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If you take an initial draft of a paragraph from someone else’s work and reframe it into your own wording, that is considered plagiarism unless you properly attribute the original …

This is a little silly — if I quote a large passage from an encyclopedia (or whatever), I cite the source. If I use an LLM to write some of a paper or report, I’m not writing that …

Too late to edit - should have looked at comment history and not profile I guess, because like an idiot I spent time replying to a clearly ai-written comment… Well GP isn’t going t…

Just skimmed your resume and, assuming it’s up to date, it looks like you mostly work independently. If that’s the case, I can totally see why my argument doesn’t resonate. “The au…

I can indeed use AI to do research on topics I learn about on HN. That’s a different activity than what I come to HN for, or when I’m reviewing a proposal for something at work, or…

Oh for sure. My only point is that IME (and I’d assume many other commenters) the quality of discussion and engagement around an imperfect ai-written doc is considerably worse than…

I think classifying it as an allergy or a status thing is a little too glib. I’ve read and reviewed, conservatively, hundreds of AI generated documents for work, and “written”/comm…

IME a bad abstraction results in the same thing, just with a lot of wasted effort coming up with the abstraction first, and a lot more resistance to fixing it because people are to…

Algebra is the class where I learned I shouldn’t try to figure out how to prove theorems named after people during tests. And I think you’re underestimating the jump from discrete …

matplotlib has an xkcd style for a different sort of handmade aesthetic. And as reluctant as I am to bring this up as a comment to this post, “plot xyz and make the graph look like…

We sure as fuck developed specialized parts of our hands…

It does. Getting your stomach good at that (and figuring out what food you can personally tolerate best) is a nontrivial part of training for longer ultramarathons.

I was expecting something a bit more comprehensive and damning after the link… but if one of the most objectionable and controversial claims in the book is about adverbs modifying …

Climbing gym :)

Wow, it's almost like ADHD is independent of mental health.

When I jump, do I become a satellite?

If the MVP isn't good enough to get useful feedback from customers, you need to either 1) narrow the set of people you consider as early customers or 2) it's not an MVP yet.

IME “bad Bayesian analysis” is when people use plausibly defensible priors to manufacture outcomes… which happens all the fucking time.

That has not been my experience of dating at all fwiw

Dude, if I trusted myself I’d be so fucked.

Some of the things you listed are bad practices, some are bad outcomes. Change the bad practices (no version control, no beta environment, etc) and use them to prioritize and chang…

The secret is — when you’re a senior IC, if you think that it’s important to spend 2 days a week coding, you’re expected to tell people to fuck off so you can spend 2 days a week c…

Not sure that list of example injuries supports the “risks of serious injury or death” claim, but ymmv. If “contusions and abrasions” needs to be spelled out, it seems like someone…

Switching AirPods over from phone to watch and back is pretty nice. That’s the only example I can think of offhand though.