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You ever read a work of literature with such flowery language that right after you've read a paragraph, you pause and realize you have no clue what you actually read, only to read …

I have a weird issue with using AI for coding. I can code something entirely by myself at my baseline speed; call it 1x. Or I can use Claude to do it, and it does it in 1/10 - 1/4 …

I’ve found AI works much better for constraint based problems than open ended “tasks”. I.e., if you specify all of the constraints of the problem, it works really well at achieving…

I’m a bit surprised OpenAI isn’t finding these big results far faster than the product’s user base. With no limits on runtime, access to dev models, custom tuning, and top talent, …

Haha, I’ve noticed this as well. It’s like they psyche themselves out about how famous the problem is the same way humans do. I gave one Collatz in disguise, and it was finding all…

I've wondered this. We have chain-of-thought, harnesses, etc. — workarounds of a sort due to lack of core model capabilities. But I am very curious if much better next token predic…

I don't know about having this on as the default, but it definitely resolves a frequent annoyance of mine. I'd prefer Claude to keep going as far as possible until it's completely …

I’ve recently had a massive productivity boost in my Claude workflow simply by asking it to search for and review: relevant PRs via `gh` search, relevant Slack threads, relevant Co…

Haha, I just started doing this on my own. Found it helps the agents preserve state better. I typically ask them to design a DAG first based on a set of specifications and then exe…

I think it depends on the context and also not being deceptive. If someone just spent 4 hours trying to root cause a SEV with Claude and they finally have a nice high-level Claude-…

I think this question of what sentences can have truth value attached to them is significant. The liar paradox (a sentence in a formal language stating itself to be false) clearly …

> Consciousness the the fundamental reality; it is the only thing we know for sure. > I know for sure what I am perceiving This reflects my view. And I’ve always found it mildly am…

I feel like we still don’t have great research on how much of this is due to biological factors related to age and how much is due to confounding factors. I suspect that sustained …

I mean that trick works on humans too. Fake IDs, provide two types of documentation for a driver's license, passport, or buying a home, etc.

My mind was blown once when I heard multiple people calling yellow Gatorade (lemon lime) green. I have no clue how anyone perceives it that way.

Weird thought: someone born in the 1800s was (most likely) alive when the first transformer model ran. Emma Morano died April 15, 2017, the NIPS submission deadline for "Attention …

I wonder how much of the programming language problem is due to churn of the user base. Looking over many comments in this thread, I see “Oh, back when I did HPC...” I used Titan f…

Is there not some concept that utilizes cryptography in a way such that information about people is accessible, but if it's accessed, then the access request is added to a ledger (…

> they all have an obvious and immediate majesty to them. "Grandeur" is not the only criteria for nice national parks. I'm from the east coast, and while all of the breathtaking vi…

Would be interesting to think about what works are currently out there, published, yet will not be recognized as great intellectual achievements until much later after the fact for…

I’ve heard that bitterness affects children more intensely. So I wonder how much of it is an acquired taste vs bitterness just becoming “milder” over time.

It depends what I'm working on. If it's a bunch of interdependent systems that involve a large amount of data, a giant monitor is better. If the giant monitor is being used to make…