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> I think when the environment gets more and more complex, interactions with the environment, and learning from these interactions will matters more and more Thanks for sharing your experience ! It correlates with this recent interview w
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> It’s like having cars that go twice as far as the last year but will only get you to your destination 50% of the time Nice analogy. All human progress is based on tight-abstractions describing a well-defined machine model. Leaky abstra
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> Should the person lose credibility for future predictions and we no longer take them seriously If this were the case, almost every sell-side analyst should have been blacklisted by now. Its more about entertainment than facts - sort of
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> Instead, even a relatively conservative extrapolation of these trends suggests that 2026 will be a pivotal year for the widespread integration of AI into the economy Integration into the economy takes time and investment. Unfortunately
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Bitter lesson – LLMs are a dead end [video](youtube.com)
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Data-center debt is the new sub-prime. In the 2008 housing bust, there were NINJA loans (no income, no job, no assets). This time around, each GW ai-datacenter costs 40B of which say 20B is debt. The only profits coming out of these data ce
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As an older person, I found these agreeable too and well articulated. I could put the nine bullets into 2 broad buckets. 1) and 6) pertain to being in the ego - but one that is principled, seeking clarity of cognition and be willing to corr
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there are criticisms of life as classical computation or in a more restricted context, cognition as computation [1] - one of which amounts to this: for any computation, there is a frame of reference in which that computation can be modeled,
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You could ignore where it came from and evaluate it on its own merits. I had no idea who Packard was - initially i thought it was Packard of hp fame (lol). And I did not entirely agree with some things in the piece. However, it seemed authe
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And you can have an enlightened life in any one of those places - for example, the ideas laid out in the piece are abstract, and not environment specific. All sorts of folks have lived in all sorts of places across time. Trappings and envir
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> Financed with actual profits over time showing up as lower margins on the income statement (probably good) would these equity investments only impact the balance-sheet as financial investments - why would they show up as lower margins
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> The amount of [mental] energy needed to refute ~bullshit~ [AI slop] is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it I see this in code-reviews where AI tools like code-rabbit and greptile are producing workslop in enormo
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> We are way past peak LLM in the sense that all of the positive narrative is getting priced in.
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> aside from the obvious slop related costs to review Code-review tools (code-rabbit/greptile) produce enormous amounts of slop counterbalanced by the occasional useful tip. And cursor and the like love to produce nicely formatted s
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I have been wondering if there is a way to tie this into the zettelkasten method. ie, to clarify and reflect with this sort of journaling. There are only about 100 or so ideas that each of us can deeply understand from first principles and
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> Any advice for getting out of the introspection hole? For me, it is activities that "stop" the thinker - which include exercise (running), listening to music, sports etc. What stopping the thinker does is to get out of the wo
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Reminds me of the completely vacuous headlines in financial media. "Stock x went up yesterday and then went down" In the twitter world, media is like junk-food. Mostly empty calories, soundbites, and memes.
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Descartes' brief rules for the direction of the mind [1] is pertinent here, as it articulates beautifully what it means to do "thinking" and how that relates to "memory". Concepts have to be "internalized"
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> say things like "build me a Fusion 360 alternative written in Rust This video of a dad making a pbj sandwich based on instructions from his kids shows why this is impossible [1]. There is too much context you are assuming, and by
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I would say the same of the following: 1) crypto: raise funding, buy crypto as collateral, raise more funding with said collateral, rinse and repeat. 2) gpu datacenters: raise funding, buy gpus as collateral, raise more funding, buy more gp
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I felt the same way. The analogy I use is management dictating the tech-stack to use across the org. It does not make any sense ! They need to stay in their lanes, and let engineering teams decide what is best for their work. Big tech'
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> What does "loop on itself" mean in this context? What it means is understood by looking at its converse - panic attack. Wherein, anxiety stirs some negative thoughts which stirs even more anxiety which stirs more negativity a
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> writing code was never the bottleneck This is an insightful observation. When working on anything, I am asked: what is the smallest "hard" problem that this is solving ? ie, in software, value is added by solving "hard&q
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My comment about euclid's elements was not intended to be taken literally - only figuratively, and perhaps with some humor (ie, instead of reading lots of texts, go back to a basic text and understand it well) I meant that the foundati
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The author misunderstands knowledge and mastery. Mastery comes from problem solving and practice - not from reading books. So, I would advise students to limit what you read, but spend a lot of time in problem solving. Get the basics in pla
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I would disagree with the premise of this article. All this talk of simplicity may mislead one into building something that just about works, and calling it a day. I believe that is a mistaken approach in science and engineering. Instead, t
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I just completed a prototype of a non-trivial product that was vibe-coded just to test the ability and limits of LLMs. My experience aligns largely with your excellent comment. >But the level of integrative intelligence, combined with sp
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> focus it on more industry-geared education I was told that a student can now get a CS degree without courses in OS, Compilers, Programming Languages, theory of computing etc. The argument being that a vast majority of jobs do not ever
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A letter to shareholder should assume that anyone who has some basic business sense should be able to understand it. I think Buffet says something along the lines that it should make sense to an average shareholder. To this end, the communi
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> Concurrency is tricky The go language and its runtime is the only system I know that is able to handle concurrency with multicore cpus seamlessly within the language, using the CSP-like (goroutine/channel) formalism which is easy

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