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It's 100% AI-generated, including nonsense illustrations. And it's just so pointless too - there are many good, better-illustrated, and better-explained human articles about the sa…

I very much doubt that. We now have nearly-perfect AI image generation and it hasn't really changed the nature of human expression. I don't see my friends getting wildly creative. …

I know that we're discouraged from meta-comments, but what is going on in this thread? It's a nearly 800-page book about the art of programming. A huge amount of work on a topic th…

No one is writing purely for themselves. It's something we like to say, and there's some value in writing down your thoughts - but deep down inside, every blogger is dreaming of ha…

> I use https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to put them in my rss though. Every Substack has an RSS at /feed.rss.

Counterpoint from someone who's been publishing on the internet for decades: no one will visit your website. It's as simple as that. You need a push mechanism to reach readers. RSS…

ACM has been leaning heavily into AI-generated content for their journals in the past year, and this article is no exception: it appears to be 100% AI generated and full of LLM ver…

With respect, the way you talk about corrections makes me suspect you weren't working in tech in the US at the turn of the century. A "correction" in this model isn't a reasoned an…

> Ya, there are already three pure ad hominem comments here with no examples. You should probably understand Thomas' comment in part as a reaction to Zitron attacking Thomas in a p…

> I do think the valuations are quite and they would need to meet the reality, but don’t think there’s gonna be a crash or we’d ever go back to pre-AI era. It would more or less wo…

That's like saying "politicians are crooked, so every bad thing you can think of about politicians must be true". It doesn't and we shouldn't fall for it. In fact, the one industry…

It's not just emotions, it's also a matter of time and uncertainty. I was in a buying situation where my old lease was expiring soon, I had a second kid on the way, and the last th…

The page is entirely AI-generated and each piece is written with the same silly thesis (things used to be better and then they ruined everything). I see why this works, but it's fr…

Indoor GPS reception is spotty, especially in urban / high-rise environments, so I don't think that's a realistically marketable product. Not unless you some have some window- or b…

I can't decide how I feel about this article. On one hand, it's great. It's great that the author wanted to get something done, and thanks to the marvels of modern tech, they could…

That's not relevant at all. I'm asking for human-written text that gets flagged by Pangram as AI-generated, not an artificially-constructed case that contains AI text (and was expl…

Discourse as we know it doesn't work if the cost of producing an infinite supply of arguments is essentially zero, while the cost of reading them and arguing with them remains high…

Large displays are not driven by a general-purpose CPU that bit-bangs a single serial data line, and never were. They're driven by separate circuitry with direct memory access, oft…

I'm asking the parent about their claim. I already have an opinion about the parent post, in which the author is claiming to have not used an LLM to author a 2025 essay that's illu…

Can you share your experiment, so that we can draw our own conclusions? I've been paying for Pangram for a long time and have not seen it misbehave even once. I've seen many people…

I'm not disagreeing with you, I think this goes beyond impractical, it's doomed from the get go. In my book, impractical means "I built a cuckoo wristwatch". Beyond impractical: "I…

Well, that's sub-$0.50. But yeah, CH32V003 is in that ballpark, and some of the cheapest Microchip and Infineon products are around $0.20. It's almost never worth it to buy the che…

You can buy sub-$0.50 microcontrollers. But even at $5, I don't know why you'd want to run models on them, it's an environment constrained to the point of being useless for this ta…

If you say "yes," you're also not doing science (anymore). Therein lies the problem with this take: most of science isn't done with the objective of getting to any specific finish …