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Comment · 9 months ago
Love it
Comment · 9 months ago
Personally, I just don’t find myself interested at all in AI generated music. Don’t think I’m alone here, either. I suspect there will soon be a streaming platform whose sole value is to maintain a catalog of verified human music. Pretty easy problem to solve.
Comment · 11 months ago
The most ironic thing to me is the amount of coddling these self-purported “strong men” need. The idea that someone wouldn’t blindly accept what they say is enough to throw their egos into self-protection mode.

Sad

Comment · 11 months ago
I’m always _this_ close to adopting Zed, but I just can’t get used to the project search. I’m too used to telescope now. Maybe I need to bite the bullet because I think Zed’s search is objectively better. Old dog, I suppose…
Comment · 1 year ago
To me, the question is less about “how do we make more energy” and more about “how do we make LLMs 100x more energy efficient.” Not saying this is an easy problem to solve, but it all seems like a stinky code smell.
Comment · 1 year ago
There’s alternatives to wiping out the company that could be fair. For example, a judgement resulting in a shares of the company or revenue shares in the future rather than a one time pay off.

Writers were the true “foundational” piece of LLMs, anyway.

Comment · 1 year ago
I love this type of practical optimization for DB queries. I’ve always liked how [rom-rb](https://rom-rb.org/learn/core/5.2/combines/) made the combine pattern easy to use when joins are slow. Nice to see this implemented at DB layer
Comment · 1 year ago
Having a base level of trust in your government can have incredibly positive effects on society. In the US, I dream of the day where government could try out ideas without the pitchforks coming out. Sure, some ideas will be terrible and that’s OK as long as we throw them in the trash can.
Comment · 1 year ago
There is nothing more saddening than the state of America’s train situation. It’s like we’re fundamentally incapable of understanding the value of shared infrastructure.

In the rare case that a state escapes the matrix and actually realizes the benefit, we can’t get the damn thing built.

I want a packed bullet train, not a fucking slow private train car.

Comment · 1 year ago
I’d be curious to hear a follow-up article about what Palantir doesn’t do. For better or worse, I think we are living in a time where companies should take principled stands about anti-features.

It’s good to build in all of these optional data and privacy knobs, but I fear that’s not enough.

Comment · 1 year ago
No one in their right mind wants the Supreme Leader armed with nukes… but there are many ways to prevent this outcome.
Comment · 1 year ago
<thinking>I’m trying to remember if oauth has a specification or not, but I’m getting conflicting thoughts</thinking>

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