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Tangent to the tangent!

I've started using it professionally because it signals "I wrote this by hand, not AI, so you can safely pay attention to it."

Even though in the past I never would have done it.

In work chats full of AI generated slop, it stands out.


Trivial to get AI to write in all lowercase, though.


Yes, the strategy depends on lack of effort from other senders, even trivial effort


> In work chats full of AI generated slop, it stands out.

Do you mean like Teams AI autocomplete or people purposefully copying AI-generated messages into chats?


The latter. Using chatgpt to write their chat messages usually. Emoji, arbitrary bold and italics, bullets, etc.


E911 would get bssid of the access point.


If they called. I'm not sure 911 can initiate a call back to a device that hasn't called before.


I agree with you about what's described here.

There is engineering when this is done seriously, though.

Build a test set and design metrics for it. Do rigorous measurement on any change of the system, including the model, inference parameters, context, prompt text, etc. Use real statistical tests and adjust for multiple comparisons as appropriate. Have monitoring that your assumptions during initial prompt design continue to be valid in the future, and alert on unexpected changes.

I'm surprised to see none of that advice in the article.


This article talks about prompt evals https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/writing-tools-for-agen.... There are plenty of approaches to provide some degree of rigor around the slot machine output.


My first job we had office rooms shared by 2-4 that were usually pretty quiet with a generally closed door policy.

The VP Eng would always say "I always try to remember it costs the company over a hundred dollars for me open one of these doors."

I learned so much from that boss.


Cambridge MA just had a major shift on zoning towards "build more" in Q1. It will be an interesting natural experiment to watch.

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2025/02/11/cambridge-el...


I think they're saying something more subtle.

In your basketball analogy, it's more like they have a model that predicts basketball performance, and they're saying that model should predict performance equally well across groups, not that the groups should themselves perform equally well.


You’re right, I misinterpreted it.


I don't know the detail here, but in many of the discussions I've seen the operators themselves are based in the UK, and that changes the calculus.


Yeah, GP is, to put it charitably, not understanding the situation.

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From AP, RFK said:

> "COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” he added. “We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted at that or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential of impact for that."

The article notes he claims that this quote "twisted" his words.

https://apnews.com/article/robert-f-kennedy-jr-covid-comment...


> This move absolutely will drive out some of their best talent

IMHO, from my personal insider experience, this is actually the goal in some places.

Best talent is often not the most cost effective talent, especially in parts of the business where the company has switched from innovating to maintaining.


From the article, it's not 12 total, but 12 per user for 100 concurrent generations.


Thank you atherton friend.


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