qjack

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by qjack 2mo ago
The problem is the infinite other literature produced along the way. It doesn't work to throw more monkeys at the problem of verification, and checking for matches against existing Shakespeare plays is cheating.
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by qjack 2mo ago
On the contrary, formal logic probably played a much smaller role than the rest of their philosophy degree in their success. Most programmers deal equally with philosophical problems as they do technical problems: what components should exi
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by qjack 3mo ago
The most dumbfounding thing in all of this is the number of people interacting directly with Jimmy Wales on twitter and having no sense for how wikipedia works or why. It should not be surprising that a company webpage or even the CEO confi
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by qjack 3mo ago
British people use "quite" to mean "not quite", so it is possible that's what is meant. (Reading the paragraph over though, I don't think this is the case here.)
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by qjack 10mo ago
Anthropic has been trying to win the developer marketshare, and has been quite successful with Claude Code. While I understand the argument that this acquisition is to protect their usage in CC or even just to acquire the team, I do hope th
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by qjack 1y ago
While I agree with you broadly, remember that those that employ you don't have those skills either. They accept that they are ceding control of the details and trust us to make those decisions or ask clarifying questions (LLMs are gett
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by qjack 1y ago
> One implication would be to skip college, take that money and invest it in the stock market. Why invest in labor when capital grows faster? Although I don't think anyone with this mindset would offer that advice, but rather dwell