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So the record labels sue the AI companies for copyright infringement and get settlement money and licensing deals in return, then the artists have to sue the record labels for a pi…

Pretty much mirrors my experience using GPT to generate images creatively. I tried to generate an image to accompany a Robert frost poem and it made something... plausibly related.…

They have this. It’s called batch pricing and it’s 50% off.

> I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; and out of that bulk a mass formed – just as cheese is made out of milk …

That “cyclopean” eye is described as a patch of light-sensitive cells.

Fascinating idea. There was another "time-locked" LLM project that popped up on HN recently[1]. Their model output is really polished but the team is trying to figure out how to av…

You can definitely protect from reassignment in those languages (e.g. `final` in Java) but they don't completely prevent you from changing the underlying data. Rust would be one th…

Not shilling for Go here but there are a few misconceptions in this blog post. In addition to the others mentioned: > All of these examples involve assigning to a constant a value …

Hmm, so in a language that does automatic bounds checking, the compiler might translate a line of source code like: let val = arr[i] to assembly code like: cmp rdx, rsi ; Compare i…

> Safe languages insert additional machine branches to do things like verify that array accesses are in-bounds. In correct code, those branches are never taken. That means that the…

> [Learning Zig] is about fundamentally changing how you think about software. Learning LISP, Fortran, APL, Perl, or really any language that is different from what you’re used to,…

Just wanted to say, thanks for doing this! Now the old rant... I started my career when on-prem was the norm and remember so much trouble. When you have long-lived hardware, eventu…

It is just as "vibe-ish" as vector search and notably does require chunking (document chunks are fed to the indexer to build the table of contents). That said, I don't find vector …

That’s because every business is “scaled” to the point that the edge employees —- ie the people who interact with paying customers —- don’t own anything, and are 12 levels of manag…

The company with the lowest median pay, Aptiv, I had to look up, and what a darling of a company this is: - guilty of systemic accounting fraud from 1999-2004 - manufactured a (all…

> That’s why we use a tree structure rather than just a flat list of sections. This is what makes it different from traditional RAG Ah ok, that’s a key piece I was missing. That’s …

So if I understand this correctly, this works on a single large document whose size exceeds what you can or want to put into a single context frame for answering a question? It fir…

To save you a click, 19% is actually not a lot (I thought it was): > 19% of California houses were owned by investors, ranking No. 36 among the states and just below the 20% nation…

Pretty amazing this all started as MLB Advanced Media more than 20 years ago streaming baseball games on the internet before YouTube existed! When I joined, they were streaming NHL…

Why not do it before you need a job? While you're comfortable, submit your application for open roles and reject the AI interviewer.

The system’s brightness decreases when the companion star swings around behind Betelgeuse. It also dips when Betelgeuse goes behind the companion star but much less so because Bete…

Don’t look at the concrete tiles in the foreground. Focus on the background. The world moves. Awesome and terrible. I keep scrubbing back and forth and seeing new things.

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