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Sorry for being dense—does this include a tiny LLM to power the agent? Or is it just a wrapper that needs to be connected to the internet?

For Reddit, you can select an option so that it only shows you things from subs you follow. Dramatically improves the experience!

How do you use it to remember names?

I don’t work at a dating company, but I do work in machine learning applications. My best guess is this: they are not optimizing for good vs great matches, and they are probably no…

I think this problem existed before AI. At least in my current job, there is constant, unrelenting demand for fast results. “Multi-day deep thinking” sounds like an outrageous luxu…

My feeling is that AI-generated code is disposable code. It’s great if you can quickly stand up a tool that scratches an itch for you, but there is minimal value in it for other pe…

Maybe all the engineers, but not the executives who created this problem to begin with

Would love to read about the impact on SE Asia that continue until today. Do you have a recommended resource?

I’m unclear what has been gained here. - Is the work easier to do? I feel like the work is harder. - Is the work faster? It sounds like it’s not faster. - Is the resulting code mor…

Don’t automation technologies improve the productivity of labor? If I can make one widget per hour, and some new tool lets me make 10 widgets per hour? Conventional economic theory…

I had some eye strain, chatGPT recommended a Lutein + Zeaxanthain supplement. It has worked great!

I actually don’t like python type hints! At my work we have a jit compiler that requires type hints under some conditions. Aside from that, I avoid them as much as possible. The re…

What would your employer say if you said “I don’t own a smartphone. What alternatives exist?” My current employer has a little nub on my laptop that I touch, but my previous employ…

George Washington was dubbed “The American Cincinnatus”. Cincinnati was named in honor of George Washington being like Cincinnatus. That should tell you everything you need to know…

Coffee has longevity and health benefits that are not due to caffeine alone. It has so many antioxidants you can count it as a serving of vegetables. I tried caffeine pills in my m…

There are illegal moves and there are illegal moves. There is trying to move your king five squares forward (which no amateur would ever do) and there is trying to move your King t…

I don’t know how to square this with the recent statement by Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) on the Lex Fridman podcast saying that in his opinion the scaling hypothesis still has ple…

I’m not familiar with this—why would the rent be related to the amount of footfall?

Or, it will be amplified, and will become the basis of a religious-nationalist movement.

Additional context on why phenylephrine was ever approved to begin with—apparently it is effective if you use it as a spray, but apparently nobody bothered to check what happens wh…

The insomnia effect is no joke! It’s an amphetamine. I used to take 24-hour allergy medicine with pseudoephedrine, and it took me years to realize it was the thing that was giving …