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by dpflan 1y ago
Thanks for sharing, any particular articles that had last impact on you?
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by dpflan 1y ago
Has anyone read up on the recent paper from Meta/FAIR -- CWM: An Open-Weights LLM for Research on Code Generation with World Models Which looks to attempt to give better "coding" understanding to the model instead of mere t
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by dpflan 1y ago
Sometimes I wonder if pseudocode could be better for prompting than expressive human language, because it can follow a structure and be expressive but constrained -- have you seen research on this and whether this an effective technique?
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by dpflan 1y ago
> Most of my initial prompts to agents start with "DO NOT WRITE ANY CODE YET." I like asking for the plan of action first, what does it think to do before actually do any edits/file touching.
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by dpflan 1y ago
I think this would benefit from examples of including coding assistants in the stages enumerated; how can the agent be included in each stage? I've seen posts about successful collaboration with agents at say Google, where there is ton
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by dpflan 1y ago
sshhh ... don't sidetrack the productive comment generation. (also, SSHHH as a possible name)...
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Ask HN: Is the "AI Boom" a Python Boom?
2 points by dpflan 1y ago|3 comments
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by dpflan 1y ago
I recall the noted Zuckerberg comments regarding the situation you describe of why people are willing to trust you with their privacy and data...
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by dpflan 1y ago
Or send a prompt injected spam in someone's GMail, doesn't even have to opened by the human end-user: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eito-miyamura-157305121_we-go...
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by dpflan 1y ago
Here is the WSJ opinion piece: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-gen-z-unemployable-288d2ec9 Here is a LinkedIn post by one of the researchers, Suzy Welch at NYU: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/suzywe
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Hiring Managers vs. Gen Z Priorities: Mere 2% Have What Managers Want Most [pdf](becomingyoulabs.com)
1 points by dpflan 1y ago|1 comments
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by dpflan 1y ago
Sounds like suggesting some sort of software engineering board certification plus and ethics certification — the “Von Neumann Oath”? Unethical while still legal software is just extremely lucrative, it seems hard to have this idea take flig
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by dpflan 1y ago
This reminds me of Stephen Wolfram's efforts to analyze his life: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana...
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by dpflan 1y ago
The study you are alluding to is this one by METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research): Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089 &
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by dpflan 1y ago
Obligatory meme allusion: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by dpflan 1y ago
Perhaps this is one of those issues that gains momentum amongst enough states to become nation-wide phenomenon like other government-solutions/decision-for-social-issues do.
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by dpflan 1y ago
Where is the money coming from to keep these services afloat? The federal funding environment seems less magnanimous these days, plus as other have pointed out, New Mexico is not an economic powerhouse.
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by dpflan 1y ago
Does Microsoft Copilot do this already? Isn't it integrated into Windows and MSFT Office products? Has it been working out for Copilot? Is it helpful? Adoption rates of AI are interesting to say the least.
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by dpflan 1y ago
Here is another take on visualizing transformers from Georgia Tech researchers: https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ The Illustrated Transformer: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-tran
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by dpflan 1y ago
Here is another take on visualizing transformers from Georgia Tech researchers: https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ Also, the Illustrated Transformer: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrate
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by dpflan 1y ago
MIT OCW is an amazing resource -- anyone can learn from Strang, which is a goldmine. He also created a course on using Linear Algebra for machine learning: > Linear algebra concepts are key for understanding and creating machine learning
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by dpflan 1y ago
Understood. I learned this way too, stick with a near universal standard/expectation, especially if you want to script for it and customize and if you are accessing remote machines often so you can be comfortable and productive in any
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by dpflan 1y ago
I feel you, though this is why it's quite useful to have your own repo (or even just a dot file you can scp) with your dots files in them so you can "move in" to any machine and feel at home. Just clone/scp, then run you
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by dpflan 1y ago
Right on, I've always enjoyed tinkering with my own `$PS1`. Why did you move from zsh to bash -- what bash features pulled you over?
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by dpflan 1y ago
What’re you hoping or have some intuition you’ll discover/learn?
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by dpflan 1y ago
Some interesting links: - The pre-print paper: AI Agent Smart Contract Exploit Generation - https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05558 - An associated research institution: UC Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intel
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Agents in Charge of Managing Vending Machines: Short vs. Long-Term Coherence(arxiv.org)
3 points by dpflan 1y ago|0 comments
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by dpflan 1y ago
Absolutely, and the _prestige_ of being a CS person that has a high salary. Society admires those with wealth.
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by dpflan 1y ago
Hm, I see. Do you use a coding assistant? Do you see value in keeping up or your morale is diminishing? Can you change teams or positions or focus?
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by dpflan 1y ago
Yes, they can be ticket punchers more easily, kind of trained to do that. But there are certainly levels of achievement that are not as possible with such a foundation that lacks grounding and true understanding. Do you mind elaborating her

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