sputknick

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by sputknick 4d ago
They did not lie or cheat. They technically acted within their given rules while ignoring the intent of those rules. Anyone who served in the military or attended a military school is very familiar with this behavior pattern.
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by sputknick 2mo ago
Best I can do is point out that much of American economic history for the past 300 years has been stumbling from crisis to crisis, and somehow we muddle through. A good book to understand this is https://a.co/d/0aTW4L6D
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by sputknick 2mo ago
I don't understand what he means by "brute force your embedding". Does this mean "don't calculate your embedding ahead of time, just generate them as you need them?
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by sputknick 2mo ago
I usually read handwriting from previous eras and marvel at how good everyone's handwriting was in the past. I feel encouraged that Alan Turing had handwriting almost as bad as mine.
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by sputknick 3mo ago
Nevermind, it eventually loaded
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by sputknick 3mo ago
Would love to use if you can get it back up! Sounds like an awesome idea for a way to converse with the Bible
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by sputknick 4mo ago
Hot take: I'm reading programming books more now. There is so much to know about any technological topic and an LLM can tell you all of it, but it's overwhelming. What a book does is disciple and structure what you need to know, a
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by sputknick 4mo ago
You have my attention. I assume this would also work well on a worse laptop (since the processing is done in the cloud)?
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by sputknick 5mo ago
I'm surprised with how quickly I stopped anthropomorphizing AI. I can remember in college have dorm room pseudo-intellectual debates about AI being alive and AI being "conscience". then once we had AI that could pass the Turi
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by sputknick 5mo ago
I've been looking for 4 months and only had one phone screen from HR. Cybersecurity in Raleigh, my last employer was MAG 7. My particular problem is I took off 6 years to be a stay-at-home parent.
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by sputknick 5mo ago
The nice thing is that with LLMs using markdown we are getting a nice ecosystem for a universal method for communicating textual information. The negative is that Markdown is starting to look like the https://xkcd.com/927&#x
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by sputknick 5mo ago
I'll take the other side of this argument: I like the AI art. Easy way to make it more visually engaging
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by sputknick 5mo ago
Maybe the lesson here is we shouldn't rely on the guys selling picks and shovels when determining if we should be buying picks and shovels.
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by sputknick 5mo ago
I tried using it for a specific web search task. I wrote a skill, got it all set up and deployed. It worked. But also, would have worked just as well as a cron job with some LLM looking at Brave API results. Like a lot of AI tools, it was a
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by sputknick 6mo ago
I agree with this take. Nothing changes, everything just evolves. Been happening for 60 years, will (likely) continue to happen for the next 60 years.
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by sputknick 6mo ago
CLI because if you have to ask, the answer is almost always the more simple one
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by sputknick 6mo ago
This is probably my favorite gain from AI assisted coding: the bar for "who cares about this app" has dropped to a minimum of 1 to make sense. I recently built an app for grocery shopping that is specific to how and where I shop,
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by sputknick 7mo ago
Similar to how the roads Rome built to control their empire were used by Barbarian invaders. History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.
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by sputknick 7mo ago
I'd like to explore this idea, did you make a blog post about it? is it simple enough to post in the reply?
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by sputknick 7mo ago
My hot take is that as that percentage increases, salaries will go up asymptotically, until you get to 100%, then they crash to 0. If 80% of your job can be done by AI, I'm going to give you the work of 5 people. When is 99%, I will gi
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by sputknick 8mo ago
If you load it in Chrome, it loads MUCH faster
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by sputknick 8mo ago
Or said another way: "Gold returned to the price it was a Tuesday". The world is too multi-variant to conclude this conversation caused the price of gold to collapse.
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by sputknick 8mo ago
Serious question: do you think people in Iran would prefer the status quo, or Return of the Shah (son)? My gut says Shah, but I don't know anyone from Iran, so that's just a guess.
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by sputknick 8mo ago
I'm on Epic's side on this one. Having things for sale in a game is different from "manipulating children" into buying things in a game.
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by sputknick 8mo ago
I appreciate the validation that he doesn't customize it much. I see a lot of people creating really complex agents/workflows that I tried to replicate and always came across to me as more trouble than they are worth. Kinda like 1
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by sputknick 9mo ago
Tl;dr Madagascar
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by sputknick 10mo ago
In America, the problem comes when the gain and the loss come in different years. If you make a big gain in 2024, but didn't pay taxes on that gain, then lose the money in 2025, they will come after you for failing to pay taxes in 2024
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by sputknick 10mo ago
I followed Rob's work on this in real time, it was a master class in calling out a company with no value. He just continually laid out how numbers didn't add up, and laid out the inevitable conclusion. I had no idea about the thre
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by sputknick 11mo ago
There is a very strange totally coincidental correlation where if you are smart and NOT trying to raise money for an AI start-up, you think AGI is far away, and if you are smart and actively raising money for an AI start-up, then AGI is rig
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by sputknick 1y ago
This is very similar to the conclusion I have been coming to over the past 6 months. Agents are like really unreliable employees, that you have to supervise, and correct so often that its a waste of time to delegate to them. The approach I&

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