epicureanideal

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by epicureanideal 17d ago
At some point though, won't someone be able to extrapolate the demand growth curve, and invest some colossal amount of money into making and selling more RAM chips?
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by epicureanideal 28d ago
I wonder if we work backward from this smell, from the chemical that causes the smell, would we find some fundamental cause of aging that we could try to develop medicines for?
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by epicureanideal 1mo ago
They shouldn’t be able to redefine common terms when closer terms like lease or license are available. It’s misleading.
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by epicureanideal 1mo ago
If there is a severe shortage of labor, that'll happen. I think I remember reading about teachers being paid big bucks in Switzerland?
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by epicureanideal 2mo ago
> Lack of children is about to bite us very, very hard. Could it have an effect like the Black Plague, where labor becomes more expensive?
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by epicureanideal 2mo ago
Would be great if they'd add: Reverse human aging. (Maybe a sub-topic under "Engineer Better Medicines".)
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by epicureanideal 3mo ago
I’m kidding but.. it’ll be great if in 10 years we look back on this and your joke has become a prophecy.
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by epicureanideal 3mo ago
If it happens, that’ll be proof enough for me that LLM assisted science is giving economic returns!
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by epicureanideal 3mo ago
Based on my experience, even the models we have now are a huge benefit when properly used. And we probably have a decade or two of significant gains we can make just with harnesses, skills, heuristics, etc. even if no further progress were
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by epicureanideal 4mo ago
Only the front matter of the 50 skills would be loaded, right? 40 MCP tools would be a much larger use of context, right?
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by epicureanideal 4mo ago
The good news is if there are multiple frontier AI models from multiple countries with non overlapping sets of restricted answers, we can just use a couple of them to get open answers.
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by epicureanideal 4mo ago
One way to make legal services more affordable and accessible would be to put the burden of ensuring the AI legal services are accurate on a private-public partnership with the government. If a person using the service is given inaccurate l
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by epicureanideal 5mo ago
I also wonder about JS only, Python only, etc models. Maybe the future is a selection of local, specific stack trained models?
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by epicureanideal 5mo ago
Does this possibly demonstrate the limits of usefulness of using LLMs to explore new ideas or predict things?
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by epicureanideal 5mo ago
> If that’s the ideal you compare your own life to, you will be unhappy. Most people in this conversation on HN seem to just be talking about a regular house and a lifestyle that would’ve been normal for a manual laborer 60-70 years ago.
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by epicureanideal 5mo ago
Thanks for sharing! Seems to show that both are doing poorly relative to earlier generations, and it doesn’t seem Gen Z is greatly (or much at all) outpacing millennials.
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by epicureanideal 6mo ago
And to steel man your position, when the Russian revolution happened the bolsheviks promised peace, an end to the war.
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by epicureanideal 6mo ago
Source for the latter occurrence?
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by epicureanideal 7mo ago
And for a lot of AI transformation tasks, for a long time I've been using even clever regex search/replace, and with a few minutes of small adjustment afterward I have a 100% deterministic (or 95% deterministic and 5% manually hum
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by epicureanideal 7mo ago
Unless you're desperate to feed and house your family and anything that shortens your search by a day might keep a roof over your head?
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by epicureanideal 7mo ago
In case someone at Anthropic reads this.. if you find some way to make software developer salaries go up as a result of using your tools, or find some way to fast forward society to that stage of the effect of AI, you’ll have a lot of fans,
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by epicureanideal 7mo ago
Although I tend to think we overwork the working class such that they have no energy to keep up their health, so this would basically be taxing them because they're poor in many cases.
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by epicureanideal 7mo ago
Maybe so, but personally it seemed to be referred to as a "specification" or "spec" for a long time, and then suddenly around maybe 5 years ago I started to hear people use "PRD". I'm not sure what caused
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by epicureanideal 7mo ago
Absolutely. Imagine being able to look at 100 years of street view history, or several hundred, at some point in the future.
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by epicureanideal 8mo ago
> Yeah, it is over for several roles, especially frontend web development Only if the front end was super simple in the first place, IMO. And also only for the v1, which is still useful, whereas for ongoing development I think AI leads
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by epicureanideal 8mo ago
> Success will be determined by personal brand, social media presence, social connections. Always has been. (Meme)
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by epicureanideal 8mo ago
Could this lead to more software products, more competition, and more software engineers employed at more companies?
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by epicureanideal 8mo ago
Great idea! And if needed, to actually swap defective landing gear parts to whatever extent possible. Maybe difficult or impossible with current aircraft designs, but maybe future ones could be designed with this backup option. Maybe a se
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by epicureanideal 9mo ago
Claude and other LLMs can be used through JetBrains, and the IDE provides a significantly better experience than VS Code in my opinion.
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by epicureanideal 9mo ago
This has been my experience as well. So far, whenever I’ve been initially satisfied with the one shotted tests, when I had to go back to them I realized they needed to be reworked.

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