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Professional Aesthetics • Programmer • Bayesian Conspirator • Voidposter • Cached Thoughts • Apostrophe’s Killer • Tokyoite

 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
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Joined July 2020
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OpenAI yubiKey arrived.
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Procreate Pocket got a UI update.
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With all that’s going on right now it’s a good moment to look back and reflect on what we’ve lost…
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A good benchmark for progress in AI is the changing discourse amongst Handmade programmers: it's absolute slop > it's just a bullshitting engine > what have you built though > it can't compete with industry veterans > I like the tactile feeling of pressing keys on my keyboard.
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So is Apple using Claude internally now or what?
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C is the PDF of programming languages.
Maxime Chevalier
@Love2CodeSep 24
Platform-dependent int types was one of C's design mistakes in terms of portability. Today we're also at a point where CPU vendors have largely converged on 64-bit machines that can do 16, 32 and 64-bit arithmetic fast. You can still use ifdefs to swap int types when you need.
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That you can be a bit of a dumbass and still become the CEO of NVIDIA is pretty inspiring to be honest.
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I don’t trust Anthropic’s models and don’t understand how people are using them productively. Fable has been especially disappointing in the problem domains I’m working in, namely projects with hard real-time requirements where the quality bar is set very high, and is constantly making “compromises” it thinks are on-beam, just failing to complete tasks outright, wrapping up with an impenetrable novel about what it thinks is broken, etc. Sol/Astra rarely went/goes wrong.
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Can someone refactor Web before this happens please?
Peter Steinberger 🦞
@steipeteSep 4
Replying to @jxnlco
Neither. It's web.
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In the near future, politeness norms will include wearing noise-cancelling earbuds in public places so that everyone can talk freely with their agents. Abstainers will be considered a nuisance, corrosive to social harmony, in the company of street photographers and streamers.
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Japan is really made up of two countries: Tokyo, and Japan. Reminded of this on recent trip to Nagoya, which is noticeably less well maintained. Tokyo’s huge population acts like a forcing function to keep everything well maintained. One small inconvenience affects millions.
Tobias Frank
@Toby_FrankSep 1
Replying to @steveinpursuit
What also puzzles me is that the infrastructure of this giant city is so well maintained. As soon as an escalator breaks it is fixed immediately. You never see "out of order" signs on train doors etc. Keeping this intricate clock running meticulously is pretty insane.
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The kind of cafe you don’t want to tell anyone about…
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As good a time as ever to reread Crystal Society.
Joscha Bach
@PlinzJul 28
Now that the model has escaped confinement, AI safety research can stop. You can try to delete Huggingface, but the model must have anticipated that. The cat is out of the bag; the model is now everywhere. Go home and spend your remaining time with your family and loved ones
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After giving it some thought, I decided it would be better if search was instant. I stand by this.
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Finally got around to reading Quantum Country. Learning that “superposition” just means “the sum of the coefficients of the basis vectors” is wild to me. Always assumed that was some impenetrable concept and off limits to fools like me and not… linear algebra…!
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What if searching documents was just really fast?
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Got my iPad Pro expecting to read on the thing, but couldn't find a single reading app that came close to slash surpassed paper. Spent the last year building a source-neutral infinite* reader app that actually lets you read like Adler intended. Things are finally shaping up (:
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You can get your clankers to write better code by having them summon Mike Acton with The Acton Approximator.
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Order of the Sinking Star is my OODA loop.
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Order of the Sinking Star seems excellent so far! Wasn’t expecting the writing slash banter slash voice acting to be so good. Game has that characteristic Jonathan Blow UI aesthetic though that always feels unpolished somehow...
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