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"as su," indicates a lack of editing.

LLM? Any verbose, struggling to focus article now looks generated rather than the work of somebody with better ideas than technique. Or they’re being paid by the word. I wonder whether there is a jargon problem with the word “great”…. These’s no way Trump or Cameron would be considered “great” but the world changed through their direct actions. One could argue that they just happen to be there when underlying forces interact and that the lone actor model of history is naive.

Many of us have written the “was Hitler inevitable” paper at uni and elsewhere. His particular phobias were extensive, but that time and place was ripe for such rule to appear.


FWIW it is from 2024. LLM tells evolve quickly, so you’d want to be looking for the ones of that timeframe.

The variables in history seem to be technology and population.

There are various repetitions of the Tower of Babel as individuals come and go.

Or, instead of analysis, we could nail Jell-O to the wall.


"Everything's easy, when you know how to do it; it's that learning curve..."--me.

Let me know when the federal budget is balanced.

Is that a problem that can be solved with cognitive labor?

Certainly creatcreated by such.

SMOD may be the only way it's "solved".


"Young man,

There's a place you can go,

I said young man,

To store a graph with your code..."


I still maintain an O'Reilly.com subscription, because it's good to read aan edited book on a topic, and the Google search has just gone to seed.

The "fungible" point sounds as though the "cattle, not pets" ethos of the infrastructure management has leaked into the management of the staff.

Always has been, IT has been resisting due to (as pointed out in the article) institutional knowledge required, but this is now going away as LLMs can efficiently and accurately write it down and search it. Meta turning ICs into data labelers is trying to make knowledge workers fungible; expect others to follow.

"Trying" being the operator.

Meta can get its Sysiphus on all it likes; whether or not genius pours forth remains to be seen.


I hope they fail obviously, but I have to respect the exponential they’re betting on.

This seems a clear enough win for things that would fit into a simple python dictionary.

Why is it preferred over <table> for laying out columns via a the character attributes at the bottom of TFA?


Family saying: "It ain't bragging if you can do it."

When one is competent to work at this level, strong opinions are in order.

Their correctness is something I cannot gage. I'm barely competent to follow the conversation.


Considering the first thing I saw in the thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244891 where the values returned from sp's sine function was compared to the correct values, I'm going to take any such opinions with a few grains of salt. Because the correct sine for the number they tested (31337 radians) is 0.3772 (0.3771522646 according to my calculator), sp's implementation returned 0.4385. That's not even close to right.

I was promised by the title that it is "high quality"

It’s still alpha

Generalizing, one can foresee a balkanized internet of niche communities fighting to discover/interact without getting hoovered up into the AI Borg.

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”--Yogi Berra

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