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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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It always felt like a fun challenge. For me, it was a crucial part of my love of the web (and eventually, programming): the hackability and the way that there was no canonical correct way to solve a g…
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Semantically speaking, tables are supposed to contain tabular data, not to be used solely for their layout capabilities. That's why it's called an abuse.
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Well, the same frailties and socio-biological forces exist on all sides of the ocean. We are all lulled into entrenchments in defensive comfort, as are Americans. Right now, America is projecting an e…
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When recently visiting, what shocked me most about the CBP–which I presume is of a softer ilk than ICE–was the sense of entitlement and strength they projected, a kind of "prove to me your worth …
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Agree! I wish Americans would travel more and escape their media bubble. China is incredible. I was in Chonqing and then Shenzhen recently, and live in Beijing. Truly it's very divorced from what…
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This reminds me of how it's possible to decode prairie dog communication into literal 'words' that specify location of possible threats (lookup 'Slobodchikoff prarie dogs'). …
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I remember working for a small agency in London with a bit of a top-heavy management structure. Many times would my shoulder be subtly gazed over to "check on progress". I ended up using IRS…
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What precisely is your point? There are various benefits not contingent on age, so while it is concerning, it by no means would by itself invalidate someone's entitlement in receiving the checks.…
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Saddening. The gall to assume they can walk into a large institution with computing infrastructure older than them and start poking and pulling cables out without thinking for a moment. The arrogance …
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Is there a way to download and read this as a document instead of web pages? They're hard to navigate.
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Perhaps the meaningful axis is not around seniority, per se, but instead around experimentation as OP alludes to. By virtue of being a junior, as you're just picking things up, you have to be f…
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> news exists for the sole purpose of creating outrage in order to generate ad impressions I like the idea of distinguishing news from journalism. If we say they're distinct, then yeh I think …
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I'm personally ok with such rhetoric when the stakes are high (I am losing hope that "talking nicely/sweetly" to people is _actually_ beneficial, on net), though I think yeh the pa…
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> Edit: decided I don't want to engage on this issue. I think I want that on my headstone :p
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OOC What are examples of things the US is doing right now that you'd like Norway/EU to pursue? Like, specifically?
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It's rare to find a subscription service doing something kind-hearted, sensible and good-faith towards their customers. There are so many dark-pattern subscription practices out there. Thank you …
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Many of these evals are quite easy to game. Often the actual evaluation part of benchmarking is left up to a good-faith actor, which was usually reasonable in academic settings less polluted by capita…
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This seems to be a general pattern emerging. Cynical opportunists are wrapping hf endpoints/embeds in dodgy SaaS offerings. A similar one is BetterDictation, which tbf I do use. But I still hate …
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Gosh! Such inspired venom and "old man yells at cloud" vibes in this comment thread. I think I should send this to myself from 5 years ago: It's gonna be OKAY. It's OKAY to subtly …
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Tbf have you read most of the academic papers on LLMs lately? It's all a lot of boilerplate academic language packaging around "we tried prompting it this way and it did good things". T…
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Cool! I love seeing the very subtle emergent behaviours of different CoT approaches. I reckon people still don't fully appreciate the brittle artistic subtlety of trying to make something akin to…
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Now having worked in a few smaller teams since my time at FB, I realize how marvellous it is to not have to worry about OKRs, performance reviews and all that malarkey. It was so draining to run yours…
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Running code would be a downstream (client) concern. There's the ability to get structured data from LLMs (usually called 'tool use' or 'function calling') which is the first …
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I think you mean this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769 From what I can see, presuming o3 is a progression of o1 and has good level of accountabiltiy bubbling up during 'inf…