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Comment · 24 days ago
Happy about the Sonnet cache read price cut.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm glad both labs noticed and are trying to improve the models communication styles, they were getting closer and closer to meaningless gibberish.
Comment · 1 year ago
Very interesting to see another person also landing on using 4 base32 characters for labeling things - it really is enough for a human.

Personally I use it for labeling physical things - mainly boxes. With a corresponding note in my Obsidian vault it really helps with getting content, context, and history about random stuff in my basement.

Python oneliner for generating them I've aliased in my Bash config: python3 -c "import base64; import secrets; print(''.join(secrets.choice(base64._b32alphabet.decode()) for _ in range(4)))"

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Comment · 5 years ago
In terms of safety, vaccines are much better then getting COVID.

One of the big factors of "better protection" of immunity gained after recovering from the virus is survivor bias. In data about mortality after reinfection there are no people who died after getting it for the 1st time. This leaves only ones who had body strong enough to recover.

There's no surprise that later that group fares better.

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