thinkling

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by thinkling 9d ago
In 2003, Gates was no longer CEO; I think he was President of the Board and something like "Special Advisor"? None of the people involved reported to him, so he may actually correctly have felt he could not tell them what to do?--
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by thinkling 3mo ago
> What makes it seem crazy is cars entering have right of way. The thing that’s bananas is that this is a City of Paris rule. In the rest of France, traffic entering a roundabout must yield. Not inside Paris. Better make sure you know th
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by thinkling 4mo ago
Time scale matters a lot in how we as humans perceive things like agency. Plants grow too slow for us to see any intent, but when you speed up a time lapse, suddenly it looks like plants reach for sunlight and vines for supports. Now, that
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by thinkling 4mo ago
A lot depends on where you draw the boundary for consciousness. Michael Pollan (in his new book, _A World Appears_) distinguishes simpler sentience from more advanced consciousness, and the requirements for sentience (be aware of sense data
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by thinkling 4mo ago
Mmm, no, I don’t think it’s equivalent. I think they know that if you make the work hard, some employees will have trouble keeping up and will do things like peeing in bottles. And they’re OK with that, because they think there are enough p
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by thinkling 4mo ago
Is there auto-updating of plug-ins? Installing a plug-in and reviewing its code at that point is one thing. But if the plug-in can be updated withut you knowing, then there’s little guarantee of security.
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by thinkling 4mo ago
Thanks for the inside insight. I'm surprised how few comments are written with the prior that Amazon managers aren't stupid or uninformed about how incentives work. My guess would be that someone created the leaderboard without a
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by thinkling 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land) TL;DR: Railroad developers were granted alternating square mile sections as a reward for their investment.
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by thinkling 5mo ago
Interesting. I know that some smaller jurisdictions in the US (cities and counties) run non-partisan primaries and elections. Have party-less elections been done at the national level anywhere? Did they not result in de-facto party competit
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by thinkling 5mo ago
What tech will be used for this? I hope it’s better than other sensor tech in cars that think they need to warn you that you’re about to hit something at the front when the car is in reverse, that can't distinguish a bike rack statical
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by thinkling 5mo ago
What do you dislike about the common proportional representation models?
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by thinkling 6mo ago
Do they reconstruct the scene graph for each frame?! Maybe I'm overinterpreting the phrasing. Someone take a peek at the source?
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by thinkling 6mo ago
A similar explanatory mirage happens in elections: when a candidate loses by (say) 1% of the vote, people go looking for factors that produced a 1% swing and declare, “it’s because of inflation! it’s because they took position X! it’s becau
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by thinkling 6mo ago
+1 on most of this. A small note: I think “suffering” is an unfortunate translation as it connotes dire circumstances or real pain, whereas I understand dukkha to include simple discontent, dissatisfaction, and stress. I take the Buddha to
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by thinkling 6mo ago
One thing scientists are trying is to see what interventions in the brain seem to make consciousness go away. Continued work in that vein may well set bounds on how consciousness can and cannot be caused and give us some idea.
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by thinkling 6mo ago
Do you think bacteria have will? Or plants? When their actions are sped up to match the speed at which we move, movies of their behavior will start to look like there's intent and will. Plants move towards the light, tendrils "rea
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by thinkling 6mo ago
Not very long ago, we thought that "life" was due to a non-material life-force thought to inhabit biological entities and thus raise what would be a biological machine to the status of living being. The Occam's Razor-logic of
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by thinkling 6mo ago
Delta uses Viasat and has been rolling out free wi-fi on more and more of their planes. Is it not usable?
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by thinkling 6mo ago
Seems to be offline, FYI.
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by thinkling 6mo ago
Interesting! Seems like this could very easily be generalized. Tool sharing/swapping, ditto for books, rides to things other than the airport, etc. E.g. on the latter: some medical procedures like colonoscopies (basically anything that
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by thinkling 6mo ago
Um, why would anyone be "holding the bag" and who needs protecting by society? He's not taking out a loan, he's getting capital investment in a startup. People are gambling that he will do well and make money for them. I
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by thinkling 6mo ago
I think they are reading it correctly. Year 1, they touched one drive and left 9 untouched. Year 2, they read one additional drive and left 8 untouched. Etc.
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by thinkling 6mo ago
Agreed, would really like to understand what this (setting the LLM up to assume a role to improve performance) is doing under the cover and why it works. Why aren't the labs training models to pick a mantra appropriate to the task and
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by thinkling 7mo ago
My read was roughly that agents require constraining scaffolding (CLAUDE.md) and careful phrasing (prompt engineering) which together is vaguely like working in a DSL?
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by thinkling 7mo ago
Many apps are missing many keyboard shortcuts that you may be used to if you’ve used the equivalent on the desktop. You’ll need to keep the iPad screen accessible to tap on UX elements. There’s also the issue that shortcuts that do exist ma
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by thinkling 7mo ago
I don't think hybrids use skateboard designs the way EVs do? The battery for a hybrid is so much smaller, they usually steal space under the rear seat and/or in the trunk afaik.
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by thinkling 7mo ago
I fondly remember running PageMaker on my MacPlus. It was as mindblowing as HyperCard was.
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by thinkling 7mo ago
For comparisonI think the current leader in pelican drawing is Gemini 3 Deep Think: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3meolxx5s722...
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by thinkling 7mo ago
You can see up-thread that the same model will produce different answers for different people or even from run to run. That seems problematic for a very basic question. Yes, models can be harnessed with structures that run queries 100x and
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by thinkling 7mo ago
Most importantly, Slack limits the amount of message history you get to keep if you’re not paying. And the payment plans are per-user fees which quickly becomes non-viable for non-commercial use.

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