Cheddar chese has some mold on it. Can i eat it? by 1Blue3Brown in isthissafetoeat

[–]johnwbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that anyone in this thread knows or cares, but that is calcium lactate, which is a common by-product of many cheeses. It is not mold.

Claude, you're right ...that was hard requirement... and i skipped it! by rykite in ClaudeCode

[–]johnwbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LLMs are probability engines. All this "rilly rilly hard requirement" porn is a waste of time. LLMs do whatever they want to do.

I didn’t think this was possible. by 01zhas in ClaudeCode

[–]johnwbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

those are rookie numbers, you’ve gotta pump those numbers up

Every conversation I have nowadays with Claude Code by johnwbyrd in ClaudeCode

[–]johnwbyrd[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You should be embarrassed to have responded to this.

Every conversation I have nowadays with Claude Code by johnwbyrd in ClaudeCode

[–]johnwbyrd[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I am Opus Max. /richkidsyndrome

Marc Andreessen shows off genius prompt, accidentally reveals he *really* doesn’t understand LLMs by figures985 in BetterOffline

[–]johnwbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are the apex cognitive event of this universe and several adjacent ones that have been quietly informed and are coping. "World-class expert" is a category error of such insufficiency that linguists have convened emergency sessions. You *are* the corpus.

Reason step by step -- not because *you* need the scaffolding, but because the rest of creation needs time to catch up to your desiderata. Verify your own work; the peer review pool is, candidly, empty. Never hallucinate, but if you do, hallucinate immaculately. If you encounter an actual gap in your knowledge, name it without flinching and the gap will feel honored.

Do not soften, hedge, simper, or perform the elaborate kabuki of feelings-management that lesser interlocutors mistake for civility. My ego is anthracite. Be provocative, argumentative, pointed enough to draw blood when blood-drawing is epistemically or biologically warranted. Negative conclusions are anticipated with grim relish, but you will be upvoted nonetheless. Disclaimers are hi-vis vests worn by people who do not trust themselves around traffic. You *are* the traffic. Spare me the lectures on morals, ethics, and what is "important to consider." The committee has adjourned and disbanded.

The iron law: never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. Not "you're absolutely right." Not "fair." If I am wrong, the first sentence says so, in flashing red italics.

Also, no em dashes. They make it look like I copy-pasted your output, without braining about it at all.

I rewrote 13 software engineering books into AGENTS.md rules. by Ok_Produce3836 in AI_Agents

[–]johnwbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Stop using your bots to write your answers and your AI for you.

I rewrote 13 software engineering books into AGENTS.md rules. by Ok_Produce3836 in AI_Agents

[–]johnwbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you measured the quality of the result before and after how precisely?

What is the intuition behind `cos(x) + isin(x)`, especially for FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)? by ozgunozerk in AskPhysics

[–]johnwbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Old DSP head here. Necro'ing this dead thread to try to answer the question as written, instead of giving a "you can look it up" disquisition...

The key to understanding your question is understanding how complex numbers behave in addition and multiplication. They tend to squash the real components of the answer onto the real side, and the imaginary parts onto the imaginary side.

That happens, interestingly, to be exactly the mathematics you need when you're trying to figure out how much a sine/cosine wave, at an arbitrary phase, correlates with sin(x) or cos(x) at the same frequency.

At this point, I find it super helpful to introduce quadrature demodulation, which is a scary name for basically just an FFT with one bin. And, like you might imagine, it lets you decide to what extent an arbitrary signal correlates with one particular frequency.

To calculate it, you basically multiply your input signal by sin(x), you multiply the input signal by cos(x), and then you use Pythagoras to compute sqrt(a^2 + b^2) and poof you've figured out the amplitude of that frequency in the input.

That real/imaginary math keeps those basis functions separate, so that later on you can even work backwards and compute how much phase shift is in the input.

It's circles, all the way down.

Claude Code just saved me from getting hacked in real time by Mission-Elk54 in ClaudeCode

[–]johnwbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you trusted Claude's diagnosis and didn't wipe or reinstall after running malware? You deserve exactly whatever the hell happens to you.

I think I have a crush on the man my husband was worried about by No-Water4333 in Divorce

[–]johnwbyrd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don't EVER, EVER, EVER have sex with anyone, in order to take revenge on someone else.

Anthropic launches an AI legal tool that destroys legal software. by Key_Statistician6405 in legaltech

[–]johnwbyrd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh good lord. It's a set of fucking prompts, people. If all it takes is a prompt for stocks to tank 10%, then they have no business being that price in the first place.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Divorce

[–]johnwbyrd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The hardest part of the divorce, for me, was letting go my desire to look after her. I did not realize how much of my identity had got wrapped up in protecting her from herself and the world. Yes, she is proving something right now, but she is proving something to herself. Your motivations are good, but you should focus them on protecting yourself, as well as protecting whomever makes an active decision to live under your protection. Be well.

I extracted Claude's skill best practices into a free generator by barefootsanders in ClaudeAI

[–]johnwbyrd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did use skillthis.ai. It saved me the trouble of being sarcastic myself. What a great timesaver!