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No basic English is one of the simplest languages to learn as an adult. Perhaps it’s difficult to master. English has simple conjugations. That makes it much easier to learn to spe…

Reminds me of Maria Abramovic Rythym 0 performance art. 1: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/3/30/maria-abramovic...

This is nonsensical. This PAC influence being putatively for buying advertising, to you know influence individual voters to their point of view? They can’t literally buy votes. So …

> Tell me who funded ISIS. Oil funds predominantly along with theft and ransoms according to the EU near ISIS's peak [1]. This was while the US was still directly fighting ISIS in …

Not just Saudi Arabia but the UAE, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt, and Gaza. Iran has funded terrorism and religious extremism in the region leading to massive death tolls in many of…

Jackson Hole HS alum here. It's been like that since at least the early 2000's. I commuted to school every morning from Alpine WY. I still have part dream part nightmares about it.…

Thanks! Many of your issues sound more agent / LLM specific than LLMs in general. At least compared to my experiences. It also aligns with what I saw from Claude & Claude Code when…

This is annoying. Similar with "context poisoning". LLMs can be highly productive... until they're "poisoned" with contradicting inputs / guidance.

I read this a lot, do you have examples of this? Last year the code produced by LLMs was pretty sloppy, but recent SOTA models seems pretty good to me. I'm curious if I'm missing s…

Terrance Tao is GOATed. That’s what I got from reading about a third of that exchange. I mean that’s clear from reading anything about the dude, but to _experience_ it so to speak …

No, it's more like you're being overly literal. As a field the technology is developing. Just like people might say "in the 60's integrated circuits developed quickly". The parent …

Rather the difference of cost of Claude is pretty incredible. Then again, I guess they gotta make it rain while they can.

Yes, but Parrots don't mimic the stages of learning speech development like children do. They just memorize a phrase. These SOTA LLMs aren't trying to mimic existing children's dra…

Nim gives me similar performance to C++ in generally half the LOC. For example I had Codex port Kiwi Cassowary C++ to Nim: https://github.com/elcritch/kiwiberry

Interesting, at first I though you mean the active red-light therapy things. I've seen that a lot on Instagram. Might have to try that myself. Do you still use your phone/tablet/et…

Good points, if I am careful about caffeine and do all of that it's not unmanageable. Being outdoors and camping and getting good physical activity is the best I found. But it's a …

Well that sucks, given I have a gene variant related to delayed sleep according to 23andme. Last year I did an experiment of sorts while unemployed for a time and found that if I j…

We have plenty of solutions for spent fuel storage as well as recycling fuel now. We just have NIMBY folks who protest it because they’re scared of “nuclear”.

It's additionally not clear that TFA is a copy of the Climate Casino (CC) post. It's on the same topic, possibly spurred by the CC. Yes it uses the same graph (which I presume CC a…

Not with modern fail-safe designs.

The data centers are spurring new investment and building of nuclear power plants, which are going to be critical infrastructure for any stable and reliable carbon neutral power ge…

The underground roundabout is cool, but that art work sits somewhere between "meh" and slightly disturbing.

Yeah it's sorta of fascinating. Likewise now cells phones are faster than supercomputers from two decades ago and everyone can afford one. Meanwhile hardwood furniture is much more…

Better robotic weeding drones using lasers or spray guns to kill weeds. We can still get high yields and cut back on weed killers and possibly pesticides if they can do pests too.

Great info, and seems less likely cash grab than some. Still a scam can include other "deceptive schemes" – maybe he's just trying to get fame or plain old attention.