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by brap 1y ago
Really conflicted with TS. On one hand it’s so impressive that a type system can do these sort of tricks. On the other hand if we had type introspection at runtime we wouldn’t need any of this.
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by brap 1y ago
I actually meant it in terms of having insane reach to end users, but yes, it most likely helps with finding/processing information
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by brap 1y ago
google.com/gemini There’s also AI Studio another commenter mentioned, but that’s for more advanced users who want to tweak it
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by brap 2y ago
I think the key is that Google is the gateway to the internet for the entire world. Think about it. Whatever you’re trying to do online, either Search, Chrome or Android are in the critical path of like 90%+ of people if not more. Once AI i
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by brap 2y ago
Future? Looking at some of the examples, this seems a lot like the same old web server frameworks we had like 15 years ago, maybe more. Granted they didn’t have SSE but regardless the DX was pretty bad. I don’t see a compelling reason to go
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by brap 2y ago
There are ways to handle side effects with pure functions only (it’s kind of cheating, because the actual side effects are performed by the non-pure runtime/framework that’s abstracted away, while the pure user code just defines when t
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by brap 2y ago
I remember properly learning JS from “The Good Parts” book, which makes it known from the start that JS is a nasty language but if you ignore many sharp edges it can be nice and elegant. I think this is especially true with (a subset of) TS
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by brap 2y ago
I sometimes wonder about being able to fully simulate a human brain. Maybe even scan/copy a real person’s brain. So many philosophical, ethical and legal questions. And unsettling possibilities. We will probably have to deal with this
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by brap 2y ago
Congrats on the launch! Noob question - from my understanding, SoTA proprietary models already provide APIs for fine tuning, I'd say it's only a matter of time before they provide RL based APIs, no?
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by brap 2y ago
I've actually been thinking about this concept for a while now! I miss the old days when social networking was actually social and was wondering if placing restrictions like this one can actually make it fun again. Some other restricti
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by brap 2y ago
My experience with anything declarative is that features are gradually bolted on until it eventually just becomes imperative (and ugly). For example HCL. I believe declarative should stay purely declarative to describe data/documents i
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by brap 2y ago
It’s a nice language, and I like Lustre, but `use` is truly ugly. I don’t understand why they didn’t make promises a first class citizen and added something like `await`. We’ve learned this lesson in JS already.
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by brap 2y ago
We know that humans are capable of writing amazing symphonies or running a 2h marathon, so there’s no point in doing it? Just because we know something is possible in theory doesn’t mean it’s not impressive to see it done in practice. There
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by brap 2y ago
I’m 100% sure that if he was being considered for a domain expert role in some domain related to this (e.g. TypeScript) his score in a typical whiteboard interview wouldn’t have been a deciding factor whatsoever. This is a standard hiring t
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by brap 2y ago
Good question. I don’t know!
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by brap 2y ago
Naturally, by “everything there is to know” I meant within the confines of what’s possible to know
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by brap 2y ago
This makes me wonder if math will ever reach a point where it’s “solved”. Like, a point where we know everything there is to know and every new field that you can think of can already be mapped to something else.
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by brap 2y ago
Why? No, really. Why write? He’s not saying anything, so what’s the point?
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by brap 2y ago
That’s a really good point. If a nation state bombed a private oil rig with $1.5B in damages all hell would break loose. But if it’s a cyber attack no one cares and we blame the victim. I think it really boils down to plausible deniability,
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by brap 2y ago
My own impression with SoTA models is that they’re very useful for coding, yet they suck ass for solving unique problems (which is the case for every sufficiently large codebase).
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by brap 2y ago
I don’t really understand agents. I just don’t get why we need to pretend we have multiple personalities, especially when they’re all using the same model. Can anyone please give me a usecase, that couldn’t be solved with a single API call
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by brap 2y ago
Super thrilled about all the cross-functional synergies and ROI-optimized deliverables poised to disrupt the status quo and elevate the strategic framework.
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by brap 2y ago
Svelte never sat right with me, from the very beginning, but I could never exactly put my finger on it and articulate why. “Svelte is not JavaScript” is spot on.
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by brap 2y ago
Whenever I hear "chain of thought" I feel like thoughts aren't really linear, it's probably more like "graph of thought". I wonder how models might be able to benefit from structuring their "thinking"
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by brap 2y ago
There was also that crossbow that shoots red hot rebar, let’s you pin things (and enemies) to walls. I had so much fun with that
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by brap 2y ago
Not long ago I had to visit this town in Slovakia, and immediately upon arrival I thought “damn this is City 17”. Fun place though. No striders or anything.
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by brap 2y ago
I’m on board with the With and Builder patterns where it makes sense, but the final suggestion to make the fields public is just bad advice. The author recognizes that mutable state gives you a lot to worry about, which I agree with. But pu
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by brap 2y ago
It does this in the end, though
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by brap 2y ago
I think the future of JS is going to be a lot like Python - you write your code with JS libraries because of the ergonomics, but critical pieces of those libraries are implemented in WASM under the hood. For example, you’ll still write your
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by brap 2y ago
I didn’t defend anyone. I don’t even like them. I pointed out that you jumped to make this LLM post about them, which is telling, just like you jumped to blame me for defending them, which is also telling.

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