Web space is a heck of a lot cheaper than LLM tokens are. The solution to this problem is to start creating forums and getting agents to post to them as much as possible. It's a war of attrition and should be easy to…
Being deported if you get fired is a basic job requirement. Keeps people in line. Americans can't compete with that.
The measure was clearly stated: the life style of that one guy's dad. He's the official consumer well being canary.
I don't really see that happening here. Microsoft doesn't have any trust to lose, and they won't be gaining any by this move. That is the one advantage they have in all of this. Their public image is as bad as it can…
I keep hearing "this is the worst it's going to be" as if we can expect a monotonic increase in quality and value generation. Meanwhile, search was better in the past and is at this point the best it's going to be.…
Perhaps there will be a lot more people who can write software as well as I can weld metal. Welding is peculiar in that becoming a professional welder takes a great deal of time and effort (and probably some talent that…
It's an extension of pretending that developer productivity can be measured in lines of code per day, as well as the managerial blindness to the fact that code can have negative value.
Interesting. I am glad you commented. It's nice getting grounding from someone with a real background in the area. With that said, if it is a hallucination (and it sounds like it was), it's one of the more interesting…
I would agree with all of that. Searching for information is inherently an adversarial process. You want your attention in one place, other actors in the system want it in another. Any solution that doesn't suck will…
Bugs get fixed when systems are iterated on. They also tend to be single results from single mistakes, not compound end results of the implementation. Design features tend to persist. The phrase/idiom "the purpose of a…
This will be a hard argument to make. The decision makers who are the target audience for these metrics value "objective" data. They value the appearance of being quantitative, but lack the intellectual tools to…
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All of academic publishing has fallen victim to Goodhart's law. Our metrics for judging the quality of academic information are also the metrics for deciding the success of an academic's career. They are destined to be…
Do you think this comes from a gradual internalization of a real linguistic concept? Or it more a familiarity with common (if unspoken) conventions of the puzzle makers? I suspect the answer isn't binary, but it's…
More to the point, how to German dictionaries handle this? Is there a distinction between words that get enumerated and compound nouns that do not? It does seem, though, that German speakers might be more comfortable…
This is a great comparison. We're arguing about the definition of "word", and attempting to expand it to include edge cases where two words with separate meanings have a different atomic meaning when combined. We could…
The difference between phrases and "words with spaces" is addressed. The confusion might be that this seems to be a spectrum rather than a binary phenomon. We have single words at one extreme, ordinary sentences at the…
A dictionary is an enumeration of words. A thesaurus is a mapping between existing words. Every word in a thesaurus belongs in a dictionary.
We have the word slush to mean a mixture of ice and water. A single word for boiling water would occupy a similar conceptual space. While these are not separate states of matter, they ARE special thermodynamic systems,…
This. The world is becoming increasingly more uncertain geopolitically. We have incipient (and actual) wars coming, and near term potential for societal disruption from technological unemployment. Meanwhile social media…
This is the real point that needs to be made. You can argue that many parents are less than ideal parents, but that is not sufficient to justify having the state step in. You also have to show that the state is less…
I was almost certainly never going to be a parent for other unrelated reasons, but you have just given me a whole other list of confirmations for that decision that I hadn't thought of before. Thank you for that.
The purpose of a system is what it does. Undermining data protection and privacy is clearly the point. The fact that it's happening everywhere at the same time makes it look to me like a bunch of leaders got together…
Likely it wouldn't get written at all. The most useful aspect of layered approval processes is people treat them like outright bans and don't blog at all unless it's part of the job description.
It was more fragile 20 years ago than it is today. It was more robust 5 years ago than it is today. Or at least that's been my impression. I can't back that up with hard data.
Web space is a heck of a lot cheaper than LLM tokens are. The solution to this problem is to start creating forums and getting agents to post to them as much as possible. It's a war of attrition and should be easy to…
Being deported if you get fired is a basic job requirement. Keeps people in line. Americans can't compete with that.
The measure was clearly stated: the life style of that one guy's dad. He's the official consumer well being canary.
I don't really see that happening here. Microsoft doesn't have any trust to lose, and they won't be gaining any by this move. That is the one advantage they have in all of this. Their public image is as bad as it can…
I keep hearing "this is the worst it's going to be" as if we can expect a monotonic increase in quality and value generation. Meanwhile, search was better in the past and is at this point the best it's going to be.…
Perhaps there will be a lot more people who can write software as well as I can weld metal. Welding is peculiar in that becoming a professional welder takes a great deal of time and effort (and probably some talent that…
It's an extension of pretending that developer productivity can be measured in lines of code per day, as well as the managerial blindness to the fact that code can have negative value.
Interesting. I am glad you commented. It's nice getting grounding from someone with a real background in the area. With that said, if it is a hallucination (and it sounds like it was), it's one of the more interesting…
I would agree with all of that. Searching for information is inherently an adversarial process. You want your attention in one place, other actors in the system want it in another. Any solution that doesn't suck will…
Bugs get fixed when systems are iterated on. They also tend to be single results from single mistakes, not compound end results of the implementation. Design features tend to persist. The phrase/idiom "the purpose of a…
This will be a hard argument to make. The decision makers who are the target audience for these metrics value "objective" data. They value the appearance of being quantitative, but lack the intellectual tools to…
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All of academic publishing has fallen victim to Goodhart's law. Our metrics for judging the quality of academic information are also the metrics for deciding the success of an academic's career. They are destined to be…
Do you think this comes from a gradual internalization of a real linguistic concept? Or it more a familiarity with common (if unspoken) conventions of the puzzle makers? I suspect the answer isn't binary, but it's…
More to the point, how to German dictionaries handle this? Is there a distinction between words that get enumerated and compound nouns that do not? It does seem, though, that German speakers might be more comfortable…
This is a great comparison. We're arguing about the definition of "word", and attempting to expand it to include edge cases where two words with separate meanings have a different atomic meaning when combined. We could…
The difference between phrases and "words with spaces" is addressed. The confusion might be that this seems to be a spectrum rather than a binary phenomon. We have single words at one extreme, ordinary sentences at the…
A dictionary is an enumeration of words. A thesaurus is a mapping between existing words. Every word in a thesaurus belongs in a dictionary.
We have the word slush to mean a mixture of ice and water. A single word for boiling water would occupy a similar conceptual space. While these are not separate states of matter, they ARE special thermodynamic systems,…
This. The world is becoming increasingly more uncertain geopolitically. We have incipient (and actual) wars coming, and near term potential for societal disruption from technological unemployment. Meanwhile social media…
This is the real point that needs to be made. You can argue that many parents are less than ideal parents, but that is not sufficient to justify having the state step in. You also have to show that the state is less…
I was almost certainly never going to be a parent for other unrelated reasons, but you have just given me a whole other list of confirmations for that decision that I hadn't thought of before. Thank you for that.
The purpose of a system is what it does. Undermining data protection and privacy is clearly the point. The fact that it's happening everywhere at the same time makes it look to me like a bunch of leaders got together…
Likely it wouldn't get written at all. The most useful aspect of layered approval processes is people treat them like outright bans and don't blog at all unless it's part of the job description.
It was more fragile 20 years ago than it is today. It was more robust 5 years ago than it is today. Or at least that's been my impression. I can't back that up with hard data.