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wendgeabos

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About wendgeabos

a lowly position is a great boon

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    Comment #46885684

    I have reached the same conclusion -- this is perhaps not a distraction but an attempt to gather funds to pursue the One True Goal...

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    Comment #46885670

    Consider: If you genuinely believe that the only important goal is to make life multiplanetary, (and note I'm not defending this position here, just asserting it as an explanation …

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    Comment #46885646

    I love thinking hard, it's genuinely my favorite thing, but ... we get paid to ship.

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    Comment #46872901

    What is the question you are asking? What does "useful" mean, in other words? How does it contribute to the reproductive success of the offspring?

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    Comment #46858604

    So, is claude code really better than codex with latest gpt model, or do people just hate on openai so much that no one (but me apparently) is using them? I am asking this question…

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    Comment #46830175

    I do, and I have. Whereof man cannot speak, thereof he must pass over in silence, to which I say, pbthbptltpt! I hold with the primacy of doubt fer shure.

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    Comment #46824468

    I worked with Lee Sword (also RIP) for a while; he was on the mechanical team for Sojourner. Interesting guy.

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    Comment #46824443

    If y'all haven't read the Henghis Hapthorn stories by Matthew Hughes e.g. The Gist Hunter and Other Tales iirc, you should check them out. This is a cut at Henghis' "Integrator" as…

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    Comment #46824397

    yes. It also keeps the pasta from sticking together as quickly after you drain it. But an Italian friend made a face and said "it will keep the sauce from adhering to the pasta!!!'…

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    Comment #46813317

    Codex is doing better. Why is everyone silent on Codex? https://marginlab.ai/trackers/codex/

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    Comment #46783702

    manus, mens et. one each.

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    Comment #46738366

    This needs to be mashed up with the Daxophone. Like, can I clamp pieces of wood into it and bow them?

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    Comment #46719544

    #applauseguy

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    Comment #46705889

    [flagged]

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    Comment #46705883

    The title makes me disinclined to read the whole paper. But I guess that's AI destroying institutions. Sigh. Social science != science.

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    Comment #46696104

    It would be good to see evidence to support the claims: NanoLang solves three problems: LLM Code Generation - Unambiguous syntax reduces AI errors Testing Discipline - Mandatory te…

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    Comment #46619083

    I saw this and thought, Nomic for Normies

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    Comment #46607467

    Oh interesting. Thanks!

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    Comment #46604261

    Old man asks: Does this support what the kids call "livecoding"?

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    Comment #46553877

    It's hard to imagine how it could not have driven human evolution as well.

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    Comment #46553868

    huh so that's a way that it's adaptive for the animals

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    Comment #46530784

    pain when meditating? huh?