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by blueboo 2y ago
LLMs generating just-in-time UI has a lot of interest and effort going into it. It's usually called "generative UI" or "dynamic UI generation". It was a pretty hot about a year ago. Here's a HF blog on it http
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by blueboo 2y ago
Instant, universal, and immaculately-fair is the real impossible standard. Your line of thought has long been in the arsenal in defense of inaction let's permit the firefighters to leave the firehouse even though they can't tend t
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by blueboo 2y ago
Just as plagiarism checkers harden the output of plagiarists. This goes back to a principle of safety engineering: the safer, reliable, trustworthy you make the system, the more catastrophic the failures when they happen.
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by blueboo 2y ago
Game changers are game changers, and they're healthy once in a while. Shifting your process challenges different muscles and surfaces different talents. Embrace fads, try things out, retain your favorite bits.
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by blueboo 2y ago
And the unimpeachable accountability of cryptocurrency ledgers means .. an epidemic of fraud
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by blueboo 2y ago
We may in retrospect find that the moment may have passed where "big corporations" have become more powerful and impactful on our lives than the IP laws on the books. After all, we can already plainly see they only come into effec
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by blueboo 2y ago
I prefer Campbell’s Law — the more a metric is used in social decision-making, the more likely it is to be manipulated. You’ve stated the widely-accepted formulation of Goodhart’s, but it can be interesting to note Charles Goodhart’s origin
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by blueboo 2y ago
Considering we have 25 years of adtech and we presently have multiple effective solutions for adblocking on mobile and desktop, I’d need some additional evidence to be sure that is “ultimately a losing battle”.
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by blueboo 2y ago
Fred Brooks said it best 50 years ago > The programmer builds from pure thought-stuff: concepts and very flexible representations thereof. Because the medium is tractable, we expect few difficulties in implementation; hence our pervasive
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by blueboo 2y ago
It’s hard to say when we’re still looking for a first real household robot. But a car-priced (60k?) housekeeper bot will be very popular. And those duties can be achieved with today’s mechanics — they just need good control, which is now se
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by blueboo 2y ago
This seems really weak. Households in which kids play more video games than watch TV likely have significant other environmental effects that may swamp the effect of video games. Imagine contrasting a house with the TV on all day vs one whe
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by blueboo 2y ago
Despite your observation that SO has explanations, SO can he and has also been used as a zero-learning crutch. Similarly, LLMs can be used as educational tools. In the end, learning and self-improvement needs some non-trivial motivation f
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by blueboo 2y ago
It could be worse. It could’ve been Llama 3.1 (New)
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by blueboo 2y ago
Indeed…I wonder what the path not taken, a more optimal k8 rearchitecting would look like
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by blueboo 2y ago
Sure, but it’d be a lot more interesting and challenging to build a 100 visualizations where each gives a unique insight of the same dataset. An isometric 3d bar chart is just going through the motions. Next, 1 essay, 100 fonts!…
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by blueboo 2y ago
Fun idea. Let’s change how the knight behaves. Or try it on Really Bad Chess (puzzles with impossible layouts) or 6x6 chess or 8x9 chess. I wonder if there are variants that have good baselines. It might be tough to evaluate vis a vis human
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by blueboo 2y ago
Titanic had sister ships, one of which hit a mine and sank, the other lived out a full life. The peril came from being led into dangerous waters. Maybe your analogy is more right than you know. The question is, who’s Titanic, Olympic, and B
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by blueboo 2y ago
It’s only “potential” insofar as bad behaviour may or may not be exposed sooner or later. I think it’s more useful to understand betting’s impact as a constant corrosive effect. Betting poisons the incentives
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by blueboo 2y ago
AGI is a black swan. Even as a booster and techno-optimist I concede that getting there (rhetorically) requires a first principles assumptions-scaffolding that relies on at-least-in-part-untested hypotheses. Proving its impossibility is sim
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by blueboo 2y ago
You can theoretically ship at any time. But it might be broken, slow, harmful, or fail some critical objective. Team dysfunction is inseparable from tech dysfunction. Imagine one team owns three quarters of this service as another owns half
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by blueboo 2y ago
What are your favourites? A podcast curating great short stories sounds interesting, done well
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by blueboo 2y ago
Founder mode is implementing cliches well (hire pros, empower with agency) and manager mode is implementing them poorly (hire fakes, watch them fail) That’s it, folks. As always, the devil’s in the details, not the Startup School maxims. As
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by blueboo 2y ago
The phone form factor is yelling something at us and UX designers just can’t hear it. Hint: We don’t spend our days scrolling horizontally
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by blueboo 2y ago
IIUC the lesson of blog SEO is that, if you want to grow your readership, copious attention-co-opting calls to action are unambiguously worth the annoyance foisted on discerning readers. What’s respectful to users is a separate (but not who
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by blueboo 2y ago
That seems reasonable, but at the same time my understanding is that there’s enormous value in novice and intermediate players to memorizing openings. I wonder if that effect is significant enough to categorize chess as another high-rote-me
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by blueboo 2y ago
Food photography is a great genre to build these muscles. Photographing food incorrectly makes it look unappetising and alienating, so there’s a dramatic reward-gradient for framing correctly and understanding light. A small number of techn
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by blueboo 2y ago
Like iPhones they’re not needed but once people try it they’ll want it, approximately universally.
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by blueboo 2y ago
Consider the savings to add 15hr/wk of commute time to the onsite workforce. Yikes
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by blueboo 2y ago
Even worse is the minute-to-minute reporting of “AAPL down 17!” “GM below $40!” .. as if the media is actively eroding our statistical intuition. I used to have a broker who would always quote the spot price of the stock after every stock n
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by blueboo 2y ago
The TiVo problem https://a16z.com/distribution-vs-innovation/

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