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by blueboo 2y ago
rich.inspect has been my go-to for this. Comes pre-installed in a vanilla Colab kernel too
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by blueboo 2y ago
Just because there wasn't Twitter and App Stores doesn't mean there weren't fashions and markets -- they were located in different places in the culture. I don't mean to deflate your lofty romanticizations of the man and
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by blueboo 2y ago
It rings a bit false when juxtaposed with their $40b spend on the Metaverse…where was the savvy leveraging of the open source community then? Meanwhile Meta’s competitors commoditise and glean profits from actually-SOTA LLM offerings. In an
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by blueboo 2y ago
Bach was a fashion(-driven) designer like any other artist, reacting to and driving trends of his time. With that framing, they never stopped composing like Bach
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by blueboo 2y ago
Demis on designing DeepMind: "When we set up DeepMind, I took inspiration for our research culture from many innovative organizations, including Bell Labs and the Apollo program, but also creative cultures like Pixar." https:&#x2
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by blueboo 2y ago
Is this better than looptube.xyz , YouXube.io, LooperTube, RepeatTube, YouTubeLoop or any of the other hits for “loop youtube”?
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by blueboo 2y ago
Ah but if they’re forced to compete, the same “crap” might not automatically top the charts.
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by blueboo 2y ago
Why would you set temperature=1 for this task?
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by blueboo 2y ago
What would it take to support AE plugins? Nail that and you have something to make Adobe nervous.
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by blueboo 2y ago
There are many tools. Save-and-triage with Todoist, tag and search with Pocket, knowledge management tools galore. I’m going to strawman a bit here, this might not be your issue, but I think it’s useful because this is a common pathology. T
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by blueboo 2y ago
I find this unconvincing. Words described those terms just fine as you just proved.
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by blueboo 2y ago
it's intellectual ego catnip. https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
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by blueboo 2y ago
I dunno. Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Workspace. There’s a lot there that’s knit together. Compared to what, Safari, Pages and Messages? Teams, Word, and Outlook? They all have their issues. Maybe the crux of it is chat. If your work is integ
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by blueboo 2y ago
Fake it til you make it is a fundamental principle of startups. We just don’t usually see it at such a vast scale. There’s a timeline where Theranos was acquired for 9b by UnitedHealth if they could keep the grift alive juuust a bit longer
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by blueboo 2y ago
Their competitors didn’t win. That’s not the same as failing, insofar as building technology goes. Business, sure
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by blueboo 2y ago
Love mp3tag. And now in 2024 we can go one step further -- LLMs are the ultimate solution to finally tagging your entire collection consistently.
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by blueboo 2y ago
even AGI has its limits.
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by blueboo 2y ago
Design docs are vehicles for discussion. The idea is that they are the most efficient way to communicate your intention, motivation, why not alternatives. They are one mechanism that fits in a broader working culture. If you’re working solo
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by blueboo 2y ago
They’re a PM’s whim away from being steamrolled by their foundation model vendor. And these startups are doing the product market fit for them The bigger the opportunity, the more general the audience, the juicier the B2B market, the greate
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by blueboo 2y ago
Well, the “acknowledge and mark” phrase gets at the statement—That if the org thought objective X was authentic existential goal, it behooves them to understand how an applicant understands and would configure into that plan. (I have no cla
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by blueboo 2y ago
This is the premise: There are outstanding systemic inequities at every level of American society. The threat these represent to our long term survival and prosperity are such that we are keen to at least acknowledge and mark our and our pr
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by blueboo 2y ago
the stupendous risk taken on by founders confounds instincts, and we're already filtering to folks who have resorted to taking money from third- or fourth-tier options
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by blueboo 2y ago
First of all, yes, this is a provocative prompt that bears engagement. You're right to be concerned. I share your frustration with the reticence of seasoned engineers to engage with these tools. However, "structuring and executing
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by blueboo 2y ago
Also is perfectly aligned with Yann’s goals as an (academic) researcher whose career is built on academic community kudos far more than, say, building a successful business
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by blueboo 2y ago
Quite convenient that you’d only pay software if developers contacted you years in advance, and none of them were clever enough to do so
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by blueboo 3y ago
Agreed, it’s truly mind boggling. My moment: coming home from a computer show with a spectacular deal — $80 for an 80Mb drive to be installed in our Compaq 286 suitcase unit. (Imagine having 100mb!)
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by blueboo 3y ago
Brooks in MMM identifies five reasons people love programming. “1. The sheer joy of making things. 2. The pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. 3. The fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlockin
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by blueboo 3y ago
Natural language is how we talk about music and we’ve been talking about music since time immemorial. What’s your favourite music? Why?
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by blueboo 3y ago
If there’s variance in output, it stands to reason you’d generate many X your desired output count and curate. Standard practice for creative output, from Midjourney to LLMs
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by blueboo 3y ago
I suspect you’re right. The Mezzanine and Human Smoke were two of my most impactful reading experiences. Mutually, totally orthogonal and yet both speak to the unbelievable cardinality of complexity in real life

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