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by golly_ned 3mo ago
I see that abstraction as the purpose of the word when viewing it from a 'business' context: when assessing businesses of the same kind, the actual thing that's being produced matters a lot less. I'd suppose that blog wr
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by golly_ned 3mo ago
I agree. It's a generic word since it has a generic meaning. I know there's a big bias against 'business speak' among engineers. But a lot of the time, it's just a matter of abstracting in a domain engineers typical
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by golly_ned 3mo ago
Turing's cathedral, on the invention and development of the earliest digital computers just before, during, and after WWII. Lots of excellent detail, descriptions of the personalities and relationships of many interesting people, like
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by golly_ned 3mo ago
Everyone I’ve met personally who attended RC was insufferable. Condescending to the point they couldn’t disguise their contempt for people who they thought knew less. So extreme to the point they simply refused to learn from other people. O
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by golly_ned 3mo ago
Why would you think they are talking about an entirely different page and topic?
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by golly_ned 3mo ago
I'd love to see the 'AI as personal tutor' approach. Even incorporating things like spaced repetition or the testing effect, or evaluating free-written responses. A lot of potential that's currently unrealized. It takes
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by golly_ned 3mo ago
My favorite is ignoring or downplaying a problem. 95% of apparent 'problems' are best ignored in favor of solving the worthwhile 5%. Sometimes this means 'creating' a new problem by pointing to something unconsidered tha
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by golly_ned 3mo ago
When I was at AWS, they famously required an extensive "CoE", correction of errors, or post-mortem, in an instance of over-charging a customer $0.26. The idea is that if we can make small billing mistakes like that, we can make la
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by golly_ned 3mo ago
Even if something wasn't written by ChatGPT, I'm supposing ChatGPT's influence on writing has been so strong that (1) any typical reader of text on the internet will have ingested a lot of ChatGPT writing habits in their own
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by golly_ned 3mo ago
Has anyone figured out why anyone would bother adopting the google 'open knowledge format'? Normally I expect a set of tooling to be build on top of any open format. Value-adds and interoperability. Instead I just see a way to org
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
I'm from the ML platforms and systems domain. I strongly recommend it if one's able. It's a bit more stable than a quickly evolving ML/DL/AI ecosystem or frontend ecosystem. The skills are more durable. It repays de
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
Pytorch is widely accepted as the de facto ML framework in both research and industry. TensorFlow comes second in industry. Jax is hardly used at all, but uses the same backend as TensorFlow. Triton is a python-like language to define ML ma
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
Please read the article. You've ignored proof checkers.
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
I'd be thrilled with a second thread much less GPU.
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
You're right that "assumes" might be misleading. Maybe "implies" would be more correct. The point the author's trying to make is that if we state in a paper something like "the LLM understands, believes, t
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
Yes. There's nothing essentially new this latest round of AI has unturned that philosophers haven't turned over decades (or more ago). Nothing stopped philosophers supposing even a functionally perfect simulacrum of human intellig
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
You're missing the satire. And the 'argument', which is a funny way to recast the chinese room argument, which has also been discussed to death. And you're also assuming any kind of position other than your own dogma --
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
Please tell me your comment is satirical too?
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
What is the truth about AI & climate change?
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
The article says that the company /may/ have been speaking in their capacity as Amazon employees and not citizens. Even if they described themselves as working for Amazon, that doesn't mean they were posing as representatives
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by golly_ned 4mo ago
I've even seen AI-generated roadmap documents that promise the world, are broadcasted to director+, who sign off without a thought. Words and code are so cheap they're meaningless, while human focus, attention, and understanding a
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by golly_ned 5mo ago
Amodei is convinced he's abraham prefiguring AI's christ. Very different than Altman's cold power-seeking. You can always trust someone who's selfish, since they'll always do whatever's in their benefit at all
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by golly_ned 5mo ago
This is why 'agents' are the solution for these companies. Token spending goes through the roof. As long as a human is in the loop needing to read or review at human speed, that's a ceiling on how many tokens per user they ca
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by golly_ned 5mo ago
From the other end, I've seen this go wrong a couple ways: When I'm doing it: I can go on way too long trying to consider way too much, when really, putting down some code and reading it and writing it myself would give me a bette
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by golly_ned 5mo ago
Newsweek already found him back in 2014, remember? They searched for everyone named SN and narrowed it down to the most likely candidate. Foolproof.
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by golly_ned 5mo ago
Seriously, the article says exactly the opposite.
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by golly_ned 6mo ago
Why do those experiences indicate the presence or non-presence of an afterlife? This claim from Ayer -- how do we make the leap from these experiences existing to being evidence of a life after consciousness? > On the face of it, these e
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by golly_ned 6mo ago
I came away with a very different conclusion, which is that the fact that such “bad” software can be so resoundingly successful for a business, yet be so odious to experienced human reviewers, means that it was the right engineering choice
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by golly_ned 7mo ago
Much simpler. Those in power, in every place and in every time, adopt self-serving beliefs that justify their place as the ones in power and flatter themselves. No different in any day or any time. Same quasi-messianic ideals as ever. Their
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by golly_ned 8mo ago
I’m wary about the exuberance of AI displacing quality. But some of the worst experiences I’ve had with coworkers were with those who made programming part of their identity. Every technical disagreement on a PR became a threat to identity

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