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jchwyesterday at 1:00 PM5 repliesview on HN

I really struggle to believe you wrote text like:

> A simple distributional analysis of every rsync release with bug data. No model. No assumptions. Just placement.


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logicprogyesterday at 1:04 PM

No, I didn't write the text itself. I'm typically significantly more verbose and elliptical, and more than that, the numbers and methodology changed often enough over the course of the last couple days I was working on this because I was trying to get it to be as accurate and fair as possible that trying to keep the whole thing up to date manually would have been problematic.

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aozgaayesterday at 1:26 PM

In general, it seems HN does not like to read llm-generated articles. I ran into this myself when using an llm to edit some stuff I wrote.

At the time, I found this a bit irritating, but with a few weeks time I see the merit. The informational content tends to fall into “derivative” territory when LLM’s write stuff. And people are here for novelty and some socialization.

Also LLM prose seems optimized for engagement rather than concise communication. Takes longer to sift through linguistic boilerplate to get to the point. (The quoted bit being a case in point)

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otabdeveloper4yesterday at 6:27 PM

I don't even know what "just placement" is.

(I need a better model to translate from llmese.)

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noctuidyesterday at 1:07 PM

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