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by redsymbol 1mo ago
His art does not look like AI at all to me. Maybe I have good AI-dar.
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by redsymbol 2mo ago
In Catalonia, Spain, police have been profiling people carrying Pixel phones, assuming they have GrapheneOS installed and are drug dealers or gang members. WTF.
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Overloaded Overloading(powerfulpython.com)
35 points by redsymbol 2mo ago|8 comments
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by redsymbol 2mo ago
The Amiga, and this era of computing, were before my time. But it is surprisingly fun to browse through some of this stuff, and get insights into the very early days of software development. My favorite so far is the "Iff Specs Disk&qu
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by redsymbol 2mo ago
What's the quality level of what they are producing this way? Are they ending up with good pieces of writing?
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by redsymbol 2mo ago
The most interesting part of the official announcement [0]: "As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives..." That implies Google is seeing a shift away from people relying on just AI-generated summaries, and checking the cit
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by redsymbol 2mo ago
This is the right way to use it! You're not making it write for you. You are instead using it to help you write your own words. Massively different.
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by redsymbol 2mo ago
I wrote a post on linkedin last year titled "Do not use AI to write." Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments. Quoting from myself there: "When you write your own
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US companies are losing 2.4% of revenue on failed AI projects(ciodive.com)
5 points by redsymbol 3mo ago|0 comments
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Agentically Fixing 159 Bugs(powerfulpython.com)
1 points by redsymbol 7mo ago|0 comments
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
That's interesting, thanks for sharing this. Yes, I can see that as a big part of the value a publisher can add, in making the book better.
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
Yep, linked there for anyone who is curious! Given the topic, I was concerned they might push me to stuff AI into it, but like I said they did not do that at all.
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
This is absolutely true, speaking as someone who has both self-published and also published with a big publisher. Each choice has pros and cons. In my case, I self-published and sold a book for several years, and then published an updated v
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
That's great! I am not surprised.
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
That was definitely my experience.
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
Haha good question. No, but I did not ask; I wanted to give them as much freedom as I could bear on aspects of the process I was not too attached to, so I let them pick. I will say I was very happy with the animal they came up with! If I wa
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
I had written and self-published three books, and in 2024 decided to publish the most successful one with O'Reilly. It went up for sale in December 2024. The whole experience was wonderful. I had basically none of the problems that thi
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Deterministic AI(powerfulpython.com)
2 points by redsymbol 9mo ago|0 comments
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
Unfortunately, just changing ad platforms is no magic bullet. Tiktok advertising is no easier to ramp up on, in fact it will probably be more difficult and expensive. If are worried about the significant expense and high risk of paid ads, w
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
I would not proceed unless you are willing to invest $50/day for a minimum of 6 months. There is also the investment in learning, which would require 5-10 hours per week that whole time. I say this because anything short of that is lik
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
> Is it possible to start small with Meta and then ramp up? It depends. What kind of offer are you selling? Generally the learning curve is massive, long, stressful and expensive. I lost tens of thousands of dollars before I could consis
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
> I sometimes use Instagram and recently I have seen a ton of ads for a local tech event... but the event already passed a good while ago As someone who buys ads on IG: this is almost certainly because the advertiser has misconfigured t
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
I have spent over $100k of my own money running ads on Meta, over $10k on Linkedin, and also significant amounts on Google (GDN/Youtube/keyword search) and X/Twitter. My experience: For most ad campaign types, YES, Meta works
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
Media buyer here (among other things), so I feel you. I think it's possible the American FTC might start going after advertisers at some point, because Meta's generated text can in some cases mislead or flat-out lie about what is
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
Yeah, as someone who spends a lot of money every month buying Meta ads, I had that thought looking at some of the article's examples. But in its current form, I think that may happen mostly for very direct-response ads, while creating
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
It's an interesting situation. I think that despite the issues, Meta is the best (and fastest-learning) platform for mass-market purchase conversions. Linkedin has powerful targeting options, but the fact that it's tied to GMT dri
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
Sure, happy to chat. @redsymbol on twitter, or my email is in my HN about page
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by redsymbol 9mo ago
I'm a software engineer who is also a media buyer, which is the term for someone who purchases and configures advertising campaigns. I have spent over $100k of my own funds on Meta ads the past several years, which makes me moderately
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by redsymbol 10mo ago
Why? Not trying to challenge you, and I'd sincerely love to read your response. People said similar things about previous gen-AI tool announcements that proved over time to be overstated. Is there some reason to put more weight in &quo
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by redsymbol 11mo ago
This is where list comprehensions came from! Like we have in modern Python, Haskell and more. SETL was the first language to use comprehensions in its core syntax.

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