bigmadshoe

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by bigmadshoe 6d ago
There's a big difference between reintroducing this unoriginal point in the context of this thread and presenting an entire piece of LLM writing as your own. That phrase from this comment isn't pretending to be an original piece o
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by bigmadshoe 7d ago
Crazy word salad that further proves to me that we don't understand these things. Speaking as an ML engineer.
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by bigmadshoe 8d ago
I'm not sure I agree. The market pressure for this innovation might not have been there with Nvidia chips still available. In this case it is coming from necessity.
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by bigmadshoe 9d ago
Perhaps the future Chinese hardware would not be so cheap or performant had Nvidia export controls not been put into place.
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by bigmadshoe 10d ago
It likely isn't trained on that task so performance would be worse than frontier models specifically trained for coding.
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by bigmadshoe 10d ago
It isn't marginally faster, it seems to be approx 100x faster and 10-100x cheaper.
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by bigmadshoe 10d ago
I think they mean reasoning their way to the need for a web search.
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by bigmadshoe 10d ago
Again, I am not making comparisons adjusted to salaries. I'm just proving that claims that the cost of living is "just as high or even higher than the US" (not adjusting for salary) are false. Simply looking around Vancouver
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by bigmadshoe 11d ago
And not everyone who works in Vancouver lives in the city of Vancouver either. There are 10 or so other cities within commuting distance. A fair comparison would compare areas outside of SF with areas outside of Vancouver. There are obvious
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by bigmadshoe 12d ago
There is a lot of data available online that you can find very easily. Zillow for example, regarding rent: SF average rent: $4,795USD [1] Vancouver average rent: $2840USD [2] [1] https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/ma
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by bigmadshoe 12d ago
There are several websites aggregating rent data that put SF rent at around 2x that of Vancouver, which is itself the most expensive city in Canada. I agree that many people would be worse off financially moving to Canada due to the lower s
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by bigmadshoe 12d ago
I was just in Vancouver staying with some friends who had a 3 bedroom in a nice neighborhood for $3700CAD ($2700USD) per month. I know several people in SF paying that for a studio. Beyond anecdotes, various comparison websites have rent in
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by bigmadshoe 12d ago
Yes, I agree on all points. I have researched this a lot as I'm also planning a move to Vancouver for life reasons. I was just replying to the plainly false claim that cost of living in NYC/SF is the same as that in the most expen
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by bigmadshoe 12d ago
Then we should compare to the Vancouver metro area, which is also cheaper. I'm not denying that the cost of living to salary ratio is better in the US. But it is simply false to say that the cost of living in cities like Vancouver (wid
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by bigmadshoe 12d ago
This just isn't true. Yes, ratio of salary to cost of living is better in the US, setting aside the precarious immigration process, political instability, high rates of gun crime, lack of healthcare, etc. I left this reply to someone e
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by bigmadshoe 12d ago
"major Canadian metros were as if not more expensive than SF/NYC" That just isn't true. You can easily look up the cost of living for e.g. Vancouver: > Cost of Living Including Rent in San Francisco, CA is 57.8% highe
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by bigmadshoe 14d ago
It isn't enjoyable to me. Middle managing a team of engineers is something people get paid high six figures for. That isn't my passion.
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by bigmadshoe 14d ago
If I can tell a hammer to build a house, go have lunch, and come back to a finished section, then yes, I'm not really building anymore am I?
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by bigmadshoe 14d ago
I completely disagree. The mindset that leaves you trapped is focusing on the destination and not the journey. I will never paint like Michaelangelo but it feels good to apply myself to the pursuit of painting, even if the resulting paintin
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by bigmadshoe 14d ago
Leading a collaborative effort can obviously be described as bringing the project to life. People want to feel like they are collaborating with LLMs and are still the visionary in the process. As the performance of these systems improves th
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by bigmadshoe 14d ago
If Claude is doing your job for you do you not worry that you won't be employed soon? Big tech eventually won't pay people to drink coffee and work on their personal projects while Claude does their work for them.
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by bigmadshoe 14d ago
You didn't bring anything to life. You just described it.
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by bigmadshoe 14d ago
A point is coming very soon where coding agents are not tools but are just your replacement. If you prompt a coding agent to make you something then go have lunch, you didn't make anything, it did.
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by bigmadshoe 14d ago
"But I don’t think you do love it. I think you love being praised for being smart. The pats on the head. That’s the most likely explanation for why your motivation for coding by hand has disappeared." I think you (and almost every
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by bigmadshoe 17d ago
It’s a tradeoff between privacy/freedom from government overreach and solving these crimes. This is fine as long as you and the government agree on exactly what constitutes bad behavior. Does the current regime in the US give you hope
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by bigmadshoe 20d ago
I don't think your definition matches the general consensus.
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by bigmadshoe 1mo ago
Why do doctors need to be paid integer multiples more in the US than every other country on earth? This is not rhetorical, I mean it sincerely. And I’m aware that medical debt is a big issue, but it seems like a chicken-or-the-egg type prob
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
Why are people giving these n=1 comparisons like they mean anything? The worst offender is that pelican guy. These are non-deterministic systems and a single trial should not update your priors much at all. Of course it's significant t
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
I think that’s a fair point, and my response wasn’t to suggest that financing is inherently a bad thing. I was replying to the question “doesn’t everyone win from this?”, and I believe the realistic answer is that no, Apple wins and financi
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
Can you elaborate on this? I’m not an expert at all but this seems so far from true I’m struggling to understand if you’re serious. Wouldn’t we expect tens of millions of casualties, nuclear fallout rendering large swathes of countries unin

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