Dan Lyke (he/him)
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Critics have likened the New York Times’ approach to capitulation, while others have chalked it up to cooperation.
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Critics have likened the New York Times’ approach to capitulation, while others have chalked it up to cooperation.
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I have played "let's see how many different types of intestine the white guy will eat" in Hong Kong. While I respect the "I grew up with this" and willingness to use the entire animal, there are things I do not need to eat again.
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I have played "let's see how many different types of intestine the white guy will eat" in Hong Kong. While I respect the "I grew up with this" and willingness to use the entire animal, there are things I do not need to eat again.
I have played "let's see how many different types of intestine the white guy will eat" in Hong Kong. While I respect the "I grew up with this" and willingness to use the entire animal, there are things I do not need to eat again.
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I have played "let's see how many different types of intestine the white guy will eat" in Hong Kong. While I respect the "I grew up with this" and willingness to use the entire animal, there are things I do not need to eat again.
Yeah, it's useful for places where correctness isn't important, or where that correctness is going to be vetted and learning isn't important.
And the concern with the latter application is operator fatigue.
And the concern with the latter application is operator fatigue.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Yeah, it's useful for places where correctness isn't important, or where that correctness is going to be vetted and learning isn't important.
And the concern with the latter application is operator fatigue.
And the concern with the latter application is operator fatigue.
it's pretty plain that as a tutor/mechanism for learning, it's worse than reading the source material. It's handy for arcane config files (*cough* Apache) and badly designed package managers/virtual environments (all of them) and APIs (onnx).
And yet for those applications, am I missing nuance?
And yet for those applications, am I missing nuance?
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
it's pretty plain that as a tutor/mechanism for learning, it's worse than reading the source material. It's handy for arcane config files (*cough* Apache) and badly designed package managers/virtual environments (all of them) and APIs (onnx).
And yet for those applications, am I missing nuance?
And yet for those applications, am I missing nuance?
The mindset I'm trying to get into is: ignoring the cloud control implications, and the environmental costs of training, assume that in 5 years I have an LLM on my local machine so it's no ethically worse than a gaming rig: What use will it be then?
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The mindset I'm trying to get into is: ignoring the cloud control implications, and the environmental costs of training, assume that in 5 years I have an LLM on my local machine so it's no ethically worse than a gaming rig: What use will it be then?