throwaway777x

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   by throwaway777x 8mo ago

   To me, if you read On the Shortness of Life and take it to heart, you would delete your blog as a waste of time and mental energy.
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   by throwaway777x 8mo ago

   I think it really depends how a person judges the progress from chatgpt 3.5, 3 years ago to Opus 4.5. In one light it is super impressive and amazing progress, in another light it is not impressive at all and totally over hyped. Using the H
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   by throwaway777x 8mo ago

   We have had algorithmic composition for a long time. Here is a brief history of algorithmic composition from 1999 https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~blackrse/algorithm.html What is meant by "AI Music" is not works
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   by throwaway777x 8mo ago

   I think the Deepseek moment that everyone started trying Deepseek and chain of thought was the weekend of 1/25/25 and 1/26/25. The progress lived up to the hype the past year. To say otherwise is to be either intellectua
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   by throwaway777x 8mo ago

   I had a job at a small investment firm at the time in college and to me it is nothing like the dotcom bubble. The dotcom bubble was the "new economy", the old economy had changed forever and was dead. No one thought it was a bubbl
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   by throwaway777x 9mo ago

   I think it is a form of scientism to say Campbell is "wrong" but people love scientism. For many it is standard orthodoxy and a blind spot of mass stupidity. I think Campbell is the pop version of The Golden Bough. I have only rea
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   by throwaway777x 9mo ago

   I don't think the US Congress has declared war since Word War 2. I would say this is the exact same thing we did with Manuel Noriega in 1988. Personally, I hate that we do these things but it is certainly not impossible in the long run
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   by throwaway777x 9mo ago

   This was true in 2010. I use to have a USB wifi adapter that was specifically meant to make sure linux would always work. I lost that adapter years ago. I can't remember the last time I tried a distro that didn't just work on a ra
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   by throwaway777x 9mo ago

   The best example to me why I buy vinyl without a record player is the Flying Lotus - Your Dead album art. It is an incredible work of art: https://www.turntablelab.com/products/flying-lotus-youre-dea... More and more
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    by throwaway777x 9mo ago

    I think it is like the way getting married is statistically more healthy. Friends and a partner act like a small life coach. I am sure many unhealthy habits are correlated with being left entirely to your own devices. I know I would go to t