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padolsey
4,464karma·578submissions·June 29, 2011
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padolsey.at.hn
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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> No matter how fast Searle is, he won't be able to come up with a beautiful and original Chinese poem that has the creative spark special to humans Why not? > Of course, at some level of c…
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Looks cool. To help the pitch, I think you should show the equiv price on anyscale/together for the 10B tokens. Also is there a reason you're not selling at more granular amounts? Why $400? …
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I don't much mind the populurization of these terms or making people think in more novel ways. Even if it's seen as BS by those more informed, I'm glad such books are written and commun…
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Yeh agree. Seems like someone's been drinking ivory tower soda-pop too long! FWIW, I tend to think of it like this: Antifragility is a property of something that benefits from a bit of hammering.…
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I know only pieces of his life, but whenever a video or audio clip of Baldwin pops up, I listen voraciously. He is articulate in a way that seems to blend the cerebral with the emotive. He seems to su…
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Location: Asia/Beijing/Flexible Timezones
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: on a hybrid basis, yes ~1wk per month in-person
Technologies: React, JavaScript, LLMs, AI, TypeScript, N…
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> ‘feeling unsafe or exposed in a public toilet’ This just makes me think of America and the bizarrely huge gaps between the hinges and gaps at the bottom and top of the cubicles, even in very weal…
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I wouldn't be happy to run it containerless, per se, but within docker or on a remote spun-up box it's fine. I think it's mostly something to play with for now, but I'll eventually…
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Cool! I’m experimenting with something like this that uses docker containers to ensure it’s sandboxed. And, crucially, rewindable. And then I can just let it do ~whatever it wants without having to ve…
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I don't think it's _training_ on your content. That would be a whole other (very horrifying) problem, yes.
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Right, but it's triggered by the user themselves, per the article: > "[it] only happens after pressing the Gemini button on at least one document" I agree the AI aspect is largely a …
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There is a fundamentally interesting nuance to highlight. I don't know precisely what google is doing, but if they're just shuttling the content through a closed-loop deterministic LLM, then…
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I've been using ComfyUI recently to manage complex image diffusion workflows, and I had no idea it was inherited from much older shader editors and vfx. It's a shame we can end up using a to…
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The space seems saturated and a bit confused. Sierra.ai comes to mind. I have tried building a product around this need myself (tiptap.chat) but it's taking a bunch of marketing to convince peopl…
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I don't buy into the rhetoric about misinformation but the author touches on a real concern. I blame ChatGPT and other LLM clients for not surfacing their fallibility more clearly. They should hi…
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This article is ten years old; thought that worth flagging. Nowadays I find myself more comfortable using flexbox and grids to manage these kinds of layout subtleties. Or when in complete dismay, usin…
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Location: Asia/Beijing/London/Flexible Timezones
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: on a hybrid basis, yes
Technologies: React, JavaScript, LLMs, AI, TypeScript, Neo4j, Node, N…
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This seems essentially an announcement of an SDK that is a lot like older stuff from Numenta–is that wrong? I remember playing around with their stuff a few years ago. Is there something new? Related …
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Oh my god! Seriously. Wow. This is honestly sublime – emotionally. For so long I've had townscaper builds, many of which were from a really crummy time for me in my life. I still build at least o…
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dongzhimen :)
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Indeed. It makes me wonder what living figures – in CS and neighbouring fields – are alive and prolific and I'm completely oblivious of.
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What's funny is that, in all these orgs, it ends up being the low-tech vulns that compromise you in the end. Physical access, social engineering, etc. However, I'm really impressed by the te…
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OP here. Ugh yeh it was an error to add those as, for a brief time, the line checking that their bio had the slug in it was commented out, so for around an hour last night, if people checked those pro…
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I'm chuffed as it was only $100 ! :p
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Cheeky. Fixed lol
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My hope is that, since it's opt-in, and people are publicly publishing this stuff, It'd be alright. Dunno.
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Well I mean... I like the idea of you having autonomy over your own bio .. :P I kinda want to see how this xss vuln plays out.
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Bullet point issue ~fixed just now. Thanks for flagging! Webp, hmm, looks visible here..
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$100 but worth it for the fun!