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Just using LLMs enough I've developed a sense for the flavor of writing. Surely it could be hidden with enough work, but most of the time it's pretty blatant.

They do acknowledge that in the notes, referencing one other study (n=3) with one healthy aged author that did not exhibit these signs. >Relatedly, as this is a single-case study, …

Quoting TFA: "It’s worth noting that none of this was really legal; the law technically stated that TikTok shouldn’t have been allowed to exist for much of this year. Everyone just…

Google TV showing ads on the home screen convinced me to buy an Apple TV. Had to go back to a set-top box - to use the same apps I have built into the TV - just because Apple won't…

I have them and like them. I don't wear them constantly, but on days when I'm doing something interesting, they help me document much more than I otherwise would.

To TFA's point - "Bars" are relative and relatively meaningless - [SS]RSRP, RSRQ and SINR are your real numeric signal strength / quality measurements. Not sure about Apple, but on…

I made a conscious effort to switch from hyphens to em dashes in the 2010's and now find myself undoing that effort because of these things, so I try not to instantly assume "AI". …

I'm a big fan of the MWCBTY keyboard format, it's especially efficient when you have to type a lot of G's. Snark aside, I think it's laziness and the shotgun approach. The author w…

The whole thing feels AI-padded.

It's not black and white. My SO doomscrolls facebook on her laptop for hours daily. Certain parts of creative workflows are better on phones (or other devices) than laptops - the a…

I had one of the second-gen units, it was programmable locally, and you could locally enable the learning mode (which was not good)

I agree that libraries are a thing, all problems in CS can be solved with a layer of indirection, etc. I also have no issue with AI-gen projects if they're good. In this case, they…

The interface and code smacks of Claude. It's basically someone's AI pet project wrapping legitimate third-party tools.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake of 1700 was dated using Japanese tsunami records: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996Natur.379..246S/abstra...

Meanwhile, violence remains perfectly acceptable.

Low-latency LLM for my home automation. Anecdotally, Gemini was much quicker than OpenAI in responding to simple commands. In general, when I need "cheap and fast" I choose Gemini.…

Some of them literally have "visualelectric" in the filename. (ex: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67160715a896dc... )

Yes! There are a whole series of posts with photos and maps. Click the red "Tumangan, we are coming!!!" link at the bottom of the first post to jump to the next one, etc.

Half of the battle is avoiding over-documentation - I only write things here that I know I'll want to remember later: for me these are important notes, figures I hear/see in meetin…

I use a flat text file called "notes" on my desktop, and I leave it open in Sublime Text in a corner of my second screen. Periodically I throw a datestamp in there as a reference p…

One thing to be mindful of is that this limits your ability to help your partner as you age. State intervention can play both ways.

I literally had a 90 year old woman approach me at the dentist yesterday, complementing my Model 3 and telling me "I just love Elon. I had a dream about him last night!" For these …

We've had good luck with Mosquito Dunks, both in natural standing water sources and in dedicated "trap buckets" filled with water and vegetation, but you have to do it early in the…