Dan Lyke 21:42:08+0000 (2026-04-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

At some point, you'd think that there'd be some structure to get the LLM to execute some code to give an answer, rather than just continuing down the "but we can make it more plausible" sentence generator path. Seems particularly relevant to that stuff about ChatGPT measuring the time it takes to run a mile that's floating around right now.

Dan Lyke 20:40:54+0000 (2026-04-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

"The New York Times has had its moments of good journalism, but…" Thinking a lot about slot machine analogies recently.

Dan Lyke 20:07:18+0000 (2026-04-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Was thinking about how some AI advocacy I've been reading recently sounds a lot like "I've got a system for beating slot machines", went Googling, and... yeah, this MGM article sounds totally like your average "how to use AI" influencer. https://www.mgmresorts.com/en/casino/tips-on-how-to-play-and-win-at-video-slot-machines.html

Dan Lyke 19:39:29+0000 (2026-04-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Reddit r/answers asks "What made you finally decide to quit smoking for good?" Pretty sure the smokers I've known weren't all that hung up on whether they were smoking for good or not.

Dan Lyke 18:58:35+0000 (2026-04-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Unpopular opinion: Rust is the C of memory safe languages. I'd really like a performant language that lets me not have all sorts of ugly boilerplate code when representing reasonable data structures.