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>When does it get too abstract? When the abstraction detracts more value than it provides. I think this is an interesting direction to explore. Plotly is fine. So is D3 and plenty …

Perhaps the newer features of React are but thankfully those bits can be completely ignored.

>I went back and explicitly told ChatGPT not to resolve details that didn’t exist in the file. I don't know what the author thinks this could have meant, other than "give me the or…

This thread goes into further detail: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...

Oh certainly, I was asking what the benefit would be to the opposite!

I wrote x86 assembly back when we were switching from real mode to protected mode, and I still have a feeling that I would not have been able to answer whatever question you asked …

What would be the benefit of this, besides from looking cool?

You can quit apps from the activity monitor. It really does appear to be simulating an OS underneath. I am blown away.

I don't think it's entirely down to that. They have extremely optimized supply chains: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h7McXnWRCQY

Very nice! Reminds of this classic, focused mostly on the sounds: https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim

It is to me. And I agree that the term is losing value because it's becoming ubiquitous but it's the differentiation from the first versions of ChatGPT etc., which were purely user…

>I know within a second I am sorry to be pedantic, but the correct phrasing would be "I think I know within a second", which seems like a pretty important distinction.

>LLMs-as-AI can only give us probabilistic outputs based on inputs I am not completely sure what you are saying here, but it sounds like a variation of the "it's just a stochastic …

I think the two complement each other perfectly and will continue to do so. I keep writing AGENTS.md files for soft rules and custom linter rules for hard ones which IMO is the bes…

I've heard this sentiment repeated and I believe it, but at least the purpose of my own blog is to communicate insights I've had. I almost make a point out of not blogging unless I…

The US suffers from Duverger's Law which means that any vote for anything other than one of the two big parties is wasted. In my country, we currently have 17 different parties, ea…

What do you mean? It's a way to mitigate a certain attack vector and as far as I can tell, it works as intended given the circumstances it was designed under.

I don't know whether the author has the competence to theorize about these things or not. What I do know is that understanding the intricacies of how LLM's work does not mean that …

>Making systems fully deterministic ignores the entire purpose of having agents involved. That sounds backwards to me. I hope that most places don't see "having agents involved" as…

>no, at no point would airplanes have been falling out of the sky The assertion may have been unfounded, but I think it's just as unreasonable to assert the opposite. Bugs have cas…

I am reminded of this course in university where there was a written assignment with a minimum page count. Even at that time, I remember thinking: "If I am able to express everythi…

The backend for a game is not just an .exe file. It can be a mess of a system that relies on all kinds of services that need maintenance and that one dev who knows how to reset the…

I feel similarly. I really liked React when it came out because compared to the alternatives at the time, it just felt perfect. I still prefer it over almost everything, including …