pmichaud

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by pmichaud 2mo ago
I was surprised to see you say you have automated tests. To me this makes most of the difference, but you have you actually have a good test suite, like one that actually proves the code does what you want it to do. Unit tests, property tes
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by pmichaud 5mo ago
If I were in charge of a package manager I would be seriously looking into automated and semi automated exploit detection so that people didn't have to yolo new packages to find out if they are bad. The checking would itself become an
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by pmichaud 5mo ago
I think it's probably a little bit about Goodhart? At some point soon after stars were widely in use but prior to them being connected to any particular incentive I bet they were actually a great signal of... something. But then once s
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by pmichaud 7mo ago
I think it's more like a sign post in the text. At the start of any paragraph (or sentence, really) the text may go literally anywhere--could be a new thought, a continuation of an implicit list, an explanation of what came previous, o
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by pmichaud 8mo ago
I think as many other people who replied to you have said, it's a mixed bag. It's better in some sense, with abstractions and frameworks that sand down sharp edges, and libraries that can do everything. But it's also crushing
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by pmichaud 8mo ago
My tldr: people see what they want to see according to their political commitments. The abstract: > “Cultural cognition” refers to the unconscious influence of individuals’ group commitments on their perceptions of legally consequential
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by pmichaud 9mo ago
It made immediate sense to me, since the painted statues do, in fact, look gaudy and horrible. I think he was evoking a widely held feeling that is bot in common knowledge.
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by pmichaud 9mo ago
I’m guessing that this is the first thing they thought of and the problem only exists in the superficial gloss you’re responding to?
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by pmichaud 10mo ago
I think the concern is that if the system is susceptible to this sort of manipulation, then when it’s inevitably put in charge of life critical systems it will hurt people.
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by pmichaud 1y ago
A language learning platform that works would be nice, instead of this.
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by pmichaud 1y ago
Probably not. I think it's the beginning of a major language evolution.
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by pmichaud 1y ago
I experience and wonder the same thing, but literally yesterday I had to help my grandmother recover from a phishing scam that actually (very nearly) worked on her. So there you go.
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by pmichaud 1y ago
I don't have any particular knowledge about oxide's cooling, but think about how bloated and inefficient literally every part of the compute stack is from metal to seeing these words on a screen. If you imagine fixing every part o
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by pmichaud 1y ago
When I was doing a bunch of learning about linguistics, situations like this were very interesting and confusing to me. I still don't have a good working intuition for how this is possible. I don't understand what maintains the so
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by pmichaud 1y ago
I think you can mostly fake this by waiting until the player reenters the range to generate what happened since the last time they interacted. If it's a complex simulation it won't work without more effort, but if it's flavor
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by pmichaud 1y ago
I think it's just the first, most obvious thing to teach people just starting in pathfinding. It works in real life, it's easy to visualize and compute. Therefore all the tutorials are about it :)
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by pmichaud 1y ago
I agree, although in a way that mirrors my opening statement from OP: I think people who don't have this disadvantage tend to underestimate how real it is, and those who have it tend to overestimate how real it is.
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by pmichaud 1y ago
I think in conversations like these most people on the successful side underestimate how valuable the starting advantages were, and most people not on the successful side overestimate how valuable the starting advantages were. Meanwhile alm
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by pmichaud 1y ago
I think he means just try shit until something works better.
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by pmichaud 1y ago
I think there is a real conversation to be had about “data” in a post LMM world, but I actually don’t care about debating definitions here, I care about whether the product works within a reasonable margin of error.
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by pmichaud 2y ago
I am building a company that accepts user generated data, and one surprising struggle is getting my lawyers to stop writing shitty, overbroad, abusive TOS. They are just so used to it, and all the templates and boiler plate is designed to g
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by pmichaud 2y ago
I'm pretty pissed that they baited and switched me--I bought a bambu printer on holiday sale under the previous terms, and they are now going to change the terms. Feels fraudulent.
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by pmichaud 2y ago
I don't really buy this. I don't think the tech is quite there, although at this point it might be a matter of clever prompting more than a fundamental limitation depending on the type of game you have in mind. A strong enough DM
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by pmichaud 2y ago
They are a step on the road to fully responsive rpg worlds though, which don’t have to be text based.
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by pmichaud 2y ago
This looks really cool, great work. One thing I want to preregister though: I bet against the whole Entity subclass thing. 60% of the way through the first serious-business project, you're going to RUE THE DAY. I'll look forward t
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by pmichaud 2y ago
I took it to mean "increasingly bloated over time relative to hardware, phased in a funny, irreverent way." It's a vibe thing, not a definition thing.
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by pmichaud 2y ago
I am pretty confused about why this conversation is happening, ie why this pithy little saying isn’t self explanatory, but the saying is supposed to be witty commentary. For example, we make a system of speed limits to make roads safer, and
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by pmichaud 2y ago
The point of the aphorism is specifically to dispel the notion that the straightforward definition of “purpose” is correct here.
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by pmichaud 2y ago
About 137km diameter, so really big, but albedo (surface brightness, basically) still similar to other comets.
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by pmichaud 2y ago
Maybe there's just no good solution here, but I think the original inspiration for this sort of law was about family homes. It's one thing to inherit stocks and have to sell some of them off, but it's much more complex to try

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