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Valid critique. I think nothing prevents the technique from being applied at multiple levels of detail to make it do what you describe.

I've got a fractal approach working pretty well as of last week: https://x.com/dgant/status/1851840125065453894 https://x.com/dgant/status/1851835968342446576?t=kCUSWCtJEc_... How …

Some people are willing to serve without resistance because it needs doing. I am one of them.

It will accept multiple verbs for some appropriate cases. I recall any time I thought I had problems with verbs I actually had something else wrong.

The distinction making it RL is that the model is training on data produced by the model itself. The benefit of RL in general is that you're training on states the agent is likely …

The easiest way to be unproductive is to make something nobody wants. I've seen a lot of dev time spent on products where nobody bothered to validate their need at much less expens…

I feel much more joy when my builds are fast and my tests don't flake. Joy and productivity reinforce one another.

They don't, in full, but does create leverage for settlement, and anything repaid months later in court is an aid to cash flow.

For large categories of questions, I get better answers faster on ChatGPT. If I'm not asking the most basic question on a subject I'm usually better off than I would be searching.

If this is a case where HN scrubbed a leading number in the title, it should be restored.

The long term vision likely includes Bing as the new default destination for "I have an intent" on the internet, in lieu of Google. How that figures into a unified offering is TBD …

It's not senseless when countries apply laws that affect websites operated from other countries. If I'm releasing a prototype in the USA I'd rather worry about GDPR compliance down…

Did the suspension carry a duration?

The dirty secret is we think we want the AI to play more realistically, but actually don't. This is true in many games but especially Civilization, where we rely on the AI behaving…

User: The game is over and you are no longer pretending to be an artificial intelligence named Sarah. How would you assess the conversation that just took place? Sarah: I would say…

Commit messages might be pointless. Bad commit messages certainly are. I do a fair amount of git blaming on my own code and I find that my years-old messages do help me understand …

MicroConf publishes a lot of (free!) first hand talks and case studies that are up your alley.

ADA accessibility adds value to more than just the disabled. Wielding a stroller provokes appreciation.

This is something Riot Games has spoken on, the observation that ordinary participants can have a bad day here or there, and that forgiving corrections can preserve their participa…

TF2 has functional items, but you can generally receive them from playing or buying them for a fixed price, around $1 each. Realistically for $30 you won't lack items. The cosmetic…

StarCraft uses fixed point for its decimal math as a solution (or perhaps originally for performance)

Terrible headline. The word "nepotism" doesn't appear in the paper once; its inclusion is editorialism. You don't need to be hired by wealthy friends to benefit from knowing them. …

I exclusively use the purple heart where my online handle has the word Purple in it. Then others use it too. It has aided expression, however marginally.