valyagolev's comments

On: An RNG that runs in your brain

[valyagolev]

it'd be a fascinating feature - a random number on the face of the watch - especially on a mechanical one

On: Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered

[valyagolev]

perhaps because it gives the same answer, verbatim, for many different attempts to figure it out?

and because we know it well enough to be sure that it's not smart and devious enough (yet) to conspire like this? (nor has any clear reason to)

[mvdtnz → valyagolev]

Conspire? It's one system controlled by one company.

[bdhcuidbebe → valyagolev]

Its well known to spit out nonsense.

On: Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, an...

[valyagolev]

After discovering Muji Gel pens a decade ago I just buy them tens at a time (pens or refill sticks). They feel absolutely perfect and are very easy to obtain in Europe. It's a great feeling to find a product that works so well you can free your mind from the burden of search forever

[DoingSomeThings → valyagolev]

Seconded. I buy 2 varieties of Muji pens -- 0.38 and 0.5 Gel Ballpoint -- and stash them everywhere.

A while back I heard the phrase "If you ask 'where is the good XYZ' it means you have a 'bad' XYZ". I was inspired to throw out all of my cheapo pens and always have a good one nearby.

Same with power cables, scissors, tape, and other small household accessories. They're too cheap to have to worry about 1. where they are and 2. where the "good" one is.

[iaw → valyagolev]

I cannot endorse Muji enough. They are also easy to obtain in the US. I save my empty pens so I can refill them. I just got a full color set to use as well.

The ink flow levels are always balanced, never too much or too little. It's hard to explain but it also has a good "feel" when writing that I do not find in many other pens.

On: Images altered to trick machine vision can influen...

[valyagolev]

we should code up a real online game to gather the stats here. maybe we'll find a real subliminal messaging model

On: Balaji's Idea Maze

[valyagolev]

so it hallucinates when explaining what these companies do in relation to an idea. basically it's an automatic downer machine that lies that there's a lot of companies making your idea

[aaa0108 → valyagolev]

ty, super appreciate the feedback :) curious if you see if being useful if the results were accurate

On: Coastline paradox

[valyagolev]

you also should, and inevitably will, cut corners smaller than your "step" when actually following the "coastline" in development. the more fixated one on the smallest details, the longer it will end up

On: You can't do that because I hate you

[valyagolev]

Weirdly I'm very used to this kind of stuff and take it very easily from programmers, but when a german bureaucrat does this same thing to me I'm also fuming.

On: Where Are the Sanity Checks?

[valyagolev]

there're no sanity checks because there are no sane "recovery" nor there are much risk. useless sanity checks mostly work towards making software annoying and unusable

On: How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Lik...

[valyagolev]

Not engage on sensitive topics: yes, even with people you like

Not engage on any topic outside the strictly necessary for work: a passive-aggressive way to keep the animosity forever

On: MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was...

[valyagolev]

they always insist that Leibnizian monad is not related to the FP monad at all, probably because it's a major point of pride of contemporary scientist to not be related to anything philosophical at all. sure.

still, i'm always wondering. why be so insistent. i mean, leibniz's monads are opaque substances that by itself have no causal relations with the world, but only affect each other/the world through "God". which sounds to me like an exact description of the IO monad