CoolestBeans

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by CoolestBeans 5d ago
I agree. When you write your own code, you know what your intention was when writing it. Furthermore, as you gain experience and mature you know in the back of your mind that every mistake during code writing costs disproportionately more t
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by CoolestBeans 6d ago
No matter how you feel about the situation, the law is pretty clear that colluding to limit R&D with your competitors is anticompetitive. The fact that these CEOs have called for this in public is pure arrogance enabled by horrific lega
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by CoolestBeans 8d ago
I agree with the conclusion but not necessarily the why. I don't think therapy is always about projecting your other relationships on to your therapist. A lot of time its your relationship with yourself that you're trying to work
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by CoolestBeans 8d ago
Didn't realize they were iPhone width and wider. Puts a damper on seriously shopping on it for me. Thanks for the info.
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by CoolestBeans 8d ago
I agree with the sentiment here but if you are building anything that relates to finance for the love of god please have a page that's just a list of PDFs of every document that is considered formal communication from the institution.
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by CoolestBeans 8d ago
I've been looking at this and the Clicks Communicator which should both be out by the end of this year. I'm not really a "dumbphone" person nor am I really a physical keyboard hound. I just want a smaller phone that feel
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by CoolestBeans 8d ago
Look I started my comment saying I'm on periphery. If its guilt by association then I'm right there. My contention isn't the association, its the shared values that associate them to each other. Its their values I have an iss
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by CoolestBeans 9d ago
Had a similar experience trying to read that. You know you meet or have to work with people like that in your life and hopefully you use those experiences to remind yourself what kind of person you don't want to be.
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by CoolestBeans 9d ago
As someone on the periphery looking in, it's because they make up a large web. Its an extended community that shares a lot of people between its many arms. There are also some shared values between all these people, even at the very ex
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by CoolestBeans 10d ago
No. AI is far too compute and energy constrained to exist outside humanity's control. AI is not scaling in such a dramatic way that it could happen soon. It is more likely than not that there are physical limits that neither we nor AI
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by CoolestBeans 10d ago
Yeah the Actor model just doesn't fit well with Rust without feeling like a DSL. Tokio works well because Rust's ownership model overlays with tokio nicely. The language is already doing the hard data safety stuff for tokio, tokio
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by CoolestBeans 12d ago
Tasks and channels is the way. You can get something that feels like programming a real preemptive concurrency model like BEAM languages or golang but with minimal overhead.
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by CoolestBeans 12d ago
Good to know someone is trying to make protection rackets work in 2026. Nice computer system you got there, it would be a shame if someone developed a hacking tool and had all the compute necessary to run it. Welcome back Tony Soprano.
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by CoolestBeans 12d ago
I think for kids coming out of university, going against the grain might be one of the most valuable things you can do. The essential skills of critical thinking, problem solving, intuitive and linear thinking, and improvisation are not goi
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by CoolestBeans 14d ago
The problem is that if OpenAI doesn't want the compute nobody does. All of these companies' demand for compute are correlated. It isn't likely that OpenAI will want less compute in isolation. Furthermore, the circular financi
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by CoolestBeans 14d ago
I am willing to give Mr. Amodei the benefit of the doubt in the sincerity of his beliefs. Everyone assumes his motivations have to be perfectly rational and can't contradict but that's not how people act in practice. The real prob
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by CoolestBeans 14d ago
They really do believe AI might kill everyone. They also are highly motivated by hoarding capital and power. I don't know if researchers are aware that they're acting indistinguishably from someone who is just really self-interest
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by CoolestBeans 17d ago
Because for a lot (most?) people their iPhone is their primary and only personal computer. I also want a smaller phone. I bet Apple designers would love to sell you a smaller phone. They've certainly tried with my beloved and retired i
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by CoolestBeans 17d ago
Even if the potential of the technology could really be that world altering, the reality of economics constrain the realization of that potential. AI may provide economic benefits but it is far from a free lunch. Can capital markets sustain
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by CoolestBeans 18d ago
I think this might be a red herring. All it takes is someone to get an inkling that someone is working on a new approach and seeing some success for OpenAI to fire the AI cannon at the problem. The community seems fairly small (from this ou
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by CoolestBeans 26d ago
If you can't resist the temptation to pull the AI slot machine lever (which is not necessarily a personal failing!), you might want to seriously examine what your actual motivations are. If you have to use AI for your day job, then yea
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by CoolestBeans 26d ago
The comparison breaks down because noise pollution is unavoidable. AI hype might be unavoidable unless you code in a vacuum but you can be disciplined in how much you let it in. Even if AI cheapens the actual output, it fundamentally cannot
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by CoolestBeans 26d ago
First, anhedonia is a real psychological crisis. You might want to speak to a professional. Second, the old saying "it's the journey not the destination" is apt here. If you didn't enjoy the process in the first place th
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by CoolestBeans 27d ago
It is probably why RLHF was the secret sauce to make LLMs vastly more useful. Obviously it makes their output more likely to be aligned. But also by mimicking conversation it makes you prompt it better. It manipulates you into not only pr
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by CoolestBeans 28d ago
Being a pure play model provider is completely untenable right now. Coding agents own your demand; Nvidia, data centers, and DRAM manufacturers own your supply. You're getting squeezed by open weight models. Your only bet to making mon
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by CoolestBeans 1mo ago
If they were buying GPUs with equity then it wouldn't show up on Nvidia's quarterly report as revenue, even if the net trade is GPUs for equity. This is the point of the structure, to make cash flows show up as top line revenue. F
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by CoolestBeans 1mo ago
The distinction does make a difference and it is the former. These circular deals are two paired transactions: 1. Nvidia buys equity in an AI lab or cloud provider with cash. 2. The counterparty agrees to buy X number of GPUs from Nvidia an
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by CoolestBeans 1mo ago
So I operate more in line with how you do, but having tried some organizational systems I think I understand the "second brain" people. One, it forces you to do a crude approximation of critical thinking. It allows you to examine
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by CoolestBeans 1mo ago
What is the overhead to have agents play model UN? Why is the coordination so elaborate? It sounds like a deeply complex and expensive emergent behavior that maybe looks comprehensible but could be nonsensical. Also like any complex system,
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by CoolestBeans 1mo ago
Using AI is kayfabe. What I mean is, you create interaction patterns that resemble how humans work. This is because it is what the models are trained on but also because we've all been trained to interact in this way. So it manipulates

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