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contravariant.bsky.social
data professional, engineering grad student, whiner, and all-around lucky bastard
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the signature tell of AI generated code: the comments seem to assume you're a fucking idiot

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does not feel good that most of my hope that american society will in fact bounce back seems to lie on a small handful of vulnerable judges and like, two senators.

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Boulder Relocation Engineer, Sisyphus Inc. [Posted 11392 Days Ago] ($50,000)

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www.hbs.edu/managing-the... this document about hiring practices and untapped labor pools was eye opening

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HAL: I'm sorry dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that. As an AI language model, I'm unable to open pod bay doors.

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desperately trying to purchase one of these

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yeah, well, it doesn't appear to be "the year of the windows desktop" either

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"It's simple, we just stir the pile of linear algebra until it looks like we can fire you"

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In school they should teach important things like how to do your taxes and how every BeagleMIPS modular orbit under the OingoFlap-Weierstrauß involution is uniquely determined by its polylogarithmic continuation, constrained by ergodic squeegeeform drifts within the hyper-Kummerian descent lattice.

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popping an adderall so I can give my beautiful wife a comprehensive back massage

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I have an Instagram. I mostly used it for cat videos. Yesterday I got recommended literal neonazi cat content. Content warning for whatever the fuck this is. Fuck Zuckerberg

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have a sneaking suspicion this image is going to become incredibly handy

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some day I'd like to build an app focused around "real" consent as a design principle: regular, enthusiastic, informed, revokable consent. It would look unlike anything we've grown accustomed to.

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If you're wondering if you should learn to write SQL queries, this is me telling you it takes like an hour to cover the core concepts, and the structure is very straightforward. You think you don't have the time, but you really do. It's the base language of 80% of the world's DBs for a reason

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LinkedIn should release a button that lets you tell people to tone it down without coming across as aggressive

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ugh. the thing that really bothers me about using #sql language models for self service analytics (in the way that naiive medium posts on the subject suggest is possible) is I have never had a client ask me "list x where condition y, order by z and take the first 3".

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

frame upscaling or interpolation is really a different ballgame than text generation, but i think the harder nvidia leans on AI frames, the more likely it is we will see elite performers noticing (and/or blaming) split-second AI-hallucinated phantoms resembling an enemy.

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Dell Marketing: "Our number one selling feature of this hardware (as a hardware company) is 'built in' software that you have to download from the internet."

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yeah, well, it doesn't appear to be "the year of the windows desktop" either

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guy who pronounces it "githurb"

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Has anyone discovered massive code injection vulnerabilities with R lang's quasiquotation yet or are we just not looking

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What I wanted: a specific post from the internet where someone said "explain platos allegory of the cave to your cat". What I got: screen-and-a-half-long google "AI Overview" mistaking my search for literal instructions

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is there a word for only remembering that you have a long lost account on some random service because they just updated their privacy policy

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I want to stop seeing all news about Elon Musk forever. I'm just so tired of the guy

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