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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
I actually think we're in a strange situation with AI compute. Right now, we have models that are statistical models of language, with a world model and reasoning "falling out" of a lot of effort. It's like we've ma
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
I've repeatedly bounced on and off 20VC by Harry Stebbings, but this year I'm finally hooked. The main draw is the episode released towards the end of the week with Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) and Rory O'Driscoll (Scale Venture Par
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Fantastic. How did you learn Clojure? I'm a bit of a fan.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
I don't think so. I think Tesla merger with SpaceX, which has the Cursor team and reportedly working on foundation model there. I imagine the EU would block any attempted takeover of Mistral given recent Anthropic and US govt actions.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Only people with billions of dollars can train foundation models, yes. But a competitor to Anthropic at the product level? With open source models, very little barrier.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Are the trains located where the urban areas are, or are the urban areas built around the train network? It's chicken and egg question, but in Manchester and London it's very clear that mass transit led to urban development, rathe
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Click and hold the back button.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
> A huge part of the job of Software Engineering is producing the right amount of code at the right time. I'd go further and say that usually the goal is to use as little code as possible without sacrificing readability. Brevity is
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
It's a good question. We had a previous language, JDoc, based in JSON. It covered only part of the functionality of the XML-based language and was really only for machine-machine. We researched a bunch of others: languages like LaTeX a
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Last year we chose XML as the basis for our document language. It's been a good choice for designing a new language, but we've been really surprised by the poor quality of the available parsers. We figured it would be a solved pro
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
I think with recent changes they still retain data on Enterprise, no? Or have I misread this?
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
> or automating abusive or spam comments on social media. Actually, the biggest problem is the automation of inane comments on X. Which is admittedly quite surprising - I would have agreed with OpenAI at the time.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
I'd rather trust Marijn's design skills and extensive experience.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
There are good backends available for ProseMirror and other editors. It's not hard to set them up.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
"just the UI" That's a hell of a "just", as anyone working on such projects will tell you. It's super super hard to get this right.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
ProseMirror (and presumably Wordgard) just gets so much right.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Marijn: just came here to say that I think ProseMirror is a brilliantly designed project - that you're intent on improving on it is amazing dedication to your craft.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
> Rocket Lab has secured commitments for a $3.6 billion bridge loan from Deutsche Bank and Wells Fargo to fund the cash portion of the acquisition. Given the timing, this seems like a risky move as they'll be issuing debt in mid-
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
$14B (!!!) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-lazy-ai-strategy-could-...
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Planned Capex for 2026: Amazon $200B MS $190B Alphabet $175B-$185B Meta $115B-135B
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
The Mag 7 spending around $700B on capex this year, expected around a trillion next year. That's more than their combined FCF, and they're borrowing to bridge the gap.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
I'd just do a quick filter, probably deterministic, then perform a deeper comparison on the selected few.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
A better way to reformulate this problem is for the LLM to be tasked with making a _comparative_ judgement between two CVs. This should prove much more reliable, especially if you give it a third “too close to call” option. You can also ask
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Searched HN for something like this. I've been using it a lot this weekend and it's making endless mistakes, not making sense, losing track of context. I feel like it changed this week.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Is that real? Imagine they've taken the code out if so, difficult to verify.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Came here to say the same thing. My security researcher friends always point out that security is solved: simply don't build the system and there will be no security threats. But that's not entirely _useful_. Loved reading the art
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
AI also has the misfortune of coinciding with a very difficult period for young people, including limited job opportunities: the financial crash, COVID, Brexit, the political polarisation in the western world. In some sense it's probab
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
> Google is now on their 8th generation TPU Remarkable that the TPU pre-dates the attention paper. Was a solid bet on energy efficient dense matrix multiplication and has stood the test of time.
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
There's a major problem with evaluating the result of agentic coding, and "loop engineering" exacerbates it. Like many crafts (painting, music, etc) the true test of great software is time. Not because of taste, but because s
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by davidpapermill 3mo ago
Should be top comment. I think there _are_ downsides to using open models. Quality won't be as good. That's a given, at least with SOTA. But there's more: switching between models means qualitative changes in replies, and in

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