Chris Beavers
@cbeav
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it's not true AGI if it's not from AGI, France
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I have three kids and 7pm is peak party time. Why on earth did I start a mini app with this usage pattern? (Time bug for people sharing MiniWord times has been fixed)
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got these childproof doorknobs. work great. also adultproof
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You can now click the profiles in MiniWord leaderboard. Do puzzles, get famous, live the dream
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I made MiniWord because I have a 1,674 day streak on the NYT crossword app and no one but my wife gets daily updates. Enjoy every brag, folks
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A small look inside the MiniWord sausage factory. This whole thing started as an experiment to learn about crossword construction, and has slowly become more about leveraging LLMs to build tools to improve the process now that I find myself needing to crank one out daily. LLMs are not great at multidimensional reasoning and zero-shotting a perfect grid. But they're really good at pretending to be an editor, and better than me at least at salting clues to taste for difficulty. Haven't started using the feature here to beef up the challenge on the MiniWord, but we've got some interesting options with something like this. Tempted to drop a difficulty setting in MiniWord (say: Easy, Challenging, Expert) and have corresponding leaderboards. If you're solving the MiniWord daily, let me know your thoughts. For now it's fun to see the apples-to-apples comparison of who can do it the fastest. But it's clear there's some of you out there that want a challenge, and that's one click away on my side
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@hurls can I have some warps?
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I solved today's MiniWord in 10:42 (#33 on the leaderboard) Can you beat me?
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Going to invent some silly badge system in MiniWord just to reward the champions of you out there that solved today during the 15 minutes where 1 across was prominently broken @deodad @keccers.eth @loudsqueak @links don’t think your heroism went unnoticed
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I solved today's MiniWord in 1:02 (#5 on the leaderboard). I'm on a 5 day streak 🔥 Can you beat me?
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Some MiniWord updates. Daily notifications is the next big item on the list, but hit me up with any other requests or feedback. Or to submit a puzzle of course
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Kids are basically horcuxes Idk if this is canon or not but: shard of your soul that requires an extreme sacrifice to create. Difference is the intent going in and the process the remaining soul undergoes Amor matris trumping egoism at the end of HP strikes me as less cheesy as a parent
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I solved today's MiniWord in 0:30! (New puzzles drop nightly at 7 CT)
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I solved today's MiniWord in 0:11!
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first NYT Sunday I’ve truly enjoyed in five years
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nothing amasses tech debt quite as fast as trying to use AI monomaniacally to squash a bug that you yourself are too lazy to try to understand
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about to go down the rabbit hole of citrus grafting
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can’t say i recommend tossing a blue crayon in the dryer
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the value-add of AI for me personally has been accelerating the issue -> stack overflow -> improvement flow. that’s always been a good chunk of the job and you can do it easily 10x faster now
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seasons, ranked: 1. spring. basic but highkey goated 2. winter. skiing, hygge 3. summer. cold water, good times 4. fall. starbucks murdered this one
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