ericmcer

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by ericmcer 6mo ago
Seriously try saying "LLM" to anyone else. There is a class next door to my office. An old woman is teaching ~20 people how to be insurance agents with a slide show. It seems like a two week course with a certificate at the end. T
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
That is part of why I am not... too worried as an engineer? Like years of manually studying, fixing and reviewing code is experience that only pre ~2020 devs will have. The intuitive/tacit knowledge that lets you look at code and &quot
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
I have a dream that any time you have to input info into a website/app you have an option to do it via voice conversation instead of typing. Obviously it would be a dystopian nightmare to have everyone yelling inputs into their phone o
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
What is the AI agent doing in this interaction? This is a public API exposed to any browser...
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
I am kind of a WebRTC noob but... this means after I define my input channel (audio track, video, etc.) and establish a peer connection I can send data from a different source? Are there any complications with that or is it kind of on me to
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
it is the same if you base it just on the amino acid profiles, they are both just proteins with different amounts. I always wondered if there were nutrients we can’t measure though, because collagen is typically made from skin or bones wher
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
So what do I do differently then? Hypothetically, you have a simple slice out of bounds error because a function is getting an empty string so it does something like: `""[5]`. Opus will add a bunch of length & nil checks to &q
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
I mean at this point can we just conclude that there are a group of engineers who claim to have incredible success with it and a group that claim it is unreliable and cannot be trusted to do complex tasks. I struggle to believe that a ton o
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
Under the hood aren't you pushing things into the browser history as navigation happens? I wouldn't try to rewrite the history api myself but just make sure you `pushState()` as navigation happens.
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
that would be more on the consumer of the library than on the library imo. Like I wouldn't expect any other frontend router library to decorate links for me in a certain way.
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
Really cool, like others are saying this makes you feel like you are interacting with all the pages at once instead of one page at a time. I did notice that forward doesn't seem to work. I.E. If I click into a page, it zooms in, press
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
I see quite a few of these, the killer feature to me will be one that fine tunes the model based on your own voice. E.G. if your name is `Donold` (pronounced like Donald) there is not a transcription model in existence that will transcribe
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
Everything? Price of oil is tied to the price of every single thing you buy. Unless you go off grid and grow your own food you are supporting the price of oil.
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
Simulation/Sandbox games probably do well because of their open ended nature. My GF, daughter and me all play Stardew Valley but we play it wildly differently. It is a farming/relationship simulator for them and some kind of capit
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
Isn't it kind of misguided to approach this as men studying women and trying to make more things that appeal to them? Video game distribution is insanely low friction. Last month the best selling game was Resident Evil (6m copies) and
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
What do they mean by "assets"? Is it securities in the form of stocks/bonds/etc? If so they own a bunch of bits on a server somewhere that technically represent an amount of goods/services they could never use in 10
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
no I don't think with LLMs as the foundation we will ever have something that can build and launch something end to end. They just predict the next most likely token... no amount of clever orchestration can cover that up and make it in
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
I didn't mean "estimate" in some technical/legal sense, replace the word with "our best guess" or whatever terminology is used by the 1000s of companies that are using LLMs but not being held legally responsibl
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
I mean that was what happened in 2008 just over a multi-year timeline. In 2020 they managed to get the market to recover in a few months. Maybe this time they will only let it go down for a couple days.
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Couldn't you blast through all of that with some kind of warning like: "All labor and part prices are estimates, for exact pricing leave your name and number and we will get back to you".
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Based on the post I would guess it hasn't been live long and gone through a ton of battle testing. I wish her luck though, things get much murkier as you start stacking more intents and it is no longer just a chatbot that funnels to te
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Seriously for audio conversations the LLM layer is fairly stable. Getting STT and TTS to be reliable has been a much bigger hurdle. I hear the same phrases 10+ times in a day and they stress things a bit different each time, it seems like a
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
He wants $7/mo to read hot takes like: "Anthropic turned $30 billion into $5 billion. That’s…bad. That’s just bad business." Is this his first time looking into the tech industry?
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
A single course... no, but if I was majoring in astronomy I would expect to understand telescopes enough to put one together.
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Seriously I had multiple courses on Java and C++ but not a single mention of version control. It wasn't even an elective as far as I remember. A course where 3+ students build something together in a single repo and the professor can v
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
What are we trying to achieve as a species? If we can't answer that question then we can't really judge our actions effectively. If we view humanity as the most intelligent life form not just on the planet, but in the entire unive
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
The only justification would be that we are in some liminal space and are living in the confusing period leading up to some tech utopia. You also can still live in the way your grandparents did. In the rural USA 10+ acres is going to cost l
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
It would be interesting seeing how good LLMs are at interactive system design type work. I find them to be way too positive when I need them to shut me down or redirect my ideas entirely. We need a comparison between an LLM and an experienc
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
The author framed this as if "One Battle After Another" was some adult work and they couldn't watch "Predator" afterwards because it was so childish. I had the opposite reaction and could barely make it through 15m
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Yeah an app doesn't "disappear" because you put an AI interface in front of it and then use a bunch of old school programming to parse LLM output and feed that into your old app. 99% of the work is still building the old app.

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