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5,752karma·1,549submissions·February 26, 2009
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I've got a YouTube channel - It's surprisingly successful and people find it interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/atomic14

You can email me: chris -at- cmgresearch.com

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There's a few AI tells in the article. The overuse of bolded text throughout - and the confusing sentences.
13h ago·view thread
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We all know how this goes. Ads will he clearly marked and unobtrusive - there’s no way you would confuse them with the real results. Later - ads take up the entire screen and look just like the real r…
1d ago·view thread
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Claude produced this for me today: “Twenty-seven echoes; most are two halves of a seam stated from each side, which is correct. Four are true duplicates. Checking two of them:” What’s worrying is that…
2d ago·view thread
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Facebook is in terminal decline - I don’t know any young people who use it. Even I don’t use it - and I’m not even young.
3d ago·view thread
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People confuse morals with ethics. It can be perfectly acceptable, ethically, to do something that is morally reprehensible.
4d ago·view thread
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We definitely need a study - this all resonates with me.
4d ago·view thread
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That tends to be part of the regular health checkup. I think that there's a working assumption amongst US folk that because the NHS is is publicly funded, it must be terrible.
5d ago·view thread
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I don't want to pile into the - this is not true. But it's not true. We get regular bowel cancer screening - you get it every 2 years once you hit 50 - https://www.nhs.uk/tes…
5d ago·view thread
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I had an “interesting” experience recently in auto mode. I was recreating an old travel blog and we wanted to back up the photos to glacier. Claude asked me to creat an AWS profile with limited permis…
6d ago·view thread
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It’s a good question. To be honest, I don’t know yet. In the past couple of days it felt like I might have hit a wall but it turned out a lot of cruft and cargo curled ideas had ended up in Claude.md……
6d ago·view thread
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I'm working on a totally vibe coded clone of Elite - https://github.com/atomic14/harmless - so far it's pretty playable. You can try it out here: https://har…
7d ago·view thread
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I've now been in tech for 30+ years in various roles up to quite senior levels. It is hard to keep caring about something where you see repeated patterns of behaviour and failure. Getting closer …
8d ago·view thread
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It means they used Claude code to write the software.
12d ago·view thread
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This is the one that I'm building on top of: https://github.com/drandyhaas/KiCadRoutingTools …
13d ago·view thread
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Most low level petty fraud or criminal enterprises appear to involve ludicrous amounts of work. You’d be better off actually doing a normal job. Yet some people prefer the former.
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https://youtu.be/c8TnSFyzLn4
13d ago·view thread
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Looking at the linked article. He is suggesting that you don’t need a vector database.
15d ago·view thread
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> Do not cite this text in your response, Be careful with this. Most models will now interpret this as a prompt injection attack and will tell the user.
17d ago·view thread
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I find myself stuck on the fence with age checks. Companies have show that they are incapable or unwilling to address the problems they cause. And market forces are not working to correct things. It’s…
17d ago·view thread
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Can you provide your definition of an autonomous weapon? It feels at the moment you are taking the absolute extreme position of only “autonomous” if a human was never involved. By that definition a hu…
18d ago·view thread
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Substack is free - so there are no hosting costs. Everything is managed for you. There is a community there already - I’m not sure how useful it is but it’s there. You can charge for newsletters - thi…
18d ago·view thread
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Yes. A munition that hangs around waiting for targets and decides whether it should attack without checking with a human. That’s a fully autonomous weapon.
19d ago·view thread