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marstall

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    "force phone providers to collect identity information from ordinary people before they can acquire or renew service with a phone carrier." don't see the harm in this? isn't this a…

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    Comment #48112733

    I'm the creator of a newsletter using AI to make the science behind a rare disease, Kabuki Syndrome, more accessible. In this blog post I walk through the steps I took to translate…

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    Comment #48112448

    Philip Ball helped me understand this in his book "How Life Works." He makes the point that you can't understand language by understanding letters. Walking up to someone and just s…

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    Comment #48109921

    yes it all comes back to iteration, the original "vibe coding". for me, programming has always been about making it up as i go along. like an artist starts with one stroke, i start…

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    Comment #48102936

    i've actually been wanting something like this. issue seems to be there is way off the site? top story about thinking machines has no way to click through to original link AFAICS

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    Comment #47974803

    I've been reading "Elusive Cures" by Nicole Rust, about the failure of neuroscience to cure major ailments like schizophrenia and alzheimers, despite decades of work modeling neuro…

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    > the OS layer will "see" everything and be able to ingest everything you do into a context that makes sense, i could see it being useful. though it would be a feature easily repli…

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    Comment #47922861

    here are some iphone apps i use often: - Spotify - Le Monde (french news) - Maps - Find My - Amazon Anyone have a take on how these (maybe not precisely) could be "replaced by an A…

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    Comment #47905469

    TNR - DNR

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    Comment #47766486

    it may be hard to measure, but it's definitely helping everyone who uses it to be more productive in certain aspects of their work. that's clear to me. but it might be, say, 20% mo…

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    Comment #47704237

    I got 20% autistic, 80% Irish?

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    Comment #47598897

    | iterate on their product faster. i've run into a situation where it really slowed iteration down, because i wasn't able at some point to explain in english what I wanted it to do…

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    Comment #47589096

    and he wrote them when he was completely blind!

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    Comment #47020098

    or democracy/civilization attack. DHS/Putin siccing this kind of thing on democratic voter rolls around Nov. elections could be the least of it. i could see a long tail of impenetr…

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    yes - i've thought that could work. returning to a more protected object oriented programming model (with hard-defined interfaces) could be a way - "make these changes but restrict…

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    Comment #47004120

    Let's take that vibe coded product and iterate what it gave you 100 times, as you tweak it to fit your vision. When you do that 101st iteration, can you prevent it from breaking so…

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    Comment #47004060

    with these posts I always wonder, what happens when this code runs into a customer? Or 1000 customers, or a million? All with their own divergent needs year over year. I have just …

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    Comment #46945862

    I take it; still obsessed.

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    Comment #46901153

    holy crap, that's amazing. i struggle to get my head around the agent hype - but i guess this video helps a little. I have Agent FOMO, I guess.