snk

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by snk 10d ago
Well, no. If I can get an LLM to write like Asimov, that's better than I will ever do, honest.
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by snk 10d ago
Yeah, for some of us, that is bad advice. The version I can most safely implement is, "Be your best self."
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by snk 10d ago
If you never used any particular tool, you probably wouldn't find it useful, right? I asked Gemini about my unicycling this morning, and it coached me on weighting the seat; e.g., looking ahead instead of down helps unweight the pedals
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by snk 10d ago
The title, for example, should likely be Nginx for Nerds, and that error was human, not AI, right?
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by snk 10d ago
So connecting with them on a call and cutting out the LLM was an error?
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by snk 10d ago
That's privacy.
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by snk 10d ago
When I can get an LLM to write like Isaac Asimov, I'll consider some artificial literary experiments; there were books I wanted him to have written that he did not get around to, quitting at 458.
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by snk 10d ago
Good for privacy and productivity.
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by snk 10d ago
Really? How do they distinguish perfect copies from originals?
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by snk 10d ago
I'm quick-witted, outspoken, playful, clever, apparently intelligent; Mensa, Colloquy, like that; not quite clever enough for the triple 9 societies. Morning pages readily enough dispel the illusion. Or coding. I scanned six years of m
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by snk 10d ago
Kinda. Walking the dog with me this evening, Christa saw the license plate 8531 PRI and asked me if 8531 really was prime. The 2, 3, 5 checks are automatic, and 8531-8400 = 131, which obviously isn't divisible by 7, but I would've
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by snk 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_historic_invention...
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by snk 4mo ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14372
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by snk 4mo ago
I'll note that having countless superintelligences handy will accelerate problem-solving e.g. dystopia.
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by snk 6mo ago
A couple of possibilities spring to mind. Likelier that Karen lied, but maybe the 512 page fax changed the system.
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by snk 6mo ago
You mean, Karen lied?
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by snk 7mo ago
I'm old. Back in the olden days - the 1900s - 2-ton cars were not lightweight, the so-called heavy Chevys.
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by snk 9mo ago
Writing is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously misinform them (e.g. illegitimate legal advice or hallucinat
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by snk 9mo ago
Small? GPLv3 is ~5644 words, and not particularly long for a license.
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by snk 1y ago
Sturgeon's Law predates LLMs by decades: 90% of everything is crap.
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by snk 1y ago
Fair use?
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by snk 1y ago
No, it isn't, wealth is good. More readily creating and delivering value is good.
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by snk 2y ago
Planning is very useful even though things never go according to plan, honest.
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by snk 2y ago
Sitting on a Swiss ball hurts me less than a chair. For the first few days it even enforced perfect posture, but that effect went away pretty quickly.
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by snk 2y ago
Fixed goals and flexible tactics, I say. PG comes along and says it much better...
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by snk 5y ago
N = 100000 prime = [False, True] * (N // 2) primes = [] for i in range(3, N, 2): if prime[i]: primes.append(i) k = i ** 2 while k < N: prime[k] = False k += i * 2 useful
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by snk 5y ago
Or 5.
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by snk 5y ago
Nice solver! I did optimize the sieve a little... N = 100000 primes = [False, True] * N // 2 for i in range(3, N, 2): if primes[i]: k = i ** 2 while k < N: primes[k] = False k += i