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by cwp 3y ago
I think Julia really dropped the ball on the execution model. Just-ahead-of-time compilation ends up being the worst of both worlds - you can't compile a small fast binary for deployment, and you can't quickly run a script or REPL
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by cwp 3y ago
Right, goals by themselves aren't a problem. The simple fix to the Bostrom scenario is "Hey computer, remember what I said about maximizing paperclips? Nevermind that, produced just enough to cover our orders, with acceptable qual
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by cwp 3y ago
There's an aspect to AI that I think gets missed in most of these discussions. What the recent breakthroughs in AI make clear is that intelligence is a much narrower thing than we used to think when we only had one example to consider.
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by cwp 3y ago
I wanted Epic to win too, but c'mon, 57% market share is not a monopoly.
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by cwp 3y ago
Oh, I see where you're coming from. Yes, quite right. I'm definitely not saying "Well, he must be right because he's a super smart Google researcher."
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by cwp 3y ago
Well, I can't argue with that. I'm just going by the intro paragraph in the article. If your argument is "I know this guy and I consider his opinion worthless" you might want to lead with that.
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by cwp 3y ago
You know who wrote this?
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by cwp 3y ago
You don't think a Google AI researcher is in a good position to comment on how Google is affected by recent developments in AI? I mean, yeah, it's an opinion, but it's not just anyone's opinion.
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by cwp 3y ago
According to the article, it's a random AI researcher at Google, so fairly relevant.
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by cwp 3y ago
One thing you might try with Copilot is to ask it to explain the code. It can often give insight, even on code that you yourself wrote a few minutes ago.
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by cwp 3y ago
To me, this is a great illustration of why chat is a terrible interface for a coding tool. I've gone down this path as well, learning that you need to have a detailed prompt that establishes a lot of context, and iteratively improve it
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by cwp 4y ago
I've found Copilot to be much better than GPT-4. GPT seems really smart and you can give it very high-level prompts, which generate good quality code. But it's limited by the chat interface, and if it doesn't get it right the
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by cwp 4y ago
Yawn. Tech bad, yet again.
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by cwp 4y ago
Yeah, it's hard. But sustaining that is how you get the next Facebook.
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by cwp 4y ago
It would still be funny, though.
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by cwp 4y ago
Exactly.
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by cwp 4y ago
Yes. It's quite amazing really. Also, people really hate using more than one language. Web developers will twist themselves into incredible knots to avoid having to write HTML and CSS and Javascript in the same project.
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by cwp 4y ago
I mentioned to my Dad that I was lucky to be able to buy a house for the first time just before rates went up. He told me the story of how he bought his first house in 1977 - the house I grew up in. The rate was 19%, and he was only able
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by cwp 4y ago
I've done something like his for HTTP APIs. Instead of having versions of the entire API, eg with paths like `/v1/user/9893`, each endpoint had versions. The client would request the specific version using the Accept hea
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by cwp 4y ago
He also mentioned that it contained "an ounce of solid productivity gold". So if it communicates the same advice in a blog post instead of a book, well, that seems reasonable.
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by cwp 4y ago
I've had this basically my whole life. I used to joke that I was 16 going on 30 and everybody knew what I meant. Now it's going the other way. Also, I have this for other people. I still think of my brother as 23, and I have to do
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by cwp 4y ago
Yup. Whenever I release my code to the world, I use MIT. I'm not brainwashed, I know what I'm doing. If someone incorporates my code into a proprietary product, that's fine. I hope they're successful! I just want the bra
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by cwp 4y ago
It seems to me that "remote work" is actually two things that get conflated all the time. One is what this article talks about, which is flexible office work. You work out of an office, but you have the flexibility to work from ot
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by cwp 4y ago
Two ideas here: 1) The same way you'd write any other tests. Use your favourite testing framework to write fixtures and tests for the SQL queries: - connect to the database - create tables - load test data - run the query -
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by cwp 4y ago
It may be that an Apple Silicon Mac Pro isn't profitable, but it's still good business sense to produce it. It gives them a way to push the cutting edge in a way that none of their other products do, and the things they invent for
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by cwp 4y ago
There's an element of truth to the "poor documentation" complaint, because there are tutorials etc out there that are out of date, incomplete etc. But the official nix project has excellent documentation. I think the proble
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by cwp 4y ago
I thought of "superskin" in Heinlein's Friday .
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by cwp 4y ago
Sigh... apparently I'm old.
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by cwp 4y ago
> Theories don't get "falsified" except in rare cases and in the idealized fanciful histories of some philosophers of science. Exactly. This is the problem. Hey, I get it, we're not talking about Galileo rolling thing
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by cwp 4y ago
Agreed, this his how things work in practice, but man, I wish we could do better. The question of whether new observations falsify the current theory is completely separate from the creation of a better theory. If the Big Bang theory is wro

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