drivebyhooting

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by drivebyhooting 10d ago
Can you give examples of wrapped LLM logic? API calls are expensive and slow, so I’ve shied away from integrating them into my personal projects. And of course there’s always the risk of hallucination.
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by drivebyhooting 10d ago
Yes this would be very useful. Or at least being able to selectively compact a linear part and continue from before. Often times I just sort of wish to undo.
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by drivebyhooting 10d ago
Chat is only tedious because it’s slow. If models responded in 300ms it would be the ideal interface.
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by drivebyhooting 10d ago
GPT Chat seems smarter for business questions or planning that does not require iteration or wrangling data sources. But Work gives the model a computer instance it can use for programmatic data access, API munging, etc. Success cases I’ve
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by drivebyhooting 10d ago
That makes no sense. Do you think their plan is to spend billions of dollars and build infrastructure mega projects just to let it sit idle? Did the rise personal computing make data centers and super computers obsolete? Any advance in inf
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by drivebyhooting 10d ago
I pay $200/month for ChatGPT. Maybe people should just pay for the service instead of relying of freebies? It’s worth it. Already saved me more than $30,000 in a business transaction by negotiating for me. I’m not going to use a CPA in
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by drivebyhooting 11d ago
And sometimes that’s what trying to sound smart sounds like.
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by drivebyhooting 11d ago
Mostly because it answers quickly and is more agreeable (too agreeable at times). Meanwhile Claude and Astra like to couch all their agreements with caveats and provisos.
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by drivebyhooting 11d ago
Why can’t agents QA it?
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by drivebyhooting 13d ago
Could you share the prompts and workflow? I’ve tried this too, but with mixed success when it comes to creating custom tile kernels. I would really appreciate your input!
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by drivebyhooting 15d ago
Chess is even more mainstream and accessible now!
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by drivebyhooting 15d ago
All “fields medalist” signatories - a rarefied and elitist group indeed. I wish this letter could be more egalitarian and include the view points of those who AREN’T the beneficiaries of a highly competitive winner-take-all system. Since th
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by drivebyhooting 15d ago
Palantir is in Lord of the Rings. Which is not a book for children. Maybe you were thinking of the hobbit?
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by drivebyhooting 15d ago
Built a top a pyramid of failed math undergrads, grad students, and mediocre post docs. That half a million total comp is the consolation prize for the disillusioned.
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by drivebyhooting 16d ago
It’s a prisoner’s dilemma. A single mathematician working with AI while all others forebear will clearly outcompete.
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by drivebyhooting 16d ago
If we put aside the idea of credit for a moment, it sounds like human/AI collaboration is indeed super charging discovery.
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by drivebyhooting 17d ago
Math academia was not working well at all. Almost every single graduated from my PhD program wound up working in ads or finance. The gatekeeping in math academia is extremely unfair, or should I say objectively fair but personally unfair. I
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by drivebyhooting 17d ago
I was about to say something similar. If my cushy ad tech disappears (as it seems to be doing), I might as well join in with bringing about the end of all professions.
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by drivebyhooting 20d ago
I’d rather that capability be wide spread and “democratized” than have all of humanity enslaved to the oligopoly holding control of the godhead.
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by drivebyhooting 21d ago
That chess analogy deeply confused me. Chess engines don’t compute win probabilities and choose the highest move. I don’t think a chess engine is an apt analogy at all. In a chess engine, there is a concrete search tree and although it emit
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by drivebyhooting 21d ago
OpenClaw hype didn’t vanish. It opened the flood gates to yolo mode and computer use. Whatever reservations Anthropic and OpenAI had went out the window.
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by drivebyhooting 22d ago
That’s just a counter example I can check by hand with almost zero background. Wiles’s proof will remain a mystery to me.
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by drivebyhooting 22d ago
That is just an extremely defensible lower bound for a single person. Some kind of Lê Chatelier principle applies where if everyone has access to AI then its value is actually diminished somewhat.
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by drivebyhooting 22d ago
LLMs are pretty good at slogging through. When will they come up with brilliant breakthroughs like Andrew Wiles?
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by drivebyhooting 22d ago
I didn’t realize AGI required solving problems modern human civilization hasn’t solved yet. Well by that metric humans aren’t intelligent either! And how many people could’ve actually invented calculus, relativity, quantum mechanics? Are th
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by drivebyhooting 22d ago
For people skeptical of AGI. Consider the following: 15 years ago if you were the sole proprietor of these models, would you be able to hold a dozen remote junior engineer jobs? Maybe even more? These models could certainly pass all intervi
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by drivebyhooting 23d ago
It’s not like diverse personalities and affections are appreciated in the age of corporate work. Might as well drop all the pretense of “bringing your whole self”. And besides, there is only time enough for ONE Mozart in the world.
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by drivebyhooting 23d ago
I’ve used the Gemini flash, but then when I have soul ultra check its work, it found a bunch of cut corners and improper design. As much as I like the speed and interactivity, I really don’t trust it
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by drivebyhooting 24d ago
180 degree was for Rubik’s cube, not this flat cube.
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by drivebyhooting 1mo ago
You can’t justify AI company valuations either. Only one of those capabilities can actually deliver kinetic solutions. Meanwhile big tech revenue is delivering ad solutions.

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