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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens—and then everybody disagrees.

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Thank God! And here we were stressed out that LLMs might democratize access to tech and knowledge.

All of those biases are still there even for the harvard bio. If from the exchange it thinks you might be presenting as something you are not, output degradation.

That said, in the beginning of my prompts I tell it exactly the persona of the target audience for the answer. Otherwise how would it know if it is explaining to a 5 year old or a phd in an adjacent domain?

As always the problem is the training data and how these models don't get to decide how they interpret the training data.

If someone mentions Sabine Hossenfelder and it isn't to expose her as a rage-bait intellectual dark web grifter, then it puts that person in a suspect light.

Turn Dependabot off 5 months ago

Be wary of upgrading dependencies too quickly. This is how supply chain incursions are able to spread too quickly. Time is a good firwall.

Gemini 3.1 Pro 5 months ago

They have much much less time than one would think. Their ads business is about to go into freefall, this will cause the whole company to spiral.

Replace the C levels with AI. The C suite is am impediment to innovation and progress. They are the office politics mentioned in this entire thread. The person with the vision and the strategy is a random person out there that doesn't even work for your company. Hell, you could have done it.

The point is: Technology companies are not immune to human failings, ego, protectionism/turf guarding, bad decisions, bad management, etc.

They only accidentally succeed in spite of those things. They have those things more than existing businesses precisely because having too much money masks the pressures that would force solid execution and results. When you have 80% profit margins, you can show up drunk.

Don't make China the boogey man here, when it was America's rich that exported all those things (jobs, manufacturing, solid supply chains) to China.

First Proof 5 months ago

New doesn't have to mean "the hardest thing yet", but as humans mastering our subdomain, they are often the same.

HN is technical but not that technical. Next time explain why "Affine MultiParty Session Types for Rust" are cool! And maybe how they relate to choreographies and choreographic programming.

Thanks for sharing, this looks cool.