IanCal

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by IanCal 7mo ago
Aside from many of these things just being a layer difference - it’s not unreasonable to want to work on databases query optimisation an not enjoy css or enjoy building frontends but just want a db that’s fast and works. The flip of your vi
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by IanCal 7mo ago
No such incentive exists for an enormous amount of what humans do. People don’t only build software because they have to.
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by IanCal 7mo ago
The comment I was responding to was looking at a state where we looked at markdown files instead of programming, my point was to agree with the original quote that they can remove the drudgery. > Maybe this is the core point: "cooki
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by IanCal 7mo ago
> Practically, folks who avoid small talk deliberately usually have enough awareness to not interrupt unless they need your time. It’s not whether you need my time it’s where it falls in my priorities which you do not know. By essentia
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by IanCal 7mo ago
You don’t have to choose between entirely hand coded and entirely AI built code.
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Absolutely everything about it in equal measure? You live environment config, setting up test harnesses, coding the complex part all identically the same? Nothing you would hand off? Do you find there are zero chores in software development
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Do you want to eat good food or make good food? Is doing the dishes something you hand to a machine or do you always do it by hand? Are there any ingredients you buy pre-made (pesto, curry pastes, do you make your own panko breadcrumbs)?
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by IanCal 7mo ago
To read it in a kinder way, I can focus on a complex logic problem, a flow, an architecture or micro optimisation. I can have an llm setup the test harnesses. I improved test speed which was fun, I had an llm write a nice analysis front end
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Some of those examples are genuinely different as they convey different intent and certainty. Also some of the basic small talk level things are also there to gauge someone’s responsiveness right now. To ask directly can mean “I believe my
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by IanCal 7mo ago
> Every CS student should know there's no free lunch in search and optimization The no free lunch theorem is so absurdly limited because of the constraints that it's IMO a tautology and fundamentally irrelevant outside of excep
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by IanCal 7mo ago
I’ve used multimodal LLMs for this sort of task and if a fine tuned model would get reasonable performance compared to frontier models I’d use that. Running things purely locally lets you massively simplify the overall architecture and data
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by IanCal 7mo ago
I don’t disagree about prominence but to share the links under the about section for people here https://pypy.org/howtohelp.html https://opencollective.com/pypy
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by IanCal 7mo ago
> Seems like a way to use a sledgehammer to hammer in screws The lazy analogy the other way is that developing a custom system to do these jobs is like hiring a team of experts to spend 2 years designing the perfect crosshead screwdriver
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by IanCal 7mo ago
> No, we are literally trying to find a use case where using a lower accuracy LLM makes sense for a vision task. They're reconfigurable on the fly with little technical expertise and without training data, that's really useful.
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Can you fit the 14B on the device they're using? That feels rather important. And then it depends on whether there is a useful difference in performance between the two.
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by IanCal 7mo ago
They didn't say it wasn't important they said latency was more important, and they're right for many use cases. Once you can't run at realtime where you're operating, you need to move to batching or offloading the w
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Possibly important is that it’s largely api compatible but it’s not functionally equivalent in that its performance (as accuracy not just speed) is different.
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Isn’t it? I mean 12 stage pipeline has a very specific meaning to me in this area, and is not a new way of describing something. The release notes description sounds like a multi stage pipeline. Do you know this kind of area and are comment
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Hmm are we in a ship of Theseus/speciation area? Each individual step of refactoring would not cross the threshold but would a rewrite? Even if the end result was the same?
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by IanCal 7mo ago
You might be interested in the dark factory work here https://factory.strongdm.ai/ They do something very similar for some of their work. It’s hard to use external services so they replicate them and the cost of doing so ha
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by IanCal 7mo ago
I'm not sure I understand where the issue is here - something can use a small amount of energy per use but a large amount in aggregate because of lots of use.
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Either neither is worthwhile, in which case send neither, or the initial thing is worthwhile in which case what's the value in not sending the result? > Just send the prompt Send... all the context and background skills? Why do you
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by IanCal 7mo ago
They need a place to be, they need to get hired, trained, managed and all the associated general costs of employment (hr, payroll, etc). They need equipment, there's monitoring, evaluations etc. Then you also have to pay them regardles
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Or it’s just a useful tool that lets me build more stuff and focus on what I’m more interested in, and can use it to learn.
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Let’s see, recently: Home automation fixing Proposed integrations with some services locally Science experiments explained at a few levels, finding good background info and where to read up about some safety information Maths help for speci
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Can projects overlap? If not there’s general context information that’s often useful. My job, my kids and time preferences around those things, my preferred tech setup and way of working and types of tech I’m better at. Things I already hav
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Blind optimisers without human qualities like ethics are pretty much the perfect example of what ruthless means.
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by IanCal 8mo ago
But it will be simpler on a phone, as you don't need to do the same manual entering of data, and don't need to get a photo of your passport and a photo of yourself onto your computer. > I don't really see a good reason to
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by IanCal 8mo ago
> Can you spot where you would find alternatives to using the app on this page? I mean it's literally a page of guidance for using the app so it's not really that surprising that there isn't a direct heading saying "h
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by IanCal 8mo ago
It’s been years but I thought I recalled having to use the key but then also setting what sites it’d work on.

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