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padolsey
4,464karma·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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To this day I hate captchas. Back when it was genuinely helping to improve OCR for old books, I loved that in the same way I loved folding@home, but now I just see these widgets as a fundamentally exc…
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Some randoms I remember : ) - Thinking in Systems - by Donella Meadows
- Dead Aid - Dambisa Moyo
- Day of Empire - Amy Chua
- Mistakes Were Made (not by me) - Caroll Tavris
- Brotopia - E…
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Ideas matter, yes. And distribution. If you want good coverage, read books from a more diverse crowd. If you want narrower ideas, do the opposite.
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Of the 25 authors listed there are: 18 americans.
24 people in the global north.
24 men.
EDIT: people reaalllllyy hate when this is pointed out. See child comment for some alt recommendatio…
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I dunno. A competent human can hold the a mental image and work through it. Not too hard with experience. What I generally mean tho is: I don't think we can state the supreme capabilities of AI (…
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I help run an eval platform and thought it fun to try a bunch of models on this challenge [1]. There's some fun little ones in there. I've not idea what Llama 405B is doing. Qwen 30B A3B is …
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I mean, almost anything would be better. But here's my swing: > I'm so sorry about this. We definitely screwed up here and want to
> fix things. We want to chat to you in a call …
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I agree, and this reminds me: I really wish there was better URL (and DNS) literacy amongst the mainstream 'digitally literate'. It would help reduce risk of phishing attacks, allow people t…
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For something a bit simpler I made redoku a while ago: https://padolsey.github.io/redoku/
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Thanks for sharing! I feel the fear of another attack with epilepsy too. It is terrifying. The doom and the walking on thin ice constantly hoping you're not gonna over-step or do the wrong thing.…
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> when I got dragged into a project that was sufficiently interesting that I started overworking This is what bites. I have some really narrow interest areas that I can end up being obsessive about…
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What concerns me most in the era of gen AI irt photography is journalism. We need truth, most especially when limited-means citizen journalism is the only reliable source of that truth. But I feel lik…
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I wish they'd release some data or evaluation methodology alongside such claims. It just seems like empty words otherwise. If they did 'extensive safety testing' and don't release …
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I mean, HN is no stranger to cults of personality. Post a paulg essay that says something a teenager could write and it'll fly up to position 1.
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I worked on Maps when the re-brand to Ovi was happening. I remember piles of nokia models for us to test it on. Supporting that diversity of devices was kind of a tall order and pretty unprecedented. …
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Beautiful images in some ways, but so raw and stomach-churning in others. I am not American but feel sick to this day at the thoughts of these events. On the day of 9/11, I was 11 and went to my …
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OOC did you ask them with or without 'web search' enabled?
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There is a famous case from a few years ago where a laywer using ChatGPT accidentally referenced a fictitious case of Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co. [0] This is completely hallucinated case t…
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> Do any career software engineers here see more than a 10% boost to their coding productivity with LLMs? I know it'll be touted as rhetoric but I have seen an order of magnitude of difference…
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Interesting. Curious to reproduce across models, I made a comprehensive eval based on your post and ran it against 30 models, each tasked with recalling specific data from 500 rows in different tabula…
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Thanks for your work on this! It's a very legit domain of problem for LLMs to optimize for. I've produced a comprehensive eval based on your post and run it against 30 models, each tasked wi…
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Because it's fun, I'd like to pose the contrary position that AI will actually make us more different. Perhaps dangerously so. Many people don't understand the nature of LLMs nor how ra…
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This gives me so much joy. Well done!!
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Ugh Anthropic please don't become the villain.
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This is a huge shame. Browsers are one of the more ideal sandboxing barriers. The likes of Chrome and Firefox could have worked with OSs and AI labs to ensure a more robust system of mitigations were …