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Save a 4K wallpaper as a JPEG, then try to get the 4K back. You can't. A prompt is lossy too. Hand it to someone else and you get a different app. Clone the repo and you get mine. Prompting is not programming, people.
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Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
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"generative AI" puts the focus in the wrong place. what I think is actually the new superpower is * translation * between languages, but also between mediums. sketch <> figma design <> code <> image also, they do an inverted form of lossy compression: input + priors = input inflated with understanding of the world we're so focused on changing the input, but swapping out the priors is interesting as well what happens when we intentionally replace the priors with a different mindset / a different culture? can we trick ourselves into a rubber hand illusion, but for experiencing the world as some… Related
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Patrick's thread is about customer service, but I've run into the same phenomenon with Amazon. The modal scenario is "lossy internal communication results in a fix shipping which does not align with the original bug report". Quoting @patio11 Ruriko and I, discussing how to help a third party: Ruriko: Oh you should call customer service for them. Me: It is because I want to help that I will not call customer service. I will write for them. Ruriko: Phone much faster and you can get company to agree on resolution. Related
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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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So you went from a business chain of customer > app > ai model provider To customer > ai model provider The app layer is possibly getting removed!
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Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.
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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
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Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
25 June 2020
Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain, where he wrote the explanations of neural networks most people learned them from.
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