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I hate to hand anything to Generative AI tools, but While Great design breaks the mould, Very Good design is about surfacing the most expected outcomes for any action which reduces…

It's a weird circle with these things. If you _can't_ do the task you are using the LLM for, you probably shouldn't. But if you can do the task well enough to at least recognize li…

Not sure where you get 8 miles vs 11 miles (maybe the definition of a rural food desert?). > Low access is characterized by at least 500 people and/or 33 percent of the tract popul…

One possible saving grace for Z is that, due to how expensive it is to keep around, video will probably disappear much more readily than text and photos.

I think that's the right broad question. Though LLMs properties mean that for some number of cases they will either make the results worse, or more confidently present wrong answer…

If the current iteration of search engines are producing garbage results (due to an influx of garbage + SEO gaming their ranking systems) and LLMs are producing inaccurate results …

These policies are much clearer than they were when last I looked, which is good. On the other hand. Perplexity appeared to ignore robots.txt as part of a search-enhanced retrieval…

There was a bunch of reporting on how AI companies and researchers were using tools that ignored robots.txt. It's a "polite request" that these companies had a strong incentive to …

Anecdata, with a few exceptions, the VR games I tried were impressive as an experience, but not really all that fun once the novelty passed. The limitations of the format clash wit…

This is, IMO, the better way to approach this problem. Minification applies rules to transform code, if we know the rules, we can reverse the process (but can't recover any lost in…

Another way I've encountered this is performance vs results. Performance is the things you do that you believe will lead to results. Results aren't always in your control (especial…

I dig this. Reminds me of column mode in MacOS's finder, which is similarly helpful in "rewinding" an exploration of a file system. Would be interesting to rabbit other rabbit hole…

That's matches my experience as well. Really well put!

Yes, but if you don't have the LLM at the end, a good search (against a good corpus with the needed info) would still have given the user what they wanted. Which in this case, is a…

Seriously. This is why I don't like how much knowledge is being locked up in video platforms. I can get what I need to know from text so much faster than video unless the knowledge…

Four months for an offer sounds a lot more like a terrible salary negotiation tactic. The longer a candidate will wait for an offer, the less money they might be willing to accept.…

Re: Copenhagen + Amsterdam. These cities are relatively flat, relatively cool (watch videos of cycling in Copenhagen and you'll see a lot of people in coats and hats), and you don'…

This, particularly the "do everything they say, even if you hate it" bit. Fighting a good teacher's process is just going to slow you down.

I was thinking something fairly similar. You could probably do pretty well with a basic NN setup this way, no need for an LLM. It wouldn't work on "never seen before cards" and wou…

Preserving author intent is definitely one of the major outstanding problems in collaborative editing. NN's have certainly shown the most promise in performing human-like judgement…

One advantage for me, is that systems like this let me think only about relationships. This is particularly good when designing, or exploring how to think about an existing system.…

Very neat! I really like the alignment tools, makes roughing things in quick. FYI: There's an issue with opacity when you draw ellipses with a different color stroke and reduce the…

Yeah, I would have been interested in this alternative hypothesis if it had any evidence behind it. Just a lot of "trust me bro" statements which don't cut it when peoples lives/li…

I like the way you break down the emotional loop with criticism. For me, the way you've put this maps nicely to mindfulness practice. It's important to respond, rather than react t…

I don't know how healthy this is but: I haven't run into many people who are harder on my work than I am. I have an attitude that there's absolutely nothing I do that can't be impr…