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padolsey
4,466karma·578submissions·June 29, 2011
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I'm James. Living between Beijing and London. I like coding. Also plants. Stroke survivor & disability advocate. My dog's a whippet/iggy cross and is called Ducky. He's a beautiful lunatic.
* website: [j11y.io](https://j11y.io) * building: [nope](https://nope.net) * bsky: [@j11y.io](https://bsky.app/profile/j11y.io) * contact: https://tally.so/r/waYPvE * twitter: [@padolsey](https://x.com/padolsey) * book recommendations: [ablf.io](https://ablf.io) * me = founding eng @ [collective intelligence project](https://cip.org)
My work email is my first name at cip dot org.
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recent activity (578 total)
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> If you are diagnosed with a chronic illness, explore your insurance options. Isn't it incredibly hard to find insurance if this is the case? Quite curious how it works in the US. I think thi…
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<3 Thank you for writing so beautifully and sharing so openly. Can I ask if you've sought support or community in other parents who have gone through similar losses and are battling this newfo…
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Yep I've encountered so so many of these too. It's amazing how obvious they are even to the most primitive filter, so I'm just at a complete loss as to why X/Twitter is so disincen…
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What a marvellous article. One thing I’ve never quite appreciated in neuroscience is how useful physical movement is as a debugging layer. During a task, in observing gaits, tremors, speed, accuracy, …
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This suggests, more than ever, that human curation and review is absolutely crucial. The sad thing about this is that it just lends more power to monopolistic publishers and renowned critics and away …
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I miss Yahoo Pipes so much. And YQL. In 2009 I implemented an effectively cross-domain XHR (ajax) plugin on top of jQuery so I could grab random webpages on the client-side and query them via CSS sele…
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I created https://a.foo a while ago which just summarizes URLs for me. Like, if I don't have time to read an article or something, I just pop 'a.foo' in front of the URI and…
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Quite interesting. So epileptic brains are re-using a mechanism from the sleep cycle to defend against daytime seizures [potentially].... But at a cost of cognitive ability. I like how the brain can a…
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This feels like it could be real remorse, and a true lapse of judgement based on good intentions. So, in the end: a story of Ilya, a truly principled but possibly naive scientist, and a board fixated …
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So when the author states that "Microsoft just acquired OpenAI for $0" they mean, effectively, only a fixed-time snapshot of code that is likely old news in about 18 months by the time other…
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I'm a bit confused. Does MSFT have a perpetual license to the original OpenAI LLC's IP *or* the capped company OpenAI "Global" LLC that was specifically created for MSFT's sta…
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There are engineers who care about the kinds of values that OpenAI was founded on, which have just been – arguably – reaffirmed and revalidated by this latest drama. OpenAI's commercialization wa…
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What makes you so sure? It feels like a GPT-5/6, with enough inner feedback loops and system-calling capability will be scarily capable.
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If you're just using their completions/chat API, you're gonna be ok. As an ultimate fallback you can spin up H100s in the cloud and run VLLM atop a high param open model like Llama 70B.…
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Yeh I really wish they'd better articulate the "AI safety" directive in a way that is broader than deepfakes and nuclear/chemical winter. It feels like an easy sell to regulators. …
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The biggest grudge I have against 'stroke' is that it's such an amorphous diagnosis. A heart attack, a similarly ischemic (or hemorhagic) event, often produces, say, one of a couple doz…
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>I hate when someone says, "Oh, Schwarzenegger is the perfect example of a self-made man" because I'm not. I'm a creation of my parents. I'm a creation of my coaches, my t…
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I think this is kinda cool. It pushes forward our understanding of how to work with LLMs. However, it doesn't appear to be something that can be relied upon idempotently. It seems liable to every…
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The real news here is the uncapped indemnification and protection from any copyright lawsuits. This is a good move from Getty.
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Not to minimise OP’s work, but if you’re looking for markdown in a single chat thread, you usually can just ask chatgpt to give you markdown in a code block.
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Cheeky and it probably won’t work. I initially thought it’d be a crowdpooling thing where people could sign up to a pool of distributed/tunnelled copilot users. That would be cool… Lots of copil…
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I had the exact same feeling several years ago so I made a graph-based app that does that! ablf.io/?q & ablf.io/goodreads (the latter lets you upload your existing goodreads lib if u wan…
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Summary: Investors don't know where to put their money and they're scared
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Yeh it's bizarre. I guess, inevitably, he is viewing everything through a crypto-centric mental model of the world. Round-peg-square-hole thinking. Community Notes are not truly permissionless, t…
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Oh yeh definitely. I meant more specifically: might it be possible to capture the electrical signals (much like this current system) from the parts of the motor cortex that create the series of muscle…