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Comment · 4 days ago
Aphorical?
Comment · 5 days ago
extraction

[with adjective] the ethnic origin of someone's family: a worker of Polish extraction.

Comment · 8 days ago
The stement to which we are replying will (has?) launched a 1000 startups.

It would be interesting to state sane measurments that determine a "distance" between a spec and software that claims to implement it

Comment · 8 days ago
I would argue the distribution is wider among humans than among agents.

Please go ahead and do.

Comment · 19 days ago
Comment · 22 days ago
That would be Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Comment · 22 days ago
I didn't mean to upset you, piratebroadcast. Like so many of us, you scratched a technological itch, and that is fine. However, now that AI tools have supercharged us, these scratches are easier to scratch, and their outcomes, made public, flood the aether.
Comment · 22 days ago
If I sat down to read just the Dutch East India Company pages myself, at two minutes a page, eight hours a day, five days a week, it would take me about 70 years. And that’s before the newspapers. My homebrew AI lab got through the entire archive in a single twelve-hour overnight run.

Makes me wonder how much the author himself learned about the Dutch East India Company. I suspect very little, if anything. Something about these exercises reminds me of junk food: empty calories and all that...

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Subsistence, not sustenance.
Comment · 1 month ago
The obligatory:

“The rain falls upon the just

And also on the unjust fellas

But mostly it falls upon the just

Cause the unjust have

the just’s umbrellas.”

Comment · 1 month ago
Instant Classics podcast has an episode dedicated to an interview with Emily Wilson

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