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by brotchie 2y ago
I'm starting to buy this argument after rejecting it before (primarily thought ignorance of the meaning of "consciousness is the mechanism by which the universe processes information"). Also intersects with Hoffman's arg
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by brotchie 2y ago
Compelling. I really buy his argument about our interior experience being a multimodal user interface (MUI) over stimulus from some information system. We describe the universe in terms of a 4D space-time with forces and particles, but this
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by brotchie 2y ago
Two things I'm absolutely convinced of at this point. 1. Consciousness is primitive. That is, interior experience is a fundamental property of the universe: any information system in the universe that has certain properties has an
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by brotchie 2y ago
Yeah, I do agree with this. There must be some strong correlation there: where a better world-model allows you to be more intelligent. Especially if that world-model contains yourself (e.g. self-consciousness). I do, however, fundamentally
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by brotchie 2y ago
Consciousness and intelligence are orthogonal concepts. It's not the case that the more "intelligent" human is, the more "conscious" they are. Intelligence is the ability to abstractly reason and adapt to novel stim
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by brotchie 2y ago
At the moment, the real killer use-case for the current generation of AI agents (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) is when you know you don't know something AND you have a specific task to get done. Some examples in past week: 1. Claude: &q
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by brotchie 2y ago
Yeah. I usually code with a 3 column, 2 row split view on a 4k. Perfect for component.ts, component.ng.html, component.scss, and component_test.ts all to be open at once...
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by brotchie 2y ago
Great project, congrats, super cool.
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by brotchie 2y ago
Isn't this really the inexorable Pareto principal in action? 20% of folks do 80% of the productive work, Of that 20%, a 20% subset create 80% of the impact? But an organization is an ecosystem, and it probably wouldn't function if
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by brotchie 2y ago
Used to feel this way on other teams. Almost as if you were expected to write them for the sake of writing them (cargo cult engineering). Now on a team of many OG Googlers (15+ years tenure) and Design Docs only exist when they’re needed (s
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by brotchie 2y ago
Coffee fracking IRL
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by brotchie 2y ago
Hell yeah, this is really cool. Haven't used it, but one thought that came to mind, would be to allow binding key presses to specific cards. e.g. Hold my mouse button on a card, hit the "k" key, and now "k" will ret
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by brotchie 3y ago
Played around with fine tuning, but ended up just experimenting with RAG. One thing I haven’t worked out yet is the agent reliably understanding if it should do a “point retrieval query” or an “aggregation query.” Point query: embed and do
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by brotchie 3y ago
Bad React code can get bad really really quickly. Pretty much forced to build production systems in Angular in my day job. But typical process for prototyping new speculative functionality is: $ npm create vite@latest > React Typescript
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by brotchie 3y ago
Used to think OKRs were total bullshit, until I started working on a project spanning multiple teams with cross-org dependencies. OKRs are effectively a quarterly negotiation to get alignment across teams so that large, complex, projects ge
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by brotchie 3y ago
Yeah, and the Ehrlich test agent is hyper-specific, so very easy to test if it's legit or a potentially harmful analog.
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by brotchie 3y ago
Paraphrasing a post on Twitter / X: Things will only get better from here. i.e. AI capabilities are strictly monotonically increasing (as they have been for decades), and in this case, the capabilities are recursively self-improving: I
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by brotchie 3y ago
Design systems following the philosophy "Strong Opinions, Weakly Held" are the sweet spot. Having a consistent reference for stuff like "what's the standard color gradient for a Generative AI placeholder" is hugely
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by brotchie 3y ago
Z80 + some mods = Sharp LR35902 used in original Gameboy 6502 + some mods = 6502 used in original NES
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by brotchie 3y ago
As an example: By default, on bootup, an ESP32 uses the value of pin IO12 to determine SPI Flash chip voltage. It has an internal pull-down so defaults to low (3.3V flash chip). If held high during bootup, then ESP32 treats Flash Chip volta
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by brotchie 3y ago
Bit on strapping pins gives my nightmares. Lost tens of hours of my life trying to bring a new ESP32-based board up. Debugging code, cutting traces and soldering bridge wires, buying and using a logic analyzer. Turns out: Some of the pins o
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by brotchie 3y ago
Too complicated. My understanding is that you have an defensive area with ~20 of the hangers scattered around. 1. !!Incoming threat!! 2. LAUNCH ALL THE DRONES, 3. One intercepts, 4. Other loiter a while in case of additional threa
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by brotchie 3y ago
Very cool, curious about $$$ vs competing platforms The Hanger that houses the Roadrunner gives me "last thing you see as Q* becomes sentient and launches the killer drones" vibes.
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by brotchie 3y ago
4 is true. It’s a combo of proactivity , risk taking, skill set and reputation. I’m on my 6th greenfield project across different orgs at a FAANG: one wildly successful, some moderate, and others product-market-fit failures. In first joinin
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by brotchie 3y ago
Don't fully believe this, but the only rational explanation I can see is that Ilya knows they have AGI. - Nuke employee morale: massive attrition, not getting upside (tender offer), - Nuke the talent magnet: who's going to
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by brotchie 3y ago
The state of off the shelf maker tools and parts is insane. Recently built a custom LED controller based on a WT32 ETH01 (cheap, $8 on Aliexpress, ESP32 with an Ethernet port). I ended up building 3 revision, all in EasyEDA (Web-based EDA t
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by brotchie 3y ago
Bought a super rugged, dual battery, two-seater, motorbike-looking eBike for Burning Man. Turns out it's also amazing for getting around San Francisco. Good sized road presence, better-than-moped acceleration and silent except for tire
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by brotchie 3y ago
Yeah, unless the utility of this devices is large enough to override existing cultural norms, there's actually very few venues where it feels "comfortable" to voice interact with a device. I went through this exercise with GP
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by brotchie 3y ago
At this point I'd probably pay ~$100 / year for a subscription service that annually sends me 4-5 cables of the "max rating." I don't want to waste my life keeping on top of the every-changing spec, but would 100% j
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by brotchie 3y ago
The only way out, is through :)

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