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by drob518 3mo ago
I chuckle at the thought of going back to letterboxing with people arguing that “we need to see the top and bottom of the frame, like the director intended!” What’s old is new again. Are hemlines up or down this year? Skinny jeans or baggy?
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by drob518 3mo ago
LOL, okay fair enough. Then maybe let me say that I was left disappointed.
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by drob518 3mo ago
Clearly, words morph over time. A “computer” used to refer to a human who would make numeric calculations with a pencil and paper. Maybe we’re at that point with “thinking” and “reasoning.”
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by drob518 3mo ago
Sure, other living, non-human things clearly reason and think. My German shepherd dog is quite smart and demonstrates these processes all the time. But is a machine following an algorithm (even a stochastic algorithm) “thinking” or “reasoni
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by drob518 3mo ago
This feels like a problem with anthropomorphizing. We’re using words like “reasoning” and “thinking” because they are comfortable, and then we’re getting wrapped around the axle because we’re not sure if those words are totally accurate. I
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by drob518 3mo ago
My university had a great Physics department (Nobel laureate level), but every year you’d have a bunch of junior year (year 3) physics students desperately trying to switch into engineering as they realized that making a go of a pure physic
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by drob518 3mo ago
Sure, it seems true for a short period. But rushing something forward means you cut corners and that catches up with you over time. Anyone who has ever had a sales team asking for special features to be hacked into a product with little or
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by drob518 3mo ago
Aka “mechanical sympathy”
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by drob518 3mo ago
Cool, will do. Was playing around with it last night some more.
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by drob518 3mo ago
Yep. Much of the old phone system has now transitioned to highly-compressed, packetized voice running over IP rather than the traditional synchronous SONET infrastructure. While SONET might be used on some links, the whole link is dedicated
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by drob518 3mo ago
Yes hit rate does vary by harness and by how you use the harness. If you use subagents, for instance, they will start with a whole new context created by the main agent, and this will not be cached. If you mostly use the main agent with Pi,
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by drob518 3mo ago
Yes, but… more thinking tokens also means longer solution generation time. That said, v4 Flash is a fast model. I use it all the time because it’s very smart for the price. But it is verbose sometimes.
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by drob518 3mo ago
Sure, “blame” is a strong word. My point isn’t that anyone deserves actual blame, but just that the models are proving creative. We already know that they will comment out unit tests to make them “pass,” for instance. If we want to focus on
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by drob518 3mo ago
Well, there’s a bigger issue of AIs not doing what we tell them to do, but I think that’s orthogonal to this UI issue. If you want to fault the model for not obeying the prompt or for a poor solution, then fine. My point is, it solved the p
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by drob518 3mo ago
Are you the Deepclause author? I tried it yesterday and my first reaction was that it was slow. Perhaps I’m doing something wrong, however. Running against the same model in Pi was lightspeed in comparison. Second reaction is the prompt edi
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by drob518 3mo ago
The article makes the point that on some benchmarks the AIs worked around the UI and then says that sometimes APIs won’t be available. The unwritten implication is that then we’ll be in trouble. But will we? If an API doesn’t exist, is the
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by drob518 3mo ago
Doesn’t handle drag and drop on iPad.
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by drob518 3mo ago
Sure. You could easily have the model choose a workflow/graph for execution and then call a tool that implements the execution engine for that. The tool then makes calls for model inferencing at various points in the processing.
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by drob518 3mo ago
Typically, the benefit of the mux over just more windows or tabs is the ability to detach sessions from a term and have them continue to run. But yea, the “split a term window into multiple terms” doesn’t have quite as much value in a world
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by drob518 3mo ago
Thanks, that helped. I get it. Yea, that’s the harness executing the workflow with the LLM being called at the right time. That ensures the process is consistent no matter what, in contrast to the agent calling out to tools and possibly doi
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by drob518 3mo ago
Interesting idea. I’ve been noodling about something similar myself for a few months, but I haven’t moved forward with testing it. What sort of outcomes are you seeing with it? IMO, we’re never going to get to AGI without fusing “soft” AI d
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by drob518 3mo ago
Doesn’t that blow your token cache hit rate and balloon your costs (essentially everything is billed at the input token rate, not the cached rate)?
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by drob518 3mo ago
What do you mean by a graph of one shot prompts?
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by drob518 3mo ago
Every generation thinks the new generation is getting soft, but there is a critical difference this time. Things like calculators replaced the mechanics of multiplication and long division. You still had to know what to multiply and divide,
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by drob518 3mo ago
New respect for Meta Muse Spark. It seems to sit at a lot of sweet spots in the leader board. It’s not the best at anything in particular, but it balances cost and performance quite well. I’m also curious where Poolside Laguna S would sit;
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by drob518 3mo ago
You think war should be “fair?”
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by drob518 3mo ago
Same. Em dashes have been around a lot longer than AI. Let’s take ‘em (pardon the pun) back!
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by drob518 3mo ago
> “But what would people think of my writing if I ever used an em dash? What if someone points one out in my writing?”. Bitch, please. Hell yes, and ROFL. I’m tired of em dashes being cited as evidence of AI.
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by drob518 3mo ago
Yes, the contractual obligation shows up, but not the debt the subsidiaries took on. You have to follow the entity structure and look at their books for that piece. And it’ll show up as a different accounting category, “services rendered,”
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by drob518 3mo ago
A legitimate reason to do this is so that you can sell it all off or restructure it later without it being intertwined with your main books. So, for instance, it you’re an AI company, your main business is developing models and selling infe

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