mcphage

Why do you think only Popes have this ability? That's an odd notion.

> The sea was purple. The beach they were on was composed of tiny yellow and green pebbles - presumably terribly precious stones. The mountains in the distance seemed soft and undulating with red peaks. Nearby stood a solid silver beach table with a frilly mauve parasol and silver tassles.

> In the sky a huge sign appeared, replacing the catalogue number. It said, Whatever your tastes, Magrathea can cater for you. We are not proud.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

This kind of reminds me of the “Island” situation on Magic: the Gathering cards. An island is a piece of land, surrounded by water. However, due to 30+ years of needing to draw new versions of islands, Wizards of the Coast has expanded what it means to be an island, ending up with things that are… not that: https://imgur.com/a/xVnyP

> There is.

Ok, phew.

> But it's not so different from what other people have posted without sarcasm.

I agree—and that’s why I had trouble being sure.

> Isn't that a musician's utopia, surrounded by music without lifting a hand to make it?

I think my sarcasm detector is broken. I really hope there’s an implicit /s at the end of that.

Ah, yes, that’s a perfectly reasonable thing for Meta to request.

Just think of the possibilities—previously Muse invited someone to the user's house from Facebook Marketplace, but sadly the user wasn't home, and so got angry. But if you connect Muse to your Internet of Things—why, Muse could just unlock the door for your guest! You don't even need to be aware that they're coming. Surprise guests!

This was something that I believed until I had kids. It turns out, even the nipple isn't fully intuitive—some babies struggle to breastfeed, and have to be taught how to do it properly.

It has done okay with the style, I think, but the stories had no point, they had no motivation.

> A very high number of Redditors think they know more/better than a Harvard professor and dismiss him out of hand.

How many different fields would you imagine a Harvard professor to be an expert in?

One of the things I've done periodically with LLMs is asked them to write a story in the style of Lobel's Frog and Toad stories, and... they've always done an incredibly bad job. Either meandering texts that go nowhere, or just straight up ripoffs of the original stories. I haven't asked in a year or two, though.

I don't think it was the LLM solving a Millennium problem—it was the LLM solving a Millennium problem followed immediately by a mathematician claiming that their work had been ripped off.

> that never believed that AI could solve Millennium problems (or same in spirit)

How did that situation end up? Did it solve it on its own, or did it rip off another mathematician's work?

> API inference margins are greater than 10% for OpenAI and Anthropic

How do you measure that?

Nice! I only made it to #13 :-/

> You don't need to be ashamed of your style just because it got mainstream

It's not about shame, it's about your work being dismissed because it's an indicator that you didn't put any effort into it.

Although by the end, the article veers somewhat, and reads more like "I put a lot of effort into my writing, and just because I use AI also doesn't mean that I want to be lumped in with the people churning out AI slop". Which, okay, but that's not quite as noble a position as they seemed to start off with.

These are the benefits.

I'm sure there's plenty of actual bugs, but a list of places where alignment is off by a few pixels ain't it, chief.

You absolutely can, but you can also just show up and meet the people that are there.

> If you are at home with a kid, you are truly absolutely alone, unless you organize something.

There are parks, splash pads, playgrounds—plenty of places where parents naturally gather without needing to be organized.

> It's so much easier to just think about the idea and say 'naaa fuck it' and open Youtube instead.

I think this gets at the heart of the concern—it’s always easier to find something else distracting to do, but what’s the real cost? I don’t really know how to measure that, other than to say that American society and culture are doing particularly poorly right now.

This is definitely not a new kind of logic game—there are a lot of versions out there.

Something’s weird with the wireframe globe. The South Pole is at the bottom of the globe, but the North Pole is not. So the axis running between them doesn’t pass through the center of the sphere.

…and even trying Neovim out on a file permanently deletes your undo history for that file, even if you switch back to vim.

That’s fine, you can leave the car, but you’ve already lost your foot. Why do you find this confusing?

The rollout was… uneven. Sophomore year, we had to do our projects in C++. Actually, we were expected to have already learned C++ the previous year, so there was a bit of a rush. Luckily, C++ had been around for longer so the textbooks were a ton better. And after a few years, the Java books improved as well.

If they have no emotional connection to texts from the 50s, then how are they discussing post-modern philosophy? Or rather, how shallowly?

When I was a freshman in college taking CS courses, they were just rolling out a new Java curriculum. And Java being fairly new, the textbooks that we were assigned were absolutely terrible. Just garbage books.

Until then, there's Factory Fun, and Factory Funner.

Both? Both is good.