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by dvt 4mo ago
It is ( especially the self-reflection).
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by dvt 4mo ago
Can you source this? My cursory research shows the opposite[1]. Imo, the fiscal disaster is in part due to enrollment declining (which, ironically enough, mainly affects low-income households). [1] https://myelearningworld.com&#x
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by dvt 4mo ago
The idea that AI is somehow at fault for the absolute fiscal disaster the UC and the CSU systems find themselves in is laughable at best and damaging at worst. These systems (and I say this as a graduate of UCLA that was on a full academic
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by dvt 4mo ago
Location:Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm an engineer and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech product an
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by dvt 4mo ago
Feel free to reach out at d(at)dvt(dot)name—happy to connect!
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by dvt 4mo ago
WASI provides a very nice mental model where you can mount, e.g., /input, as read-only, and where every mutation is saved in /output or what-not. At least that's my favorite contract: input files remain untouched, but we can
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by dvt 4mo ago
I was actually curious, on my Mac, it uses `gs -q -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt input.pdf` (not sure why I have Ghostscript installed, maybe Adobe?) to read a PDF, and on my PC it just rawdogs `pdftotext`.
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by dvt 4mo ago
LLMs can live in the cloud, but all tools need to be (1) local, and (2) containerized. It's clear to me that just willy-nilly "running stuff" is going to blow things up eventually. Maybe folks don't know this, but even
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by dvt 4mo ago
> Either I'm bad at communicating today or you're bad at reading Could be both :) The way I look at it is like this, and you could call this my thesis: I do not categorically think that code in itself is primarily relevant t
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by dvt 4mo ago
> You're contradicting yourself How? > you mention things that are very clearly not end products but thoughts and visions behind them that only lead to end products Thoughts and visions are much more closely intertwined with end
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by dvt 4mo ago
> No, it's more like saying "I judge an artist on my terms regardless of how well they sell on the market". I feel like I need to push back here, because some of the best programmers around: Carmack, Torvalds, Johnathan Bl
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by dvt 4mo ago
Imo, this is like saying "I judge a carpenter based on how straight they can cut a piece of plywood." Or like saying "I judge an artist on how accurately they can draw a circle by hand." I mean that's certainly one
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by dvt 4mo ago
Maybe you're right and I was a bit too snarky, apologies to the author if he/she was offended. Writing anything implies some vulnerability, and criticism should be constructive.
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by dvt 4mo ago
The key difference is that code is not the end product, but writing is itself the product. (No one's doing "vibe-product-management" for example.) Tbh, I still think code can have a beauty and elegance to it (like a logical
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by dvt 4mo ago
Lol my blog was hacked recently and I've been lazy about moving my backed-up mySQL DB to the new WP installation. Not sure where moral high ground enters the picture. If I really wanted to be an asshole, I'd cite a book I co-wrote
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by dvt 4mo ago
Hah, ChatGPT constantly says "that's real" or "less about X, more about Y."
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by dvt 4mo ago
Honestly, I can't fathom thinking that LLM writing is even remotely passable. People that think this should honestly read more. One book a month is hardly an aspirational goal. You don't even have to read Melville or Hemingway or
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by dvt 4mo ago
It's kind of interesting how genuinely hard it is to get models to deviate from basically all of these tropes. You can straight up tell it "I hate that card design, do something different, get creative!" and it'll do s
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by dvt 4mo ago
> I’m referring specifically to the cards, which exploded in popularity after some YouTuber paid millions for a rare card Objectively untrue boomer take. Pokemon cards have been popular & have been traded since I was in middle school
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by dvt 5mo ago
> These are not the type of people who you want running a company. This is quite literally the opposite of reality, and it's funny to see internet experts that haven't so much as raised 100k always criticize seasoned C-level ex
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by dvt 5mo ago
I always get downvoted when I say this, but React is imo the biggest piece of astroturfed garbage corpo-slopware in the history of software engineering. It achieved such ubiquitous status for a few reasons: (1) The extreme boom of software
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by dvt 5mo ago
Somehow managed to make a Ferrari look as cheap as a Tesla (inside and out).
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by dvt 5mo ago
The funniest thing about this post is that Java Android programming circa 2014 is somehow romanticized as "real programming." 2014 Android code has got to be peak corpo-slop with the most inane abstractions, unintuitive paradigms,
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by dvt 5mo ago
I experimented with this a few years ago, and token-level search-and-replace can do wonders here. For example, you instruct the model to, whenever it wants to reference the time, to just say "[time]." Then, you intercept the token
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by dvt 5mo ago
Apologies for being a bit snarky, you're alright :)
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by dvt 5mo ago
> doesn't do much to forward creativity, entrepreneurship, or engineering Who are you (or who am I) to decide that? The entire point of a show HN is to be non-judgmental and charitable, otherwise it's just going to turn into a
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by dvt 5mo ago
I know it's a grey area, but I've started to really push back against this kind of low-effort reddit-style gotcha' posting on HN ( especially on "Show HN" posts, which are meant to be—from what I've always und
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by dvt 5mo ago
> Newton and Leibniz were "hand-waving"? Yes, and it's pretty common knowledge that Calculus was ( finally ) formalized by Weierstrass in the early 19th century, having spent almost two centuries in mathematical limbo. Cal
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by dvt 5mo ago
> This "new math" might be a recombination of things that we already know If you know anything about the invention of new math (analytic geometry, Calculus, etc.), you'd know how untrue this is. In fact, Calculus was extre
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by dvt 5mo ago
Because by definition LLMs are permutation machines, not creativity machines. (My premise, which you may disagree with, is that creativity/imagination/artistry is not merely permutation.)

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