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Comment · 13 days ago
Problems, like ideas, are a volume industry.
Comment · 23 days ago
I moved to NameCheap many years ago precisely because GoDaddy was such a miserable company to work with.

Disappointed in the VC move but I don't have any complaints at the moment. I have had good experiences with Cloudflare for other services so feel predisposed to them.

Comment · 8 months ago
Cool game, but you need more data. Would be interesting to pull from current events also.
Comment · 9 months ago
Ars Technica has a [good write up on this]<https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/how-often-do-ai-chatbots-...>.

> Anthropic is also quick to link this new research to its previous work on sycophancy, noting that “sycophantic validation” is “the most common mechanism for reality distortion potential.”

I commented on Ars that I see the same sort of mechanism at work in politics. So is the really an AI problem or a case of AI surfacing inherently human characteristics? It's a sincere question.

Comment · 10 months ago
I bet it could also write comments on Hack News...
Comment · 11 months ago
Here's a thought - the thing that will ultimately doom XML, and perhaps JSON as well, will be the extra expense XML incurs when being tokenized for LLMs.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Admirable job. Just wondering - was the impetus for this anything to do with movie or TV prop making? It would certainly be terrific for rendering real time screens of '90s era data.
Comment · 2 years ago
I bought a Mac in April, 1984. It was one of the first 50k Apple made and the first computer I owned. Inflation adjusted it is still the most expensive personal computer I have bought with my own money. I kept it and have it sitting on a shelf in my office.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's a jury trial Jake.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, once more the persistent, left-leaning bias of reality.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've been using textbooks to learn things for over 50 years and during my development writing code many (most?) of those times was not in the context of a classroom but in the context of needing to understand something so I could write code to do it. For folks in this situation having answers, especially to some complex problems, is a huge benefit in terms of gaining understanding and saving time.

I don't think I'm alone here when I say I frequently gain understanding of things by writing code to model them. I know I understand something when I can write it in code. So after ingesting the lesson about a topic I'll see if I can write code to do what I just learned. I have spent a lot of hours stuck at a juncture of not being entirely sure my code, which works on the simple examples, is also working in the complex ones. The difference in results may not be evident. Am I troubleshooting my understanding or my code? I need a known result to actually know.

This is one place being able to copy something from your textbook, for example, paste it into ChatGPT and ask questions is a huge benefit. ChatGippity doesn't always get it right but usually the interchange is much more useful than being stuck.

Comment · 2 years ago
I am pretty sure it would have been: 'yourfired'
Comment · 2 years ago
I wouldn't say it's a 'bad' rule - just ineffective.
Comment · 2 years ago
It automatically recycles into an artificial reef.

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