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sixtram
·hace 8 días·discuss
Oh, I'm glad I don't work in the oven business. We're just starting a stealth startup that's revolutionizing dishwashers, and the prototypes are amazing. They use less water, less detergent, and this weekend we're hoping to solve the last remaining issue: occasionally, they break glasses.
sixtram
·hace 8 días·discuss
So you're saying I can absolutely have a deep, nuanced discussion with an LLM, as long as I don't ask how he arrived at his conclusions?
sixtram
·hace 8 días·discuss
You say you can have increasingly nuanced discussions with stronger models.

What I say is, when I asked Claude why he applied a certain change I didn't understand, and boy, it was a small change, he said he "reasoned from first principles" based on the code paths. But it didn't work, and when I asked, "Okay, describe the steps of your reasoning from first principles," it literally answered that it had just made it up.

So, nuanced discussions with models, I don't buy it.
sixtram
·hace 12 días·discuss
Is it really cheating if you work hard and memorize all the questions? That's basically learning.
sixtram
·el mes pasado·discuss
Just 300 a day? That's only one ticket every 1.5 minutes. I hope in a year we can fix an issue under 30 seconds with ZERO supervision.
sixtram
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Why does the AI need SQL queries? Who needs that? It will just write its own ACID-compliant database with its own language, and while it's at it, reinvent the operating system as well. It's turtles all the way down.
sixtram
·hace 5 meses·discuss
To continue, this design has additional benefits:

The code is not littered with dry-run flag checks; the internal code doesn’t even know that a dry run is possible. Everything is rolled back at the end if needed.

All database referential integrity checks run correctly.

Some drawbacks: any audit logging should run in a separate transaction if you want to log dry runs.
sixtram
·hace 5 meses·discuss
I use a similar strategy for API design. Every API call is wrapped in a large database transaction, and I either roll back or commit the transaction based on dry-run or wet-run flags. This works well as long as you don’t need to touch the file system. I even wrap emails this way—emails are first written to a database queue, and an external process picks them up every few seconds.
sixtram
·hace 6 meses·discuss
love the title of Windows recovery process screen: uninstall latest quality update
sixtram
·hace 6 meses·discuss
could you share an anonymized desk photo?
sixtram
·hace 7 meses·discuss
I've just got a new Samsung and it's wobbling too. I hate this. Why can't they at least put the cameras in the middle? Or maybe horizontally centred? Or they could just put another bumper on the other side to make it symmetrical. I'm looking for a cover to balance this out, but no luck so far.
sixtram
·hace 7 meses·discuss
When I started high school in the early '90s, there was a compulsory summer reading list of 10–12 books, each ranging from 300–800 pages. Then we had to write essays about them. This was just our summer homework before the new school year started. I didn't enjoy it at all; at the same time, I read lots of easy fiction, sometimes several hundred pages a day.

My six year old (who is still in kindergarten) reads about 70–100 pages per week of books aimed at eight to nine year olds.
sixtram
·hace 8 meses·discuss
What about reusing a CTE? Let me import a CTE definition so that it can be used throughout my app, not just in the current context.
sixtram
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Just two days ago, I asked ChatGPT to provide an explanation of the place-value system that my six-year-old could understand. The only problem was that it mixed up digit value and place value, which caused it to become confused. I spotted the mistake, and ChatGPT apologised, as it usually does. But if my six-year-old had asked it first, she wouldn't have noticed.

I'm not sure how much misinformation my child would learn as truth from this device.
sixtram
·hace 10 meses·discuss
For me, it seems the issue with the recipe was due to pre-recorded segments. The guy quickly realized that the "AI" was ahead of the script and cut it short to avoid making a bigger mess during the demo.

As for the Zuck segment, I believe it was a race condition.

Here is the video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1nkbqyk/...
sixtram
·hace 10 meses·discuss
The last time I asked for a code review from AI was last week. It added (hallucinated) some extra lines to the code and then marked them as buggy. Yes, it beats humans at coding — great!
sixtram
·hace 10 meses·discuss
A PhD-level degree in fabrication.
sixtram
·hace 10 meses·discuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy4mXZN1Zzk
sixtram
·hace 3 años·discuss
>> As someone with a top quintile-level of mental toughness and grit

Do you have any resources or recommendations on how to achieve a high level of mental toughness and grit?