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It’s important to keep in mind that railroads, airplanes, and the internet also caused bubbles. Just because of an invention is useful and world changing doesn’t mean it won’t caus…

If AI is going to deliver on its promises, it’s gotta do better than that. Learning a new framework or library is the easy part.

These types of projects always look really cool, but I always doubt they will be maintained so I decide not to use them.

I want to experience pre-industrial co2 levels

This is far beyond what is expected from a 16 year old. Great Job! I see some comments giving you suggestions that I don't agree with. I suggest you keep going.

Are people surprised that the app is written in code that can run on a different computer? Of course it can. It would be much weirder to learn they built an entire tech stack speci…

“long-term damage to adolescent rat brains” I keep hearing warnings from intelligent people that you shouldn’t trust conclusions drawn from rat studies because they are preliminary…

Defining a new class is probably the most Ruby way to do it. There are two implementations that define a new class: rb_heap[1] and algorithms[2]. However, algorithms[2] use a Fibon…

If you are using Arc, I created a boost to block Youtube. You can add a custom message to yourself in the CSS settings. https://arc.net/boost/208CA384-0BC8-4EEF-A944-BC551D4AD48D

OpenAI designed safety breaks into their organization that exploded at the first sign of profits.

I legitimately might try this.

Is it really so bad to release the prompt?

I grew up in Oregon, where all the beaches are public. Later I discovered that some people in different places owned beaches, which blew my mind. How can you own a beach? I then wo…

Really? I can’t imagine people turning off the lazy evaluation. It’s a deep part of the language. You can force things to evaluate strictly, but that’s not disabling it.

I always feel like these discussions are built upon extrapolating on assumptions based on speculation. How could we, a species that hasn’t progressed that far, know what advanced c…

Now I can train myself the way the AIs do it

I'm sure we could find things for all the people who live there to lower their expenses. But there is an asymptote to how much people can save.