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Second half was a little weaker, but not bad. One thing it kinda hinted at that I’m a fan of are “eddies” in the hero’s journey - places which are stuck in some ignorant state because people don’t want to / structurally can’t return to. Like kindergarten for instance - full of ignorant buffoons. But when one of them leaves and learns something, they don’t come back to kindergarten to spread the wisdom - they don’t want to and the kids actually can’t usefully hear it anyway. So you just abandon them and let some poor teacher and life deal with them - I have no better suggestion! But there are aspects of all adult life that work this same way, and the movie kinda points at one of them.
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Just watched “the wild robot”. Dall-E + Iron Giant + Paddington + motherhood. I *loved* the first half, which is an excellent portrayal of a “helpful assistant” AI ending up in a totally out-of-distribution environment which forces it to undergo a kicking-and-screaming socialized -> self-authoring transition.
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I was with my wife on a college campus (unusual for us) and we overheard a student say “chat, is this real?” It caught my attention and I tried to explain who “chat” was to my wife (blessedly offline), and realized I’m not quite sure who chat is, lol. Sort of a referent to “we the group, but amongst a larger group”? The pronoun of choice for “we” in the context of a dark forest?
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a catchphrase is all you need
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At least for programmers, i think the traditional wisdom is captured by https://xkcd.com/974/ but the AI tools have flipped the table on that. Explore/exploit is a classic trade off, but the acceleration is so steep now that the value of explore has skyrocketed, but it takes at least a little exploit to survive and stay oriented. I yearn for a meta-assistant to help manage the outer-loop
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I have work I need to do *and* tools/workflows I want to learn and explore. My work is getting overwhelmed by the exploring. Is there an LLM agent that checks in every 15 mins to say "hows the <ticket> going?" Some kind of realtime coach I can dialogue with?
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I love cursor, not a fan of Lex. Would you recommend?
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I think the seal attacks are ambush rather than dogfight. speed >> maneuverability. But they do seem to break the surface at some odd angles, maybe I’m not giving them enough credit for how many DoF they use
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Seems like a shark has the physical hardware to roll and then pull a surprising maneuver in the pitch direction (just as surprising as a whale fluke suddenly providing yaw), but that pre-bone neural system just isn’t up for the task. And I guess dolphins do have 6DOF dogfights with each other, so I’m glad that somebody’s getting full use out of the ocean!
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I think it’s a little bit surprising that fish stay as upright as they do. Birds seem to corkscrew much more than fish or even octopi. In space sims, there’s a big delineation between 6DOF and arcade shooters like starfox, and it’s a little disappointing that fish don’t seem to have full 6DOF dogfights. They just need one “Fosbury flop” moment and they’ll be rolling before pulling at a 90 offset from where the predator expected. Seems like it’s mostly ambush predation and a little bit of capital ship warfare between whales,
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Twitter is full of port strike takes, but it’s not even happening on Warpcast or Bluesky. For all its faults, Twitter seems like it gets influenced by the “real world” far more than the other platforms.
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Snapshot testing has been the key thing for me. Just about the only manual code I write is fixtures so I can snapshot larger parts of the app with more semantic compression. https://selfie.dev/jvm
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1. ask LLM to summarize codebase into its implicit spec 2. ask LLM to generate codebase from the spec 3. version control the spec, treat the codebase as a compiled artifact Has anybody tried building anything this way?
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surf around gpt-4o-mini’s opinions of the JVM languages https://wordiverse.com/jvm-languages
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i made an “infinite craft” clone but it’s diffs instead of smushes https://wordiverse.com/thanks-neal
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GPT the blathering child, Claude the stutterer, and o1 the Straussian.
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Thesis: we all share one world full of meaning. Antithesis: there are infinite worlds and nothing means anything. Synthesis: R&M
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🤯 fwiw Bitwarden is ugly, open source, feature-complete, free for individuals including sync between mobile and desktop devices, supported by a workable business model for enterprises
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Had some fun brainstorming about how to bring disnelyand home https://thecontextwindow.ai/p/disneyland-on-vhs
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I put every US presidential debate in history into a git repo with perfect syncing to YouTube videos, and built a webapp so you can make permalinks to context-preserving snippets with nice previews. Seems like a good fit for Farcaster Frames, yeah? https://mytake.org/foundation/~cut:(4005.39990234375,4010.069091796875),fact:E74aoUY=91c1934a19e9ec52259a91d04ac2a0dfd9db2d0e,kind:videoCut
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