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I think that short film is AI generated. I only watched like 30 seconds of an office scene in the middle but it spontaneously changed from daytime to nighttime with zero explanatio…

Even if most of the code you write is solving repetitive plumbing tasks, today's models are incredibly bad at API design taste. IMO designing software in a way that minimizes side …

Yes, LLMs are currently useful and are improving rapidly so they are likely to become even more useful in the future. I think inevitable is a pretty strong word but barring governm…

I think that's more reflective of the deteriorating relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft than an true lack of demand for datacenters. If a major model provider (OpenAI, Anthro…

I like those vehicles, honestly -- delivery trucks are going to park in the bike lane regardless and these are much smaller and safer to maneuver around. I want to see more of them…

Neovim is fully backwards compatible, no? I'm not sure what the downside of switching is.

Most LLMs do this due to the proliferation of ChatGPT-generated content in the training data.

I doubt there is a service that bundles a bunch of API access for one subscription fee and works with vim. But there are a few plugins that provide cursor like functionality and le…

I think AI capabilities perception in general is being greatly damaged by the Google search AI summary. Whatever model they use is so cheap and crappy, yet I can't opt out of it or…

In Manhattan ebike access is excellent -- there are tons of bike lanes and bikeshare stations. They are typically as fast as Ubers for getting around the city since traffic is so b…

I agree NYC is not wisely spending its $100 billion per year, but I think the congestion tax makes sense as a way of pricing in externalities. As a non-car-owner in lower Manhattan…

Reminds me of competitive programming, a la Codeforces or IOI, where you solve incredibly challenging algorithmic problems that are wrapped in some silly story about a cow in a gar…

I believe Reddit in particular actually has gotten much more optimized in the past 15 years. I don't think this is rose colored glasses, the content really is much more engaging an…

I think that has more to do with being a kid vs being an adult. Kids are probably still buying gfs on Roblox and Minecraft today (disclaimer: I have no idea what kids play these da…

Sure, but the current 2-3% annual growth rate is probably not going to hold if we invent actually powerful AI in the next decade. I imagine a step change in the exponent.

I agree the average tutor is better than the average lecturer. But if I watch a YouTube lecture, then I might have access to the best lecturer in the world, or at least a 99%ile le…

I think it's not clear which way that effect goes -- the Cold War was also the closest humanity has ever come to destroying itself. If all nations depend on each other, there's les…

I feel like this comes up with me in programming too! Like if I write some really beautiful function as part of solving a problem, I will be a lot sadder if it doesn't make it in, …

IMO using a lowercase l as a numeric variable is cursed. It is way too easy to read it as 1 in many monospace fonts.

I think it's i & 32. Agreed on that being more readable.

I've used NOCOMMIT. Less verbose, equally clear.

> I hope that at some point most people will acknowledge implicitly that the fewer the number of measures the more probable is that it is a simplification that hides stuff. But the…

That seems way too high. I live in Manhattan and I pay $2.50-$2.75 for onigiri depending on the filling.

I think there's a useful distinction between plausible-seeming text that is wrong in some subtle way, vs text that is completely fabricated to match a superficial output format, an…