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archive.is is more hostile than twitter now. It wants me to scan a QR code with my phone to prove I'm a real person.

>you're dreaming up edge cases

Are you saying that bigots are edge cases?

Earlier this year, i turned some of Emily Dickinson’s poems into Shavian script. When i asked Claude to make sure i was doing the transcriptions correctly, it stopped responding. Her work is plainly in the pd, I’m not sure what would cause Claude to stop working with it.

Hey Claude - The information in this essay is fine, but you have got to stop leaning on correctio as a rhetorical device. The whole essay is built on it. We've talked about this before and it's grating because you use it in every piece of writing you produce. It's just not how people write.

>> The following Audacity 3 features are not available in Audacity 4.0, but we're working on adding them in future releases.

Time Tracks Note/MIDI tracks Mixer Macro Manager and the scripting pipe VAMP and LADSPA plugin hosting Play-at-speed Sync-Lock and the old tool modes were replaced by the workflows described above.

>>Additionally, Audacity 4 ships with some missing exporting and rendering features, analyzers, and effects.

Thanks for the essay Claude. It’s good info, just something feels off. It doesn’t feel like a person wrote this article… what are 10 options to fix this?

Look pretty. Can we load alternative stem separators like Spleeter, MDX-Net, and RoFormer implementations? I'd like to be able to AB them for different stems types.

interesting idea, you should update the copy to have non-AI like writing though. It reads very AI generated atm.

My favorite old AI named Tik-Tok - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_(novel)

>Tik-Tok finds that he can do as he pleases, and he secretly commits various hideous crimes for his amusement. After manipulating both robots and humans to cause chaos and bloodshed, Tik-Tok becomes wealthy (partly through health care privatization) and is finally elected Vice President of the United States.

A big part of it is just the thinking tokens leaking into the main output. Imagine how weird it would be if our "thinking" was evident to the people we are having a conversation with.

Just with those two sentences above, there were about 10 different considerations that if typed out would have resulted in a jumbled mess.

The repository: https://github.com/block/berd

I believe contact info is here: https://www.rsync.net/resources/contact.html

I wonder how much output text it would take to work out the key that the watermarker is using?

It's going to be a phone, a screenless phone. Which is fine I guess, but only the obnoxious people that watch youtube on speaker with everyone giving them a death stare are going to use this. Maybe that's a bit too harsh, it will definately have a bluetooth connection for earbuds, so it might not be so grating. If they roll the data into the ChatGPT subscription, it will probably pick up a decent # of users. I can't imagine having a main device only use a voice interface though. Skimming an email visually is way more efficient than having an LLM summarize it.

@cheikhdev - No one is going to read this with all the LLMisms. If you want to write for developers (and soon everyone else in the world) - you'll have to use your own sentences. Use the LLMs to brainstorm, outline and check grammar - but all the sentences - write those yourself. It'll be 10x better, I promise.

Anthropic does that as well. I lost $200, so I now I pay as I go and don't worry about "sales"

Oh, and free charging anywhere there is sun! https://x.com/elonmusk/status/250453089562263552

For academic research, these "quotation" policies are a real hindrance to getting actual research done. So often, even when reading directly from research papers (cognitive science, neuroscience adjacent) Claude Opus makes shit up - so a quotation is needed to figure out where claude's claim is from. So when you ask for quotations, it spends nearly 1/3 of it's tokens trying figure out how much it can and can't quote. And it still winds up being wrong.

FileMaker is no longer affordable. A single seat is around $500.

Copied from: THE SPELL OF THE YUKON AND OTHER VERSES by Robert Service

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/207/207-h/207-h.htm

> They also removed dislike buttons from YouTube a while ago.

The dislike button is still there. What was changed was the dislike button no longer shows an aggregate count of dislikes. Youtube did remove the dislike button from youtube shorts like 2 months ago, probably to mirror the experience on TikTok. I think a like button is a more powerful signal for a short form content algo anyways - swiping away from a video before it's finished is equivalent to a dislike for that purpose.

I'd like my providers to use Abridge for their notes, but because Abridge doesn't allow patients to opt out of using the data for training I decline every time.

Damn windows only - not on mac. I really loved the first one. Hope they port it to mac eventually.

> 2020’s-era HBO doesn’t make long-running serials

1. Succession

2. Curb you Enthusiasm

3. Westworld

4. Euporia

5. The White Lotus

6. The Last of Us

7. House of the Dragon

8. Industry

> If you fold it clean, the crease is a straight line. In fact I don't know of any other good way of obtaining a straight edge from scratch quickly, meaning without transporting one existing straight edge to another.

It would be interesting to see how progressively larger pieces of paper handle this. A roll of masking paper would be the easiest way to test.

Opus 4.6. My standard battery of questions included solving an ascii maze (20x20 grid) without using a script, using only "thinking" as a tool. It was the first model to be able to solve it. It was the first model that really appeared to be able to reason spatially.

Maybe “What's Expected of Us”?

The demo song sounds fantastic. I'm never going to have a time to build this, any chance it can be turned into a plugin?

A person can certainly be conscious, but can they also be not-conscious? I think that most of our cognitive time is spent in activities that don't require consciousness and consciousness itself isn't needed for the majority of activities that people do. I would go so far as the a non-trivial part of people's time is spent in a not-conscious state.

>Elo is zero sum.

In a closed, static pool only.