Verdex

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by Verdex 8mo ago
Elon rockets are only interesting because they can be reused. What use is a reusable rocket with respect to explosives?
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by Verdex 9mo ago
Similar place. I kept trying to get LLMs to do anything interesting and the first time they were able was 4.5 sonnet. Best case is still operationally correct but nightmare fuel on the inside. So maybe good for one off tools where you con
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by Verdex 9mo ago
The quote that I heard (I think on HN) was, "If we had AIs to write XML for us then we never would have invented json." My biggest LLM success resulted in something operationally correct but was something that I would never want t
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by Verdex 9mo ago
I gave up on osx 5 years ago. I gave up on Linux 3 years ago. Today, 2 out of 3 of my machines are KDE fedora. The last one is TBD because my kids are using it. I didn't have a choice for machine 1 because it wasn't eligible for
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by Verdex 9mo ago
The job used to be the patients'. Manually managing type 1 diabetes isn't a fun job. Try reading Think like a pancreas for the fun details. Patient outcomes are significantly better with modern technology. > You just don&#x27
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by Verdex 9mo ago
I've spent my 20 year career working largely in medical software. The only jobs I've been replacing are pancreas that stop functioning correctly. Maybe don't speak for all of us.
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by Verdex 9mo ago
You may be thinking of turing completeness. All turing complete languages can compute the same functions. And in that way they are equivalent. However, not all languages are turing complete. See, for example, charity: https://
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by Verdex 9mo ago
I'm afraid I don't have the details. I was reading about certain lung issues the AI was doing a good job on and thought, "oh well that's it for radiology." But the radiologist chimed in with, "yeah that's
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by Verdex 9mo ago
Interestingly enough, my understanding is that some snakes in Asia can be used to produce oil that helps joint problems. American snakes weren't useful for this. So something that was sort of useful in a niche application was co-opted
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by Verdex 9mo ago
I've seen this sort of thing a few times. "Yes, I'm sure AI can do that other job that's not mine over there.". Now maybe foot doctors work closer to radiologists than I'm aware of. But the radiologists that
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by Verdex 9mo ago
I get the allure of the hypothetical future of video slop. Imagine if you could ask the AI to redo lord of the rings but with magneto instead of gandalf. Imagine watching shawshank redemption but in the end we get a "hot fuzz" t
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by Verdex 9mo ago
Linux sound is fine at least for me. The problem is running Windows games in proton. Sound will suddenly stop, then come back delayed. Apparently a known issue on some systems.
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by Verdex 9mo ago
My gaming PC isn't compatible with windows 11, so it was the first to get upgraded to Linux. Immediate and significant improvement in experience. Windows kept logging down the system trying to download a dozen different language versi
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by Verdex 9mo ago
I've worked with a lot of interns, fresh outs from college, overseas lowest bidders, and mediocre engineers who gave up years ago. All over the course of a ~20 year career. Not once in all that time has anyone PRed and merged my compl
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by Verdex 9mo ago
My dad worked in the auto industry and they came across a defect in an engine control computer where they were able to give it something like 10 million to one odds of triggering. They then turned the thing on, it ran for several seconds, e
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by Verdex 9mo ago
Yeah, I had this happen to me in an algorithms course. Tests were 80% of the grade and we had the guy who had been organizing mass homework "study" groups taking up increasingly larger sections of the class time desperately tryin
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by Verdex 9mo ago
Yeah ... that's kind of the point. The money doesn't exist, but the violence people will use if their money is misappropriated is very real. Accounting is loophole patch stacked on loophole patch for thousands and thousands of y
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by Verdex 9mo ago
Certifications have always been irrelevant for me, but that's only because my goal has always been what I'm capable of doing on my own AND (this one is a biggie) I was unbelievably fortunate to have several people in my career who
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by Verdex 10mo ago
My belief is that the function of a story is to provide social cover for our actions. Other people need to evaluate us (both in the moment and after the dust has settled) and while careful data analysis can do the job, who has time for tha
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by Verdex 10mo ago
Yeah my thought is that you wouldn't trust a brain surgeon who has read every paper on brain surgery ever written but who has never touched a scalpel. Similarly, the claim is that ~90% of communication is nonverbal, so I'm not sur
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by Verdex 10mo ago
A topic for more in depth study to be sure. However: 1) video streaming has been around for a while and nobody, as far as I'm aware, has been talking about building multiple nuclear tractors to handle the energy needs 2) video needs a
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by Verdex 10mo ago
I had Hosking as a professor. Iirc, it was an okay experience. Compilers course I believe. When the handbook came out, I bought it because "hey, I know that guy". Ultimately, I don't think it's necessary, but having a
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by Verdex 10mo ago
My objection to LLMs is the same that I had for TDD. There's all these people saying that you just gotta try it, but when I do, the effect is lesser than just using my preexisting skills. Oh, it's not for you? Wrong, here'
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by Verdex 10mo ago
For example: The output is correct but only for one input. The output is correct for all inputs but only with the mocked dependency. The output looks correct but the downstream processors expected something else. The output is correct for a
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by Verdex 10mo ago
Legal representation is the sibling of security. Security itself is a journey, not a destination. To say that you are secure is to say that you have been so clever that nobody else in the history of ever again will ever be as clever as you
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by Verdex 10mo ago
Yeah, the hyper majority of the history of "getting things done" has been: find some guy who can translate "make the crops grow" into a pile of food. The people who care about the precise details have always been relegat
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by Verdex 10mo ago
> But again, no one who is serious about their business and serious about building useful products is doing this. While this is potentially true for software companies, there are many companies for which software or even technology in ge
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by Verdex 10mo ago
This last week: * One developer tried to refactor a bunch of graph ql with an LLM and ended up checking in a bunch of completely broken code. Thankfully there were api tests. * One developer has an LLM making his PRs. He slurped up my unf
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by Verdex 10mo ago
Sure, but > If that was the endgame then there are a lot less resource and capital intensive ways to get to it.
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by Verdex 10mo ago
> IMO pivoting to ads is a sign of core weakness for OpenAI. Yeah, I've had the same thought for a while now. You don't sell investors on an endeavor for 10s of billions of dollars with the endgame being "sell ads".

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