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> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. Well, he did diagnose the situation correctly. He couldn't comprehend the co…

What's most bothersome is there is work for them to do. How about assigning a real copy editor with subject matter expertise? How about publishing open source libraries that automa…

They used it for both and as a source of vitamin A and whatever other nutrients are in it. They used it for everything. There is an episode of I Love Lucy where a recipe for homema…

It could be my use cases, which have always seemed to be outside the wheelhouse of these models, but I find it very hard to downgrade after accessing a more capable model. Opus 4.8…

Yeah, I think the missing piece on this is that the first thought they had was "we can do the same with less" instead of the growth mindset that made me interested in technology in…

If you've ever been to the beach, you can smell the salt air and rotting seaweed and hear the birds. It's all gonna get on the glass (from above and below), and eventually the salt…

If you have triggers I don't see why you wouldn't put them in a migration. That addresses one of the most problematic aspects of triggers (invisibility, no version tracking, etc) w…

> identify and weed out the worse teachers By and large, everyone knows. Data might be useful to tell you "hey that longtime great teacher approaching retirement has checked out ea…

Part of this is the changes wrought by the Internet already. At one point, almost nobody got into fly fishing out of an idiopathic urge to capture little trouts. I got into fishing…

We need to invent new reasons to be together. I love people, I love spending time with them. Even though I am married, a parent, and living near to several relatives I still get lo…

The boundary on this is kind of fuzzy. You obviously wouldn't donate if 100% of it was stolen, but also if you wait until the world is in a perfected state before helping anyone yo…

And for anyone who says "hey that looks familiar, but I've never been to Cincinnati" it was the inspiration for Justice League headquarters.

Yeah there has been a weird belief here for a long time that if something bad happens to us then extremely generous welfare benefits will materialize. Ask the people who used to wo…

Without knowing more about their methodology, it seems like a lot of the recent improvements have involved the AI itself taking time to complete the task. At first the models turne…

It's also by far the best in my experience at a request like "it's 3:55 and I need a few slides on the topic of the Gettysburg Address for a 4PM meeting." I wish it was more integr…

I've lost access to plenty of Claude stuff without canceling anything. I am careful not to leave anything important in there and back up regularly. It's funny because sometimes it …

I think it's possible that this idea would work as a communication/branding strategy for senior developers, though I don't think it's strictly true. I am really skeptical of argume…

Oh yeah, I'm sure that $300 microscope comes in handy but a cheap loupe gets you started. I've found all sorts of other uses for it too.

Or there's an efficient market and when you mail yourself 9,999 $1 bills and take them to the bank you find out 30% are counterfeit.

My typical practice is to write a reply using my own brain and whatever practices are called for, then attach any interesting chatbot responses that were generated as documents. So…

My father was a big HP calculator fan. I used to forget my TI calculator for class and he would lend it to me. I was never more unpopular at school than the day we had an exam and …

The past couple of years have been chaotic and fearful. Hopefully that won't last forever. If we can get a little stability, people will begin thinking less in terms of "how do we …

I agree with this sentiment but I think LLMs are really close to the Brooks idea of a silver bullet. I don't know if, overall, it's a 10x improvement or 6x or 14x but it's a seriou…

As someone who transitioned from working in startups and technology to a university, it is hard to describe how different the environment is. It looks very weird and is hard to und…

I agree entirely. Those of us old enough to have experienced those dreams are naturally going to mourn the loss of the Internet as a place for wild experimentation because we know …