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by gwern 344 days ago
https://xkcd.com/1425/

One of the frustrating things about web dev, I find, is the staggering gulf between apparently nearly identical tasks and unpredictability of it. So often I will find myself on gwernnet asking Said Achmiz, 'this letter is a little too far left in Safari, can we fix that?' and the answer is 'yes but fixing that would require shipping our own browser in a virtual machine.' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Vecr 340 days ago
Did an LLM convince you to put in the anthropic argument entry in the galaxy brained section? Claude Opus?

https://gwern.net/blog/2025/conference-size

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gwern 340 days ago
Actually, I came up with that all on my own after I noted to myself that capture-recapture would work; and it amused me so much that I resolved to try to come up with a proper list filling out the idea. I did get some of the other ideas from LLMs, though.
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