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jxramos commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl

alright2565 · a month ago

Deflation is an economic disaster. The Great Depression, for example, was related to deflation.

jxramos · a month ago

I don’t know one way or another but what specifically are the pain points of deflation and how do those compare to the never ending inflation? I’ve lived under inflation all my life, it’s a slow creeping nearly sub threshold insidious process that erodes the value of money. Buy what is life like under deflation, is there pain but ultimate correction to a sane state? It feels like there is no correction to inflation.

jxramos commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl

jxramos · a month ago

What would it take to shift the balance of inflation to restore the purchasing power of the penny? Just out of curiosity how does a government and a people and their economy go the other direction?

jxramos commented on Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

Aflynn50 · 3 months ago

When I see how much the latest models are capable of it makes me feel depressed.

As well as potentially ruining my career in the next few years, its turning all the minutiae and specifics of writing clean code, that I've worked hard to learn over the past years, into irrelivent details. All the specifics I thought were so important are just implementation details of the prompt.

Maybe I've got a fairly backwards view of it, but I don't like the feeling that all that time and learning has gone to waste, and that my skillset of automating things is becoming itself more and more automated.

jxramos · 3 months ago

characterize it in terms of truth, clarity of truth, simplicity, and correctness. I think we should always evaluate things along those dimensions. Is it true, does it produce truthful things. It makes the evaluation very objective.

jxramos commented on Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

hsn915 · 3 months ago

It is time to acknowledge that AI coding does not actually work.

ok, you think it's a promising field and you want to explore it, fine. Go for it.

Just stop pretending that what these models are currently doing is good enough to replace programmers.

I use LLMs a lot, even for explaining documentation.

I used to use them for writing _some_ code, but I have never ever gotten a code sample over 10 lines that was not in need of heavy modifications to make it work correctly.

Some people are pretending to write hundreds of lines of code with LLMs, even entire applications. All I have to say is "lol".

jxramos · 3 months ago

every attempt I've attempted thus far has failed at first run, but it was close to a solution that could be adapted and fixed. This has been especially helpful in areas where I'm charting very unfamiliar territory for very narrow scoped problems.

But hearing your 10 line constraint gives me a very https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem vibe to the challenge.

jxramos commented on Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown huggingface.co/nanonets/N... · Posted by u/PixelPanda

mgr86 · 6 months ago

Understandable. I work in academic publishing, and while the XML is everywhere crowd is graying, retiring, or even dying :( it still remains an excellent option for document markup. Additionally, a lot of government data produced in the US and EU make heavy use of XML technologies. I imagine they could be an interested consumer of Nanonets-OCR. TEI could be a good choice as well tested and developed conversions exist to other popular, less structured, formats.

jxramos · 6 months ago

maybe even epub, which is xhtml

jxramos commented on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it philmckinney.substack.com... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

jxramos · 6 months ago

> On July 1, 2011, HP launched the TouchPad tablet running WebOS 3.0. > While Apple was selling 9 million iPads that same quarter, TouchPads were gathering dust on store shelves.

Ipad's first release was 4/2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_(1st_generation), we're talking a year later to enter the tablet market. Would folks agree that's still a pretty fresh market to enter into? What exactly differentiated PDAs from tablets?

jxramos commented on Deep Learning Is Applied Topology theahura.substack.com/p/d... · Posted by u/theahura

Graviscalar · 7 months ago

I was one of the people that was super excited after reading the Chris Olah blogpost from 2014, and over the past decade I've seen the insight go exactly nowhere. It's neat but it hasn't driven any interesting results, though Ayasdi did some interesting stuff with TDA and Gunnar Carlson has been playing around with neural nets recently.

jxramos · 7 months ago

Ayasdi immediately came to mind too seeing this post. I haven't thought of them in a long time, looks like they got bought out in 2019, prepandemic too which was probably best since mid pandemic had a lot of poor valuations

https://www.symphonyai.com/news/financial-services/ayasdi-jo...

jxramos commented on An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip theaiunderwriter.substack... · Posted by u/participant3

District5524 · 9 months ago

I asked Sora to turn a random image of my friend and myself into Italian plumbers. Nothing more, just the two words "Italian plumbers". The created picture was not shown to me because it was in violation of OpenAI's content policy. I asked then just to turn the guys on the picture into plumbers, but I asked this in the Italian language. Without me asking for it, Sora put me in an overall and gave me a baseball cap, and my friend another baseball cap. If I asked Sora to put mustache on us, one of us received a red shirt as well, without being asked to. Starting with the same pic, if I asked to put one letter on the baseball caps each - guess, the letters chosen were M and L. These extra guardrails are not really useful with such a strong, built-in bias towards copyright infringement of these image creation tools. Should it mean that with time, Dutch pictures will have to include tulips, Italian plumbers will have to have a uniform with baseball caps with L and M, etc. just not to confuse AI tools?

jxramos · 9 months ago

lol, this interaction may possibly become known as "grooming the AI"

jxramos commented on German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph abstimmung.eu/git/2024... · Posted by u/mxschll

amai · 9 months ago

These wordings are basically a manual description of a diff. They wouldn't be necessary if version control would be used for laws.

I actually think version control is an absolute necessity for laws.

jxramos · 9 months ago

I can imagine these "relative text patches" could just commit as is written but could be committed with a corresponding metadata and referential locations array backed by some kind of encoding that lands in the same commit. That would unlock a visualization tool that could render a strikeout for the earlier precedent legal text or something like that in whatever way the modification applies.

jxramos commented on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users theverge.com/news/629620/... · Posted by u/01-_-

MBCook · 9 months ago

Yep. They’re never going away.

Blue = iMessage Green = Other

It doesn’t matter if both support 100% identical feature sets, it’s gonna stay like that.

jxramos · 9 months ago

it does leave the door open for pointing the finger for who's at fault when text groups with OS blends get all scrambled https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255769788?answerId=2607...