bonoboTP

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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Sure, and it's often warranted to be cynical about this, but the work about the work is really really important. Often the lower level worker thinks they do everything and the upper levels just chat and politick around. E.g. if you&#x2
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Maybe it's implicit, but you didn't mention why process-people hate illegible tribal knowledge. It's because they fear that the people may have better leverage in salary re-negotiation, and if they bail, the knowledge disappe
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Yes, and the number of atoms in the observable universe is also finite. I obviously didn't mean it literally. The point is that they don't need to do any personal action per sale. Selling 10x as much does not make them 10x as much
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I'm talking about HTML (or other markup, in the form of text) vs image. That simply getting the markup as text tokens will be much harder to interpret since it's not clear where the elements will end up. I guess I can't make
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I remember paging through the IKEA catalog and OTTO clothing catalog at my grandparents house in the summer. We were bored. I think this is just nostalgia. Today even if there was a print version, it wouldn't mean the same to people as
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Do you know what "positional encoding" means?
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That's ridiculous, sorry. If that were so, we wouldn't have positional encodings in vision transformers.
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The original comment I replied to said "You can navigate a website without visually decoding the image of a website." I replied that decoding is necessary to know where the elements will end up in a visual arrangement, because oft
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It would have to implicitly render the HTML+CSS to know which two elements visually end up next to each other, if the markup is spaghetti and badly done.
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Yes, and here they also operate deterministic GUI tools. Thing is, many GUI programs are not designed so well. Their best interface and the only interface they were tested and designed for is the visual one.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
It does, because it's hard to infer where each element will end up in the render. So a checkbox may be set up in a shitty way such that the corresponding text label is not properly placed in the DOM, so it's hard to tell what the
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> It's maybe the case that books as a whole is a winner-takes-all market. Books, music, films, games, basically all creative things. Because everyone can just watch/read/listen to the best of the best. It's not like r
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
It's on the brand of stuff that works. Expert systems and formal symbolic if-else, rules based reasoning was tried, it failed. Real life is messy and fat-tailed.
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Except if its a messy div soup with various shitty absolute and relative pixel offsets where the only way to know what refers to what is by rendering it and using gestalt principles.
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Yeah, that would be pretty good honestly. It could immediately upgrade every car ever made to self driving and then it could also do your laundry without buying a new washing machine and everything else. It's just hard to do. But it wi
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
The rendered visual layout is designed in a way to be spatially organized perceptually to make sense. It's a bit like PDFs. I imagine that the underlying hierarchy tree can be quite messy and spaghetti, so your best bet is to use it in
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
There are some absolutely atrocious UIs out there for many office workers, who spend hours clicking buttons opening popup after popup clicking repetitively on checkboxes etc. E.g. entering travel costs or somesuch in academia and elsewhere.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Sure, but many people just want to have a super basic academic site with like 1 or 2 pages ("simple minimalist academic-like website" as it was phrased upthread), and then start to fiddle with a million frameworks and the compilat
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Yeah, I got fed up with all the dependencies and processes and workflows and configurations and just manually made my site like it's 2004, just hand-written HTML+CSS+JS. As long as it's a small personal site, this is very robust a
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
There are multiple branches they are exploring. This is a more structured one. But they also work on Agents that load the website and produce clicks to do the task. Also, this requires hand design, but they also work on generating the gui j
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
The number of humanities graduates ballooned and there were no jobs for it. Also, generally the humanities turned in a direction that the wider population doesn't approve of. Just one example is ugly architecture, ugly paintings, unstr
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
This is part of the fight regarding whether we will have utility apps inside the chat app or chatboxes inside the utility apps. Obviously OpenAI would prefer that they are in the driver seat and delegate to passive apps, while regular apps
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
From the book > Philosophy behind the Napkin approach > As far as I can tell, higher math for high-school students comes in two flavors: > • Someone tells you about the hairy ball theorem in the form “you can’t comb the hair on a s
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
The actual website never says "Basic Math Textbook", only the submitter typed that in the title here on HN, I guess because "An Infinitely Large Napkin" or "The Napkin Project" would sound ambiguous without a t
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
The preface has "I initially wrote this book with talented high-school students in mind, particularly those with math-olympiad type backgrounds." Apparently the author tried to somewhat expand the audience from that, but to me it
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I think it's not just some kind of humblebrag. I know this trope that college students feel like it says it's intro but it's hard so it's not an intro. But you only think this when you don't know the topic well. The
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I see the humanities (I mean literature here and not so much history etc) as a continuation of cautionary tales and parables and fables and legends and fairy tales around the campfire. Its "output" is that you're better able
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> I can see an overlap between people who would enjoy studying Latin and those who would enjoy Haskell... This is a good point. Gödel was interested in theology for example. Or look at Warren McCulloch (of McCulloch & Pitts, 1943 fam
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> but I kind of do carry the opinion that the literary humanities, while not devoid of complexity or rigor, are completely incomparable to STEM in this regard. Yes, I think humanities people are having STEM-envy and it's bad. They s
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Yes, simple lecturing jobs are fine, and they do exist, but as you said they are paid less. Because in truth this is the reality already, we just don't admit it. The intention behind it is understandable though. Someone who has produce

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