RaftPeople

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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
> It's very difficult to define a specification that works as intended, even with tools. Agree, we are in the stone age in software design and dev. We have not figured out a good way to communicate the design of complex systems in
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
> Seems like tacit acknowledgment that IBM mothership is not the right place for a speculative growth play from both a management and capital perspective. I'm not understanding your logic, can you explain? What I see with the prog
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
> What I'm saying is that this is incorrect. An "idea" exists within a model before it generates tokens. If that were the case, then the systems would generate words based on the fully resolved idea, but that is not how
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
> I've seen proposals for Product Managers to define those conditions themselves by speaking with the LLM. But the LLM is not aware of how the business works and why, so someone needs to work with the business to extract the infor
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
> And then, a follow-up: what is actually the bottleneck at most companies? What causes "requirements gathering" to take long? Complexity. In my experience (medium size businesses, i.e. 200 million to 2 billion annual revenue
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
I tend to agree with the article. A typical example of trying to add a new significant capability involves many meetings (days, weeks, months, etc. )with the business to understand how their work flows between systems X, Y and Z as well as
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
> Thoughts don't happen in a vacuum, they are triggered by external or internal stimuli, and these stimuli/thought precursors could very easily be tokens (dense info packets), which then map to latent space vectors, which very
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
LLM's generate their output words sequentially based on probability (from learned stats). Human's don't operate the same way, the thought happens and then the words are generated to reasonably describe that thought.
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
> "We don't understand intelligence, so you literally have no idea whether what we recognize as intelligence is some suitable arrangement of "statistical token generation"" Do you mean "token" as in the
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
> Notably, his essay “no silver bullet” states that there has never been a new technology or way of thinking or working that has led to a 10X increase in the speed of software development. I think the statement is generally true, but I
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
Both things can be true at the same time: 1-There is significant collaboration and action required beyond just coding to successfully create+implement software systems 2-When performing the coding step, minimal interruptions are vastly more
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by RaftPeople 5mo ago
Late response, was out of town. Agreed there is significant information in the latent space, but what is missing is a fully resolved "thought" based on that information plus current context plus validation against an internal work
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
> but I find it almost as hard to see why evolution did. Ignoring the concept of consciousness, it seems that self-awareness would be a strong attribute related to survival. It seems like it would help drive or amplify critical emotio
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
> I've had a lot of thoughts and conversations Do LLM's have thoughts? When you composed your post, your thought already existed in you head and you chose words that expressed the thought you held in your head. When LLM&#x27
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
In addition to what you said, the idea that the endpoint should determine state and drive the possible sequence of actions is not obviously universally a good thing. Many projects involve stringing together capability from different systems
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
> Most of us here could easily do the day-to-day work of the CEO of our companies. I'm not so sure about that. When I do a thought exercise and put myself in our CEO's shoes, I think "ok, which decisions do I need to mak
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
The point was that next token generation for a human was based on constructing something that matches the thought that is held in the mind. LLM's generate the next token based on a statistical relevance of trained data plus the previou
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
> Animals are also next token/action generators But for humans, the concept/thought/idea/action is formed first and then a sequence of tokens are generated to communicate that concept/thought/idea/act
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
I think this is the one: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9942489
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
> I taught myself in junior high I had a class in junior high where we had time each day to mess around with juggling. I got good at the balls and then got pretty good at the bowling pins things (not as heavy but same shape). I could d
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
Bacon wrapped donuts?
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
There was a study I read recently that analyzed the different complexity metrics and tested whether they relate to developers ability to understand the code. Most of them, especially Cyclomatic, did not align very well with the ability to u
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
I don't understand the emphasis on humanoid form, especially the legs. It seems like the focus should be on making the arms extremely capable and just use a wheeled base for some substantial number of use cases. If there are use cases
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
My wife had a Chrysler Sebring. The battery is in a compartment in the left front wheel well. You have to remove that wheel to access the battery. I was instantly impressed by the pure creativity and artistic expression the team employed f
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
I don't want to sound like I'm trying to one-up you, but I've basically vibe coded the entire internet. I'm surprised nobody thought of it before me but basically the LLM's are trained on the internet and I just had
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
> a prevailing sentiment of savings value and above all else things like rebate and cash back. I did some consulting work there a long time ago building some software to manage inventory in one of their departments. When we asked about
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by RaftPeople 6mo ago
But they have the choice to buy those from other stores.
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by RaftPeople 7mo ago
I agree. I think it gives a quicker view of what is happening and for some subset of diagrams I have wanted to use tools that do more of this to help people build a mental model.
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by RaftPeople 7mo ago
> they will just hype something else "Tesla Cold Fusion (TM) will be powering all of our vehicles by 2031."
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by RaftPeople 7mo ago
"Trying is the first step towards failure." - Homer S.

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