wmeredith

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by wmeredith 6d ago
This is not how social media used to be. Without the algorithm there is no social media. What the author is describing/experiencing is a social network. There's no editorial voice/algorithm deciding what to broadcast to your
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by wmeredith 7d ago
Seriously. Can AI build a web page I can read?
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by wmeredith 7d ago
A manual operation wouldn't shock me at all. A friend used to work on Apple.com and as recently as 5 years ago the product pages were still hard coded. No CMS.
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by wmeredith 15d ago
I am a volunteer coach in a rec soccer league for 6th graders. Bluetooth jamming could literally kill one of my diabetic (type 1) players during a game because of this scenario.
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by wmeredith 17d ago
This is also a core tenant in Ender's game.
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by wmeredith 20d ago
No. Just because I am not against people golfing, does not making me a golfer.
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by wmeredith 20d ago
> one has long wondered what this government actually considers NOT to be terrorism Anyone willing to line their pockets, it seems.
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by wmeredith 26d ago
I'd also be curious about the provenance of that statement. Why would they buy all copies? What would be the purpose of scanning multiple copies?
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by wmeredith 29d ago
"Anthropic said that heavy editing, paraphrasing, translating, or mixing Claude's output with other writing can make its watermark undetectable. Plus, finding a watermark doesn't prove Claude originally authored something, si
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by wmeredith 1mo ago
This doesn't pass the smell test. On the home page they claim a consistent 1.28% return on 5 days of trading. This would mean you could make $1 into $67,000,000 in one year. Tell me: if you figured out how to do that would you make a w
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by wmeredith 2mo ago
Good. Donate to the ACLU here: https://action.aclu.org/give/now I've been a card carrying members for years.
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by wmeredith 3mo ago
Unemployed engineer: business is my problem.
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by wmeredith 3mo ago
I'll bite. The Covid vaccines were extremely effective. This information brought to us by a data leak of the report blocked by the US government... "NEW YORK (AP) — A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been publis
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by wmeredith 3mo ago
This is a known potential side-effect of these drugs. When I started them my doctor warned me about a possible lack of motivation. These drugs trigger your body's satiation mechanism (as I understand them–not a doctor) and that can app
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by wmeredith 3mo ago
Both teams I run use Cursor as their daily drivers. It's fantastic. I am annoyed with this acquisition.
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by wmeredith 3mo ago
"SpaceX told investors during the IPO process that it sees an addressable market for AI products worth $26 trillion, roughly equivalent to U.S. GDP." This is unhinged.
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by wmeredith 3mo ago
As all programmers know: naming things (abstracting ideas for human interpretation) is hard.
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
If you're asking the question, most likely yes. If you have evidence of the problem being AI slop, no.
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
Essentially, yes, as I understand it. Elon's "investment" of millions in the current administration is paying dollars on the penny.
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
It's also broken for Safari (on Mac).
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
It's the formality of the language. It sounds robotic.
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
As a Missourian who is regular embarrassed by Senator Hawley, I must say that he brings the goods when he has the opportunity to grill an oligarch.
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
I think it's reasonable to request the person making the assertion to back it up. It's not on the audience to either only debunk or accept the assertion. It can just be rejected. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
It's a $600,000 car. I don't think they're widening access.
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
> most of the tech leadership has to play along Many of them orchestrated the situation.
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
That's a pretty sinister system when the dam builders are suing the work of those downstream to build their damn. What happens when everyone downstream has been starved to death?
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
> If I start driving south from Seattle then I'll eventually reach Los Angeles. How long will it take me to drive to Honolulu? I like this analogy, but I'll be replacing Honolulu with The Moon when I steal it in the future.
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by wmeredith 4mo ago
Eh, Topps did in the 1950s and The American Tobacco company did it in 1909.
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by wmeredith 5mo ago
This is what I sees getting missed in a lot of LLM conversations. They're amplifiers. Full stop. If you have good practices they supercharge them, if you had bad practices, same thing.
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by wmeredith 5mo ago
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