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lordgrenville

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Deciphering basmala

blog.plover.com
85 points·by lordgrenville·há 17 dias·33 comments

Rotten Dot Com

theparisreview.org
135 points·by lordgrenville·há 2 meses·126 comments

Self-driving cars aren't nearly a solved problem

strangecosmos.substack.com
20 points·by lordgrenville·há 6 meses·9 comments

LLMs Are Bad Judges. So Use Our Classifier Instead

papers.ssrn.com
41 points·by lordgrenville·há 10 meses·11 comments

comments

lordgrenville
·há 5 dias·discuss
> I am able to make React changes much faster and the changes are higher quality, given frontend dev has never been my job role

Man, if I had a dollar for every time someone said "I'm not good at X, but LLMs are so impressive at it". Like do you think there might be some connection between those two points?!
lordgrenville
·há 18 dias·discuss
There was a post on here the other day explaining this exact phenomenon: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06/19/waiting.html
lordgrenville
·há 24 dias·discuss
> Many made the same prediction about Twitter, and it seems to be more or less the same or higher activity than before, and Bluesky is continuing to rapidly decline

Not at all correct, they are plummeting.

"In June 2025...X year-over-year growth declined by 15.2%." https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail...
lordgrenville
·há 27 dias·discuss
Almost every comment here is appealing to personal experience. By contrast, OP refers to two studies that compare performance on some kind of standardised test over a range of models.

Can't speak to how good those tests are, but they can't be worse than anecdotal evidence for something as vague/subjective as LLM performance.
lordgrenville
·mês passado·discuss
I've never heard it before, but immediately understood it and found it a useful term for something I didn't have a single word for.
lordgrenville
·mês passado·discuss
It's not really an attack surface though. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/932/
lordgrenville
·há 2 meses·discuss
"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
lordgrenville
·há 2 meses·discuss
I recently read Tarka the Otter [1], which is the story of a life of an otter. At the end he is hunted by a farmer and a pack of otter hounds. It is pretty brutal. Reminds you that at the time they were seen as vermin and a nuisance, not cute and furry.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75899
lordgrenville
·há 2 meses·discuss
I think OP meant that Farmville was built by a different party (Zynga). FB was trying to encourage other businesses to build apps on its platform, not build them itself.
lordgrenville
·há 2 meses·discuss
Wow, yeah. "The result is an app that the creators say is 90% accurate".

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/photo-calorie-app-cal-ai-d...
lordgrenville
·há 2 meses·discuss
Are you sure these are actually issues, or are you just trusting that the AI criticism is correct?
lordgrenville
·há 3 meses·discuss
As Matt Levine often points out, there are two possible cases for ESG

1/ This will bring worse returns, but I'm willing to accept the loss in order to forward values I support

2/ This will bring better returns, since the market underrates risks from bad ESG companies (e.g. the long-term return on capital for coal companies will be worse than the market expects)

People marketing ESG funds (or anti-ESG, same rule applies) usually emphasise the second.

> Anyone claiming they can consistently beat any large index is just delusional, aren't they?

This is obviously not true. RenTech would like a word.
lordgrenville
·há 3 meses·discuss
More to the point, in the US losing teams get rewarded in the form of draft picks, which sometimes creates perverse incentives. This doesn't exist in European football. (Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about American sports.)
lordgrenville
·há 3 meses·discuss
n=1

But interesting nonetheless, thanks for sharing your findings.
lordgrenville
·há 3 meses·discuss
I was surprised that this article is about food wasted by people not finishing their plates. Would have guessed that a lot of the unserved food is discarded (sure, some of it can be served at tomorrow's breakfast, but only within limits), and that this is much more significant.
lordgrenville
·há 3 meses·discuss
That's what traditional time-series modelling does. This is a foundational model, which means it's just a neural network trained on lots of time series. (So maybe OP's question still stands? But it's the same question as "how can LLMs be good at so many different kinds of conversations?")
lordgrenville
·há 3 meses·discuss
Nice idea, would be good to add a third option for "these look indistinguishable" (and then I guess they could be bundled together in later stages).
lordgrenville
·há 4 meses·discuss
I expect that OP just meant "native language"
lordgrenville
·há 5 meses·discuss
Fair point. Pretty sure there is a way to have a few .gitconfig files, with the active one based on the remote URL domain, but it is more work.
lordgrenville
·há 5 meses·discuss
Oh yeah, I have always had this as it was pretty clear to me that the info in the email field is public.