@jeremyphoward Just have to break down the task I think. Let's do X. Now let's do Y
If you tell them to goal upfront then yeah they want to galaxy-brain everything
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Firas D
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Firas D
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Dabbler Extraordinaire | Web dev consultant | Connect on DM or https://t.co/5B6ch6YKkl
Delhi, India Katılım Mayıs 2007
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Opus & Sonnet 4.6 haven't been a great hit for most of my work, or our customers, since (as warned in their tech report) they're over-enthusiastic about agentically taking over, rather than letting the human lead.
Any suggestions for competent models that are patient followers?
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@nickcammarata As the gap between pre-training period vs release date increases in duration, it really makes the paranoid behavior LLMs have about denying the present quite strange #dullness-and-disbelief" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/firasd/vibesbe…
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Great match cut in Planet of the Bass final chorus… she gyrates (this hip movement is rare in US media outside of eg Shakira or Nicole Scherzinger), it cuts to him doing the same move instead of his finger pointing poses, back to her in the outfit she wore in the viral TikTok
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@nealjclark1 But the existence of these options was what allowed a lot of people to be in the city
Firas D@firasd
@RikAdamski I was thinking about how the Sherlock Holmes living situation (landlady rents out rooms to separate people on her upstairs floor) is basically illegal in the US
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If you read a lot of noir books and stuff from the 40’s/50’s it’s pretty clear that a lot of people lived in motels. Not just criminals but nurses etc. I’ve never known anyone to live in a motel. I don’t think the abundant American world was real. Life has always been dangerous.
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@max_spero_ @aakashgupta @pangramlabs With this guy it’s almost like caveat emptor right. We know he’s pasted / searched a bunch of tweets & links and had the LLM write a breathless summary. It’s obvious nobody personally writes at this speed
But it’s what the audience wants to read
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Unfortunately some big slop accounts like @aakashgupta have blocked me and @pangramlabs. There's no good way for us to respond and tell you that we saw it, it's AI, since we're blocked and can't reply. Any suggestions on what to do in cases like this?
Ryan Moulton@moultano
@aakashgupta @pangramlabs Not sure why it never got back to me. @max_spero_ it left me hanging.
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@durgaddiction Yeah I feel the same way. It’s hard to really get offended cause the online anti-Indian bigotry is such low-status behavior—like I’m now supposed to be mad at a guy with the IQ of an amoeba? Does not compute
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Anti Indian racism is mostly annoying like nobody has really stopped me from getting a job or housing, but people do just go "you're Indian" whenever you say something slightly argumentative
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@theWEniverseis1 @pnwprincess23 Make sense to me. If you showed me a clip of Winona Ryder in a movie I’d recognize her more precisely from her voice (just her cadence) than her face.
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@pnwprincess23 Just to clarify, you didn't know what he looked like but you knew his repertoire deep enough to recognize the style of his flautism? I don't understand how that happens lol how did that occur
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lore drop: i once told a guy at a farmer’s market his flute playing was very andre 3000–esque
he said “that’s good, i am andre 3000”
we chatted for a bit, then he drifted off playing the flute. no one else around knew who he was
compliment people, you never know where it may lead
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You know that “wha—” type gesture where you just rotate the palm of your hand like “huh”
It’s become such a reflex for me that it’s autonomous rather than communication lol. Nobody needs to be around—a door is locked and I’m the stairwell? I just do it like furrowing a brow
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@curtis_yarvin India is inevitable. After all, despite all your 'writings', more Americans know who Priyanka Chopra is than know of your existence
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@deepdwellerr @its_hipolita I don't think Meville was saying they ARE lovers BUT he was definitely saying they are LIKE lovers. He keeps doing that in the book x.com/firasd/status/…
Firas D@firasd
@its_hipolita Yeah the metaphorical parallels are too detailed for it to be a coincidence lol. Melville knew what he was doing (ie inserting sex jokes lol)
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@its_hipolita hey i’m with you but if you read Ishmael and Queequeg’s sharing of a bed as homoerotic that’s a reflection on what you read into the text, not something that actually is innately in the text. straight people dont struggle to engage in non-sexual same sex intimacy the sane way..
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The whole "dead white men classics" shit from booktok people is absurd because I read Moby Dick and one of the first things Ishmael does is get into a tensely homoerotic two-men-one-bed situation with Queequeg and even goes "it's like I'm his wife... jk haha... unless?"
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@its_hipolita Yeah the metaphorical parallels are too detailed for it to be a coincidence lol. Melville knew what he was doing (ie inserting sex jokes lol)
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Gatsby has long been taught as a potentially Jewish character. In the book the narrator sees him meeting with Jewish mobsters. It is, in fact, his potential Jewishness that explains both why Daisy will not marry him and why white supremacist eugenics makes an appearance in the book at the dinner party as a verbal assault against him. But the right doesn't take literature classes, so.
David Frum@davidfrum
Gatsby just got dropped from the reading list at a lot of expensive colleges
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@hellosami The way the Titanic broke up and how the pieces tilted is interesting from a design perspective if we think about it. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tita…
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@gauravsabnis ‘Actual’ Vegetables are quite expensive. Bhindi is 100rs/kg.. cauliflower is 30rs a piece..
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Even in this Brazilian "por quilo" restaurant, there were more actual vegetables of multiple varieties than in a vegetarian Indian buffet lol which is mostly starches. And public was loading up on veggies along with the steak & seafood.
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@83Hypocrite @Fintech03 Come on man. My original statement is indisputable. (1) The ancient Greeks thought of numbers like shapes (2) their mathematics was based on geometry (eg for them 2/3 was like cutting a line of length 2 into 3 pieces). Anything else you’re going on about is unrelated to my claims
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@firasd @Fintech03 Really? How about you tell me your preferred research books that seem to have all the right answers? The Greeks created the foundation of mathematics and allowed it to be an independent object of study unlike what came before. Indian math during Ancient Greek times was practical
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Beautiful post, let me add a little further. To the Greeks & later the Renaissance Europeans, a number was a length.
They believed, you can draw a line that is 5" long. You cannot draw a line that is -5" long. To a European mathematician like Francis Maseres (as late as 1758), negative numbers darken the very whole doctrines of eqns.
He argued that if you have 0 apples, you cannot take away 1. To him, the Indian concept of debt was a linguistic trick, not a mathematical reality. Also, When our numerals system reached Europe, the concept of a negative asset was so threatening to the Church's worldview (which associated nothingness/less than nothing with the Devil) that the City of Florence actually banned our numerals in 1299.
Indian mathematicians like Brahmagupta (7th Century) were the 1st to treat numbers as abstract entities rather than things you can touch. They decoupled math from the physical world 1000 yrs before the West did.
Sahana Singh@singhsahana
Why did the Arabs and later the Christians reject negative numbers when the concepts arrived from India? For the Indians who were comfortable with abstract entities, zero and negative numbers did not cause much difficulty. In fact, negative numbers were even used in accounting by the baniya community. For the Arabs, math was more in the realm of geometry; so areas and lengths could only be seen as positive quantities. The original reel was posted by Instagram handle samyuspeaks at instagram.com/reel/DV9CrXVDm…
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@83Hypocrite @Fintech03 Your ‘books’ were poorly researched if they didn’t tell you that Ancient Greek mathematics was based on geometry. Have you heard of Pythagoras?
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@firasd @Fintech03 I have read more books about the history of development of mathematics and I can tell u you’re full of shit.When the Greeks were still active in maths they established as object of study, Indian maths was still ritualistic and practical up until 400-700 AD after Greeks declined
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@83Hypocrite @Fintech03 lol why be so aggressive when you are ignorant. Read Euthyphro and see how Socrates describes even and odd numbers
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@firasd @Fintech03 No, that’s a misinterpretation of what the Greeks thought about numbers, you dipshit. They saw numbers as the intelligible forms of things beyond being mere objects for counting.
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