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While I agree with you, I also find that an LLM can help organize my thoughts and come to realizations that I just didn't get to, because I hadn't explained verbally what I am thin…

First of all, don't give up. What you are going through is not what you deserve, but a transition to the next stage in your life. Just because a relationship with someone didn't wo…

Related question: how do we resolve the problem that we sign a blank cheque for the autonomous agents to use however many tokens they deem necessary to respond to your request? The…

Just experienced this and came here to check, because even their website is down. The referenced link also returns with 500.

Hmm, (whatever is in execs' head about) AI appears to amplify the same kind of thinking fallacies that are discussed in the eternal Mythical Manmonth essay, which was written like …

This trend of overengineering is apparent now in cars, too. An innocent failure, like a headlight going out can turn into a major systemic issue, like the engine refusing to start …

They call the cherries cascara, and I have come across them in some specialty coffee shops packaged just like the beans. You can pour hot (not boiling) water over them and prepare …

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t." - without trying to defend such business practice, it appears very difficul…

To update this excellent quote to 2025, change minutes to seconds and you just described TikTok.

"The real problem is the ROI on AI spending is.. pretty much zero. The commonly asserted use cases are the following: Chatbots Developer tools RAG/search" I agree with you that ROI…

There is a video on the page in which Bret Victor explains what it is all about. I find it very difficult to summarize, but my best attemp would be something like transforming comp…

This reminds me of what I learned about myself during my years spent at the university. I observed that in the morning my brain is better at understanding new concepts. Mornings we…

> an attacker passively eavesdropping a GSM communication between a target and a base station can decrypt any 2-hour call with probability 0.43, in 14 min The authors give the abov…

I read his book on relativity theory, which I would characterize as one written for popular consumption [1]. I recommend reading it if you have not done so yet. I found the explana…

"As the article states, no sensible application does 1-byte network write() syscalls." - the problem that this flag was meant to solve was that when a user was typing at a remote t…

Not a physicist, so I am asking out of curiosity and to learn: have the limitations to the precision of current atomic clocks posed any problems?

On your point about tech not solving social problems: I fully agree. Moreover, I think that tech _aggravates_ some of these problems. Case in point: why do some people think they c…

When we had our home reconstructed three years ago, the architect exported the plans in BIM format from the software he used. I used Blender with BlenderBIM to arrange virtual tour…

I agree with you power game view. The cooperation can even extend beyond the current job. That is, when managers move to another company, they attract some key people from their te…

And what was the rest of your response? How could you get effective change based on this understanding?

Just a few thoughts... You may read some messages you exchanged with Fred. You may be able to save Fred's picture from the directory, if there is one one. Do you remember anything …