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some of y’all
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
the key to creative coding: numbers you can scrub through?
Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.
This is how you all use Claude, right?
github emailed me to say that my code wasn't even good enough to be worth training on
It's my washing machine. I should be able to spin without rinsing if want to
The shape being rotated: "would you still love me if I were a word?"
I have recommended your stuff to some math phds at my low latency trading job and have heard reviews like (German accent) "that mcelreath guy...so relaxing to listen to him teach. so pleasant"
the reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
i spent 10 hours writing this blog post by hand. i would be delighted if you read it
stevekrouse.com/precision
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Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
I don't see what the big deal is. I simply leverage the computational power of LLMs while breathing the ineffable and inimitable human spirit into my creation. It's trivial really
It is also no grave sin to hire students for labor? Most RA jobs lack the moral weight of deep mentorship. It's OK, really. I worked for a law prof, didn't care about the proj, wasn't a co-author on paper. But he didn't mistreat me / see me as subhuman. We simply traded money for work. It was fine!
this is quite a conclusion to draw... The author is clearly lucid about the tension between institutional incentive to produce vs. the mission to train students. He doesn't seem especially proud about the situation. What is the correct way to observe that the decision landscape here is changing?
I think 7 years ago if you asked an academic if it would be good for their field's knowledge base to be widely/cheaply accessible to the point where it could form an unconscious germ layer in the rhetoric of society because the info was so ubiquitous, they'd be like, yeah sounds awesome
Worth noting that "AI reduces labor demand" and "AI increases labor demand" can both be pitched with negative valence.
colleague at work bought me a bottle of Wuliangye and woo wee... that will probably still be here in 5 years
++age;
There can be no such thing as a private mogging (zoomer wittgenstein)
TIL `[<-`, wish I hadn't
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
how broadly do they apply that title? I know a guy who used to be an "imagineer" and he was an actual robotics engineer. cool guy super smart
I simply love the striver / climber energy of tacking "engineering" onto any unsystematic concept. I will be having-3-beers engineering
forget about the clickbaity title, whatever, it's pragmatic reflection about what things LLM tools cannot just one-shot for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3gm...
two priors, the easy mean is the risky mean + k and k has some positive value constraint
One relief about LLM tools for code is that programmers hold strong preferences as individuals but heterogeneous preferences as a population, and they are more temperamentally libertarian than other groups. So the marketplace for coding tools is usually pretty rich with high quality options
Speaking of keeping the focus in the code, not the chat, I saw this clip of a new nvim pkg "99" that's more my style maybe. A prompt buffer appears only briefly, and you can still work while an LLM fulfills some request asynchronously.
youtu.be/ws9zR-UzwTE?...
And I guess it's easier with LLMs to create your own integrations.
For example this Claude \in Nvim pkg github.com/greggh/claud... lets you bind a fn to send a visual selection into the chat prompt. Stuff like that is good. I want to be in the code, not in the chat.
I wrote this 6 months ago and the pace at which CLI tools have been rolled out and publicized is making me feel a lot better about this. There's still a bit of friction when you want to pass context from your editor directly to the TUI that could benefit from more protocolization but not as bad
LLMs don't scare me, executives do
