davnicwil

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by davnicwil 6mo ago
Very unrelated to the article, but I think 'arXiv' as a brand is bad, and really detrimental to what the institution aims to accomplish. That is, it's not readily parseable, it really gives an insider term vibe - like this is
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by davnicwil 6mo ago
yeah, 5g doesn't work on trains very well once just a little bit out of zone 2/3. Actually to be honest any connectivity at all is patchy.
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
To be fair, one interpretation is spending innovation tokens wisely. Just piggy back off an already understood concept/brand, don't try to be too clever on the parts where innovating won't matter that much. There's a bi
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
You're right, but this is always true in recruitment. Anything that gives you an edge won't last long as it will be copied if it works well.
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
just thinking about this, if you had the latitude to explain it more or less exactly as you have here, in human language, and frame it as a screen stage of the application and not an interview, and add: 'hey, I know this is really far
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
I agree with most of what you're saying in this reply but I also think we're now talking about a different thing, like how well does any of it prepare you for real world jobs. That's separate from the question of being taught
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
I mean, yes, except for the framing of paying for the piece of paper. The piece of paper is just the evidence that you've been through a journey successfully. What you're really paying for is access to the environment that facilit
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
To push back on this, I actually don't think the real role of a university is to teach, per se. The real role they play is something very different to everything that comes before in education, and a bit closer to everything in the wor
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
not to tangent off from your point too much but I think in reality one might in fact pay more for a logoless macbook just because it would in itself be a pretty unique and cool artefact, and a good story as to how you acquired it!
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
If you think about it there shouldn't really be a reason to care as long as things don't get worse. Presumably this is where it'll evolve to with the product just being the brand with a pricing tier and you always get {latest
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
very nice
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
I'd be totally happy with both modes being completely independent. Cloud-synced files could take care of shared state for a lot of usecases. I mainly just want this for the portability aspect with the phone. There are some practical is
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
Is there any world where them running MacOS on an A chip ultimately translates to just connecting an iPhone to a monitor, keyboard and mouse (all apple-branded, naturally :-) and running it in 'MacOS mode'? Obviously just so many
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
While I agree that the slowdown is very noticeable once the MBA gets hot to the touch, I joke that it's a feature, encouraging you to take a cooldown break every once in a while :-) More seriously though I agree it depends on workload.
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
I think all it means when we say 'solve problems in real life' is just the stuff you have to do that tooling can't abstract you away from any more. The sharp end of the debate now is around what exactly that means in the LLM
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
There's a lot of misconception about the intrinsic economic value of 'writing code' in these conversations. In software, all the economic value is in the information encoded in the code. The instructions on precisely what t
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by davnicwil 7mo ago
I don't think this is how it'll play out, and I'm generally a bit skeptical of the 'agent' paradigm per se. There doesn't seem to be a reason why AIs should act as these distinct entities that manage each other
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
The most frustrating one for me is how in safari in the address bar the keyboard changes and drops '.' to the right of the spacebar in the exact spot I usually hit the spacebar with my thumb (because I'm just tapping the edge
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
I hadn't heard that, that's interesting. Any sources you'd recommend to hear more about it? I think it's a slightly different point though. What I'm saying isn't about where the idea came from or whether it was
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
I mean I guess this is classic disruption theory. It's not that a dominant position goes away overnight. In fact that would be precisely the impetus to spur the incumbent to pivot immediately and have a much better chance of winning in
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
well, it's basically existential, so the incentive is there to not only get it very right but also to limit the delta with how right anyone else gets it. The same can't really be said of the long tail of products Google have done.
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
I'm not sure there's any conflict with what you're saying, which I guess is that language can describe instructions which are deterministic while still being ambiguous in certain ways. My point is just a narrower version of t
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
I agree with your conclusion but I don't think it'd necessarily be unintelligible. I think you can describe a program unambiguously using everyday natural language, it'd just be tediously inefficient to interpret. To make it
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
Something I'm finding odd is this seemingly perpetually repeating claim that the latest thing that came out actually works, unlike the last thing that obviously didn't quite work. Then next month, of course, latest thing becomes
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
I think the classic definition of the singularity though (per Kurzweil's book) is precisely when the curve actually doesn't look flat on human comprehensible timescales any more. I.e. One day there are significant overnight change
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
yeah I think this is exactly how the analogy breaks down. As humans we need to specialise. Even though we're generalists and have the a priori potential to learn and do all manner of things we have to pick just a few to focus on to be
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
I share your skepticism and think it's the classic pattern playing out, where people map practices of the previous paradigm to the new one and expect it to work. Aspects of it will be similar but it trends to disruption as it becomes c
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
how did you go about organising this in terms of getting the word out? Did you just mention it a lot here, or via some other platforms too/instead?
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
Yes, but where reliability is concerned, a continuum is a problem. You can't say with any certainty where any given thing is on the continuum, or even define its bounds. This is exactly what makes estimates categorically unreliable. Th
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by davnicwil 8mo ago
With respect, I think this approach is actually harmful to everyone in the org because you're trying to twist reality to fit a premise that is just impossible to make true: that estimates of how long it takes to build software are reli

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