The correct take: - “stochastic parrot” is a top notch turn of phrase that does accurately convey something about what LLMs do - stochastic parrots can be smarter than most of the people who like that phrase think - but not as smart as the people who don’t like that phrase think

#theRightAttitude

This really hits close to home for me. My whole career in tech was one big unsuccessful struggle to try to explain the distinction between these various modes of operation, and why you will fail miserably if you try to impose a single mindset for all of them.

At some point in their career, devs forget they're "engineers" and start role-playing "Frontend Engineer", "Backend Engineer", etc. This is all programming. You can do this all. Doesn't mean you have to master it all. Be good at many things. Be an expert in a few.

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Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. Your entire life will change the moment you stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Always get your dopamine from action.

Very true

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard

this is the highest leverage meditation insight i’ve learned: pick any unpleasant feeling. how much does it hurt out of 10? 7? compared to breaking a leg? probably more like a 2 if we’re being honest. so if you learn to separate the raw sensation from the *narrative we tell

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Minor life lesson: have your email templates be a degraded version of your actual email. In case you forget to update the name, it still does not feel as offensive as "Dear [NAME]" :)

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Claude Code transforms you in the meta-programmer of Symonyi.

Shame on you Duolingo: learning German and I came across the sentence "Yes I like Harry Potter but the author is mean". How woke do you have to be to let #trans ideology infect a language lesson? J.K. Rowling

I cannot help but feel we're hitting peak AI hype, when investors are willingly being take for a ride: A mattress company raising funding to use AI to "fix sleep" A startup to add AI inside jewelry Two examples that both sound ridiculous but raised funding. Not my money...

Jash Dholani The corpus of knowledge drastically increased in volume. "Proficiency" in any of these fields today would require a lifelong career, likely within the framework of established institutions (except for math, maybe?).

You’re literally just talking to a Redditor