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"This is what we've built: infrastructure as entertainment. [...] we spawn and kill virtual machines to prove we can enforce session affinity in a distributed system."
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I was disappointed to realise that my favourite "Hemingway" flourish was actually something I'd written into my draft. And which I eventually chopped.
Claude Opus was way better than Sonnet in mimicry. ChatGPT, I felt, had the edge over Opus.
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That's not to say I didn't get a short-lived thrill out of how some bits came out. Followed by fatigue at having fallen for yet another absurdity that comes from mashing together this with that, oblivious to the meaning of either.
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There's really no new angle or insight to be found there. Of course! We're not doing "here's how Hemingway would have thought and written about Internet routing;" it's "here's how some of the patterns of words Hemingway already wrote about something else might transfer to these sentences."
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Pratchett and Adams were predictably terrible. Le Guin, Bradbury, and Atwood tried to make everything deep, man. La Motte kept drawing comparisons with field hospitals and the horrors of war. (Claude asked me to confirm I really wanted La Motte, which neither Claude nor ChatGPT did for anyone else.)
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Encouraged, I was inspired to test out Ellen N La Motte, Gertrude Stein, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K Le Guin, Ray Bradbury.
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😂 Real
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"They haven't built a quirky little wiki. They've built a lightweight and user-friendly web development framework with front end tools, an object database, and a query language for interacting with it, and they used it to make a quirky little wiki."
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Ah, if I ask it to talk about math instead of results, it gets a lot less woolly. In this case a script in the hand is better than a prompt in the cloud though.
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I checked the line spacing against spacing from incompetech.com/graphpaper/l... in GIMP. It matched. Ha. Couldn't be bothered to check the math but at least I have it if I did need to know it was good.
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Theories I’ve seen for why Musk etc are cutting federal jobs so randomly & irresponsibly are mostly (a) to replace jobs with AI, (b) to force privatization by breaking everything, or (c) sheer ignorance/incompetence. I suspect a mix of all 3, but the disregard for lives in the meantime is sickening.
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Claude won't let me upload the same file to a project; it's like 2.5 megs.
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We were not aware that cats punch TVs.
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I'm gonna really test my luck and disagree with you twice in one day
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Anything I say here will bring my assumptions which are at the least wildly different from the context behind that, but I'm just gonna say, like, in general, yay math notation for communicating mathy stuff.
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(I'm vibing again)
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I never get excited about things being near other things in the sky (when they throw shade on each other, I do) -- but I saw this tonight and it really did have some magic about it!
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