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research_pie commented on How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method   yacinemahdid.com/p/how-to... · Posted by u/research_pie
research_pie · 4 months ago
hey everyone author here, I'm really glad to see all the different life structures people have adopted.

not all strategies work for all brains unfortunately.

but the essence is this:

- untangle yourself from the claws of others' expectations

- imagine vividly someone you would feel proud to merge with in the near future

- distill that image into your very own crooked and muddy golden path

- act now and take control of your life

- periodically look back at the image you hold and course correct where your heart guides you

research_pie commented on How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method   yacinemahdid.com/p/how-to... · Posted by u/research_pie
Terr_ · 4 months ago
Sometimes there's some sort of JS/CSS rendering trick that has broken on the page. However in this case words like "I'll" still contain their capital.

In this context (not an immediate interactive chat) I find these issues awkward and disrespectful to the reader, the same as if the piece was filled with typos.

When the author treats a post as worthless throwaway text which isn't worth fixing even when they have plenty of opportunity... Why would that be worth the time of a stranger to read?

research_pie · 4 months ago
honestly the worst is when it’s all lowercase AND there are lots of typos.
research_pie commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
gdubs · 4 months ago
AI has been improving at a very rapid pace, which means that a lot of people have really outdated priors. I see this all the time online where people are dismissive about AI in a way that suggests it's been a while since they last checked-in on the capabilities of models. They wrote off the coding ability of ChatGPT on version 3.5, for instance, and have missed all the advancements that have happened since. Or they talk about hallucination and haven't tried Deep Research as an alternative to traditional web-search.

Then there's a tendency to be so 'anti' that there's an assumption that anyone reporting that the tools are accomplishing truly impressive and useful things must be an 'AI booster' or shill. Or they assume that person must not have been a very good engineer in the first place, etc.

Really is one of those examples of the quote, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few."

It's a rapidly evolving field, and unless you actually spend some time kicking the tires on the models every so often, you're just basing your opinions on outdated experiences or what everyone else is saying about it.

research_pie · 4 months ago
I think one of the issue is also the sheer amount of shilling going on like crypto level

I got a modest tech following and you wouldn’t believe the amount I’m offered to promote the most garbage AI company

u/research_pie

KarmaCake day120December 22, 2019View Original