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by bravura 8mo ago
You're making the convenience argument, but I'm making the architecture argument. They're not the same thing. You say "a very simple API baked into the model's existing context is even better". So we agree? MCP
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by bravura 8mo ago
The last time I looked at MCPs closely, they appeared to pollute context and just hang there consuming context constantly. Whereas a self-documenting API or CLI tool enabled progressive discovery. Has this changed? My uncharitable interpret
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by bravura 9mo ago
How do people think about the sort of access and permissions it needs? "Don't give it access to anything you wouldn't give a new contractor on day one." https://x.com/rahulsood/status/2015397582
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by bravura 9mo ago
Understanding your audience is your first job as a writer or communicator. Speaking to them and making them care is job two.
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by bravura 9mo ago
We use beads for everything. We label them as "human-spec" needed if they are not ready to implement. We label them as "qa-needed" if they cannot be verified through automatic tests. I wrote beads-skills for Claude that
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by bravura 9mo ago
Can you please expose the functionality as a self-documenting CLI command with machine readable output? (Or did I misunderstand that MCP isn't the only way to use it?) I am curious to try it but do not want to adopt MCP servers. Tell
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by bravura 9mo ago
A rigorous approach to predicting the future of text was proposed by Li et al 2024, "Evaluating Large Language Models for Generalization and Robustness via Data Compression" ( https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/
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by bravura 9mo ago
Now, please make it easy to control network egress!
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by bravura 10mo ago
My friend is organizing a challenge to build a clean room SQL implementation from scratch as fast as possible, using agents: https://vibesql.org/ https://github.com/vibesql-challenge
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by bravura 10mo ago
“ If your x noise was greater than your y noise, you generally wouldn't bother taking the measurement in the first place.” Why not? You could still do inference in this case.
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by bravura 10mo ago
What's the startup time for using beancount if I've never done it before? I just spent a few hours using LLMs (aider, specifically) to reconcile my books for the past year. Worked great, but was slightly fiddly.
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by bravura 10mo ago
Do you mind elaborating? And what do you use instead?
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by bravura 11mo ago
I know this is a general question, but: Assuming a US startup is considering engineering hires outside the United States, how does one currently assess the likelihood of getting them a visa to work in the USA? And what timeline and cost w
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by bravura 11mo ago
Agreed, to me they are very different takes on what is a punk attitude. Palahniuk: Underneath the veneer of the banal, you will discover everything is rotten and sycophantic but somehow tender and relatable. Bourdain: Underneath the veneer
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by bravura 11mo ago
Isn't the challenge that introspecting graphql will lead to either a) a very long set of definitions consuming many tokens or b) many calls to drill into the introspection?
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by bravura 11mo ago
Call your father. And just chit chat for ten minutes.
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by bravura 11mo ago
Thoughts on any-llm-gateway versus litellm-proxy? litellm is a great library, but one team using litellm-proxy reported having many issues with it to me. I haven't tried it yet.
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by bravura 1y ago
LLMs are not deterministic though. So by definition MCPs are not deterministic. For example, GPT-5 doesn't support temperature parameter. And even models that do support temperature are not deterministic with temperature=0.
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by bravura 1y ago
How large is a lion? Learning the size of objects using pure text analysis requires significant gymnastics. Vision demonstrates physical size more easily. Multimodal learning is important. Full stop. Purely textual learning is not sample ef
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by bravura 1y ago
Have you tried e2b or Daytona fast start vms?
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by bravura 1y ago
How do you use a non Anthropic model with Claude Code?
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by bravura 1y ago
The text-based software that would eat work management is one that embraces the incumbents rather than avoid them. I want a bidirectional SaaS <=> YAML/JSON adapter. So that I can push and pull our CRM (and other SaaS utilities l
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by bravura 1y ago
I'm curious about tptacek's comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28279426 ). 'the "security" paragraphs in this page do the rest of the argument a disservice. The fact is, C is a demonstrabl
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by bravura 1y ago
Sorry fat fingers. It should be the y axis that is log scale, not x axis. (Sometimes both is good.) Did you notice the inflection point in which the loss drops faster than expected in the top graph? Maybe you should let it run more…
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by bravura 1y ago
The measures that drop exponentially like val/bpb and train/loss you should put the x-axis in log-scale. That will better show you if it's converged
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by bravura 1y ago
Naturally, the science of science study supporting the controvening „Newton hypothesis“ is pseudo scientific piffle. My scientific study of the science of science study can prove this. Arxiv preprint forthcoming.
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by bravura 1y ago
Yeah, overall I think we agree. If you want to read some mind blowing early neural language sequence modeling approaches that everyone completely slept on, look at Pollack's work on "recursive auto-associative memory" (RAAM)
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by bravura 1y ago
"my explanation would also to apply to where other commenters note that this behaviour is emitted to some degree with similar other "plausible" but non-existent emoji (but which are less likely to be in the training data, a p
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by bravura 1y ago
You're missing one key point, which is what makes this failure mode unusual. Namely, that there is (incorrect) knowledge in the training data that "seahorse emoji" exists. So when prompted: "Does [thing you strongly beli
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by bravura 1y ago
It correctly represents "seahorse emoji" internally AND it has in-built (but factually incorrect) knowledge that this emoji exists. Example: "Is there a lime emoji?" Since it believes the answer is no, it doesn't at

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