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by a_c 2y ago
Human as an aggregate, yes. Individually, not so much. I’ve seen way too many people getting lost in life when traditional values no longer applicable to them. They still have desire, but lose all their purpose.
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by a_c 2y ago
Shooting a specific problem with general solution together with obscuring the feedback loop are perfect recipe for making bureaucracy
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by a_c 2y ago
If automation is something that get done, but not by me. Then management is automation, globalization is automation, using other people's code is automation, LLM is also automation. The central theme to me is that, what to do when thin
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by a_c 2y ago
The other day there was a Show HN about a youtube summarizer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843528 I haven't tried as it is chrome only.
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by a_c 2y ago
I was thinking to myself since when did AGI started creeping into food marketing. Good lord it hasn’t.
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by a_c 2y ago
Agile was meant to be "agile in change", not following tickets blindly. It was meant to foster collaboration between people rather than putting every detail in tickets by whatever manager/PM. So people know why they are doing
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by a_c 2y ago
Thanks for the list. To me, the watershed moment was when I was trying to implement my minimalistic neural network. Suddenly the concept of weight, activation function, back propagation made much more sense to me. Thanks to LLM, generating
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by a_c 2y ago
Human neural network build and trim connections constantly [1]. I imagine we will get much closer to AGI if we can update models dynamically, instead of just adding more neurons and more training. After all human didn't need reading bi
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by a_c 2y ago
Agree with many comments here that we have been programming this way all along and called that microprogram functions. Tangentially, I like the design of the blog https://breckyunits.com/ quite a lot. No wasted white spaces
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by a_c 2y ago
Like it or not, Stephen Wolfram. e.g. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/whats-really-goi... and https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
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by a_c 2y ago
Apart from the operation side, there is a development side parallel too. Two examples that I came across - "Test" mean if it passes on CI, it is good. Failing to run test on local? Who do development on local anyway? - Teams so re
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by a_c 2y ago
It relates to how we learn. We have at least two modes of learning, experience [1] and, someone please suggest a better word, indoctrination. Take json in database as example, around mid 2010s, NoSQL databases were all the rage. Engineers s
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by a_c 2y ago
Imagine an e-ink globe that show change of border across time, even continent if the time horizon is long enough, I will snatch it up in a heart beat
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by a_c 2y ago
I used to have a map showing Sikkim, given to me by my grandpa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sikkim
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by a_c 2y ago
In the book Immune by Philipp Detter, creator or YouTube channel Kurzgesagt, it was mentioned that parasite might been a link in developing allergy (or was it autoimmune disease, can’t remember exactly)
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by a_c 2y ago
I generate stories for my children, based on topics they learn in school, with visual and music, you guessed it, also generated. I’m the opposite end of an artist. But the generative AI is perfect for my use case. I wouldn’t be able to make
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by a_c 2y ago
I'm curious to know how are the gas emissions measured
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by a_c 2y ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned Indonesia, which is about 5k km west to east, compared to Chile about 4k north to south
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by a_c 2y ago
If it is the case, perhaps do the community a favour?
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by a_c 2y ago
I think we are re-inventing the wheel of using biochemical process to grow protein. Current meats have millions of years of evolution. Sure the types eaten most are not bred out of efficiency. Why don't we choose other starting points,
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by a_c 2y ago
Querying knowledge is not a nail, but the hammer is generation. It is written on the tin, "generation" AI. People want "insight", "summary", "workflow automation", "code completion" from a g
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by a_c 2y ago
There is a saying that pessimist is right while optimist makes progress.
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by a_c 2y ago
If we forego human read-write-ability to gain some interactivity, we got https://tiddlywiki.com/ , a single long html file
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by a_c 2y ago
What I meant was the founder got what he asked for. Short term gain at the expense of sustainability. It is a feature rather than a bug. For a company looking for product market fit, "good code" might take a back seat. Andy Grove
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by a_c 2y ago
It works in everyone’s favour. Founder got what his culture sets out to build. Customer got their features faster. Senior engineer clearly knows it is not the place for him and moved on. Everyone wins.
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by a_c 2y ago
When Americans travel, they bring their tipping culture with them. I blame, for the increasing tipping culture perceived personally and anecdotally, the americans
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by a_c 2y ago
A company I worked for has a culture of making work openly visible. Status updates, milestone achieved, marketing initatives, everything. This is on top of the team status update that every individual teams already having, leadership sync u
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by a_c 2y ago
Two propellers spin in different directions might solve it I guess
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by a_c 2y ago
I might have skimmed too fast. Productivity seemed not defined? IMO productivity is all about making product that get used. And profitability is how much people willing to pay to use such product.
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by a_c 2y ago
I have been using DDG as my primary search engine for several years. Their search results is bad now. Not sure if it is deteriorating or it was always bad but I put up with it. DDG could have adopted the Kagi way, let users rank their resul

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