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benleejamin

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About benleejamin

ALL MY EM DASHES (AND EN DASHES!!) ARE WRITTEN BY HAND RAHHH benleejamin.com for more

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    How is the Haskell Foundation doing these days? Are we worried about its future?

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    Comment #47942843

    I'd always thought that ChatGPT ads would be indistinguishable from actual content.

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    I think there's an anchoring effect in play here. If you select blue -> blue -> green -> blue -> green -> blue -> green…, you land at the population median. (The point being that, …

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    Comment #47793619

    For anyone who was wondering about Mythos release plans: > What we learn from the real-world deployment of these safeguards will help us work towards our eventual goal of a broad r…

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    Comment #47752576

    I'm not too familiar with the hardware world, but does EML look like the kind of computation that's hardware-friendly? Would love for someone with more expertise to chime in here.

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    And if you like Mind Chess, you might enjoy Mornington Crescent, which has a similar flavor to it! [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lziCsPmlbZI

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    Comment #47415443

    Paper linked from the top of the page: https://seoul-world-model.github.io/SWM_paper.pdf

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    Comment #47266311

    I don't think the Brand Age is as bleak as this essay suggests. Branding is not inherently unproductive, nor is it guaranteed to produce worse watches. They may be larger and less …

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    Comment #47154863

    To further elaborate — NYC subway routing is not effective for some kinds of trips (notoriously: moving north-south through brooklyn/queens, east-west across much of manhattan, etc…

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    Comment #47154294

    (Anecdotally) reliability is a huge factor for me — living in NYC, there are a few neighborhoods that would be much easier to reach by bus, but arrival times can vary by more than …

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    I maintain a list of interesting personal websites. There's some link rot, but a good number of young people maintain personal sites, and some of them have blogs! (college CS/desig…