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How to Improve Your Attention Span: Daniel Pink's Strategies for the Digital Age

openculture.com
3 points·by frenzcan·8 個月前·0 comments

What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

theparisreview.org
98 points·by frenzcan·8 個月前·12 comments

Why Are We Talking About Superintelligence?

calnewport.com
3 points·by frenzcan·8 個月前·0 comments

War photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures

theguardian.com
4 points·by frenzcan·9 個月前·0 comments

Sopranos: The Next Generation [video]

youtube.com
3 points·by frenzcan·9 個月前·0 comments

Algol 68

en.wikipedia.org
2 points·by frenzcan·9 個月前·0 comments

Notes from Clay Shirky on social media (2008)

techliberation.com
2 points·by frenzcan·9 個月前·0 comments

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frenzcan
·6 小時前·discuss
>you can probably keep playing it until Gabe Newell dies

I remember Valve talking about the concern that if anything happens to Valve they have some contingency that basically releases your whole library to you without Steam DRM/etc.
frenzcan
·2 個月前·discuss
I agree Asimov's laws are intentionally flawed/ambiguous (which makes the stories so good) but a slight difference to LLMs is the laws aren't just software, the positronic brain is physically structured in such a way (I'm hazy on the details) that violating the laws causes the robot to shutdown or experience paralysing anxiety. So if an LLM's safety rules fail or are subverted it can still generate dangerous output, while an Asimov robot will stop working (or go insane...)
frenzcan
·2 個月前·discuss
This comment made me feel better about my woeful track record with nethack
frenzcan
·5 個月前·discuss
Wow, I’m making this my homepage.
frenzcan
·6 個月前·discuss
>As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how.

I think it's safe to say they figured it out.
frenzcan
·6 個月前·discuss
I used Mercurial before switching to git. The positive difference from switching was how branches worked. I don’t know the technical details but branches on git felt “lighter” to use and maintain than with Mercurial.
frenzcan
·6 個月前·discuss
What’s the issue with homebrew?
frenzcan
·6 個月前·discuss
This seems like such a tricky problem. There was a no-ai camera posted here recently which verified the photos were genuinely taken on the device. It was pointed out someone could photograph an ai image via the camera to produce a verified image.

Maybe it needs to be similar to SSL certificates where trusted authorities can verify and revoke verification for digital assets.
frenzcan
·7 個月前·discuss
GOP
frenzcan
·7 個月前·discuss
Once I realised I rarely read my notes, I now put them in a single note and prepend it when I add something new. It’s weird but I think the value I get from notes is in the writing of them, it’s a way of thinking rather than for recall.
frenzcan
·7 個月前·discuss
> Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.

Aquired by TikTok in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.
frenzcan
·8 個月前·discuss
At last, extension properties in C#. I’ve been waiting for these for years.
frenzcan
·8 個月前·discuss
What eventually tipped your boss off? Was it the smile issue?
frenzcan
·8 個月前·discuss
Can any Helix users share how the muscle memory from vim is working out? I’d really like to give it a go but I’m worried I’ll pollute my memory of basic vim commands. I’m bad enough remembering cut/copy/paste keyboard shortcuts in different OS/applications.
frenzcan
·9 個月前·discuss
I decided to try this:

> sample a random number from 1 to 10

> ChatGPT: Here’s a random number between 1 and 10: 7

> again

> ChatGPT: Your random number is: 3
frenzcan
·9 個月前·discuss
I run into this a lot when working with legacy code. The first reaction most teams have is to mock it, not understand it.
frenzcan
·9 個月前·discuss
The whole skin economy around CS has gotten way out of hand. It’s less about the game and more about speculation and gambling at this point.