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by bfeynman 5mo ago
is that really what people want? The fact that people say why not have 50 story concrete blocks everywhere to get more people feels like exact thing that would destroy what makes living in the city nice... Tenement housing sucked, why add
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by bfeynman 5mo ago
probably just AI slop and using wrong semantics, they mean speedup ratio.
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by bfeynman 5mo ago
it's more straightforward to write safe rust when rust owns everything, In real world you often are interfacing with underlying libs or systems etc, which you need to treat as invariants but also handle yousrelf manually to make guara
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by bfeynman 5mo ago
Very hyped for this and updates. Have been using my own workarounds for a while with own WAL things and then sort of generating snapshots which with duckdb is so cheap was simpler than really implementing concurrent writes and mutations bu
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by bfeynman 5mo ago
do you have experience as PMs? Looking at website, it looks like you just use llms to guess what categories are? Seems like trap for garbage in garbage out. Otherwise you would need someone technical to figure out how to setup the proper K
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by bfeynman 5mo ago
A lot of software practices are not based on engineering but rather psychology, and based on the fact that software costs $$$ to develop and maintain. There has been a complete paradigm shift with AI and it has underlined all of this. It&
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by bfeynman 6mo ago
How is it not analogous to data leakage? The claim is that the system works autonomously, or at minimum could , but there is effectively signal via human in the loop feedback. That's leakage into test time evaluation. Also the coding
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by bfeynman 6mo ago
that is ... not correct? This is classic example of data leakage, the yes/no things are signals feeding back to the model influencing (and here, basically guiding) future decisions.
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by bfeynman 6mo ago
I feel bad that people have to read this. It's complete puffery, made up for clicks, and the biggest thing is the pure bravado with which a company says, "Hey, let's just waste a ton of money, all for a potential blog and mar
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by bfeynman 6mo ago
Isn't what the leading labs are currently chasing after is not pretraining and massive parameters but enriched and deep fine tuning and post training for agentic tasks/coding? MoE with just new post training paradigms lets smalle
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by bfeynman 6mo ago
Nice read but falls into a vast reductionist trap, a lot of survivorship bias dressed up as design philosophy or strategic bets. The context of decisions made decades ago != now, people were working under different constraints etc. Tryin
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by bfeynman 6mo ago
Robinhood did exact same thing, it's more for marketing reach and distribution stuff. Wouldn't be surprised in few years they let it go or spin it down, just paying for a funnel/some narrative control
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by bfeynman 7mo ago
pretty horrifying. I only use it as lightweight wrapper and will most likely move away from it entirely. Not worth the risk
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by bfeynman 7mo ago
not to mention they are using 3p apis for everything.. gemini, reranking etc...
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by bfeynman 7mo ago
I think I've lost count of how many of these start ups I've seen. But what I really cant fathom is that pricing which is completely out of band. You can already talk to files directly with gemini, just wrapping other apis etc ma
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by bfeynman 7mo ago
Does anyone else find the way they are writing this full marketing hubris that definitely misconstrues how most people would interpret this. Codex isn't a "model" that is self improving, it's using GPT to write code tha
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by bfeynman 7mo ago
Lot of puffery in this describing constraint and actual messy problems that you are all most likely just being thrown into the context for an llm agent... None of the case studies demonstrate complex scheduling at all and are just all indi
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by bfeynman 7mo ago
openclaw while cool just allowed a larger tranche of technophiles who didn't necessarily have all the skills/understanding or time to do a bunch of things that have been readily available for like over 1.5 years. There is value i
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by bfeynman 8mo ago
All in on AWS and using GitOps with TF instead of much more feature rich CDK...
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by bfeynman 8mo ago
Basic knowledge of civic history and political science makes this point very salient. Anyone with a clue would know this from the beginning - that's why it was so terrifying to see what actually was motivating people, feels like the u
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by bfeynman 8mo ago
the ability to almost "discover" or create hype is highly valued despite most of the time it being luck and one hit wonders... See many of the apps that had virality and got quickly acquired and then just hemorrhaged. Openclaw i
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by bfeynman 8mo ago
What part is new? the thing that took off is that it allows technophiles who couldn't probably flash a raspberry pi to feel like they are hackers. All of this stuff exists in tons of random AI apps that exist already it just wasn&#x27
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by bfeynman 9mo ago
Not a great metric, research in academia doesn't necessarily translate to value. In the US they've poached so many academics because of how much value they directly translate to.
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by bfeynman 9mo ago
This stuff is funny because it shows how worthless the actual service is on top of it and its mostly a wrapper in race to bottom. Same thing when cursor talks about how growth was flatlining until gpt-4 came out... So many of these compan
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by bfeynman 9mo ago
I feel like Apple makes this very hard and against their ToS right or in a gray area, aka shut it down at any moment. There are businesses that solely try to manage provisioning of verified apple accounts and having worked with a bunch of
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by bfeynman 9mo ago
Having worked with mobile messaging and AI and trying to wrestle with iMessage and WhatsApp because I'm pretty sure this goes against ToS as they monitor how many new contacts and messages you're sending and get flagged to be shu
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by bfeynman 9mo ago
this is funny in context of their main dev advocate constantly bragging about how claude writes all of his code for claude code cli....
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by bfeynman 9mo ago
In what world do you get that conclusion? Dense cities in other parts of the world rely on mass transit to move people. FSD so you can have self driving cars in the street -> ? -> increasing congestion. The point is you should have mo
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by bfeynman 9mo ago
The manifold structure of embedding spaces isn't semantically uniform, you've found a nice little novelty thing but it's not rigorous, and using AI slop to name this vector algebra instead of finding or running a benchmark to
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by bfeynman 9mo ago
lots of highfalutin language trying to make something thats pretty hand wavy look like it's not. Where are the benchmarks? The "vector algebra" framing with @X + @Y - @Z is a falsehood. Embedding spaces don't form any m

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