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Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

I couldn't parse "Getting that model has meant taking on something else."

This "cognitive virus" is pretty similar to the original sense of the word "meme" as concieved by Dawkins.

I agree, except for the use of the word "yet" .

I think what's missing is fundamental. I think the reason it sucks so much to work with LLM-generated code is that LLMs will never "know" what it's like to be human. They don't "understand" our frustrations and motivations, and they're missing the vast array of useful mental tactics we've evolved to cope with corporal existence.

At this point I think progress towards a good colleague bot would require a new architecture which allows continuous leaning, and for the LLM to be raised as a human child (maybe in a simulation at 1000x speed or something).

Cambridge alum here. Agree; admissions is a crapshoot. Job interviews are a crapshoot. C'est la vie.

Forcing a short delay is such a powerful technique.

I use this when I'm at risk of binging a show. If I'm tempted to let Netflix continue into the next episode, I say "ok maybe, but let's get up and do something else for a few minutes first and see if I still want to" and before I know it I'm building a robot instead.

Not sure if you're joking, but I remember noticing the same thing last time I spent time there (2017). Lumber yards tend to have a lot of lumber. It's kind of like when you drive by a feed lot and they have an implausible number of cows (the ones over in imperial valley amazed me). Also there's always tankers by my house in Manhattan Beach. These anecdotes are not economic indicators.

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize you were sharing the actual prompt.

By "decompress," "eliminate deictic language," etc. are you trying to say "speak simply and clearly?"

Eschew obfuscation...

Of course it's clear which is more likely in this specific case, but from the semantic structure I read (present tense) it the other way around. It actually struck me as a grammatical error when I first read (past tense) it.

If I said "my water is ice now," one would assume freezing rather than melting.

So in this case one would assume a server became a phone, when actually a phone became a server.

(English is my first language.)

Trying to buy this on Amazon seems to trigger a bug.

If I do "buy now," I get a strange text-only "out of stock" page.

If I add to cart and try to check out, I'm redirected to the "switch account" page, where only my currently logged-in account is listed.

I buy things on amazon ask the time and have never seen this before.

EDIT: whatever that was, it's fixed now. I was able to purchase the print book.

Not at all. I for one welcome our new overlords.

Holy crap I hope that's not true. I've also had unguessable pages indexed, though, and don't have an explanation.

I think the complaints attenuated in the last in the last 10-15 years because javascript itself became a much better language. Things really started to change with ES5. The introduction of let / const, modules, async, .?, template strings, etc. transformed it from an ugly kludge to a really capable language.

Of course, if you use old syntax you still deal with weird scoping and casting, but you don't have to any more.

Also, I think the framework churn has slowed considerably in the last 5 years.

Ah. I was expecting some technical jargon. You do you, man...

Ok, I'll bite. What's "foxwork"?

Interesting, the linked article does say that.

Pretty sure I learned the effect was the opposite (high CO2 --> slower respiration). Note that that was ~15 years ago when I would have read that. Maybe I just misunderstood, or thinking has changed.

edit: reading now I see I was wrong about this. Thanks for the correction!

EDIT: ignore this; I was confused / misinformed

It's about pH. CO2 creates carbonic acid when it dissolves in water. Your blood pH, in turn, controls how much you feel like you need to breathe. So with high CO2, your respiration rate slows down, and that can lead to low oxygen levels.

Note that the physiology and biochemistry of this is complicated (e.g. blood is a very good pH buffer and it's actively regulated by kidneys etc) and it's very much a nascent field of research, so I think AI will be overconfident and hallucination-prone.

Source: I worked in high-co2 caves for my PhD so have read about this a lot. I always carried a CO2 monitor. Our rule was to get out if we saw 20,000 ppm or greater. I spent thousands of hours above 10,000ppm.

Aaand now OP has fixed it in the HN post title. Still wrong in the linked article.

Argh, autocorrect got me. Thanks, fixed.

It's "Galapagos" or "Galápagos," not "Galapogos."

"This article is ... spellchecked with AI" ???

Why on Earth world you use an LLM for that instead of a spell checker???

There is actually no legally available English version of this ebook now, so if you want the ebook piracy is the only option. Presumably Amazon still has the rights to sell it, but due to a technical glitch and disinterest, they aren't.

I bought a Kindle copy of Steven Baxter's novel Ring. One day, I decided to re-read it and downloaded it to a new device.

It had changed from the English edition to the German translation!

Amazon eventually admitted that this was some kind of glitch, but they were uninterested in fixing it. I got a refund, but there was no way for me to read the book.

Except actually real whereas Frank Abagnale fabricated all of his supposed cons (read The Greatest Hoax).

Contains unwarned spoilers for The Good Place.

I don't think this reductionist view of colleagues (dividing them into categories rather than discerning individual strengths and weaknesses, team-building, empowering) is very success-oriented.

"good riddance"? What went away?

Actually, what I usually do in Github is set the PR branches to delete when you squash-merge the PR, but then the PR always has an "undelete branch" button you can use forver in case you want to look at the details of the branch and don't have a local copy of the branch.

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