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Prioritizing art over machines that generate mediocre code is not cynical

For those interested in some of the science behind the idea of “being bored is good”: the google-phrase you are looking for is “default mode network”.

Probably a lot: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526278/

As well as all the other species.

Unfortunately, "more capable / faster models that use less power" will likely mean those models will be used in more places than ever before. LLMs on laptops, on tablets, on phones…

There’s lots of use cases where the current models do fine though. A chip that can run a current cheap model at 100x would be amazing for things like detecting prohibited content o…

I consider eating meat completely morally reprehensible but a ‘trigger warning’? What do you do when you enter a supermarket? As for making the recipe vegetarian, the chicken you c…

Me neither, though LLMs also provide services that don’t involve personal or sensitive data

> This site supposedly attracts the brightest of us What gave you that impression?

This is cool! I personally really dislike having AI on the leaderboard as it feels completely antithetical to human play.

Just today as I pushed some changes to Github, I was thinking how user-unfriendly Git's UI is: Enumerating objects: 5, done. Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done. Delta compression u…

It seems macOS Golden Gate (the upcoming version) fixes quite a few of the problems with Tahoe, so you might consider skipping Tahoe entirely.

This is definitely a good point. I imagine the max capacity for video models is significantly lower than for text models (there just aren't as many professionals in video as there …

For now at least, you can turn Apple intelligence off entirely in settings.

Unless I'm missing something, there's also nothing in the paper to indicate this is "all of human ingredients"? It looks like it's 11 data sources covering a bunch of common cuisin…

> Yeah agriculture is bad for the environment, but at least it feeds us to keep us alive This is true, but don't forget a _lot_ of agriculture feeds _animals_ that we in turn eat. …

Genuine question: do you add 'please' and 'thank you' to Google searches? If not, what sets them apart?

"Update your priors" is a common expression in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/update_one%27s_priors#English

I don't mean to sound elitist, but in a way, Haskell's difficulty is kind of the point of the language. The thing that's so elegant about Haskell is that it allows you to express p…

RIP my browser history, I guess

What in the world is “other native” supposed to mean? Those languages don’t have names?

What's even worse is that when dealing with human software teams, a vague requirement will (at least in a well-run org) receive demands for further specification. "What do you mean…

Bit off topic but why in the world are people still posting on medium? The reading experience is abhorrent; I couldn’t even finish reading this article before a full screen popup l…

And I’m sure the boundary on what constitutes ‘badness’ is something everyone can agree on!

My take is that music _can be_ an art but it can also be other things, the same way sequential photos played back quickly can be an art but can also be a screensaver. (I say this a…