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by bwestergard 6mo ago
It isn't. See: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708045
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by bwestergard 6mo ago
They wouldn't profit if the cases didn't have merit.
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by bwestergard 6mo ago
Have you seen the meme with three spidermen, labeled "Designer", "Product Manager", and "Engineer" wherein each is pointing to the other two and saying "I don't need you anymore!"? Most of the ti
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by bwestergard 6mo ago
This would subsidize truck and private car transport against rail, which is counterproductive if you are trying to lower the long term costs of transport and decrease transport externalities (e.g. fine particle pollution, noise, climate cha
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by bwestergard 6mo ago
The need for "complex tasks" should be exceptional enough that you're not building your workflow around them. A good example of such an exception would be kickstarting a port of a project for which you have a great test suite
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by bwestergard 6mo ago
If you are letting Claude run for seven minutes at a time, you aren't thinking hard enough about what you're building. If you start trying to juggle multiple agents, you are doubling down on the wrong strategy. https://
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by bwestergard 6mo ago
"why bother building one version of the software for everyone?" So one user's experience is relevant to another, so they can learn from one another?
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Agreed.
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Some hypotheses are simply badly posed and will not lead to fruitful scientific investigation. For example, it may be my hypothesis that modern computers work through the agency of evil demons. You could spend a lot of time trying discussin
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Good luck with that at the shareholder meeting.
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Interesting. So why do the models seem to handle deeply nested Lisp expressions just fine?
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
I'm shocked to see how poorly these models, which I find useful day to day, do in solving virtually any of the problems in Unlambda. Before looking at the results my guess was that scores would be higher for Unlambda than any of the
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
This is how I would deal with the problem if I maintained node: "Please, use your tokens and experimental energies to port to Rust and pass the following test suite. Let us know when you've got something that works."
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Not only is it pushing production down, but the resulting high prices are almost certainly going to cause permanently lower demand in certain sectors and countries ("demand destruction"). I would love to see a complete accounting
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
That can't be the whole story, right? Because there are an arbitrarily large number of (e.g.) Rust programs that will implement any given spec given in terms of unit tests, types, and perhaps some performance benchmarks. But even accou
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Looks like a great implementation. I want to question the basic user story, which seems to be: "I am a software developer who wants to improve productivity by running multiple simultaneous agents that are roughly isomorphic to a human
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
"exporting your own oil and gas to be able to have a 'clean' (and up to recently heavily subsidized) transportation network is in a way just a gigantic bookkeeping trick" How so? If every oil exporter used some of their
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Your job sounds really different from what's typical here on HackerNews. I'm really curious - can you tell us more about it?
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"Some day we won't even need coders anymore" (2016)(commitstrip.com)
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Let's ask the LLM to score how good it would be at scoring jobs from LLM exposure... /s
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Yes, this is from Niko Tinbergen's classic monograph "The Herring Gull". It's the origin of the term "supernormal stimulus". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Then please do add your data through the submission form. I'm sure some underreporting occurs, but what evidence is there that underreporting is worse this year than last year or the year before?
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
The framing of this makes it seem like this is a sharp change in trend, but this long-running layoff tracker shows no evidence of this. 2020 and 2023 both had serious layoff spikes, but the 2023 spike trailed off to an asymptote that we&#x2
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Habermas was truly a giant. Regardless of your political outlook, some engagement with his texts is time well spent. For an accessible on-ramp to his work, I recommend: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/#
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
"Frankfurt School Critical Theory" went through several generations with different commitments and each of those generations was quite politically and theoretically diverse. The only true statements that hold for all writers at al
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
The premise of your argument is that "the outcome" can be separated from the process. This is true enough for manufacturing bricks: I don't much care what processes was used to create a brick if it has certain a compressive s
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Quantitative measures of this are very poor, and even those are mixed. My subjective assessment is that agents like Copilot got better because of better harnesses and fine tuning of models to use those harnesses. But they are not improving
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
"Baumol's cost disease hurts the lower classes by restricting their access to services like health care and education, and LLMs/agents make it possible to increase productivity in these areas in ways which were once unimagina
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Here are two of the weapons mounted on U.S. ships that would fire upon small boats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf8RExzMdfg
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by bwestergard 7mo ago
Agile was a response to the coordination problems in certain types of firms. Waterfall persisted in organizations that have and require a more traditional bureaucratic structure. Waterfall makes sense if you are building a space probe or an

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