sm-silversight

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Comment · 4 days ago
Anyone got links to said reporting so I can convince my mom not to engage?
Comment · 5 days ago
Are these inference & training profitability numbers broken out in the S1?
Comment · 10 days ago
Through my broker online for a couple thou or do I need big money for a sit-down agreement? Apologies, this is an instrument I didn't think existed to the retail market.
Comment · 13 days ago
what solution is there other than cloudflare that a small business (with decent dev knowledge and claude/codex) could use?
Comment · 14 days ago
Exactly what I was lookin for thanks!
Comment · 15 days ago
Is there a video somewhere (or easy download/install on linux) so I can see/play what this looks like
Comment · 17 days ago
Is there any way other than a bloomberg to watch the trading action on it?
Comment · 18 days ago
Uh, yes, of course. search results are fast & cheap & free, why would they use the good models?
Comment · 21 days ago
> low order polynomial solutions to important problems [will] be worth it.

Can you help me understand why? Or is this a wry joke?

I'm not an llm, I promise

Comment · 25 days ago
Why?
Comment · 29 days ago
I'm a painter. I work hard to learn to control paint to represent things I want to. I have given up career opportunities so I'd have more time in my life for it. I was in the DIA last night holding one of my sketches in my hand and comparing my mark making to Winslow Homer's, searching for clues on how he achieved them. I really care about making paintings.

To me, lots of 20th century art 'developments' really seem to boil down to using pseudo-visual-philosophy to justify laziness about technique. I think it's cool that we've arrived at a place where it's ok to put cool chapes on a wall and enjoy it! Rothko's color fields are good cool shapes. But these same developments meant the art schools my teachers went to did not teach them strong fundamentals that were considered par for earlier generations. Acquiring the skills my soul aches for has been infinitely harder than it should have been.

Additionally, painters who work like Rothko are truly expressing so very little. It requires mental gymnastics to see it as something other than wildly derivative and barely expressive. The art is no longer the piece but the required-reading artist statement. I know a lot of people who love this kind of stuff, all the intellectualism about it. Good for them. But I think this type of 'art' has reached its peak and young people now want paintings that explain themselves. Rule of thumb: if reading something or receiving an explanation is necessary to appreciate a painting, it kinda sucks.

There are some people who actually think we should just make Rembrandts again, and I agree it's boring. But understanding how he made those paintings so we can learn and apply those skills to make new paintings that we want to make, to express things about what we experience in our lives that's actually exciting. And the establishment art-thought is that this isn't art anymore, painting things you see is 'low' and unoriginal. I couldn't care less about being an 'artist'. I just like making paintings and looking at paintings. And the ones that conceptually pat themselves on the back for not being very good paintings are typically very uninteresting to look at.

Comment · 1 month ago
I have never used plan mode and always worked by planning. I just say 'don't write any code yet. I want to [describe usage]. Ask me the top ten relevant questions to doing this well. We're working up a planning .md we'll handoff to a fresh agent.'

This has never not worked as expected.

Comment · 1 month ago
Would you trust foxscript? I'm curious if this is just a wide-net data exfil attempt.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, you're right. The models have just gotten better at design.
Comment · 1 month ago
It won't stick. Probably.

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