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amitav1

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About amitav1

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    Comment #47103731

    I prefer OpenClaw because it's more persistent. I know, I know, theoretically you could do the same thing with Claude Code and markdown files (which, to be fair, is pretty much how…

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    Comment #47102803

    I don't see why not, but I also have no experience in that sort of stuff, so take my endorsement with a grain of salt

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    Comment #47030992

    By schedule my tasks throughout the day, I mean that it will figure out when I should do each thing, not that it does all of the things for me.

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    Comment #47024905

    Personally, I use it to manage all of the stuff I don't want to. I give it my course content and it makes flashcards for me to review. I give it my tasks and it schedules them thro…

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    Comment #46831939

    Because LLCs aren't people

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    Comment #46788188

    Am I missing something? LaTeX is associated with slop now?

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    Comment #46788141

    How would this work for independent researchers? (no snark)

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    Comment #46736808

    I can't think of anybody apart from Osama bin Laden who wouldn't want to play Candy Crush. \s

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    Comment #46736764

    Something with KDE. Never used KDE extensively because I hate non-tiling WMs, but something like Kubuntu would give you a more windows-esque experience by default. Here's the downl…

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    Comment #46724784

    I guess the way one would verify that this is more general trend in academia would be to run this on accepted papers to a non-AI conference?

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    Comment #46723834

    It was slow to load for me but loaded eventually.

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    Comment #46722515

    I'm doing some research, and this is something I'm unsure of. I see that "suppressing null results" is a bad thing, and I sort of agree, but for me personally, a lot of the null re…

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    Comment #46710515

    I mean, to steelman their point, there's a lot more misinformation than information on Google. I still personally think that it's a worthwhile trade though

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    Comment #46662117

    I believe so

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    Comment #46650618

    > "it objectively made the search product worse" I would disagree, because without the advertising there probably would be no Google.

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    Comment #46650569

    Google is one the most important institution of the Internet era. Talk all you'd like about "OoOoH tHeY aDvErTiSe" or "tHeiR aLgOrItHm Is GeTtInG wOrSe" but at the end of the day, …

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    Comment #46650524

    The way you phrased this makes it sound like he's a shill, but his takes about AI don't seem unusually complementary.

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    Comment #46648491

    "I don't care, it's a stupid question."

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    Comment #46621755

    Take my upvote and leave this platform forever

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    Comment #46620911

    https://amitav.net

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    Comment #46612756

    For me personally, LLMshave helped me learn 10x faster than I would be able to otherwise. IMO, in 15 years, teachers with university degrees at all wll be as rare as teachers with …

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