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yosito commented on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp   birdy.chat/blog/first-to-... · Posted by u/joooscha
rbbydotdev · 15 days ago
USA, which prides itself on freedoms, seems to have conceded a great deal of them when it comes to life online. From Apple apps, GPDR, now this. It sucks to see what we are missing out on.
yosito · 15 days ago
US "freedom" is more propaganda than reality, and that's becoming more and more apparent.
yosito commented on First impressions of Claude Cowork   simonw.substack.com/p/fir... · Posted by u/stosssik
spaceman_2020 · 25 days ago
I just used Claude Code to do something that would have taken my wife 3+ days

She has to go through about 100 resumes for a position at her college. Each resume is essentially a form the candidate filled out and lists their detailed academic scores from high school > PhD, their work experience, research and publications.

Based on the declared data, candidates are scored by the system

Now this is India and there's a decent amount of fraud, so an individual has to manually check the claimed experience/scores/publications against reality

A candidate might claim to have relevant experience, but the college might be unaccredited, or the claimed salary might be way too low for a relevant academic position. Or they might claim to have published in XYZ journal, but the journal itself might be a fraudulent pay-to-publish thing

Going through 100+ resumes, each 4 pages long is a nightmare of a task. And boring too.

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So I asked Claude Code to figure out the problem. I gave it a PDF with the scoring guidelines, a sample resume, and asked it to figure out the problem

Without me telling it, it figured out a plan that involved checking a college's accredition and rating (the govt maintains a rating for all colleges), the claimed salary vs actual median salary for that position (too low is a red flag), and whether the claimed publication is in either the SCOPUS index or a govt approved publications index

(I emphasize govt approved because this is in a govt backed institution)

Then I gave it access to a folder with all the 100 resumes.

In less than 30 minutes, it evaluated all candidates and added the evaluation to a CSV file. I asked it to make it more readable, so it made a HTML page with data from all the candidates and red/green/yellow flags about their work-experience, publications, and employment

It made a prioritized list of the most promising candidates based on this data

My wife double checked because she still "doesn't trust AI", but all her verification almost 100% matched Claude's conclusions

This was a 3 day, grinding task done in 30 minutes. And all I did was type into a terminal for 20 minutes

yosito · 24 days ago
I'm very skeptical of using AI in this way. I've given Claude access to calendars and travel plans and asked it to do similar analytical tasks cross referencing documents that would take days for me to do manually. Since it was about my own plans and life that I knew well, it was possible for me to spot subtle errors that seemed correct at the surface level but actually weren't the conclusions I would make. I've attempted these types of tasks 10-20 times with similar experiences each time. In the end, it's made me very skeptical, like your wife. I don't trust any AI output without a thorough review. Hallucinations are still a frequent problem.
yosito commented on I rebooted my social life   takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/... · Posted by u/edent
yosito · a month ago
TLDR: You can invite people to do stuff.
yosito commented on Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke   monash.edu/pharm/about/ne... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
canadiantim · a month ago
Very interesting, especially in light of the Chinese study’s claiming to have success with a large subset of Alzheimer’s by adding a shunt to the cervical lymphatic nodes, which seems to be exactly what they’re doing here too.

For those who don’t want to wait and have someone they love who can benefit from this, simply massaging the lymph nodes in the neck 10 minutes a day also significantly increases flow through these lymph nodes and thereby increases drainage of lymph from the brain.

yosito · a month ago
It would be really interesting if we find out that a simple 10 minute daily massage of the lymph nodes in the neck significantly prevents Alzheimer's.
yosito commented on I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude   j0nah.com/i-failed-to-rec... · Posted by u/thecr0w
yosito · 2 months ago
This has been my experience with almost everything I've tried to create with generative AI, from apps and websites, to photos and videos, to text and even simple sentences. At first glance, it looks impressive, but as soon as you look closer, you start to notice that everything is actually just sloppy copy.

That being said, sloppy copy can make doing actual work a lot faster if you treat it with the right about of skepticism and hand-holding.

It's first attempt at the Space Jam site was close enough that it probably could have been manually fixed by an experienced developer in less time than in takes to write the next prompt.

yosito commented on Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla   reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/breve
yosito · 2 months ago
And in Europe and in Asia. Last time I was in the US, Tesla looked like a scam.
yosito commented on Be Like Clippy   be-clippy.com/... · Posted by u/Aloha
yosito · 2 months ago
Clippy was Microsoft was absolutely DO sell your data.
yosito commented on High air pollution could diminish exercise benefits by half – study   scienceclock.com/exercise... · Posted by u/ashishgupta2209
labcomputer · 2 months ago
I expect less than 10. Once you drive an EV, every big noisy diesel feels impotent and gutless. Kind of like a small yappy dog that’s all bark and no bite. There’s just nothing like the zero-lag gut-punching acceleration of an EV.
yosito · 2 months ago
Like many other "masculine culture" things, the propaganda sold to men about what's masculine doesn't necessarily have a connection to reality.
yosito commented on Language models are injective and hence invertible   arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511... · Posted by u/mazsa
yosito · 3 months ago
In layman's terms, this seems to mean that given a certain unedited LLM output, plus complete information about the LLM, they can determine what prompt was used to create the output. Except that in practice this works almost never. Am I understanding correctly?
yosito commented on The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry   economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/scythe
floatrock · 3 months ago
simple: you poison/confuse/obfuscate the ability to know what it is worth.
yosito · 3 months ago
Tower of Babel

u/yosito

KarmaCake day8945May 18, 2014View Original