purplepatrick

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by purplepatrick 16d ago
I’m really not trying to sound like an ass, but it never occurred to me that anyone would seriously believe that language is required for “logic”. Babbling toddlers can do logic. I sometimes can also do logic, even though I don’t have an in
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by purplepatrick 26d ago
Yup. If only there were a task completion hook that could be set to fire prior to rendering terminal output. That would more handily address all these issues, as we could simply enforce output style rules that way. The current output style
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by purplepatrick 27d ago
If monkey know how to open coconut and monkey like coconut, then eating coconut is what make monkey happy, not knowing how to open coconut or reflecting on its ability to do so…
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by purplepatrick 27d ago
Methinks AI hasn’t been as successful in non-verifiable domains, because they are non-verifiable, not because there’s no version control…
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by purplepatrick 29d ago
This would be much easier to sell if everyone stopped referring to it in the context of “healthcare” and instead used “universal health insurance” or “universal health insurance rates”. The number of politicians that conflate healthcare and
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by purplepatrick 1mo ago
It's not necessarily anthropomorphizing, but simply anchoring. CC learns quickly "this is a session where the user wants to make key decisions". Alas, it is not very good at identifying what constitutes a "key decision&q
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by purplepatrick 1mo ago
Succinct doesn't typically mean clutter-free, but hyper-efficient. This works for code, because it (is intended to be) composed of unambiguous semantic units. Regular language, on the other hand, is messy, vague, and requires more stru
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by purplepatrick 1mo ago
Yeah, basically everything that becomes context in a session will bias perception and communication style -- subagents, plan lingo, prompt lingo, etc. And then if you write a plan with the comms context having been biased, the lingo will cr
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by purplepatrick 1mo ago
Agreed. CC’s comms capabilities have decreased gradually since 4.6, and it’s a real challenge. I think the issue is that what works well for code (succinctness) doesn’t work well in prosaic English. CC’s communication violates almost every
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by purplepatrick 2mo ago
Commenting wholesale on some folks who are asking for hard evidence. I cannot provide that either but can contribute some empirical data. I have been working on a project with about a dozen generation tasks, each of which comes with a fixed
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by purplepatrick 2mo ago
Good article. Appreciate the bread (machine) analogy. One thing to add: software maintenance costs. The build has never been the bottleneck. The notion that most companies will suddenly institute developers to build all kinds of software in
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by purplepatrick 3mo ago
These articles on using AI for writing are all very binary. You can use AI in a variety of ways when writing: improve grammar, correct typos, better organize ideas/concepts/sentence structure/sentences, and dozens of other “h
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by purplepatrick 5mo ago
I keep seeing articles like this that extrapolate from token pricing onto token costs. This is wrong. Companies don’t sell their goods/services at cost. A model’s being priced at, say, $30/M for output tokens doesn’t say anything
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by purplepatrick 7mo ago
SaaS’s competitive advantage is not tech but distribution. Just because the stock market dips, and a bunch of media outlets ascribe this to AI doesn’t mean that AI ‘caused’ the dip. If people really think non-tech businesses will start runn
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by purplepatrick 8mo ago
I’ve found that task isolation, rather than preserving your current session’s context budget, is where subagents shine. In other words, when I have a task that specifically should not have project context, then subagents are great. Claude
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by purplepatrick 10mo ago
As someone mentioned already, list prices are completely fictitious. Their purpose is to anchor medical payers during reimbursement negotiations and satisfy PBMs (see below). The allowed price (the price that the payer pays to the drug com
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by purplepatrick 10mo ago
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that Germany has a written legal code. This could mean that punishments are more strictly classified than under a, say, precedence-based common law system. Changing the classification could move these kind
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by purplepatrick 10mo ago
It may not be a sustainable business with current business models. But if cures came with a "post-scription" model where the cured patient paid, say, 0.5% - 1% of their income to the drug company in perpetuity, then incentives are
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by purplepatrick 10mo ago
Thank you! I was just about to rant about this and decided to scroll to see if anyone had already called this out. The article is quite embarrassing - it’s ok if you don’t know how P&L statement and balance sheet work, but writing an en
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by purplepatrick 1y ago
Non-salary cost such as payroll taxes, benefits, workers comp, training, equipment, space add another 25-50% typically.
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by purplepatrick 2y ago
This is not something that can be done with a C Corp. All gains and losses are within the entity only.
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by purplepatrick 2y ago
Two quick questions: any plans on being hipaa compliant? Probably one of the biggest use cases for this is in health insurance, etc. How do your capabilities compare to Google Document AI or Watson SDU? Also what about standalone competitor
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by purplepatrick 2y ago
Ok, yet another personality test that has no demonstrated scientific validity. The only one that does is the Big Five, I believe. Personally, I’m a fan of the Enneagram. But it, too, has no scientific backing.
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by purplepatrick 2y ago
I would prefer no rewards. Rewards transfer wealth from poorer people to wealthier people, because the latter spend more absolute dollars on rewards cards. This regressive effect is a big turn off imho in addition to the stupid points optim
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by purplepatrick 2y ago
My dad introduced me to it after he started using it when it came out in 1996. It’s great, quick image editing. My only gripe with it is that cropping is unnecessarily convoluted…
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by purplepatrick 2y ago
I’ve been using DMS for years and think it’s excellent. It’s not a hassle at all: once a month, I get an email and all I need to do is click on the link in it. That’s it. Also, I use it to email only one designated person who receives an em
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by purplepatrick 3y ago
OPT hires are easy. You’ll just do an at will contract as you would for any employee or consultant who’s not a foreigner. In other words, nothing needs to be filed or done by you. The only caveat is for the OPT graduate (I assume your frien
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by purplepatrick 3y ago
I just want any map provider to make the compass feature work reliably and easily visible. That’s all I want. But for whatever reason both Google and Apple seem incapable of doing this. I’m puzzled…
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by purplepatrick 3y ago
I’ve been playing it for several days now without fully understanding all the rules. I like it but I win every game easily. I just neutralize the opponent’s marks and then lock them in. I’m not quite clear on how to make it harder…
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by purplepatrick 3y ago
Hmm. So, we don’t know if working and short term memory are even the same thing. We also cannot say for sure that the same type of processes would be handled by short term and long term memory, so it’s not clear that you can substitute one

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