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by brotchie 2y ago
Feels different to past hype cycles (Internet bubble, Crypto bubble). LLMs with meaningful capabilities arrive very quickly. e.g. One week they were not that useful, the next week they gained meaningful capabilities. A function that takes t
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by brotchie 2y ago
One of the few strategies that I've seen works is "I'm going to do it this way, and I'll take all responsibility for it failing." and then if it fails, actually take responsibility for the failure. You have to have
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by brotchie 2y ago
No. The race is, can OpenAI innovate on product fast enough to get folks to switch their muscle memory workflows to something new? It doesn't matter how good the model is, if folks aren't habituated to using it. At the moment, my
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by brotchie 2y ago
Don't know the exact motor (Have yet to pull the back wheel off and inspect) but the motor controller is a Dongguan Jing Hui Brushless DC motor controller. The controller "head unit" is a Tian jin Yolin YL90T-H.
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by brotchie 2y ago
Reverse engineering my e-bike’s head unit and motor controller to build a custom head unit out of a Raspberry Pi with oled touch screen (head unit will also be used to control LED patterns on the bike). Used a logic analyzer to work out the
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by brotchie 2y ago
My thoughts exactly. It's fun as a hobby I guess, but sitting down and soldering a non-trivial board sounds like a PITA vs paying $50 for a respin of 5x boards with full pick-and-place assembly, delivered in <5 days.
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by brotchie 2y ago
Sounds exactly like Truth Mining in Greg Egan's Diaspora.
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by brotchie 2y ago
Thought that ThePrimeTime in his video https://youtu.be/62oTu9hjxL4?si=E98WZ0zJSNUC8TEH&t=287 hit the nail on the head re: Rust versus C. Max level C programmers, have designed their programming style around control dow
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by brotchie 2y ago
For somebody who likes building things and has many side projects Claude and ChatGPT have been huge productivity multipliers. For example, I’m designing and 3D printing custom LED diffuser channels from TPU filament. My first attempt was te
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by brotchie 2y ago
“Now, the team is working on a compiler for their PPU” good luck!
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by brotchie 2y ago
Agree. I wonder if aphantasia forces you to construct a richer and more abstract “internal grammar” when you can’t rely on visual imagery. For mathematicians that aren’t aphantasic I wonder what goes on in your mind when you imagine a “comp
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by brotchie 2y ago
This is an excellent description, especially the “doesn’t make sense” part. Like ask me to “imagine an apple.” I imagine the platonic idea of an apple and not a specific apple. Asking “what color was the apple” is a category error for me! J
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by brotchie 2y ago
It's always stuck with me reading reviews of Greg Egan's novels. In many of his novels characters are either non-human, post-humans, or AIs. Many folks criticize the character development, etc. My only assumption that that Greg&#x
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by brotchie 2y ago
I read a lot and have aphantasia. Books that are rich with visual descriptions do zero for me (e.g. American Psycho, which has a lot of prose dedicated to describing what people are wearing). I often even visually skip over section of text
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by brotchie 2y ago
100% visual aphant here, but have a very strong musical "minds-ear". So not full-sense aphantasic. Best self-described mental model for how my brains feels internally is as objects (in the programming sense) with properties and re
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by brotchie 2y ago
+1, shrooms doesn't do it for me, but if I do a high dose of THC (20-30mg) and then listen to music, I can close my eyes and get some kind of visualization. It's still fleeting, but I can feel my mind react to it as super novel st
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by brotchie 2y ago
I've tried this for an extended period of time and it hasn't yielded a huge improvement. When I'm laying in bed at night, close to falling asleep, if I concentrate really hard, I can sometimes get a little glimpse of mental i
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by brotchie 2y ago
How good is Lean at assisting the analytical solution to PDEs? 10+ years out from a Finance PhD where I ended up using numerical methods because I really didn't have the math skills to prove closed form solutions. Would love to know if
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by brotchie 2y ago
Haven't read the paper, but guessing, in the limit, this is simulating the electromagnetic interaction between electron shells of atoms?
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by brotchie 2y ago
Yeah, the whole "order an Uber/Lyft, but they don't move for 5 minutes" phenomenon. Had this happen for a trip from MTV to SF, I guess they sit at home and wait for a ride? Uber and Lyft MUST be hurting in SF. Personally
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by brotchie 2y ago
Hit and miss. It’s pretty equivalent to % of finding product market fit in startup land. Mostly worked on internal products. One HUGE hit, a few moderate hits, and quite a few failures. The calculus for projects at a large bigco are differe
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by brotchie 2y ago
Levels.fyi is to be trusted. 100% accurate for Google SWE ladder at least. Can be an apples-to-oranges comparison for some other companies with large stock appreciation (e.g. Meta), where a lot of the comp number are vested TC rather than g
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by brotchie 2y ago
Startup guy who’s now at FAANG. I’m technical technical technical (IC track). I love building products. Prototyping to find PMF and then spinning that up into a staffed project, then onto the next new thing. Get to work with excellent SWEs,
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by brotchie 2y ago
UBI really makes me think of AI-safety-world i-risk. i.e. Ikigai risk (feeling like you have a meaningful purpose in life). Ikigai, or purpose, is a Japanese concept dating back to the Heian period in Japan. The Japanese word “iki” tra
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by brotchie 2y ago
The feeling still exists, but I can observe it and can run a secondary self-introspection loop to unpack that feeling, and often dig deeper and resolve where they feeling is coming from. Another way of putting is that I'm self aware th
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by brotchie 2y ago
Agreed. Before a controlled high dose Psilocybin experience I "felt" my emotions: Anger, Fear, Frustration. Afterwards, I gained the ability to observe and "catch" my emotions in-flight. Not sure if it was neuroplasticit
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by brotchie 2y ago
"it can generally be assumed that there is approximately 15 mg (+/- 5 mg) of psilocybin per gram of dried mushroom" -Wikipedia So 25mg is ~1.5g of dried mushrooms. Decent dose, but not a "omg I'm one with the univer
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by brotchie 2y ago
From direct first-hand experience the numbers for SWEs on levels.fyi for Google are accurate. You almost always get your full bonus (or more) and (depending on the size of our RSU grants) you vest either quarterly or monthly and can usually
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by brotchie 2y ago
I feel like your response simply reinforces my point: > The interior experience of somebody who vehemently denies the hard problem must be so much different from my interior experience to the extend that the divide can't be bridged.
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by brotchie 2y ago
Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age IRL

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