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.…
This only remains true so long as open weight models lack significant utility. Access to compilers was almost as controlled as access to LLMs to prior to the GNU toolchain and Linux putting a C compiler and unix (ish)…
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…
It's a great question, and is tough to answer intuitively without speaking a native language that actually has such a word. I would agree that "boiling milk" and "boiling oil" are very unlikely to get separate words,…
I am with you on the literal definition there. I wonder if the connotative association is exactly what we are trying to capture here though, and if those other phrases also fit in at the "separate words but slightly…
I tend to agree. The definitions overlap perfectly. At the same time, I am having intuitive issues seeing "hot dog" as an idiom, vs just an ordinary noun. It certainly seems to follow noun rules, and fit into speech as…
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…
I wonder if the term "published" as a binary distinction applied to a piece of writing is a term and concept that is reaching the end of its useful life. "Peer reviewed" as a binary concept might be as well, given that…
"Steam" is very definitely the gas phase of water. Water vapor is too. If we are talking about chemistry they are essentially synonyms. If we are talking engineering, the term steam generally implies water vapor that is…
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…
There seems to be a lot of overlap between this compound word concept and idioms. Both are largely atomic, defy analysis via individual word definition, and fairly language (and culture or dialect) specific.…
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 single word for boiling water would be like the single word "slush" we have for ice in water. It likely could apply to other liquids in the same mixed state, but would be assumed to refer to water (or solutions or…
A dictionary is an enumeration of words. A thesaurus is a mapping between existing words. Every word in a thesaurus belongs in a dictionary.
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.…
This only remains true so long as open weight models lack significant utility. Access to compilers was almost as controlled as access to LLMs to prior to the GNU toolchain and Linux putting a C compiler and unix (ish)…
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…
It's a great question, and is tough to answer intuitively without speaking a native language that actually has such a word. I would agree that "boiling milk" and "boiling oil" are very unlikely to get separate words,…
I am with you on the literal definition there. I wonder if the connotative association is exactly what we are trying to capture here though, and if those other phrases also fit in at the "separate words but slightly…
I tend to agree. The definitions overlap perfectly. At the same time, I am having intuitive issues seeing "hot dog" as an idiom, vs just an ordinary noun. It certainly seems to follow noun rules, and fit into speech as…
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…
I wonder if the term "published" as a binary distinction applied to a piece of writing is a term and concept that is reaching the end of its useful life. "Peer reviewed" as a binary concept might be as well, given that…
"Steam" is very definitely the gas phase of water. Water vapor is too. If we are talking about chemistry they are essentially synonyms. If we are talking engineering, the term steam generally implies water vapor that is…
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…
There seems to be a lot of overlap between this compound word concept and idioms. Both are largely atomic, defy analysis via individual word definition, and fairly language (and culture or dialect) specific.…
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 single word for boiling water would be like the single word "slush" we have for ice in water. It likely could apply to other liquids in the same mixed state, but would be assumed to refer to water (or solutions or…
A dictionary is an enumeration of words. A thesaurus is a mapping between existing words. Every word in a thesaurus belongs in a dictionary.