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Comment · 2 days ago
Toronto metro area condo rents decreased 5.7% in the quarter before those caps were announced, the largest quarterly drop since 2020. And in Australia, much of the increase in advertised rent preceded reopening of borders that were closed for COVID. I wouldn't bet on any angle being distortion-free; the least we can do is ensure that second-order political discussion does not outpace proportionate evidence of causality.
Comment · 2 days ago
I'm hanging on to the typewriter em-dash. They'll never take it away from me!
Comment · 5 days ago
If anything, iterative prompting introduces more bias.

Correction only matters only in the hypothetical where the LLM has already produced an output that mischaracterizes the original content. What gives you confidence that correction n+1 is different? Given that susceptibility to error is assumed, without reference to the original, the best assurance you can have is that subsequent outputs no longer contradict. But this gives no certainty that it has converged on an accurate characterization.

Comment · 5 days ago
Do you believe that the authors should not be expected to be able to read their own papers either?
Comment · 6 days ago
Can you at least read and fully understand the paper after you use an LLM?
Comment · 6 days ago
If anything, difference in mind is a reason to read. I want to know what experiences the other person has had which contribute to their perspective. No less so in areas like technical writing where perspective may be less overt.
Comment · 7 days ago
I didn’t plagiarize! I merely have deep appreciation for the syntax and language idioms of the New York Times.
Comment · 12 days ago
Where it suits the problem, higher leverage testing techniques are now more accessible than ever! E.g., property-based and metamorphic testing. It is now easier than ever to triage failing cases they generate and refine generation to be more useful. Following initial setup, the marginal overhead of additional cases is minimal.
Comment · 15 days ago
Most concepts never leave the ground. Sorry, I had to...
Comment · 16 days ago
It just means that Rain continues to stand by the posts each as a response to the circumstances at time of writing.
Comment · 16 days ago
There is a distinction between legal obligation and following basic norms. Save for extreme circumstances, there are not laws against being a jerk or being careless. Still people reasonably call on others not to exhibit jerk behavior or carelessness.

"With hard-won lessons of [an encompassing system]" does not give the impression that the underlying data model for changes was directly adopted. Neither does your language of "abstract idea" and "inspiration" adequately reflect the extent of borrowing.

Bonsai appears to have been, well... grafted; and it wouldn't surprise me if "Scion" was suggested by Claude specifically owing to its connotation of grafting. In any event, I imagine Claude was quite pleased with the name. To reiterate grafting in itself is no problem, but it warrants proportionate attribution, certainly so in public communication when relevant to what has been accomplished.

Attribution is a reflection of one's values. Dismissing the requests of others for attribution as "needless drama" is also a reflection of one's values, independent of agreement on facts.

Comment · 17 days ago
*the kind of... sorry, that typo made my answer sound a bit sarcastic which was not the intent.
Comment · 17 days ago
Sapling does a bit more than cite Mononoke. And Oxide was not involved in Mononoke's development. These are kind of details that would not be expected of a casual user. However, when valuations soar into the trillions, we can expect companies with dedicated writing staff to communicate attribution properly.
Comment · 17 days ago
That would arguably make it look worse.
Comment · 21 days ago
Parent comment shouldn't have a problem with it, but beyond rhetorical purposes (as in the reply) we should! Shifting tax structure from an ongoing basis towards transactions incentivizes people to hang onto houses in circumstances where they otherwise would not. E.g. retirement-age downsizing that would otherwise increase supply of family-sized housing. SDLT in UK has this effect.

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