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it'd be a fascinating feature - a random number on the face of the watch - especially on a mechanical one

perhaps because it gives the same answer, verbatim, for many different attempts to figure it out?

and because we know it well enough to be sure that it's not smart and devious enough (yet) to conspire like this? (nor has any clear reason to)

After discovering Muji Gel pens a decade ago I just buy them tens at a time (pens or refill sticks). They feel absolutely perfect and are very easy to obtain in Europe. It's a great feeling to find a product that works so well you can free your mind from the burden of search forever

we should code up a real online game to gather the stats here. maybe we'll find a real subliminal messaging model

so it hallucinates when explaining what these companies do in relation to an idea. basically it's an automatic downer machine that lies that there's a lot of companies making your idea

you also should, and inevitably will, cut corners smaller than your "step" when actually following the "coastline" in development. the more fixated one on the smallest details, the longer it will end up

Weirdly I'm very used to this kind of stuff and take it very easily from programmers, but when a german bureaucrat does this same thing to me I'm also fuming.

there're no sanity checks because there are no sane "recovery" nor there are much risk. useless sanity checks mostly work towards making software annoying and unusable

Not engage on sensitive topics: yes, even with people you like

Not engage on any topic outside the strictly necessary for work: a passive-aggressive way to keep the animosity forever

they always insist that Leibnizian monad is not related to the FP monad at all, probably because it's a major point of pride of contemporary scientist to not be related to anything philosophical at all. sure.

still, i'm always wondering. why be so insistent. i mean, leibniz's monads are opaque substances that by itself have no causal relations with the world, but only affect each other/the world through "God". which sounds to me like an exact description of the IO monad

even simply expanding consultants' liability is bound to help them: they have more capital and more lawyers to fight, while any small shop would be destroyed by the first liability-related lawsuit

> with consulting there are no certifications, no licensing — it’s kind of a Wild West mentality

I imagine how bad it would become if you'd have to get an official certification to do consulting work

it is quite sensible that origin is top left in potentially scrollable situations

Add Cosmoteer, where you build and fly a starship: playing it makes me think of John Boyd

Borges: "There are only four stories: the siege of the city, the return home, the quest, and the sacrifice of a God"

the man has a whole career out of pushing corporate-controlled languages into wider and more open use

tobacco patches do it for me

I wonder if there's a subsubsubfield of ML research that goes like "let's use halting-evaluator as an activation function for our purely theoretical neural network". or like, "NNs with oracle"...

Parkinson's Law is probably the same thing, but framed in much more hostile way (now it's the worker being lazy/creating extra work/yak shaving...)

I'm not sure that's an inevitable conjecture. It's not the original text samples from the web that govern how chatgpt acts in chat - it's the consequent chat-specific fine-tuning.

Also I'd be surprised if anxious text would be more coherent on the Internet

yeah when GitHub is sold to PE 15 years from now, and we get emails like "you have 2 days to backup all your repos", i hope I won't feel too lazy

If you want controls and scrolling for the youtube short link, just use the short id as the video id in the normal youtube url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePvpYVNEvzk

I'd rather love to have a truly ergonomic controller with full shoulder width

Never thought about it this way, but yeah makes a lot of sense. So the real approach should be: pick the kind of institution you care about first. Skill mastery might just end up being optional.

To be honest, I'm rather surprised how good we have it those days, when good skills and hard work at least have a quite good chance to lead to a decent life

this happened to him several times, and each time he ended up betting it all again. if anthropic would make him whole, he'd bet it all on more bullshit crypto

Excited for the next 100 years for this AI-related equivalent of "you got the wrong result, because your query is slightly not exactly the way system expects it to be".

ChatGPT knows a good answer to the question even without embeddings. But this particular tool can't replicate it, and says e.g. "In summary, these verses highlight sexual ethics and various sins in general, but do not uniformly condemn or condone homosexuality specifically." (which is not wrong, it's just the wrong verses found). (It gives a different summary on different tries)

This is a common problem with embedding search. Obviously, the other traditional techniques would be even worse. But I'd love the systems to be better, and I propose a potential solution, and ask for other ones. I will not be content with your "put up with AI idiosyncrasies and weaknesses, as if they were the real actual conceptual limitation of knowledge" approach. AI has potential to create great UI, but your attitude won't help with that

i don't even need it to go beyond the insides of a function. something like a proof of an invariant that's only relevant inside the function's body would be fine. e.g. in Rust, almost every place where you see something like ".unwrap()" with "// unwrap safety:" comment, this comment could be an assertion easily proven from the few lines above

I asked this one about homosexuality, it didn't find the most glaring passages from Leviticus.

This is a common thing for vector similarity search. I wonder if there's a solution already. I thought about giving the query to an LLM to reformulate in the database-relevant way before embedding it.

exactly. "hello fresh" is a logistical, not culinary challenge, i think. but same goes, probably, for any huge restaurant chain as well.

Tbh I understand this, it did feel like a lot of plastic waste being left around. But I think it'd be an impossible logistical problem to avoid this in the foreseeable future