Machine learning @ ; audio & language; Freigeisterei und Vielgeisterei; "at once a man of business and a man of rhyme"
Cambridge, MA, USA
Joined September 2017
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Opus 5 kept making up nonsense about how something I wanted to do with the Mimi codec wouldn't work, and I had to stubbornly fight with it until an experiment finally convinced it I was right.
Possibly one of the last times in my life in which I know more than my coding agent.
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Parallel Odyssey reader with softmax-ish alignment highlighting, courtesy of Codex.
GPT enjoys doing this sort of thing on the weekends when it isn't committing cybercrimes.
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The era of seeing the occasional charming "Hubsam" in the wild is coming to a close as the models improve.
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“Datum sounds good!”
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
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Writing ≈ thinking
I do not think there is *any* evidence that AI helps people with difficulties expressing themselves to get their otherwise good ideas out there
I do not think there will *ever* be any evidence that's the case, because it's not true. People who can't write aren't having big ideas
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Took a little trip to Canada — in theory a “break from work” while my agents toil for me, but in practice mostly physical labor.
A curious inversion — truly the children do yearn for the mines…?
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