AndrewDucker

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by AndrewDucker 5d ago
I can build a local MCP that gives restricted access to an API which I have no control over.
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by AndrewDucker 6d ago
It's not just the agent understanding the API, it's locking down the access they have. If I want to give access to an internal service in specific ways that the API doesn't lock down then an MCP that offers very specific quer
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by AndrewDucker 7d ago
If there's more than one, and you don't care which one, then it's "a". If you care which one then it's "the". "Pass me a plate" - any plate will do. "Pass me the plate" - I want t
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by AndrewDucker 7d ago
People should reply on Hacker News. If you disagree with someone's opinion and you have reasons for doing so then the right thing to do is share them.
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by AndrewDucker 7d ago
Most people here aren't experts in the underlying technology. But they do work with it regularly and are interested in the latest developments in the tooling.
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by AndrewDucker 9d ago
Use a different search engine? Kagi works well for me nowadays.
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by AndrewDucker 10d ago
It's informing people that there is something a business is doing that they might not approve of and they might want to change their behaviour accordingly.
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by AndrewDucker 10d ago
If we're very very very lucky, The Culture.
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Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now(autism.org.uk)
2 points by AndrewDucker 10d ago|0 comments
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The EU Bans Social Media for Under-13s(wired.com)
10 points by AndrewDucker 10d ago|3 comments
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A preview of the future Intel Architecture documentation(intel.github.io)
3 points by AndrewDucker 15d ago|0 comments
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by AndrewDucker 16d ago
An LLM, as the name implies, only has access to words. It can only model things about those words and the relationships between them. It never has access to the actual things the words represent. So it absolutely has experiential knowledge
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by AndrewDucker 16d ago
Does it have an internal model of what a prime is? If so then it's not parroting. If it doesn't then it is. The whole point is that either they have internal models of the concepts, from experience of those things, or they don&
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Nudge or tax? At last, some data(timharford.com)
2 points by AndrewDucker 16d ago|0 comments
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by AndrewDucker 16d ago
Happy to go with the first paragraph from the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot
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by AndrewDucker 16d ago
The answer to both is "No".
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by AndrewDucker 17d ago
The idea that non-pregnant people shouldn't also get to use the toilet seems baffling to me. Maybe just let people use it when they need it.
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by AndrewDucker 17d ago
You are not just a stochastic parrot. Your speech is not just "next likely word", but a product of your internal model of the world.
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by AndrewDucker 17d ago
Having had two kids go through nursery from an early age, they absolutely had a better time there, with more friends and a higher quality of entertainment, than they would have had at home with either of us.
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by AndrewDucker 17d ago
To me "art" is the communication of something from the artist, through arrangement of reality, to the person experiencing the art.
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by AndrewDucker 17d ago
I'd be delighted to replace the current Iranian regime with a less awful collection of people. I have seen no plans which looked like they might make this happen.
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by AndrewDucker 17d ago
Actually, I do. I want dozens of them. And then I can play the one with the best reviews. Of course, without copyright meaning that people have to pay for the games, the chances of those games being made is pretty slim.
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by AndrewDucker 19d ago
How is the USA making any of that any better?
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by AndrewDucker 20d ago
People are choosing to be on instances which block certain things. That's their choice. I want to be able to have a conversation without filling it with racist screaming. Choosing to be in places that don't allow that is my choice
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by AndrewDucker 21d ago
We are not "dealt a hand". There are many possibilities, and the idea that you have to take the simplest, most obvious, one is largely false. There are other people in this thread talking about how they did things differently.
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by AndrewDucker 22d ago
People do not believe big companies when they say "I'll deal with the externalities a little later."
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by AndrewDucker 26d ago
Futures are zero sum, but can also be a win for both sides, because what they gain is stability. "I will buy y tons of corn from you in April for £x" - now I don't have to worry about how much my corn will cost and you don&#x
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by AndrewDucker 26d ago
Give it time. It is hard work, but it gets easier as it goes along. I'd brace yourself for about 5 years of it being relentless but slowly getting easier. By which point, although it will still not be easy you should at least be r
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by AndrewDucker 29d ago
There's a financial incentive to invent teleporters, and yet...
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by AndrewDucker 1mo ago
Nothing yet. This is incredibly preliminary, with lots of this being tested in frogs. It hopefully gives hints which will be tested,better understood, and show actual mechanisms in humans. But probably not for years.

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