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Comment · 3 months ago
glad I wasn't the only one. every other sentence had antithesis, it was exhausting to read even if accurate
Comment · 4 months ago
So does this mean no Lodash 5?
Comment · 5 months ago
Cool branding, but I'm not sure how it's different from the products offered by big lab providers aside from being private — and if the compute runs in their cloud, then it's always a "just trust me" promise
Comment · 7 months ago
false equivalence
Comment · 8 months ago
Sure but my father isn't asking his fellow humans unanswerable questions about God and the universe. People don't treat other people as omnipotent, but they sure as hell treat LLMs as though they are.
Comment · 8 months ago
well actually since 1 == 0.999999… and 98.82 is 98.91999999… there are an infinite number of 9s
Comment · 8 months ago
This is cool, just don't let Rob Pike see this, he will have a conniption. Glad you called out that it shouldn't be used because this is about the most magical thing I have ever seen in Go
Comment · 10 months ago
There is a popular postgres client for Go called pgx. This naming will likely sow confusion
Comment · 10 months ago
Now, do one about neurodivergent brains and confirmation bias
Comment · 10 months ago
psa, "is comprised of" is almost never correct. "comprises" means "is composed of". so when people say X is comprised of Y they really mean "X comprises Y" or "X is composed of Y"
Comment · 1 year ago
This is exactly why BYD is and should continue to be banned in the US. It’s not that they are doing this, but that they have done it and they have the capability
Comment · 1 year ago
their chatkit demo (chatkit.world) doesn't even work in safari. also "react bindings" and "vanilla js" isn't exactly "framework-agnostic". I don't like the idea of embedding someone else's UI in my app. This seems like an overly generalized solution for a specific set of problems.
Comment · 1 year ago
LLM improvement is a sigmoid, not a parabola. The sooner we understand this, the less money we will lose to deceptive marketing
Comment · 1 year ago
Isn't this what Unwrap() is for? errors.Is calls Unwrap if it's available and then compares _that_ error.
Comment · 1 year ago
I mean you could just Venmo him

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