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Again, this betrays a strong hindsight bias. Nobody had any idea what was coming with the industrial revolution. There wasn't obviously other work for people. And for long periods of time nobody …

They thought that too in the industrial revolution. You can look back and see the jobs that came out of it. But at the time, it wasn't obvious to the people effected that there would be jobs agai…

A guild craftsmen weaving / making firearms pre Industrial Revolution would see their work as much about “knowledge” as manual labor. Much of that got obliterated by automation. History doesn’t r…

So glad I just pay by the token.

Highly recommend people learn the history of the Industrial Revolution. I recently discovered the Industrial Revolutions Podcast[1] and have been enjoying it. What's happening today isn't un…

I recently heard the saying “if you wait to the last minute, it’ll only take you a minute!” For some tasks I have, I need to live this way. Obsessing over a task next week takes away from what I’m d…

This is why I just use OpenCode and see the dollar amount of tokens next to my session. I can decide if the task is worth the cost. Or if I should hand code / use a cheaper model.

Exactly. And LLMs supervised by domain experts unlock a lot of capabilities to help with these types of knowledge organization problems.

It’s something of a historical accident We started with LLMs when everyone in search was building question answering systems. Those architectures look like the vector DB + chunking we associate with R…

The real thing I think people are rediscovering with file system based search is that there’s a type of semantic search that’s not embedding based retrieval. One that looks more like how a librarian o…

It’s not the noncompetes that’s the problem, it’s confidentiality agreements with extremely broad language. Learn about the legal principle of “inevitable disclosure”. It’s the idea you can’t work for…

“The Great Depression: A Diary” is a great day by day first person account of someone living through the depression. It’s a great reminder how we don’t have a monopoly on insane politics https:/…

I have some algorithms I absolutely must know. So I’m hand coding them and asking the agent to critique me. I do a very similar thing in writing - I need feedback, don’t rewrite this! In both cases I …

Was Sora just a honeypot to get a media company (ie Disney) to invest a lot of money into OpenAI? Maybe it achieved its objective?

Sora was fun But it was largely fun to try to transgress against the limitations. Who could trick the AI to generate something outlandish and ridiculous.

It’s a refund for buying the lease, not a payout.

IIRC those were solar hot water heaters. More of a curiosity than something legitimately powering the white house.

I think it’s in part returning money this company paid the government

It’s not as big of a deal as it sounds. Theses wind farms have not even started construction yet. Once Don Quixote is out of office, some future administration undoubtedly will start wind farm constru…

This is so non-specific to be meaningless. Like actually tell us what you know so we can make useful decisions about our safety.