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I'm going to hold them to the same standard no matter if they use crappy sources, plagiarize, or hallucinate on their own. If someone asked, when and if I am in a position where I have to tell them, I would remind them that LLMs prioritize their own confidence over correctness.

LLMs aren't a special case to me. Glue doesn't belong on pizza and you shouldn't eat one rock a day but we've been giving and getting bad advice forever. The person needs to take ownership for the output and getting it right, no matter the source, is their responsibility.

They're finally laying the silly "Macs cost too much" complaint to bed.

Culture has been affected by Toxoplasmosis which humans are primarily exposed to through cats so this makes sense.

Wow, I'm reading this very differently. I don't know why there has to be emotional violence erupting. Handling something that's fundamentally changed at the core of a relationship and at the core of one's identity will bring strong emotions but it doesn't have to be violent. It can also be handled with all the best qualities we all have like patience, curiosity, support, trust. Strong relationships can grow stronger after being tested.

Cormac McCarthy was deeply interested in physics and mathematics and was a trustee at the Santa Fe Institute, which has a heritage connected with Los Alamos National Laboratory. I don't know a lot about this side of him, only reading about it after reading his last two novels which do show a mastery of physics that really seemed to mirror his master of bridles and guns and culture in the old west. I don't remember reading that he had actually published any of this himself but he was spoken of as intensely curious about physics.

Bonkers. This is a lot of fun.

I'm so happy i work on a team. Early in my career I substituted my speed for what I saw as deep experience of others around me. I was the one willing to move fast and break things and I'm still doing that. Fortunately, I've learned to temper my eagerness by teaming up with others willing to probe my approach. I'm still impatience and eager but I'm much, much stronger in a team than as a lone cowboy.

For years I was screaming at Google because I just wanted answers rather than endless blue links for me to research my answer. LLMs were such an amazing innovation in that it provides answers instead but now I'm finding my way back to keyword search. I think I'm still searching about 15% of the time.

Exactly. It's also exciting to see things at the frontier, just because they're new. I wasn't planning to release the game, just get something working for myself. By the way, this was July 2024 shortly after Anthropic introduced Claude Artifacts.

I'm not asking for an award. lol. I'm not sure exactly what you're after here, with asking what was particularly positive.

It's a personal attempt to see how much I can do with an automaton. I could pay someone to do my taxes or file them myself (I'm in the US). There is much more room for frustration but also lots of benefits to the latter.

In particular, with Claude Artifacts, I had a chance to see an amazing innovation. Have you ever wanted to see something new just because it's new? It changes you, which of course is one of the purposes of exploring novelties. By the way, this was my experience in July 2024.

I do not know how to code, nothing beyond the simplest things but I am obsessed with AI development. Several month’s ago I decided to see if Claude could do the work for me.

My test was to create a tower defense game that would run in a web browser. It took me about eight prompts, each time refining it, including agreeing to the suggesting that Claude recommended and seeing Claude agree with me on the bugs that I pointed out.

It was mind blowing. It’s not pretty at all but is recognizable as a TD game. I thanked Claude and said that was enough and Claude signed off as well saying, well if you’re going to continue to refine it, do these four things. I was really stunned.

He's eager to get before the Supreme Court and has people whispering in his ear that the Impoundment Control Act is unconstituional. I think the shock and awe campaign has politician gains at deployment and any fights can be turned to his favor in public, too. He's very good at getting people to play on his terms.

Poland is very clear advocate for Trump's new target of 5%.

Certainly depends on what you mean about US interests. I'm a US citizen and am very pleased with what they have done enhancing trade, feeding people, addressing malaria and TB, education, sanitation, and lots more. It's easy to connect this with promoting democracy, paving the way for Pax Americana, and other things which are pro-American.

I feel like that's what's happening to my neurons when I'm browsing Reddit. And Hacker News.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-devices-echo-losses-st...

So, a metric billion?