gavmor

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   by gavmor 1y ago

   Yes, beware the Barnum/Forer effect! > a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact va
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   by gavmor 1y ago

   Maybe we need some kind of "node coverage tool" to reassure us that each node or chunk of the embedding context has been attended to.
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   by gavmor 1y ago

   > Wenn wir das Wesen des Baumes suchen, müssen wir gewahr werden, daß jenes, was jeden Baum als Baum durch waltet, nicht selber ein Baum ist, der sich zwischen den übrigen Bäumen antreffen läßt. — Martin Heidegger, Die Frage Nach Der T
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   by gavmor 1y ago

   "Field" is a less mysterious term because it's not polysemous with a supernatural being (ghost) or a distilled alcoholic beverage (soluble liquid). Sure, it's polysemous with "a cultivated expanse of land&quot
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   by gavmor 1y ago

   s/Dropbox/Google Drive/
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   by gavmor 1y ago

   > Hey, you are trying to save your data but the data on disk is newer than when you loaded it You're suggesting an actual API-facilitated data sync via Dropbox? Sure, but at that point why? Unless the data also needs to be read by 3
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   by gavmor 1y ago

   Not sure I trust Dropbox to merge data. What happens when I want to migrate my data structures to a new schema?
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   by gavmor 1y ago

   What about those of us who use multiple devices, or multiple browsers? I've been using local storage for years and it's definitely hampering adoption, especially for multiplayer.
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   by gavmor 1y ago

   These folks[0] are doing it, possibly via "codemods"[1], which utilize ASTs. 0. https://codemod.com/ 1. https://martinfowler.com/articles/codemods-api-refactoring.h...
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    I get paid for results, with no allowance for my immediate manager's faults.
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    I am not personally turned off by the hygiene of toilet paper rolls, but I think any rational adult's Overton Window should accommodate those who are. Your condescension is grossly unwarranted. You don't have to be Adrian Monk t
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Direct links to some of his papers: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/1... https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2310223120?trk=pub... https:&#x2F
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Now if only someone would invent a tool to do the opposite. I have too easy a time of forgetting what I wrote, and penning new lines in obliviousness. It's a habit from many years of stream-of-consciousness writing a la The Artist&#
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Your handle is "supportengineer". Presumably you outrank OP if you count assists, or a share of others' successes. Do the developers of the libraries he used count this site as a personal accomplishment? Do the airplane mecha
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    I will refer all those interested to my favorite astrobiologist, Dr. Michael L. Wong[0]. A common model defines "life" as an autocatalytic network of organometallic chemicals in aqueous solution that processes information and diss
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    I just hope I live to see the day personal agents are empowered to make ad hoc use of paid services on our behalf—via eg AITP (Agent Interaction & Transaction Protocol), which is specifically designed to enable autonomous, secure commun
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    "Log in With Google" to use Drive storage has long been a thing. Maybe proxying Gemini usage isn't too far off.
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    > Consider this a snapshot of our raw test results, suitable as a starting point and inspiration for further work, but not solid enough on its own to draw conclusions or make policy recommendations or even necessarily to alter your perso
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Phoenix.new looks powerful, and I'll definitely play with it. I've been daydreaming of an agentic framework that maximally exploits BEAM. This isn't that, but maybe jido[0] is what I'm looking for. 0. https://
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Ideally, some way to export and share between different UIs. https://json-schema.app/view/%23?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.gith...
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Ah! Thanks for pointing it out.
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Does HN even use a RAG database? What for? They don't even maintain their own search[0]. 0. https://hn.algolia.com/
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Invaluable film if you believe invention is what made Apple valuable.
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    If you haven't, check out the documentary[0] on General Magic which Bill co-founded in 1990. Among the more remarkable scenes in there is when a member of the public seems perplexed by the thought that they would even want to "c
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    You may get some mileage out of protocols like Agent Network Protocol (ANP), Agent Interaction & Transaction Protocol (AITP), Agora "Protocol Documents" (PDs), agents.json, Airweave, or the Coral Protocol. AITPs "message
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    The discovery tax is actually something like O(n log n), because you have to also search and also compare. It's part of The Mess We're In[0]. 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Yes, I wonder if it ever makes sense to partition an agent's toolkit across multiple "agents"—besides horizontal scaling. Why should one process have access to APIs that another doesn't? Authorization and secrets, maybe,
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    ie inextricably coupled to their services? Or is it a matter of swapping out a few "provider" modules?
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    Have you put any thought into accommodating self-supporting design to optimize for printing? Or parametric structural optimization / topology optimization with parametric constraints? Or, rather, if these are out of scope for your tool
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    by gavmor 1y ago

    No src/, only a minified index.js dist?