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nemesis17
Joined 11 years ago
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Comment · 1 month ago
I suck at prompting: Create a realistic animation of tying a Matthew Walker knot. Didn't get it right the first time and adversarial review self-corrected it.
Comment · 1 month ago
This knot is tricky to tie, you can't just "tug" the ends. It requires patience and precision.
The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1
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claude.ai
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nemesis17
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Comment · 2 months ago
I feel the same empowerment. LLMs allow me to tap into my second-order knowledge.
Comment · 2 months ago
Worth reading Leveson’s works on safety engineering.
Comment · 2 months ago
Back in the day when I played HU Hyper-Turbos on Pokerstars I created one of these in Mathematica (not as fancy with Monte-Carlo)
Comment · 2 years ago
Our 3.5 friend was named after him.
Comment · 2 years ago
With the shit show that the current tech industry has turned into, unionization is crucial. US has a very low percentage of unionized workers compared to Iceland, Finland and Scandinavian countries for instance. Time to change and make our voice heard.
Comment · 2 years ago
Happy to see this! Very neat! On my last gig, I was one of the contributors for the govuk components using playframework/twirl:
https://github.com/hmrc/play-frontend-hmrc
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Comment · 2 years ago
This is great. Top-down break down followed by bottom-up building. Resonates of the approach advocated by Paul Graham for building software in the book On Lisp.
The Forgetting Curve
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nemesis17
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Comment · 3 years ago
This was the first Common Lisp book I studied back in the 90s. Two of my Professors had done early work in AI and started a successful company that still runs on CL:
https://www.siscog.pt/en-gb/