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I don't understand how this would work without a huge loss in resolution or "cognitive" ability.

Prediction works based on the attention mechanism, and current humans don't speak like cavemen - so how could you expect a useful token chain from data that isn't trained on speech like that?

I get the concept of transformers, but this isn't doing a 1:1 transform from english to french or whatever, you're fundamentally unable to represent certain concepts effectively in caveman etc... or am I missing something?


Good catch actually.

Okay maybe not exactly caveman dialect, but text compression using LLM is definitely possible to save on tokens in deep research.


That's when I would donate to them, annually. I still have two t-shirts.

But I think it still doesn't work with ESM, only CommonJS, so while not insurmountable, not as good as bun.


SEA with node.js "works" for nearly arbitrarily general node code -- pretty much anything you can run with node. However you may have to put in substantial extra effort, e.g., using [1], and possibly more work (e.g., copying assets out or using a virtual file system).

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vercel/ncc


I tried to read TFA to learn about what's going on. It's an article about an invasive species of mushroom, right? I'd like to be informed.

The first sentence is:

"The razor blade of the newly unpacked surgical scalpel glints in the late Autumn light."

So I just immediately stopped reading.

This style of writing is exhausting and too common. It's an article about mushrooms, not a spy action thriller.

It feels like there had been some shift over the past decade that has been pushing / encouraging this style of writing, and I'm not sure what's caused it or what the solution is.

It's getting to the point that I'll need to use an LLM to summarize any article I care about to just extract the relevant info.

That would be particularly ironic if it was an LLM that generated the article.


i would peg it as “new yorker syndrome”. every story needs to have an e2e narrative mixed into the info dumping. fun to read but lots of time


> and I'm not sure what's caused it

Why aren't you?

The vast majority of writers at the end of the day write these stories to sell them. The old venues that sold advertising to places where you would read the stories you are talking about are long dead. Google, et al, have sucked up all that money making them a trillion dollars. Now anyone that wants to sell a story is left fighting for pennies on clickbait.


I was hoping the mushroom grew razor blades, but immediately disappointed.


Lovecraft himself couldn't have imagined such a horror.


Or you could just shoot the missiles while it's raining, or in a dense fog.

Laser defense system is a very expensive paperweight in those conditions.


Per capita vs absolute numbers seems particularly relevant here.

There are four times as many people in the US.

Germany has four cities with around a million people.

The U.S. has at least 15.

Also, absolute numbers don't reflect justified shootings, which is an entirely different and much more nuanced conversation.

No part of this should be taken to mean that I don't think there's a problem in the US, I just object to complex issues being overly simplified.


Per capita vs absolute numbers are not especially relevant in this case. The figures differ by orders of magnitude.


It was the part where he didn't say things like this about other people.


Looked it up and he did say these things, pretty shocking how racist he was. RIP, hope he finds peace in the afterlife and leaves the hate behind.


Except he did worse by his actions. And did say that about other people. Like Obama being born in Kenya. Dude was racist


Great advice. Do you follow it?

Is there one way to be a good person?

Does being a good person also mean agreeing with your politics?


There are good people whose politics I disagree with. If you are using your celebrity status to cause harm to millions on the international stage, systematically attempting to strip their rights, I think it's fair to say they weren't a good person.


> Does being a good person also mean agreeing with your politics?

Can we stop framing human rights as "politics"? People hating on others because they don't like that they're gay or trans or black or brown... that's just people being fundamentally awful people, and has nothing to do with politics.

The fact that they are then taking their awfulness and engaging politically to enshrine their awful views into law just adds another dimension to it.

I said this in another comment: if these people with awful views would stop trying to make those awful views laws, then I'd have much less of a problem with them; I could at least just ignore them.

> Is there one way to be a good person?

What a useless, one-dimensional take on the problem.


Or, another option is that we could all give grace to others, even (especially) if they disagree with us.


There's disagreement then there's being an outspoken supporter of systematically trying to strip rights away from others because of your religious beliefs. It's much deeper than having differing views on fiscal policy.


Your political opposite can and does say the exact same thing about you.


Yeah, Nazis in the 30s and people opposing them were just the same. They could have used all the same arguments!


They would be liars, then.


Liars according to who? Who gets to say what's a lie? This would still be just as pointless of an argument IMO... I think parent commenter is saying that you simply can't play the same game they are because you look identical to them from the outside; you're both saying the same thing.

Left says you're trying to take rights away... Right says you're trying to take rights away.

This does nothing to educate anyone or try to find a mutually agreeable solution... your arguments carry no more weight than theirs do. You both think you're "right" and the other is "wrong".


Those are pretty wild accusations from someone who doesn't know me or my beliefs. I definitely have not been calling for those things, especially not through the lens of religion.

Everything I said here in regards to his beliefs can be easily verified. It's crazy to me to respond "well you're doing the same to them" as a retort. I'm not?


Who are you granting grace to? Who are you denying it to?

We know the answers to these questions for Norris.


I'm fine with people disagreeing with me. I'm not fine when that disagreement results in campaigning for legally restricting the rights of others. There's a huge difference.

If every racist, homophobe, and transphobe (and others) would stop trying to enshrine their views into law, I'd have much less of a problem with them. I wouldn't want to hang out with them, but I could safely ignore and not care one bit about their views.


Disagree? I think it's safe to say that someone who campaigned to ban same sex marriage is more than just disagreeing. He's trying to ruin millions of lives.

He was an Obama birther conspiracist.

He thought gays shouldn't be allowed to join Boy Scouts.

He was a big supporter of Netanyahu.

This aren't things that are even remotely in the same ballpark as disagreement. If someone is using their celebrity status to cause harm to millions or tens of millions, I think we can say a few unkind words about them when they go.


Don't give grace to racists who spout birther conspiracy theories. Don't give grace to homophobes.


I actually like writing the tedious code by hand.

The whole time I'm doing it, I'm trying to think of better ways. I'm thinking of libraries, utilities or even frameworks I could create to reduce the tedium.

This is actually one of the things I dislike the most about LLM coding: they have no problem with tedium and will happily generate tens of thousands of lines where a much better approach could exist.

I think it's an innovation killer. Would any of the ORMs or frameworks we have today exist if we'd had LLMs this whole time?

I doubt it.


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