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by belZaah 1y ago
Just like the next generation of social media is going to less addictive? GPT is not malicious, but it is in direct financial interests of its makers to make it as addictive as they can. And these owners have spent billions they’d like to s
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by belZaah 1y ago
My experience (30 years in software, 25 in practicing architecture, MIT system architecture masters) tells me there is no such thing as abstractly “good” design. There are designs with negative consequences for sure, but “good” depends on t
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by belZaah 1y ago
Precisely. Thus people will stop going there. Which leads to people not creating content there. Which kinda stops the very model genAI has used to grow.
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by belZaah 1y ago
There is no silver bullet (Brooks). The complex part of programming is not writing code. It’s the conceptualization of the problem. Even if one day Claude is able to crank out perfect code fully autonomously, the complex part of figuring ou
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by belZaah 1y ago
Engine scales without limits. There is no mechanism by which more engines in use lead to worse engines (leading to less use of engines). LLM output quality suffers heavily as the percentage of human-generated input drops. Which is what is h
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by belZaah 1y ago
There’s also a systems level rationale to this. Without good isolation, you’ll get a feedback loop: threads start to step on each other’s toes. This leads to slower response times. Which, at a given request pressure, leads to more parallel
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by belZaah 1y ago
When systems people talk about system design, they talk about the whole value-generating system and not just software or hardware. This typically involves people and brings in issues like the Conway’s Law. A tightly coupled team with little
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by belZaah 1y ago
Lovely, shows Crimea as part of Russia. Despite the UN not recognizing it as such. Can we have a map, that’s not based on opinions, please?
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by belZaah 1y ago
Amazon with all its power and incentive still can’t figure out there’s a limited number of toilet seats I might need. Linkedin is still offering me (50ish male, 30+ years in it, 15+ years of teaching in universities, board member etc) jobs
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by belZaah 1y ago
Y’all need some Brooks in your lives. The No Silver Bullet essay explains very clearly, why the ability to string syntactically correct commands together does not equal the ability to write code.
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by belZaah 1y ago
I teach Enterpise Architecture on graduate level. I would absolutely not mind people using AI as an OS or an information source or a therapist. I would not mind them looking things up in an encyclopedia, so why mind them using AI. What I do
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by belZaah 1y ago
Complexity is a known problem in systems engineering. There are useful metrics, that correlate well with both cognitive and financial metrics. Prof. De Weck and his group at the MIT are doing great research on this
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by belZaah 1y ago
There’s no silver bullet. Conceptualization is the hard part, exactly as you say. Mythical man-month is an important text and should be studied more.
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by belZaah 1y ago
Oh, but it is “better” in one very crucial way: it enables global transactions, that are difficult to trace yet accessible. Without crypto, we would not have the scourge of ransomware
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by belZaah 2y ago
People will still enjoy making music. Musicians will make music quite regardless of whether anyone is listening or whether there’s recordings or AI available.
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by belZaah 2y ago
The truly horrible thing is, that it might not be possible. That the federal government has grown so complex, that it is no longer possible to maintain a modicum of control or to stop its further growth without destructive action. Simply be
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by belZaah 2y ago
Technique is a big part of it. There’s actually a specific way to fast running engaging your core and making sure all parts of your legs are used in a way most suitable for them.
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by belZaah 2y ago
That’s unfortunately the best you can get without a personal identification number. G is doing their best to establish your identity in the context, that actively tries to prevent them from doing so. Solving contradictory requirements will
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by belZaah 2y ago
To put it in other words: it is not clear when and how they hallucinate. With a person, their competence could be understood and also their limits. But a llm can happily give different answers based on trivial changes in the question with n
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by belZaah 2y ago
I think the smart people working on them understand, that a llm can fundamentally never be trusted with the math. It does not do calculation, it guesses the next token. Mathematically, the linear algebra behind a llm does not analytically t
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by belZaah 2y ago
The pattern is clear, though: a LLM by design will enforce whatever patterns it detects. As a consequence, we’ll end up with a content heat-death where all available content is pretty much the same
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by belZaah 2y ago
That is a common misconception and, it would appear, one that’s purposefully cultivated. You need to trust at least three things: that the math doesn’t have some sort of loophole, that the code you are running does what it sais on the tin a
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by belZaah 2y ago
Oh were it that easy. While, absolutely, you could not gain weight with a calorie deficit, a targeted calorie deficit alone is not a direct path to loosing weight. If what you eat goes straight to fat (sugar, highly processed foods etc), yo
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by belZaah 2y ago
I know this feeling, having seen an universally loved service made by passionate excellent engineers, my people, driven to shit along with the organization. It took a long time to get to grips with it. But then I realized, that the people w
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by belZaah 2y ago
The man gets it. It’s a mental effort as much as it is a physical one. There’s a reason the longer the ultra, the faster women are compared to men. Having just done a 70.3 yesterday I can confirm the journey part, too. It’s a whole lot like
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by belZaah 2y ago
Might it because you do not remember the currency of the time was knowledge? In absence of Internet, people traded knowledge, their status depended on this, they got access to cool things because of it. And, as with any valuable, there’s bo
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by belZaah 2y ago
The neurodivergence part got to me. Almost by definition, it takes effort (i.e, is harder) to interact with a person that’s different. So why is it controversial to say it takes effort to interact with a neurodivergent person. As one myself
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by belZaah 2y ago
The difference being, that about half the population has zero chance against the other half in most sports. And for vast majority of the cases, it is very clear-cut as to which group someone belongs. Phelps, on the other hand, is a singular
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by belZaah 2y ago
It’s because they are considered “big digital projects”. Any significant it change necessarily involves an even larger organizational change. Ignore that, and fail.
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by belZaah 2y ago
There’s been a bunch of progress in the field since then. Oliver de Weck from MIT and his group have devised a way to calculate system complexity, correlates that with both cost and cognitive effort and shown, that it indeed has a hump-like

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