is there anything out there that’s like an almost-index? Like something that acts like a passive index fund, except when acting like an index fund would be obviously idiotic (for e.g. if following the rules su
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by paultopia 6mo ago
Uh, can someone explain this to me like I’m 5, but somehow still have money invested in index funds? It makes me sound like my invested-in-vanguard-total-market-indexes-and-fidelity-target-date-funds money is going to be mechanically dumpe
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by paultopia 6mo ago
Successful professor with a very theoretical (as opposed to empirical) research trajectory here: this feels extremely accurate to me. I see this with students all the time: they're so afraid of making mistakes that they refuse to write
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by paultopia 7mo ago
I love this. I use various text editors mostly used by devs (moving back and forth between emacs and sublime on mac and textastic on ipad) for serious longform writing all the time, usually using markdown + pandoc, and it has a bunch of ad
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by paultopia 8mo ago
> Seniority here also unfortunately often correlates with age. The best startup employee will usually be someone early in their career who doesn’t have as many responsibilities or as much need for consistency due to having more dependen
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by paultopia 8mo ago
https://gowder.io ---I'm fairly proud of this design, which was meant to be an homage to the old palm pilots! needs some updating though :-)

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