Joke’s on you, Claude is writing that too

Why's it a joke, looks like quality and good engineering will be faster for what we build and maintain.

That’s the scenario where we’ll all be using Chinese models

This is the is/ought problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem) and it’s unclear whether an objective general solution to this even exists, especially constrained within the framework of language that LLMs are stuck in

There is an idea floating around that trade imbalances create global inequality (Trade Wars are Class Wars by Klein & Pettis) and the original sin was adopting the dollar as the reserve currency instead of something like Bancor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor)

Interesting, thanks for the pointer! Though, since we're dealing in hypotheticals already: wouldn't the expectation be that whoever gained the upper hand on the world stage would've aimed for de-facto control over whichever currency system was in place anyways?

Yeah, they could just inflate Bancor the same way a country can with their own currency today (i.e, printing dollars) to manage their debts

Tbf it was proposed in a time where globalization was a good thing and there was naive optimism about international organizations!

They don’t have a useful belief system, one of the rookie mistakes of using LLMs is asking them what you “should” do

Absolutely. I think the bit I still struggle with is finding a way to get them to join my team (which is a team of one very tired person).

A story I like is that in the now lost era of handwriting recognition on PDAs, Jef Raskin concluded that the easiest way to solve the problem was to change handwriting so as to meet the algorithm in the middle.

That is, to find a noticeable simplification of handwriting that people could learn quickly and that eliminated hard-to-process quirks.

I feel I am there with the LLM at the moment, trying to work out what the common ground is.

What else is there in CORS? It’s all basically a way for an origin to communicate to the browser which other origins it can share data with. Of course if there’s no browser involved then there’s no need for it.

Client hints are useful for all the shitty “responsive” websites that don’t know how to use media queries. And for ad tracking. Mostly the latter

I'm actually not sure that they don't actually mean exponentially. There's something about not only increasing the distance, but potentially also the modulation (and thus the symbol rate) stepping down, which maybe in total causes the decline to be ~exponential? But it's not clear to me at all. That's why I ask, I have a hard time parsing it.

But then again, the sentence uses the term "signal strength", not "throughput", so that would suggest quadratically. But I guess "signal strength" could be meant colloquially and mean more than just the raw signal power received by the antenna, here.

It's all very fuzzy to me, as it stands.

> it's pretty common to refer to x^2 as exponential colloquially since there's A. an exponent B. a single term for all values (vs. quadratic, cubic, quartic...)

Where is it pretty common? I have never heard that (outside of being a mistake)

Kind of irrelevant, because you could also ask "Do you also think that f(x) = x^1 is polynomial? How about f(x) = x^0?" The distinction was clearly between polynomial (specifically quadratic) and exponential, leaving those trivial cases out.

No. These are polynomials (in x).

Ah, the classic "let's be objective and ignore key constraint that is inconvenient for SV tech bro hype"

17: don't worry, i'm sure they'll just ask their LLM to figure it out

Kinda sketchy that all of the base stats are hardcoded in the JS (foundingPatrons is 36605, totalPledged is 22816377). Then it fetches some "live" stats and adds values to that.