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I was initially skeptical, but after looking through it I see some articles that I distinctly remember (eg Gervais Principle) and blogs like SSC which led me down rabbitholes. Lots…

Yes, definitely. Claude and other models might produce minor differences in design outputs, but overall they apply similar principles. This has been harped on in many threads over …

That is awesome. I gave it a brief readthrough last night on my phone, but will give it a closer look this week.

This is interesting. I’ve been working with ONNX models and compiling custom WASM runtime builds based on the model operators, cutting down on edge deployments. Do you have any ben…

Public education caters to the common denominator…the public. If you want higher rigor and standards set for your children, then you will need to find alternatives - which, in some…

Fair point. Rose-tinted glasses and all.

Pre-2020 had far more informative posts and discussions. While we still have decent conversations post-covid, the quality has slid downhill somewhat.

This reads like notes taken on a presentation.

Will we get a post mortem?

What a ridiculous statement. We have a massive number of people in the USA relying on financial support for purchasing food. Not every single American is fat, especially those who …

Steroid abuse indicates body dysmorphia. There isn’t an addictive property like other abused drugs, unless you’re considering it addictive via its effects on dopamine production. Y…

All we are is dust in the wind.

A charitable view is that they intended "ideas that I had germinating for decades" to be from their own perspective, and not necessarily spurred inside Google by their initiative. …

Maybe it's a universal abstraction describing any type of change? Consider it in another frame: Beginning state -> Catalyst -> Mutation -> New state -> Reaction -> Outcome or: Pre-…

Fun reference (I had to look up what you meant). For anyone reading: Donar is "Old High German" for Thor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor#Post-Roman_era

Have you considered socratic questioning and other forms of conversation, in order to affect more change? See https://www.streetepistemology.com/ for content about this. It is poss…

Can you expand on this?

Sounds like a license to train on your data.

Ditto. This isn’t exclusive to programming. Everyone that I know who has worked in any office environment has downtime.

You’re calling someone “brain broken” for writing a comment in a cute manner to make it sound like product development. It’s time to take a step back and relax.

Might as well throw together HackerTok.