Bjorkbat

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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-could-los... If you take this at face-value, they probably aren't profitable (to the tune of a $5 billion loss). I don't like idle speculation, but having a
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I have a lot of different thoughts as to why using an LLM feels "off". One I've been thinking about as of late is that it feels flawed to measure productivity by code velocity, i.e. lines of code written per hour. Like, idea
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Something I've found rather curious is that my home state of New Mexico has the lowest cancer incidence rate out of any other state US state (Puerto Rico is lower, but technically not a state) ( https://statecancerprofiles.ca
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Something I'm kind of curious about is the degree to which eval performance might be due to parts of the SWE-bench dataset getting into the latest LLM models. A while back someone on Twitter seemed to confirm that Claude-3.5 was aware
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Yeah, but what does that actually mean? That if they had simply doubled the parameters on Llama 405b it would score way better on benchmarks and become the new state-of-the-art by a long mile? I mean, going by their own model evals on vari
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
I mean, that's what I'm trying to do (the business, not the monetary milestone), but something to be mindful of is that on Indie Hackers only 12 people out of 17,000 in the community got to $10k MRR. https://www.indieha
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
I wouldn't take it that far myself, but I'm kind of perplexed by how the smartest people in the room at any given time have very optimistic timelines regarding when we'll have AGI. This isn't a modern phenomenon either.
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I used to shoot competitively. We always wore ear protection. Even without it though, I would imagine there's a huge difference between an artillery shell and a .45 round.
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Reminds me of a comment I made a while back reflecting on past teaching experience. Programming is easy to teach, provided you have a fairly friendly context to teach under. Teaching programming in the context of p5js and by making a bunc
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
To be fair, I myself was ignorant of the difference between open-source and source-available. This whole time I thought releasing the source code under a license that restricts commercial use was just as open-source as releasing something
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Tell that to the Navajo Nation. They're sitting on and around the 2nd largest source of uranium in the country. Between all the miners getting lung cancer and the high rates of blood cancer in everyone else due to the environmental n
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
I mean, I think almost everyone can agree that this is a bubble and a correction is going to follow in the not-so-distant future. I'm just not so certain of the magnitude of that correction. Something which I'm kind of convinced
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Ah, yeah, I almost forgot about that. I remember students who were frustrated because of some mystery error that plagued them for hours, only for me to take a closer look and figure it out in 5 minutes. It forced me to rethink how we taug
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
As a former instructor (not at Lambda), I'm kind of inclined to believe it has more to do with the fact that it takes a certain kind of person to put up with the demands of corporate software engineering. Getting both kids and adults (
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Reminds me of an issue with another Paradox Interactive title, Victoria 3. They had to rework it because, basically, the upper-classes stood in the way of all the good laws and reforms. On top of that, communism was overpowered to the poi
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
See also: https://chrisnovello.com/teaching/risd/computer-utopias/ Kind of funny that someone's syllabus from a class taught in 2015 has done more to broaden my mind concerning speculative computing futu
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
I largely agree with you. Spreadsheets are arguably the most successful no-code/low-code tool out there in that they've enabled millions of people to automate some task or complex process and effectively become programmers, despi
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Lately, with all this talk of natural-language-as-programming-language, I've tried reflecting on my own code and seeing how I might convey the same intent, but in English. It's made me realize that it's usually the rule that
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
I don't know. My personal take is that low-code/no-code tools should have ushered in an era of homemade software, but it didn't. It's something I think about a lot, incidentally. We've had the technology to make
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
First, I’m kind of surprised that low/no-code tools, as well as outsourcing, weren’t an existential threat well before AI. Like, anyone can create a website nowadays, and yet it’s never been a better time to be a web developer. I thin
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
I'd probably jump ship myself were it not for Github's social features. I like my little green squares
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
I'm tempted to be cynical about this, especially since me and Garry Tan really don't seem to have the same political alignment, but I'm honestly pretty glad this happened. The tech community (outside of big tech) ought to be
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There's also the allegations of sexual misconduct ( https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sexual-misconduct/filmmake... ) It's unfortunate that on the day of his death all I can really think about is how troub
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Emphasis on "if you could simply type in English" (or insert native language here). Sometimes the AI misinterprets what you want. Sometimes this is due to lack of sophistication on the model's part, but I think the bigger is
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
I think a part of the reason why I'm kind of dismissive of AI when it comes to creative endeavors is that I haven't seen it do something that isn't already possible using a "not-intelligent" solution. For example, A
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Probably not related, but it's worth pointing out that Daniel Kokotajlo ( https://www.lesswrong.com/users/daniel-kokotajlo ) left last month. But if it were related, then that would presumably be because people with
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
You can see my earlier comment somewhere here, but I feel obliged to remind everyone that the claim that Github Copilot made developers "55% more productive" came from a study where they asked 100 developers to implement an HTTP s
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
I was actually about to make a comment on that. They got that number from some dumb "experiment" they did where told two groups of developers to implement an HTTP server in Javascript. The group with Copilot got the job done 55%
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by Bjorkbat 2y ago
Something I keep thinking about is how we’re seeing the end of what I call the “tech zeitgeist”. Started upon realizing that we‘ve likely seen the end of the social network era. No new social networking startups have popped-off in a while,
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I'd like to see if this still works if I took a picture of myself wearing a MAGA hat

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