I see this argument pattern a lot, so looked into what the name is. Apparently it's called Sorites paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox or the "continuum fallacy" in which something that's continuous…
This is an interesting point, but there's slightly more to it than that. When something is simple and does the job well, it has limitations. The problem is that adding each subsequent feature has a small benefit and a…
I've been letting Gemini run gcloud and "accept all"ing while I've been setting some things up for a personal project. Even with some limits in place it is nervewracking, but so far no issues and it means I can go and…
That is because you are replying to two different people. People can learn across layers of abstraction, but specialisation is generally a good thing and creates wealth, a Scottish guy wrote a good book on it.
I will preface this by saying that I care a lot about climate change and carbon usage and AI usage is not a big issue, it is in fact a distraction from where we should be focusing our efforts.…
They've gone downhill in the last few years in my opinion, they've become more overtly partisan and got substantially downgraded on factual reporting by MediaBias Fact check: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/…
https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ Continues to apply
Great advice that is a bit redundant with LLMs, no? They're pretty great at all forms of translation.
I see this argument pattern a lot, so looked into what the name is. Apparently it's called Sorites paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox or the "continuum fallacy" in which something that's continuous…
This is an interesting point, but there's slightly more to it than that. When something is simple and does the job well, it has limitations. The problem is that adding each subsequent feature has a small benefit and a…
I've been letting Gemini run gcloud and "accept all"ing while I've been setting some things up for a personal project. Even with some limits in place it is nervewracking, but so far no issues and it means I can go and…
That is because you are replying to two different people. People can learn across layers of abstraction, but specialisation is generally a good thing and creates wealth, a Scottish guy wrote a good book on it.
I will preface this by saying that I care a lot about climate change and carbon usage and AI usage is not a big issue, it is in fact a distraction from where we should be focusing our efforts.…
They've gone downhill in the last few years in my opinion, they've become more overtly partisan and got substantially downgraded on factual reporting by MediaBias Fact check: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/…
https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ Continues to apply
Great advice that is a bit redundant with LLMs, no? They're pretty great at all forms of translation.