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chadcmulligan··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
I don't know, I get more work done now in a few hours than I used to in a day, so maybe the working week should be shrunk, that would solve things. The solution seems pretty easy - but then I'm not in the US.
chadcmulligan··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
It's funny we're possibly entering a golden age of thought, the dreams of the ancients, but we're all worried about capitalism, I think the problem is pretty obvious.
chadcmulligan··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
I'm not sure why being relatively simple would mean C over Rust? Rust still has the safety advantages.
chadcmulligan··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
And quite a few reasons that something better than C should be used. Rust seems a good candidate.
chadcmulligan··on Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)
That was 20 years ago (1997–2006) (sorry), Eureka was a little more recent and very optimistic (2006 - 2012), the new star treks are recent but they have lost their optimism, I'm not really sure what they are.
chadcmulligan··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
> This has worked much better for us than asking a model to draw lines in a GUI. It also means the benchmark can spend less time testing computer use and more time testing electronics.

this is key I think - I use it for graphics tasks - it sucks at graphical environments - always use some text based representation, not really surprising I suppose. chatgpt even suggested I'll use the text representation, claude said how about I give you svg and you convert it, they seem to know.

chadcmulligan··on Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic
Interesting - If you're after cross platform Flutter/Dart seems a more cross platform solution (mobile, desktop and web), or Delphi/Lazarus without the web.
chadcmulligan··on It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
I never really bought into it, I still think ideas are hard, and execution may be a little easier, but still hard to. The lack of thousands of amazing new startups since AI sort of validates this.
chadcmulligan··on It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
what happened to ideas are cheap - execution is everything.

As Claude said to me when I said the same thing - it's not really its idea you had to ask the right questions. I find this true in some ways - asking the right question and finding out what the AI's have hidden inside them is like panning for gold imho.

chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
thats ok, I'm not really disturbed. I do wonder if there's evolving a restricted definition of 'normal' in some circles. I am older and it never used to be this way, it's the internet of course. People aren't that homogenised (imho).
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Thanks, I didn't really mean it was a negative, perhaps this is indicative of the problem - someone finds things odd, therefore here's a list of diagnoses. I should up my dosage of soma probably.
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Maybe, I do like trains, but apart from that...
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Disappointing - it seems I'm neither German or Autistic, but normal, and yet my experience suggests otherwise
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Thanks for the links - from the OP post "Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity." I know this is a gag, but I see things like this and think oh maybe I'm autistic but no, I have the same complaints autistic people have, I just call it deathly dull, who knows.
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
I sometimes wonder if there are other possible neurodivergence, I'm not neurotypical, but I'm also not autistic (at least according to the criteria I've seen), just a bit odd or quirky doesn't seem to be enough.
chadcmulligan··on Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has
You might like Melbourne, Federation square is beside Art galleries, trams, heritage train station, casino across the river, stadiums a short journey, though empty parking spots would be rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_Square

chadcmulligan··on The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
Alien is the same imho, hard to believe two of the most iconic sci fi's were created by the same guy and only 3 years apart.
chadcmulligan··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
where's it mentioned on that link? I can't seem to find hallucinations (don't worry found it).

Yes, sometimes its wrong, most times its right, cross checking is fairly easy, not using it because of the possibility its wrong seems a baby with the bath water thing.

I learnt a lot of functional programming from it, stuff I've always wanted to learn, but just didn't have the time and really the sources can be difficult, it really explained things well, and as someone else said in this thread, you can ask questions over and over until you understand, asking a person that (if you can get an expert) would drive them nuts. Maybe my experience isn't typical, its hard to tell, everyone reports something different.

chadcmulligan··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
These animations are great. I have learnt so many things from LLM's, cross checking things is easy enough, but the hallucinations are really not much of a thing any more (in my experience). When you deep dive on things it does seem to get very wordy sometimes (this is claude anyway). Its taught me flutter and dart without opening a book (with the occasional reference page), set me straight on monads finally, refined some linear algebra, various bits of history, and philosophy, I'm learning spinors at the moment. Is some of it wrong - maybe, but it's not like my brain is 100% accurate any way, and when I need accuracy I look up references. It is fantastic getting a broad overview of a subject you don't know or a precis of a current subject, and its so much faster.
chadcmulligan··on The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
> The state needs to use AI to make bureaucracy instantaneous

The stuff of many sci fi tropes - it seldom ends well.

A bit OT but there's a character in a couple of frank Herbert books - Jorj X Mckie saboteur extraordinary in the Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab). BuSab is a government agency responsible for conducting dirty tricks "in lieu of red tape" to help slow down and regulate the vast galaxy-spanning bureaucracy.

chadcmulligan··on Why do you suck at juggling now?
My side project so that I can get out of here
chadcmulligan··on Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy
Very cool, did you suggest Rust/Bevy? Claude is always recommending it to me as an exemplar, it does seem nice but moving to rust would be a project. I wonder how it gets these ideas stuck in its pseudo head.
chadcmulligan··on Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
an SEP - somebody else's problem
chadcmulligan··on Blogging can just be stating the obvious
There's an xkcd for everything, I wonder if there's an xkcd for that?
chadcmulligan··on The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output
interesting, probably has something to do with why some people like pair programming. I'm in the visio-spatial-tacit and refuse pair programming because its so much work, but all thinking in words its probably not a stretch.
chadcmulligan··on The brain was not designed for this much bad news
Sure, but that has nothing to do with watching the news though, I would put it paying attention to the news actually takes time from things you could do.
chadcmulligan··on The brain was not designed for this much bad news
"We should be aware of current events" - should we? Why? There is an avalanche of current events, I've stopped paying attention and I still find out - its impossible to avoid, I see absolutely no value in paying attention to things that I'm just not interested in. War in Iran - yep, battle of the stupids - it just doesn't matter, there is nothing I can do about it, best to ignore it all. I have friends obsessed with the news, wake up in the morning and watch the news during breakfast - they discuss it endlessly, get a lot of angst from it, its all just noise to my mind.
chadcmulligan··on 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved
+1 for La Roche - my daughter has fair sensitive skin and burns easily, its the best she finds (in Australia)
chadcmulligan··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
Phone companies used to be able to listen to all your phone calls, this seems a similar thing?
chadcmulligan··on Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals
It's sort of ruined those movies where the president becomes an action hero though - 'Air Force one', 'White House Down' ....
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