NickDouglas

Joined 19 years ago

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Comment · 1 month ago
That was the best explanation of litfic vs. commercial/genre fiction I've ever read.
Comment · 3 months ago
A "human in the loop" isn't just necessary to manage AI's technical failures or in cases of human responsibility. This paper explores the case where AI provides the "correct" answer to the prompt, but the human realizes important factors that weren't even in the prompt. I interpret this as "rubber ducking," but from the POV of automation.
Comment · 3 months ago
Thank you, this is the deepest comment in the thread (and lol at all the self-demonstrating sentences).

I'm annoyed that so many people limit their analysis to shallow things like em dashes and "delve," and don't seem to have the critical thinking necessary to analyze textual construction, let alone actual meaning. Instead it's all cutesy remarks about how Emily Dickinson must have been an AI.

Comment · 3 months ago
Suit yourself, my family ended up with two used copies of "The Hobbit" and we kept the one that some kid had marked up.
Comment · 3 months ago
I might have to explain spreadsheets to my mom first, but then it'll be smooth sailing.
Comment · 4 months ago
How Cloudflare and Signal migrated to post-quantum cryptography
Comment · 4 months ago
I knew Om when I was an ankle-biter writing for a Gawker blog. He was gracious and generous. Felt like everybody's favorite uncle. I hope I can be as kind to others as he was to me.
Comment · 5 months ago
Exception that proves the rule. You know what context that specific recipient needs from you. GenAI usually doesn't.
Comment · 6 months ago
Try "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury, but skip the terrible frame story. The actual short stories are beautiful literature and canonical sci-fi.

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