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by stephendause 8mo ago
I don't know; I've never done something like that. If no one else answers, you can always ask Claude itself (or another chatbot). This kind of thing seems tricky to get right, so be careful!
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by stephendause 8mo ago
There is an example of [dis]allowing certain bash commands here: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings As for queries, you might be able to achieve the same thing with usage of command-line tools if it's a
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Six Principles for More Rigorous Evaluation of Cognitive Capacities(aiguide.substack.com)
2 points by stephendause 8mo ago|0 comments
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by stephendause 8mo ago
Your story sounds similar to mine. There are some parts of programming at which I know I will never excel. I also don't have time in my life to spends lots of hours outside of work developing my skills. I think it's important to r
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by stephendause 9mo ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. My personal taste for the presentation of a piece of writing is that less is more. I usually find artwork that accompanies a text to be distracting. I love reading work that can stand on its own, invoki
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by stephendause 9mo ago
Why? To me, hosting previous versions of an article in a public git repo adds transparency. Or perhaps you are talking about GitHub specifically?
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by stephendause 9mo ago
> - Is the work faster? It sounds like it’s not faster. The author didn't discuss the speed of the work very much. It is certainly true that LLMs can write code faster than humans, and sometimes that works well. What would be nice i
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by stephendause 11mo ago
This is total speculation, but my guess is that human reviewers of AI-written text (whether code or natural language) are more likely to think that the text with emoji check marks, or dart-targets, or whatever, are correct. (My understandin
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by stephendause 11mo ago
This is a good insight, but do you know of better ways to measure machines' abilities to solve problems in the "messy real world"?
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by stephendause 11mo ago
I think it's not only the potential for self-improvement of AGI that is revolutionary. Even having an AGI that one could clone for a reasonable cost and have it work nonstop with its clones on any number of economically-valuable proble
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by stephendause 1y ago
This is a key question in my opinion. It's one of the things that make benchmarking the SWE capabilities of LLMs difficult. It's usually impossible to know whether the LLM has seen a problem before, and coming up with new, represe
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by stephendause 1y ago
Jonathan Haidt has a lot of good material on this. He is leading the charge in encouraging parents to delay giving their child a phone until high school and not allowing them to have social media accounts until age 16. https://ww
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by stephendause 1y ago
I could be wrong, but I believe the author is referring to cookies being used for session authentication as opposed to general session management.
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by stephendause 1y ago
> There is almost no children available for adoption This is not true, at least in the United States. For one thing, there are many children in foster care who want to be adopted. It is also possible, though difficult and expensive, to a
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Why Are Computers Still So Dumb?(theatlantic.com)
2 points by stephendause 1y ago|1 comments
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by stephendause 1y ago
I am interested whether anyone knows how precedented this sort of situation is. It seems like a certain portion of the spectrum was intended to be used for one thing, and now part of it might be sold for another purpose, causing the origina
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by stephendause 1y ago
One point I haven't seen made elsewhere yet is that LLMs can occasionally make you less productive. If they hallucinate a promising-seeming answer and send you down a path that you wouldn't have gone down otherwise, they can rea
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Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers(nytimes.com)
429 points by stephendause 1y ago|331 comments
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by stephendause 1y ago
My coworker has a similar setup and loves it. Personally, it feels diametrically opposed to the way that I like to use my keyboard. I don't even like holding Shift to type `{`, `_`, etc when programming. I wish I had dedicated keys for
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by stephendause 2y ago
Yes. You can be judged to be intoxicated even if you are under the limit.
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by stephendause 2y ago
What are more cost-effective ways of accomplishing the same goal?
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by stephendause 2y ago
Awesome. I there any chance of this change or something like it getting merged into the rustc compiler?
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by stephendause 3y ago
What language does he program in? ChatGPT and CoPilot have increased my productivity, sure, but I don't know if they've multiplied it by 2, and definitely not 3. I mostly program in Rust, and while they are good, they still often
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by stephendause 3y ago
> Imperative programs describe computations by repeatedly performing implicit effects on a shared global state. Is this necessarily true? In Rust programs, operations do not operate on a shared global state – at least not in the way I t
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by stephendause 3y ago
I subscribe to Reasons to be Cheerful [1]. I like it alright. 1. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/
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by stephendause 3y ago
For anyone else who didn't know what a frame pointer was: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1943...
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by stephendause 3y ago
No, mutation-based testing is different. Fuzzing varies the input to the program. Mutation testing varies the program itself as a means of testing the quality of the tests. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testi
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by stephendause 3y ago
Yes. I highly recommend the book When by Daniel Pink: https://www.danpink.com/books/when/
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by stephendause 3y ago
I don't really think that software engineering is a trade per se. I think it is a much more creative activity that requires a lot more baseline knowledge. I think an automotive engineer is to a mechanic as a software engineer is to an
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by stephendause 3y ago
So I have not done research any software engineering field and have not read all that much either. One example that comes to mind from one of my courses that I took in software engineering is research around mutation-based testing. That for

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