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by alfalfasprout 11mo ago
And what makes you think they're short term?
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by alfalfasprout 11mo ago
Wikipedia also didn't have remotely the controls they have today around review + locking contentious articles, etc.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
It's a metric attribution problem. The real metric should be reduction in homeless, for example (though even that can be gamed through bussing them out, etc-- tactics that unfortunately other cities have adopted). But attributing that
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
Investors are trying to bet on OpenAI being the first to replace all human skilled labor. Of course, this is foolish for a few reasons: 1. Performance of AI tools improving but marginally so in practice 2. If human labor was replaced, it&#x
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
They're concentrated there because they've been asked to concentrate there. That can change on a dime. It's not like data centers are mainly in SF.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
Yep, pixi is game changing. Especially for AI/ML, the ability to deal with non-python dependencies in nearly as fast a way as `uv` is huge. We have some exciting work leveraging the lower level primatives pixi uses we hope to share mor
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
Yep. The problem is then leadership sees this and says "oh, we too can expect 10x productivity if everyone uses these tools. We'll force people to use them or else." And guess what happens? Reality doesn't match expectat
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
Reality: the trump admin has shown that the law doesn't matter in the short term. If they think it's "DEI" they'll find a way to yank funding/make an example out of an organization agreeing to this. Even if the
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
If humans "generate plausible looking data" despite any processes to ensure data quality they've likely engaged in willful fraud. An LLM doing so needn't even be willful from the author's part. We're going to s
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
proficient != near-flawless. > Most Excel work is similar to basic coding so I think this is an area where they might actually be pretty well suited. This is a hot take. One I'm not sure many would agree with.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
I'm extremely skeptical of these claims. Especially when we're dealing with careful prompting to adjust tone/style.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
This x100. While I do use AI in (Neo)vim it's not built in and you can take it or leave it. And even when you do choose to use it it's on an as-needed/wanted basis.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
What do you get using a GUI frontend? I'm genuinely curious. I have a pretty modern neovim setup and have never missed having a GUI. Heck, on modern terminals there's even pretty great mouse integration if you want.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
You do need to justify them to investors. Layoffs are, historically, a sign of weakness and has an effect on growth. Companies need to be strategic with the messaging so as to not scare shareholders. Hence, they use "strategic refocusi
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
I mean, you can't really disprove either being an issue.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
It also means that when the VC money runs dry, it's sustainable to run those models on-device vs. losing money running on those $$$$$ GPUs (or requiring consumers to opt for expensive subscriptions).
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
> I think Apple execs genuinely underestimated how difficult it would be to get LLMs to perform up to Apple's typical standards of polish and control Not only Apple, this is happening across the industry. Executives' expectatio
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
Hyperbole of this comment aside, what else do you suggest then? It's a fundamental tradeoff between allowing multiple ways for apps to be installed or forcing everything through a single installation workflow (a la iOS and its App Stor
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
> New typecheckers don't need to be perfect. They need to be good enough, easy to integrate and have low false positives. Sure, they will improve with time, but if feels like a pain then no one will pick it up. Python users are famo
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
This. Now that LSPs are natively understood by neovim it's a very painless process. Especially if using mason to fetch the language servers.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
Yep, this pattern of LLMs reviewing LLMs is terrifying to me. It's literally the inmates running the asylum.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
TBH this seems useful only for a very select niche. If you're a company and you have several GPU machines in a cluster, then this is kinda useless b/c you'd have to go on each container or node to view the dashboard. Sure, th
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
One important caveat to remember is that this is before a lot of the work on free-threaded python started in full force. A lot of cutting edge work had to be done to support this in the GC but this came with performance penalties. As a re
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
> And this is a bit disappointing. At least for this test, the JIT interpreter did not produce any significant performance gains, so much that I had to double and triple check that I used a correctly built interpreter with this feature e
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
> And this is a bit disappointing. At least for this test, the JIT interpreter did not produce any significant performance gains, so much that I had to double and triple check that I used a correctly built interpreter with this feature e
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
> Devs have been taught from a young age that it's always you, not the tools you were given, and that's generally true. That's not been my experience at all FWIW. Tools get things wrong all the time. Simply that more matur
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
If it runs into the cable and tumbles down on you, it's a very real risk.
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
What benefit would a new appleTV have other than reduced bandwidth usage?
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
You could explore a different paradigm entirely. The svalboard ( https://svalboard.com/ ) is the modern evolution of the datahands and goes much further than mere thumb clusters and programmable firmware. Really great and act
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by alfalfasprout 1y ago
right? The irony is so thick you could cut it with a butter knife

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