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by bckr 5mo ago
I think it’s worth having a tiny model that can convert a short sentence into a structured tool call. Now you can add an orchestration layer and you have separation of concerns. That orchestration layer can be a mixture of deterministic and
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by bckr 6mo ago
yes. But also some stuff will be amazing.
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by bckr 6mo ago
Are you part of a union? How can we get the tech industry unionized?
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by bckr 6mo ago
I think it’s ALL getting commoditized. The winners here are engineers (who are onboard with the agentic surge) and, hopefully, users who get more and better software.
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by bckr 6mo ago
“Put that **** directly into my veins”, as they say
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by bckr 8mo ago
Look, we’ve had nukes for almost 100 years now. Do you really think our ancient alien zookeepers are gonna let us wipe with AI? Semi /j
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by bckr 8mo ago
not a very helpful response tbh
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by bckr 8mo ago
Labor organization yes! I don't quite know how to achieve it. I also worry that my desire to become a manager is in direct conflict with my desire to contribute to labor organization. On a separate note, I have the intensification prob
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by bckr 8mo ago
The average person sees some headlines and gets a vague awareness that the guy is some kind of super genius who is single handedly changing the world. The average person who has an opinion on musk has roughly the same long term memory conso
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by bckr 8mo ago
Conveniently, about the amount of time it takes for the average person to forget and/or rematerialize in a new parallel dimension
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by bckr 9mo ago
> and wait for the caller to speak first You know why this is, right? Most phone calls these days are spam or otherwise annoyances. Many are literally just seeing if a person picks up. They’re listening to see if you’re a real human bein
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by bckr 9mo ago
I’ve been playing ARC Raiders. These things are how I imagine the blueprints in that game to be. Hand-buildable every day tools that prioritize for reliability
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by bckr 9mo ago
A family member has been living with prostate cancer for around a decade. Get screened and get treated.
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by bckr 9mo ago
The new abstraction is “this corporation owns this IP and has engineers who can fix and extend it at will”. You can’t git clone that. But if there is something off the shelf that you can use for the task at hand? Great! The stakeholders wan
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by bckr 10mo ago
Gemini is good at reading bad handwriting you say? Might need to give it a shot at my 10 years of journals
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by bckr 10mo ago
I’m afraid you’re conflating understanding with obedience.
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by bckr 10mo ago
Extremely inspiring
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by bckr 10mo ago
That’s where they take their big pile of data and train the model to do next-token-prediction.
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by bckr 10mo ago
“Data voids”
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by bckr 11mo ago
My friend that is AI. However, it can get a lot better: be more aware of screen content, follow multiple instructions at once, keep context in mind throughout the conversation and from past interactions
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by bckr 11mo ago
That’s a terribly myopic take
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by bckr 11mo ago
My favorites are Public Works, The Midway, and 1015 Folsom
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by bckr 1y ago
This brings up a question I’ve had for a while: Is it possible to create a programming language that has every possible feature all at once? I realize there are many features that are opposed to each other. Is it possible to “simply” set a
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by bckr 1y ago
You meant to comment on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708292
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by bckr 1y ago
Merging strategies, conflict resolution, bisect debugging, and version control in general are very computer sciencey. Would make a great course.
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by bckr 1y ago
> Its "world model" is several degrees removed from the real world. Like insects that weave tokens
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by bckr 1y ago
That the ideas are given little attention is the substantial basis in determining that they are fringe. If an idea is given a lot of attention, it might be mainstream or fringe, depending on how accepted it is. It might be getting a lot of
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by bckr 1y ago
It’s an essay with a title that is tongue-in-cheek. It’s throwing shade at flat earthers.
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by bckr 1y ago
I’m thinking the vast majority of the value comes not from enabling survival but from de-alienation, which I believe is fundamental in reaching a better overall state.
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by bckr 1y ago
I think any serious countries of the future will spend substantial resources planting self-sufficiency caches every so many kilo acres. Students should be taught the basics of booting and sustaining a self-sufficient pod. It shouldn’t be ab

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