tedmiston

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by tedmiston 14d ago
That's why I clarified that the current clinical guidance is probably too aggressive. Severity of symptoms, length of time on the drug, etc seem to be important factors but still the side effects are very personal. I think it is more
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by tedmiston 14d ago
Did you read the post at all? Their definition is clearly stated in the first paragraph: Using data compiled by the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the True Rate of Unemployment tracks the percentage of the U.S. labor
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by tedmiston 14d ago
whoosh
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by tedmiston 18d ago
No, the strategy in Wordle of solving hard mode by guessing the target word vs in Not Wordle preserving along as possible in Not Wordle by not guessing the target word are not the same thing at all. Huh?!
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by tedmiston 19d ago
FWIW quitting any SSRI cold turkey is highly disrecommended vs gradual tapering over ~2–6 weeks but even that current guidance is probably too aggressive. Something like one step down every 2–4 weeks or ideally hyperbolic tapering is better
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by tedmiston 22d ago
By playing Wordle well, you are essentially eliminating as much unknown words as possible each turn, e.g., SALET alone takes 12974 words down to 34 here today. But this is like Wordle hard mode with the forced letters, so the optimal strate
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by tedmiston 22d ago
*browser extensions' job
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A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided by A.I(nytimes.com)
13 points by tedmiston 23d ago|9 comments
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by tedmiston 26d ago
Is this an AI generated comment? What do any of these words have to do with a person disassembling a camera in a surveillance dragnet?
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by tedmiston 2mo ago
The post is overloaded with false generalizations like this.
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by tedmiston 2mo ago
The post is just full of half-baked conjectures masquerading as facts... combined with "things they read" by unspecified authors and sources... the author seems to prefer engaging in AI doomerism as opposing to actually understan
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by tedmiston 2mo ago
this is a bizarre timeline of reality where an ME degree gets you waitlisted for an electrician apprenticeship
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by tedmiston 2mo ago
> Had this been a < thing it was not > we'd be seeing people going to jail over this. "If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike."
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by tedmiston 2mo ago
> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was y
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by tedmiston 2mo ago
> you are constantly not finishing today's tasks. it lives to see another day. if you can fix it, bound it to the workflow, you will be a billionaire dual dishwashers
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
Allergy immunotherapy (shots) work by gradually desensitizing the immune system for your specific allergens over several years, so yes. Some people can get to the point where they no longer need a daily antihistamine, but it's all ver
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
the creative inputs to the whole process and judgment aspects of telling it how to refine and edit
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
Definitely. One of my fav techniques is to ask an LLM to simplify something by 90% or 99% if it looks overly complicated. Or asking the output to be critically reviewed by another agent too.
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
pretty big leap of faith there
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
likewise
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
The adoption curve across companies and industries is highly variable right now. Tech moves fast but plenty of boring industries need software but don't move on the bleeding edge of tech / LLMs / etc. Even in the discourse h
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
What does a random bug in one LLM's frontend app have to do with learning how to do prompt engineering well?
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
> What are you writing that Claude is actually writing all of it? Every time I get past the green field stage, I just end up throwing out what it writes half the time since its trash. For the current state of frontier models, you need to
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
> LLMs (at least today’s) don’t build simple solutions ... ... by default .
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
> One area where I feel safe saying they are “wrong”, rather than just going with a different assumption that was left unsaid, would be when it makes up API endpoints. It sees the general pattern in an API, then makes up an endpoint that
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
They work in that they induce taking more breaks (20/20/20 rule) but they're also annoying in that they interrupt deep focus. If the latter can become a bit smoother about not interrupting deep focus context, then they'
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
Time Out is okay but extremely annoying in that it always seems to pop up and take over the screen at the worst possible times even with configuration to make it less interruptive. I stopped using it in favor of just closing my laptop for
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
> I work with one guy who's just completely lost the ability consensus-build ideas with human beings. When he reaches consensus with his AI assistants on a design, analysis, plan of action, etc., he's extremely resistant to con
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
Well that's a Silicon Valley level pivot
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by tedmiston 3mo ago
you can do the period trick: > . http://example.com . https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/03/15/how-to-send-links-w...

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