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GitButler Product Demo [video]

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Modern Serial: Read a book as a newsletter for only $4 (Black Friday Deal)

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Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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andrewedstrom
·2 lata temu·discuss
So curious who the anonymous example is
andrewedstrom
·2 lata temu·discuss
These are not solopreneurs. They’re entrepreneurs.
andrewedstrom
·2 lata temu·discuss
You may be interested in a recent AI safety paper by Redwood Research.

In it, they have GPT-4 generate solutions to coding problems, but instruct it to insert backdoors into the solutions some fraction of the time. Then, they explore different ways to use a weaker model (GPT-3.5) to detect these backdoors. Pretty interesting.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06942
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
Standard Ebooks is fantastic! In fact, I love what they're doing so much that I actually built a little SaaS product on top of their ebook collection.

The site is called Modern Serial, and it lets you read books from Standard Ebooks in 10 minutes a day as Substack-style email newsletters.

https://modernserial.com/
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
Slight correction: Portuguese Man-o-wars are actually considered multicellular organisms.

They’re weird organisms composed of multiple distinct animals that cannot survive independently and that originate from the same fertilized egg. But they are unambiguously multicellular.
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
Rectangle has worked well for me in the past, but recently, it's been losing a lot of windows. I often have to restart Brave to get Rectangle to be able to control it again.
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
Not necessarily, no.

Open source models are already being used for all kinds of nefarious purposes. Any safety controls on a model are easily stripped off once its weights are public.

Usually I love open source software. Most of my career has been spent writing open source code. But this is powerful and dangerous technology. I don’t believe that nuclear weapons should be open source and available to all either.
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
You contradict yourself
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
I can't help but think of the similarities between Frankenstein's Monster and AI. Both are human-created intelligences that learn to understand us by observing our behavior and writings.
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
Just linking to the education tab of her profile is misleading.

Many people in AI safety are young. She has more professional experience than many leaders in the field.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-toner-4162439a/
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
Execute Program is one of the best tools for learning a programming language out there. I’ve worked through several of your courses on TypeScript and the Modern JavaScript, SQL, and Regex courses as well. Can’t wait for this one.

Thanks for everything you do!
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
There are official docs, they just aren’t very good.
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
You could get the exact same alerting benefit with 1/10 the Bitcoin, or less.

There is no tax penalty for moving bitcoin. You should definitely move most of this elsewhere.
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
Alternative explanation: ketamine isn’t better than placebo for treating depression when given to someone who’s under anesthesia. You have to be awake.

Similarly, I bet that if you gave psilocybin to someone under anesthesia, they wouldn’t get the same benefits as someone who took it while awake.
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
Not pictured: the cost of switching to DynamoDB when this service inevitably gets shut down in two years.
andrewedstrom
·3 lata temu·discuss
It makes sense the CEO would either step down or be forcibly removed by the board.

Unity's mishandling of the Runtime Fee policy announcement has caused permanent damage to their reputation. It was a perfect case study in how to undo decades of trust-building in one day.

I follow a lot of game developers online. Every single one that uses Unity today is planning to switch engines for their future games.