The deeper question is why we register it as bad. It has the "same voice" you say. But that is also, kind of, the same as saying that there is no humanity behind it, no identity, no "mind". For lexical articles, like…
> we readers shouldn’t be expected to labor to understand a sentence that the writer themselves didn’t work to create. What about answers that an LLM gave to a question that we ourselves asked? Should we “labor” to…
I got a slight flashback to Blue Max, just because of the graphics.
It is possible though, to unify those things, and to see those other effects also as second or third order effects of the same underlying deficiencies that cause problems in social interaction. I believe, for instance,…
I’m sure it does. If you ask a question, it forces you to think the problem through, which has a similar effect as the kind of therapeutic writing that is mentioned in this article.
I think you're right. I'm on the opposite side of it, but I have a colleague who routinely writes functions that are hundreds of lines long, with 30-40 local variables inside each function. I've come to realize that he…
> Knowing At a high level what needed to happen to accomplish what the code did, I know for a fact it could have and should have been broken down more. However, because of the complexity of what he wrote, no one had the…
Kalman filtering is what's used in GPS navigation apps, is it not, to smooth out imperfections in the raw GPS signal?
> If you could always do it over, an infinite redo so to say, nothing would matter. Every choice and outcome would become insignificant, because you could just redo it until it was just right. The movie Groundhog Day…
Or: (e) because it’s subjective.
I'm just arguing that there has been no qualitative shift. The skills you need to produce pop music today are different than the skills that you needed before. Now you need to be able to operate a MIDI sequencer or a…
Music was never an issue of skill. You might have needed skill in order to get to the point where you could use your judgement, but skill was never the deciding factor. So, I don't agree with Brian Eno's point that…
So this is WYSINWYG.
It seems to have merit as a subdivision scheme. The shapes look a bit wonky when projected onto a map, though, and it may not be as intuitive to reason about as the hexagons that would (mostly) result from subdividing…
Is it based upon repeated subdivision of an icosahedron?
I think it happens to a certain extent, if we do as the article says, and revisit our memories. We then probably reinterpret our memories in the context of our new and updated understanding of the world. In other cases…
We attach our early memories to our concept of the world as it was then. Afterwards, our concept of the world changes. As a result, those old memories sort of become dangling pointers. They refer to a world model that…
It comes down to the quality of the abstractions. If they are well made and well named, you'd rather read this: axios.get('https://api.example.com', { headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer token' }, params: { key: 'value'…
Because "things" are interconnected. There's not just one definition of Thing, whatever your thing might be. There's your perspective on Thing, and there's other peoples' perspective on Thing. So, whatever it is, Thing…
I imagine this could be sold to upscale hotels or concert arenas, for display on a big screen in a reception area or foyer.
The cosine function itself is symmetrical around the Y-axis. Supposedly, the main advantage of the DCT is that it's better at representing symmetrical features in data sets, which is a good fit for both image and audio…
Yes, I don't recall the game myself. But I recall Flashback. I had an Amiga at the time, but not a PC until a few years later. 1991 probably was about the time when the PC started to catch up to the Amiga in terms of…
Here's the answer that ChatGPT gives to this riddle; it thinks that it must be the 1991 game Metal Mutant by French developer Silmarils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOl_fBWIuac The video seems to match your…
I'm guessing it must be because of some kind of deal between Microsoft and Financial Times. If that's so then probably there are also similar deals with other publishers. Edit: ChatGPT seems to disagree with me:…
It’a still viewed as a peak intellectual game. And the magic is still there, just watch or listen to the fans of Magnus Carlsen when they’re viewing, discussing or analyzing his games.
The deeper question is why we register it as bad. It has the "same voice" you say. But that is also, kind of, the same as saying that there is no humanity behind it, no identity, no "mind". For lexical articles, like…
> we readers shouldn’t be expected to labor to understand a sentence that the writer themselves didn’t work to create. What about answers that an LLM gave to a question that we ourselves asked? Should we “labor” to…
I got a slight flashback to Blue Max, just because of the graphics.
It is possible though, to unify those things, and to see those other effects also as second or third order effects of the same underlying deficiencies that cause problems in social interaction. I believe, for instance,…
I’m sure it does. If you ask a question, it forces you to think the problem through, which has a similar effect as the kind of therapeutic writing that is mentioned in this article.
I think you're right. I'm on the opposite side of it, but I have a colleague who routinely writes functions that are hundreds of lines long, with 30-40 local variables inside each function. I've come to realize that he…
> Knowing At a high level what needed to happen to accomplish what the code did, I know for a fact it could have and should have been broken down more. However, because of the complexity of what he wrote, no one had the…
Kalman filtering is what's used in GPS navigation apps, is it not, to smooth out imperfections in the raw GPS signal?
> If you could always do it over, an infinite redo so to say, nothing would matter. Every choice and outcome would become insignificant, because you could just redo it until it was just right. The movie Groundhog Day…
Or: (e) because it’s subjective.
I'm just arguing that there has been no qualitative shift. The skills you need to produce pop music today are different than the skills that you needed before. Now you need to be able to operate a MIDI sequencer or a…
Music was never an issue of skill. You might have needed skill in order to get to the point where you could use your judgement, but skill was never the deciding factor. So, I don't agree with Brian Eno's point that…
So this is WYSINWYG.
It seems to have merit as a subdivision scheme. The shapes look a bit wonky when projected onto a map, though, and it may not be as intuitive to reason about as the hexagons that would (mostly) result from subdividing…
Is it based upon repeated subdivision of an icosahedron?
I think it happens to a certain extent, if we do as the article says, and revisit our memories. We then probably reinterpret our memories in the context of our new and updated understanding of the world. In other cases…
We attach our early memories to our concept of the world as it was then. Afterwards, our concept of the world changes. As a result, those old memories sort of become dangling pointers. They refer to a world model that…
It comes down to the quality of the abstractions. If they are well made and well named, you'd rather read this: axios.get('https://api.example.com', { headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer token' }, params: { key: 'value'…
Because "things" are interconnected. There's not just one definition of Thing, whatever your thing might be. There's your perspective on Thing, and there's other peoples' perspective on Thing. So, whatever it is, Thing…
I imagine this could be sold to upscale hotels or concert arenas, for display on a big screen in a reception area or foyer.
The cosine function itself is symmetrical around the Y-axis. Supposedly, the main advantage of the DCT is that it's better at representing symmetrical features in data sets, which is a good fit for both image and audio…
Yes, I don't recall the game myself. But I recall Flashback. I had an Amiga at the time, but not a PC until a few years later. 1991 probably was about the time when the PC started to catch up to the Amiga in terms of…
Here's the answer that ChatGPT gives to this riddle; it thinks that it must be the 1991 game Metal Mutant by French developer Silmarils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOl_fBWIuac The video seems to match your…
I'm guessing it must be because of some kind of deal between Microsoft and Financial Times. If that's so then probably there are also similar deals with other publishers. Edit: ChatGPT seems to disagree with me:…
It’a still viewed as a peak intellectual game. And the magic is still there, just watch or listen to the fans of Magnus Carlsen when they’re viewing, discussing or analyzing his games.