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11217mackem··on GPT-5.5: Mythos-Like Hacking, Open to All
Have you used Mythos?
11217mackem··on The beginning of programming as we'll know it?
logic, rigor, judgement and taste
11217mackem··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
Enjoy listening to Drake for the rest of your life.
11217mackem··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
Everyone knows that music is the objectively superior art form. Perhaps excluding film, which, putting aside scant creative geniuses, requires music and scoring.

Anyone who could live on this planet without music is a psycopath.

11217mackem··on Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff
I also happened to have a schizophrenic father. So I looked into this one a little bit :D
11217mackem··on Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff
~10%
11217mackem··on Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff
Nobody is born with schizophrenia.
11217mackem··on Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
ultimately, it comes down to training data and character count

llms can be better than most humans at applescript

just need a fuck ton in context

11217mackem··on Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
It is definitely scary if the good PMs who are solid at authoring requirements are able to just make it happen. Not worried for the most part tho.
11217mackem··on Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
Sure, if it's good, it works, it's reliable and people like it.
11217mackem··on Mintlify GitHub read/write token leak
I'd been interested in Mintlify and their documentation platform for a while.

I saw this pop up based on this Reddit thread and on Twitter as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1bf7eqa/ni...

This seems serious? Is this really serious?

Why would they need to save these tokens in the first place?

11217mackem··on The Dawn of Cultural Schizophrenia (2023)
manic psychosis and paranoid schizophrenia are indistinguishable

the only difference is, one can recover from manic psychosis

11217mackem··on The Dawn of Cultural Schizophrenia (2023)
quite misinformed.

~1/3 of bipolar people fall into the category you are describing – rapid-cycling bipolar.

for the rest, the cycles are months long, whether manic, euthymic, or depressed, and often following seasonal patterns.

clinical bipolar disorder vs. the ups and downs of human life are quite different. it's difficult to understand unless you have seen a loved one suffer it, or have been afflicted with it yourself.

11217mackem··on Columbia and NYU Would Lose $327M in Tax Breaks Under Proposal
"Their tuition is expensive" – i.e. their fee structure excludes most American families from even having the university in their child's consideration set – is a valid reason to have them pay taxes, actually.
11217mackem··on A massive tech company exodus occurring in Austin, Texas
Washington is not diverse. The state's Asian population does not rank in the top 5 in the nation.
11217mackem··on The Hole: A tiny NYC community forgotten for decades
We all like different things.

I've tried many of the different lives, and there's nothing better than being in close quarters for me.

11217mackem··on No "malfeasance" behind Sam Altman's firing, OpenAI memo says
GPT–2 was the first model that created long-form and coherent text.

The research led to a technology with a simple use case: input / output.

The "product" is a chatbot. input / output.

There is no innovation in interface or product design.

All the magic – all the "product innovation" is in it creating coherent text output.

(OpenAI's UI is not really that great).

All attempts at "product" (as in serving a specific use case tailored to a specific business or commercial workflow) that OpenAI have led to date – i.e. plugins – have been a huge flop.

I am uncertain who is behind assistants interface design to make RAG so easy. It's usability is underpinned by the larger context window of GPT-4T.

All of the magic is in the underlying technology. And I think Ilya's at the core of it. Yes, Attention Is All We Need is the Google paper that invented the transformer.

Ilya also worked at Google and was a key part of the ecosystem, and I imagine had indirect (and most likely very direct) contributions.

He is one of the most cited computer scientists of all time.

Without Ilya, I don't think we'd have the hype right now.

Someone would have come to the same conclusion, I'm sure.

11217mackem··on No "malfeasance" behind Sam Altman's firing, OpenAI memo says
To what extent it Ilya the brains behind this entire wave?

As in – without him – this LLM craze, as we know it and as it has manifested – would not exist today?

My understanding is that he is at the center of all of it.

NY Mag said that Sam Altman is the Oppenheimer, I think it's Ilya.

11217mackem··on Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians
if the amount of human and financial capital invested in ridesharing and autonomous vehicles was instead invested in mass transit in the US, nyc wouldn't be the only city in the nation where not owning a car is a (legitimate, long term) option without sacrifices
11217mackem··on Show HN: GPT-4-Vision UX audit for your landing page (relaunch)
is the prompt any more sophisticated than? "do a ux audit on this page with the format "problem" and "solution" with tags messaging, cro, usability, marketing, etc"

or rather, significantly more?

this seems super, super simple.

11217mackem··on Important types of pizza in America
If that was unavoidable, you'd see thousands of people on the streets of the five boroughs walking around with grease all over their arms and pants. Hilarious image.
11217mackem··on Important types of pizza in America
You fold it then you eat it.

I cannot think of a single slice shop (non-chain) in NY / NJ where you they produce pies like you describe. They are making the pizza from scratch.

They reheat the slices until they run out of a pie. Then they make a new pie and put it on the counter.

I think what you mean is that most most New York style pizza outside of greater New York area is not great. I don't know what I'd call it.

Standard fare, affordable pizza in the US is mediocre outside of the North East. But that's OK, we can't even BBQ.