catgary

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by catgary 6d ago
It’s like someone had Claude binge on Galton, Murray and Yarvin then let it loose on Hacker News.
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by catgary 6d ago
Dropping slurs after being compared to a eugenicist is an interesting choice. Maybe you would be more comfortable in the comments of Curtis Yarvin’s blog. You’d certainly get less pushback there.
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by catgary 6d ago
Whereas “abstraction ceiling” is hard science backed by ample literature, not a loose metaphor directly contradicted by several prominent mathematicians who didn’t quit when the going got tough. I think the fact the Feynman took an IQ tes
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by catgary 7d ago
That stuff always gives me such a eugenics 2.0 vibe — no, no, the hierarchy is based on innate cognitive ability now. Gives me the creeps that they're actually in academia pushing that stuff.
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by catgary 7d ago
Well you're just a generally rude person, aren't you.
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by catgary 7d ago
That's far different than telling a math PhD whom you've never met that they hit their "abstraction ceiling" based on a 2/3 paragraph comment on hacker news. I'm sure you'd have said a similar thing to a y
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by catgary 7d ago
> Since then I've had the chance, in the world of mathematics that bid me welcome, to meet quite a number of people, both among my "elders" and among young people in my general age group, who were much more brilliant, much
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by catgary 1mo ago
Spector is 70 years old, that’s a pretty reasonable age for retirement?
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by catgary 1mo ago
This plus the zoom firing anecdote is basically confirming that Garg operates at a Cousin Greg level.
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by catgary 1mo ago
> Garg acknowledges he’s “hard-nosed” and the famous Zoom layoffs severely damaged the company’s reputation — a mistake he knows will continue to haunt him. I really hope Garg is here reading this. It’s not just a mistake that will conti
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by catgary 2mo ago
I think, generally speaking, the decision to enforce a linter in CI/CD pipelines is well within a project lead’s or technical director’s purview, and there seems to be a pretty broad consensus that they add value, so they’ll almost alw
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by catgary 4mo ago
I think you should just focus on the road because most of us are just trying to get home safely to our families. Some of us are even biking beside the road on a lightly-protected bike lane.
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by catgary 5mo ago
Yeah, because they aren’t in need of a social safety net.
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by catgary 5mo ago
I think you need to give some concrete examples, considering the US happily let its companies offshore a lot of work to China over the years, and Chinese funds own large chunks of American companies.
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by catgary 6mo ago
I’ve found they’re quite good when you’re higher in the compiler stack, where it’s essentially a game of translating MLIR dialects.
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by catgary 6mo ago
Because it doesn’t? Thats why the field of formal methods exists.
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by catgary 6mo ago
Because the code is the actual thing, tests can only show that the code fails in certain cases, they don’t actually prove the code is correct.
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by catgary 6mo ago
Generally speaking, I try to ensure that the LLM is using core abstractions throughout the codebase in a consistent manner. This makes it easier for me to review any changes it makes.
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by catgary 6mo ago
And even then - I still read the code it generates, and if I see a better way of doing something I just step in, write a partial solution, and then sketch out how the complete solution should work.
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by catgary 6mo ago
This line of thought is honestly a bit silly - uv is just a package manager that actually does its job for resolving dependencies. You’re talking about a completely orthogonal problem.
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by catgary 6mo ago
I think there are 5-7 thousand confirmed deaths by the UN, and medical reports in Iran estimated there could be 20,000+ casualties.
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by catgary 7mo ago
I see the value of the students, it just seems like an odd thing for a government to subsidize via NIH/NSF funding. We don’t really have anything analogous to that in Canada and it just seems awfully weird that it exists in the US with
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by catgary 8mo ago
EVs should do much better on brake dust thanks to regenerative braking, no?
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by catgary 10mo ago
Luckily, the LLM has the text to cite, it can be passed in at inference time, which is legally distinct from training on the data.
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by catgary 10mo ago
Because text analysis is substantially easier than video analysis?
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by catgary 10mo ago
Sure, in the sense that any belief about the law isn’t cut and dried until a judge has explicitly dismissed it in the court of law.
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by catgary 10mo ago
Are you implying that an LLM needs to be trained on a specific piece of text to answer questions about it?
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by catgary 10mo ago
You don’t need any rights to execute the feature. The user owns the book. The app lets the user feed the book into an LLM, as is absolutely their right, and asks questions.
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by catgary 11mo ago
I work on a much easier problem (physics-based character animation) after spending a few years in motion planning, and I haven’t really seen anything to suggest that the problem is going to be solved any time soon by collecting more data.
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by catgary 11mo ago
I think this is an interesting direction, but I think that step 2 of this would be to formulate some conjectures about the geometry of other LLMs, or testable hypotheses about how information flows wrt character counting. Even checking some

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