claytongulick

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by claytongulick 5mo ago
I try to avoid absolutes, "ever" is a long time. Who knows, maybe we crack the code of cognition at some point? In the meantime, these [1] are pretty funny. [1] https://x.com/huskirl
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
Human cognition is poorly understood and much more complex than it seems. For an example, look at some of Julia Mossbridge's work. If even a small part of her work is true and valid, it points to something far outside our current frame
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
I haven't made the argument that LLMs aren't useful, I can see cases where they are. I don't think they include areas where correctness, determinism or human reasoning are important. At least, not in isolation.
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
Reasoning requires cognition, otherwise there's nothing to reason about, no context or value system to use as a basis for reason. Decision making can be done by trained machines following rules, but that's different that reasoning
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
> LLMs do reason No, they don't. They are token predictors that use statistical techniques to emit the randomly weighted next most likely token given the previous token list. The result is a strange mimic of human reasoning, because
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
> If you ask 10 different humans to produce the spec with the same information (prompt and context) they will also produce 10 unique answers But they didn't ask humans, they asked a machine. We expect our machines to behave in predi
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
It would have been nice if they had mentioned Luke Wagner, who's idea it all was and who created the first implementation, as well as one of the main driving forces behind wasm.
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
Kagi is a great alternate. Privacy first, opt-in AI, total control over site blocking, zero ads. You're the customer, not the product.
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
So much of the conversation here has a shared premise that AI stuff can and will replace human labor. There are certain types of AI that will, and they are amazing: weed identification and laser zapping as a replacement for toxic pesticides
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by claytongulick 5mo ago
> generally productivity increasing Are you aware of any reputable study that supports this? Everything I've seen, coding included, has productivity at a net neutral at best, with large cost increases due to LLMs.
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by claytongulick 6mo ago
I don't understand the point you're making, are you saying that because there are already electric semi's on the market, Tesla shouldn't compete? Or are you being critical that Tesla didn't enter the market first? I
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by claytongulick 6mo ago
Thank you for making a really important point. The lifespan of software can easily be ten or more years. If it takes a few more months to write by hand to ensure correctness and proper abstraction, what does that save over the lifetime of t
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by claytongulick 6mo ago
rqlite is very cool, but I have a hard time thinking of a real world use case. For a project where sqlite is good enough, just using it plus the amazing sqlite rsync command on a cron job gives you pretty amazing capabilities. When/if
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by claytongulick 6mo ago
I don't understand how this would work without a huge loss in resolution or "cognitive" ability. Prediction works based on the attention mechanism, and current humans don't speak like cavemen - so how could you expect a
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by claytongulick 6mo ago
That's when I would donate to them, annually. I still have two t-shirts.
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
But I think it still doesn't work with ESM, only CommonJS, so while not insurmountable, not as good as bun.
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
Lovecraft himself couldn't have imagined such a horror.
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
I tried to read TFA to learn about what's going on. It's an article about an invasive species of mushroom, right? I'd like to be informed. The first sentence is: "The razor blade of the newly unpacked surgical scalpel gl
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
Or you could just shoot the missiles while it's raining, or in a dense fog. Laser defense system is a very expensive paperweight in those conditions.
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
Per capita vs absolute numbers seems particularly relevant here. There are four times as many people in the US. Germany has four cities with around a million people. The U.S. has at least 15. Also, absolute numbers don't reflect justif
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
It was the part where he didn't say things like this about other people.
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
Great advice. Do you follow it? Is there one way to be a good person? Does being a good person also mean agreeing with your politics?
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
Or, another option is that we could all give grace to others, even (especially) if they disagree with us.
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
I actually like writing the tedious code by hand. The whole time I'm doing it, I'm trying to think of better ways. I'm thinking of libraries, utilities or even frameworks I could create to reduce the tedium. This is actually
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by claytongulick 7mo ago
Serious question here. Have you taken a moment to step back and truly evaluate your productivity when using LLMs for code generation? I don't mean the obvious confirmation-bias tickling stuff like "create a form with these fields
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by claytongulick 8mo ago
I'll second this. Doing asm on the AVR is beautiful, you can count clock cycles easily and then observe them on the scope. I wrote a bit banging serial interface for an AVR once and had a mystery when I was testing it from a PC just wi
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by claytongulick 8mo ago
I think the window of opportunity to create boring also-ran software is shrinking. I think there's more opportunity to do something novel. AI can't do it, and the humans with the skills to do it are rapidly disappearing.
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by claytongulick 8mo ago
Did it make you feel uncomfortable to have your bias pointed out to you? Is that why you made the inflammatory statement "you need to work on your reading comprehension?" Granted, I probably wouldn't have felt great if someon
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by claytongulick 8mo ago
So, in your opinion, people have a right the the results of someone else's labor?
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by claytongulick 8mo ago
Yep, agreed. If you aren't able to see how the issue is much broader than any specific politician, it's difficult to move a conversation forward. You may want to take a serious and critical look at how these problems have been a p

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