This is a nothing burger blog post that likely made it to the front page because it mentions "LLM" in the title. Worse yet, it's an ad actually.
You beat me to this comment, but you are absolutely correct.
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Of course, your opinion may be subject to selection bias (i.e., you are only judging the art that you became aware was AI generated).
Reminds me of the issue with bad CGI in movies. The only CGI you notice is the bad CGI, the good stuff just works. Same for AI generated art, you see the bad stuff but do not realize when you see a good one.
WesleyLivesay commented on The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
It’s expensive because people are willing to pay a lot for it.
Complaints about child care costs never end in “so I stopped paying them”.
No, but it might cause some people to say "so I am not having kids"
I completely disagree with the premise of the article that draws are most boring and the wider the score difference the more interesting the game is.
Frequently draws are very exciting, they can make compelling viewing. In a game that is completely dominated by one team, there can be very little of interest.
An alternative metric would be the degree of uncertainty/jeopardy in the game. So a game that ends 1-1 has a high degree of jeopardy because at any moment a team can score and take point from the other team.
Agreed, classifying all draws as boring is just wrong.
There are boring draws, some are excruciating to watch because so little is happening.
There are also draws that are the most stressful, exciting, and action packed games you will ever see.
The Warp terminal[1] is excellent for this type of thing. In agent mode, you just describe what you want to have happen and it generates the proper command(s) (that you can approve before running).
I use it a lot to convert videos and turn a folder of tiff files into pngs at 1/2 size, etc. It's great at generating FFMEG commands and chaining the right tools together.
I was going to mention Warp here as well. It is fantastic when it comes to almost anything in the terminal. It has caused me to use the terminal a lot more on all of my computers because I don't have to spend a bunch of time poking around on Google to find the command to run.
I have used it for ffmpeg and then a lot of other slightly more complex commands. A recent one from the other day was gathering up all of the .epub documents in a directory tree, renaming them to the name of the directory they were in, and then placing them all in one single directory. That would have been a whole project for me, and Warp gave me the command with just that description. Any LLM interface would have done the same, but Warp just let me hit "Enter" and run it, no need to copy and paste.
WesleyLivesay commented on What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022) troof.blog/posts/nootropi... · Posted by u/julianh65
I’ve been experimenting with making my last meal of the day as far from my sleep as possible ideally waking up at 5am, drinking water / vitamins, exercising by lifting my dumb bells in my studio apartment, eating a 1k calorie breakfast and 1k calorie lunch and done with eating by ~1-2 so I have 4-6 hours to digest before bed
Best sleep I’ve ever gotten.
You don’t know what you’re missing out on until you’ve experienced not good but GREAT sleep.
if that’s too extreme avoid too much water before bed if you’re getting up to pee you are ruining your sleep
On the flip side, I get absolutely garbage sleep if I don't eat within about 1-2 hours of going to sleep.
WesleyLivesay commented on Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate ilograph.com/blog/posts/d... · Posted by u/billyp-rva
Given the pace of development in this space, it is probably worth noting in the title that this is from November 2024 so the results might be a bit dated.
Because Nasa is renowned to be an efficient organisation which has in recent times made good decisions? The space shuttle springs to mind.
Many of those leaving Nasa today are probationary employees in their first years of employment. This isn't making up for past mistakes, it is hurting Nasa's future.
WesleyLivesay commented on US children fall further behind in reading cnn.com/2025/01/29/us/edu... · Posted by u/belter
I wonder if this is at least partially related to the move away from phonics over the last 20 years (which is now coming back): https://apnews.com/article/phonics-science-reading-c715dea43...
Looks like some states that re-emphasized phonics in a major way saw improvement, particularly in lower income brackets: https://apnews.com/article/reading-scores-phonics-mississipp...
If there are no upvotes, what dictates something being "Featured" on the homepage, the items of which are said to be the "Greatest"?