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How to Build an Agent
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Building a fully functional, code-editing agent in less than 400 lines.

Actually, Changing the Clocks Is Good | Josh Barro
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As you may have seen, the US Senate agreed by unanimous consent on Tuesday to abolish standard time and keep clocks on daylight saving time all year. As you may know, I fucking hate this idea, and I kind of hate having to write about it again, because I have said my piece about the matter, repeatedly. But apparently a lot of you did not listen, so I’m going to have to explain again why the status quo on time is good and the ideas to change it are bad, in hopes that will stop the House from approving the Senate-passed bill and sending this nonsense to President Biden’s desk.

I'd rather read the prompt

I have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life.

The model produces better work. Some of my peers believe that large language models produce strictly better writing than they could produce on their own. Anecdotally, this phenomenon seems more common among English-as-a-second-language speakers. I also see it a lot with first-time programmers, for whom programming is a set of mysterious incantations to be memorized and recited. I think this is also the cause of language model use in some forms of academic writing: it differs from the prior case with paper reviews in that, presumably, the authors believe that their paper matters, but don’t believe they can produce sufficient writing

Learn to Play Lyle Ritz’s Ukulele Arrangement of ‘Let Me Call You Sweetheart’ | Ukulele Magazine
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Lyle Ritz's chord solo ukulele arrangement of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” is a fine introduction to Lyle's arranging style.

GitHub - renzorlive/vimmaster: VIM Master: in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. · GitHub
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VIM Master: in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. - GitHub - renzorlive/vimmaster: VIM Master: in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels.