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doph commented on Claude finds contradictions in my thinking angadh.com/contradictions... · Posted by u/speckx

chrisweekly · a month ago

After reading this article ^1 about another writer's extreme disillusionment with using AI for feedback, I don't know if I'll ever trust it for this kind of thing.

[1] https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina

doph · a month ago

The article you link is a very specific type of failure that apparently did not happen in this instance, where Claude was able to access the author's writing. And the author apparently found the insights useful, though the lack of analysis from the author on that value makes this article basically meaningless for an outsider.

I am apparently a different type of person than the author because my obsidian vaults look nothing like theirs, but I can't imagine asking an LLM for a meta-analysis of my writing. The whole point of organizing it with Obsidian is that I do that analysis myself - it is part and parcel of the organization itself.

doph commented on How to Firefox kau.sh/blog/how-to-firefo... · Posted by u/Vinnl

moffkalast · a month ago

What I've found recently is that Linux is surprisingly Firefox's achilles' heel. Canvas and WebGL run easily an order of magnitude slower than Chromium.

Check with https://webglsamples.org if you don't believe it. All of it runs capped at 60 fps on Chrome for me, Firefox struggles to break 30 on mid tier settings in aquarium and stutters horribly throughout most of them. I'm sure it's fast at loading static sites, but I wouldn't ever use it to run any web app. On Windows they're both the same though, which is weird to me.

doph · a month ago

I didn't believe it and after trying those samples, I still don't. All of them run flawlessly for me on FF 104.0.4 on an up-to-date Arch install on my laptop.

doph commented on Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds cnn.com/2025/06/24/health... · Posted by u/gortok

neves · 2 months ago

How microwaving can decrease the amount of microplastics? Any link for an explanation?

doph · 2 months ago

Microwaving causes individual particles to join into a delicious plastic-cheese emulsion, making them undetectable.

doph commented on If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) joshworth.com/dev/pixelsp... · Posted by u/sdoering

seanw444 · 3 months ago

If the light behind you redshifts out of the visible spectrum, would the light in front of you blueshift into dangerous territory? X-rays, gamma rays, etc?

doph · 3 months ago

Yes, and this provides a nice intuition about the relation of wavelength to energy. But x and γ wavelengths are several oom shorter than visible light, so you'd have to be traveling at very close to c to experience that amount of Doppler shift.

doph commented on Ocean Tides and the Earth's Rotation (2001) core2.gsfc.nasa.gov/ggfc/... · Posted by u/susam

PopAlongKid · 4 months ago

>Currently the secular change in the rotation rate increases the length of day by some 2.3 milliseconds per day per century. [emphasis added]

>suppose the rotating earth is our clock and it's been 100 years [...] Then after 1000 days our earth clock loses about 2.3 seconds,

I think the math here is very wrong, or else I haven't had enough coffee yet.

doph · 4 months ago

>it's been about 100 years so now each day is 2.3 milliseconds longer

>after 1000 days 1000 * 2.3 milliseconds = 2.3 seconds

I don't think the example helps at all to explain the concept, but I think the math is right

doph commented on Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/LorenDB

neom · 7 months ago

Why? My wife has a ChatGPT $20/mth account, rarely uses now the novelty has warn off (I asked she said twice this month), the only reason she keeps paying for it is to retain the chat history. That's a tiny very rarely used docker container on a server somewhere. Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong, but I would just run this the same way we ran digitalocean, all the $5/mth accounts with no activity sit on a box configured for that, once it starts to do stuff it moves to a box with less VMs on it, etc, this is how subscription levels in cloud work, sure it cost us $100MM to get there, but now it just prints cash. If OpenAI decided to stop training models and focused on unit economics, I don't see how they couldn't get it to profitability quite quickly, even with all the competition.

doph · 7 months ago

I just stopped paying for Plus and my history seems to be retained on the free tier.

doph commented on Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art newyorker.com/culture/the... · Posted by u/eludwig

tkgally · a year ago

For an essay that hinges on the notion that “art requires making choices,” I wish the author had chosen to delve a bit more into the question of what choosing is. Do humans really make choices? If so, how free are those choices? Is there something about human choice that will never be convincingly imitated by computer? If so, what is it, and how do you know it cannot be imitated?

doph · a year ago

Exactly my thoughts. I think people who make arguments like Chiang's are unwilling to examine our own decision making process, and in particular are unwilling to entertain the idea that it is as mechanistic as an artificial neutral network.

doph commented on Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art newyorker.com/culture/the... · Posted by u/eludwig

swayvil · a year ago

We should ask an artist if it's art. The testimony of an expert firsthand witness is vastly superior to interpretation of a secondhand abstraction by inexpert persons.

doph · a year ago

I'd argue that an LLM has a fuller understanding of what we mean when we say "art" than most individual users of the term (Chiang's definition sounds more like the one for "craft" to me). Indeed, asking ChatGPT about the difference between art and craft gives me a more nuanced contemplation on the subject than I found in the article. Maybe these models are closer to the experts than we are willing to give them credit for? At the vet least, they are the best mirror we've ever invented.

doph commented on Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art newyorker.com/culture/the... · Posted by u/eludwig

kubectl_h · a year ago

> Its initial argument, that AI tools don't produce art because they offer meaningfully fewer knobs and dials to creators than a camera

Chiang is not saying this at all. I'm not sure how you interpreted it this way.

doph · a year ago

I found Chiang's argument a little incoherent, but I think he _is_ essentially saying this. "Knobs and dials" are the opportunity to make all the little decisions that Chiang's definition of art requires. He says explicitly that someone who has developed "hacks" for an image generator has engaged in the artistic process. I think he uses the term "hacks" to mean that the artist found additional, unexposed controls (aka knobs and dials) over the model.

doph commented on Gimel Studio: Non-destructive, 2D image editor gimelstudio.github.io/... · Posted by u/lastdong

dylan604 · 3 years ago

Sounds to me a lot like people that have a narrow and shallow level of experience in the field they are diving into, so they keep bumping into the walls.

Dev: I had this great idea of making this new thing because I haven't seen it before

Everyone Else: Yeah, it looks like this or this or even that. Have you looked at what other people have done and the pain points they solve or cause?

Dev: Nah, this is a totally different idea that nobody's done before.

Everyone Else: Oh, okay, you do you then

*I've been that dev (more than once)

doph · 3 years ago

As a graphics professional who loves node-based workflows, I find the constant re-invention of the wheel pretty painful. With some coordination of this effort, Blender or Natron could be real open-source challengers to Nuke, but starting from scratch seems always to be more enticing.

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