I recently slapped 3 different 3 page sql statements and their obscure errors with no line or context references from Redshift into Claude, it was 3 for 3 on telling me where in my query I was messing up. Saved me probably 5 minutes each time but really saved me from moving to a different task and coming back. So around $100 in value right there. I was impressed by it. I wish the query UI I was using just auto-ran it when I got an error. I should code that up as an extension.
When forecasting for developers and employee cost for a company I double their pay but I'm not going to say what I make and if I did or not. I also like to think that developers should be working on work that is many multiples of leverage over their pay to be effective. But thanks.
It didn't cost me anything, my employer paid for it. Math for my employer is odd because our use of LLMs is also R&D (you can look at my profile to see why). But it was definitely worth $1 in api costs. I can see justifying spending $200/month for devs actively using a tool like this.
I am in a similar same boat. Its way more correct than not for the tasks I give it. For simple queries about, say, CLI tools I dont use that often, or regex formulations, I find it handy as when it gives the answer Its easy to test if its right or not. If it gets it wrong, I work with Claude to get to the right answer.
AI may be over hyped and it may have flaws (I think it is both)... but it may also be totally worth $200 / month to many people. My brother is getting way more value than that out of it for instance.
So the question is it worth $200/month and to how many people, not is it over hyped, or if it has flaws. And does that support the level of investment being placed into these tools.
People seemed to vote on how they felt not what these numbers said. So the vibes seem more valid than the stats at least on their real world impact in many ways.
Continuing to yell at people about the numbers doesn't seem to be an effective strategy, maybe try a different approach?
If this belief is strong enough, they would act on it. The fact that they act means the economy starts rolling, and produce the type of thriving that they come to believe! Ala, a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Therefore, it's important to find out why people believe things, despite being contrary to empirical evidence.
+1 Your eyes don’t open for any reason.
+1 You can't speak or make sounds.
+1 You don’t move in response to pressure.
So you get points for existing, and the tests can include causing pain (pinch ear, press nail bed, knuckles to chest [depending on jurisdiction]) to make someone have movement.
However, while GCS of 3 is the bottom of the GCS chart, it's not the only measurement used.
"Conclusions. We believe that patients with blunt head injury presenting with a GCS score of 3 should be treated aggressively. Our results showed that 50.8% of these patients survived their injury and 13.2% achieved a good functional outcome at the 6-month follow-up." - NIH
My favorite part of GCS: Emergency care books say "don't worry you don't have to memorize this, you'll always have a chart", yet calculating it exactly is on 2 different US emergency care national exams.
Coffee Machine, Right-hand Dispenser—The dispenser in all coffee
machines at Valve that holds the decaffeinated coffee beans. To the best of
our knowledge, these have never needed to be refilled. For all we know, the
beans are decorative plastic
The first bit of Ancillary Justice story is a slog like the first 80 pages of anathem and as purposefully confusing, but 3x longer.
I get why the author did it but and it was a good payoff on realizing and stressing inherent societal biases, like any good scifi should break your brain a bit and point out where you are being intellectually lazy. It just didn't need to be so long. And also the story just wasn't all that interesting if I recall. Kinda someone wandering in the wilderness iirc.
I actually liked the latter parts of the series once I got past that. Got more into a detective novel and some political intrigue. The gender bending/fluditity came into it's own at the end as you had many characters against current gender norms that you hear described through actions and then "meet" much later in the book, realizing all the assumptions you were implicitly making being wrong. along with all of the drones who wouldn't really have a gender anyway or might switch gender constantly, so why are we forcing our mental model of gender on them (fair enough).
If you like challenging your brain a bit power through the first book, but it's definitely not the traditional science only sci-fi. I see why a lot of people like the book and I see why a lot of people hate it because it's not a deathstalker novel. It's kinda like when my dad was really pissed when we watched the live version of Cats because "it wasn't what I expected". I was 8, and was like "what did you expect?" "I don't know, but not this" to which my 6 year old brother said "It's definitely about cats".
I love Ancillary Justice even though I don’t think I should - must be the long payoff. Of course, you can get some of the same themes in an easier (and no spaceships, sentient or otherwise) read with Leckie’s other book The Raven Tower.
We use sheets all the time at work for all sorts of processes, essentially an internal tool. But it doesn't really even need code, the human is the code. I had to strongly suggest to some of our TPMs and actually a principal in the last year that no they didn't need a tool, they just needed a spreadsheet. But this is so low code that people likely don't even think of it as a low code solution, it's just a spreadsheet.
That said other than managing and sorting lists of work to do, I break the limits on sheets and excel all the time so for anything with customer scale data I can't use it.
Lol, houston is not even in the top 35 on that list. It's not even the biggest city in that list. Chicago has it beat. And my home town continues to represent as #1.
This is a thing I love about living in WA, I get the apples a few years before everyone else. Lets me send them to friends across the US before they hit their supermarkets.
And yes really the interesting thing is they're different and new. Tho I do really like cosmics. Especially if you dry them in a food dehydrator and then powder them into whipped cream.
Same with Western NY - proximity to Cornell’s apple research and lots of orchards is really great. If you’re an apple fanatic WA and WNY are the places to be.
definitely with you on rim breaks... I thought they mention in one place they can put discs on these. I'm a large person and live in Seattle so I've been rocking discs on a cyclocross style bike since 2010 back when everyone was anti discs, they're far superior glad people finally got sane about them.
> I thought they mention in one place they can put discs on these.
Yeah, they can do it, but they'll be a little heavier than those relatively light rim brake steel bikes linked earlier. (The rotors/calipers, hydraulic, fluid, stronger fork leg required all just add mass.)
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