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Ask HN: Textbook and Technical Book writers – are you creating LLM products?
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If you make something cheap, then it will be cheap. LLMs may set a record for time between specialized/luxury goods and commodity. There may be a price floor, but it's not very high. In My Opinion. --- Ever think about why restaur
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You have to live in the world that you create.
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Companies aren't monoliths, they're made of teams. Big companies are made of teams of teams. The little teams don't really get to make purchasing decisions. If there's a free alternative, little teams just have to suck i
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My best understanding/explanation of LLM tools is "plausible extension of a context" That is, you have some context, ie the prompt and any other text, and the LLM produces a plausible continuation or alteration of that prompt
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Firing the CEO is nominally up to the board of directors. In Tesla's case, the board knows that the valuation of the company is wildly irrational, and they feel that the valuation is tied to the CEO.
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Beautiful pun
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To me, the Therac incident is the poster child for a category I call 'context change error'. Some of the controls were 'born' in a world of hardware interlocks, and so the engineers used the frame of mind where hardware
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> An inspection of the aircraft’s wreckage found that about one-third of the fluid in the hydraulic systems in both the nose and right main landing gears was water, when there should have been none.
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Without comment or endorsement: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/10gnll5/wha... https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/you-dont-want-a-purely-biol...
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Trade secrets?
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I firmly believe, more and more each day, that the human mind does not seek truth or correctness, it primarily seeks satisfaction. The context for satisfaction is different for every individual human. Some parts of the context are shared (t
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> Changing the metric just masks things. Using only one metric is THE classic way to misunderstand a system. > Society is broken for those at the bottom, and if their numbers grow too large, it will become broken for everyone. It&#x27
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I'm not sure how to phrase this, so please be patient and try to understand what I intend to say. CEO pay relative to median employee pay has soared since the 1970s. That is, a CEO may be paid $10,000,000 vs the median employee at $70,
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I think that's "shifting the goalposts", not strawman - unless I misunderstand
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Strictly off topic: Everything you know is wrong. Weird Al. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8tRDv9fZ_c Firesign Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAcHfymgh4Y
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You're absolutely right! Humans really like emotional validation. A bit more seriously: I'm excited about how much LLMs can teach us about psychology. I'm less excited about the dependency. --- Adding a bit more substantial c
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maybe the real innie/outie is the in-group/out-group. no spoilers, i haven't finished that show yet
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And LLMs are pretty good at picking up that subjective context
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Humans are not chickens, but we sure do seem to love having a pecking order.
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Satisfying is the evaluation context of the user.
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They CAN work together. It's when you push farther on one -- within a certain size of context window -- that the other two shrink. If you can increase the size of the context window arbitrarily, then there is no limit.
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A new triangle: Accurate Comprehensive Satisfying In any particular context window, you are constrained by a balance of these factors.
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I feel like some people are trying for the sequel right now. Moral relativism is like digging a latrine. Almost nobody wants to do it for somebody else, it's a chore to do it for one's self, but pretty much everyone appreciates wh
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https://www.ecfr.gov/search?search%5Bdate%5D=current&search%... Or browse by Title 14, Chapter 1, Subchapters F & G (Aka Title 14, Parts 89 - 139) I'm not vouching for this link in particular, but you can also
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Speaking for myself: the human mind does not seek truth or goodness, it primarily seeks satisfaction. That satisfaction happens in a context, and ever context is at least a little bit different. The scary part: It is very easy for LLMs to p
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> 3. Family Counselor. Surprisingly often, I told organizations what other people inside the same organization were thinking, saying, or doing (and what customers or partners thought of that). The degree of insularity, siloing, an
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You can load Java Classes into Oracle DB and run them natively inside the server. Those classes can call stored procedures or functions. Those classes can be called BY stored procedures or functions. You can call stored procedures and funct
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> Nobody can say for sure whether the AI boom is evidence of the next Industrial Revolution or the next big bubble. All we know is that it’s happening. In hindsight, it will be clear, and future generations (if any exist) will ask: &quot
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I'd love to see a product comparison. Other countries have different power and incentive structures. In Germany, both the state and labor are represented at the ownership level. In Japan, corporate and social expectations are completel

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