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by groby_b 1y ago
This is a lovely discussion that is best answered with "well, if time doesn't exist, it doesn't really matter when your paycheck arrives, right?"
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by groby_b 1y ago
I mean, all of those depend on how much was imported as third party dependency, how much was not addressed at all, and what was actually solved manually. They're all doable if you focus on the core problems. He's got a github wi
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by groby_b 1y ago
I think you're overindexing on tools. A good dev can produce excellent results rapidly in an entirely "naked" environment. Sure, good tools might help, but you're looking at improvements in the margins - and a lot of thi
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by groby_b 1y ago
> Plus you shouldn't need an LLM to understand a codebase. Just make it more understandable! <laughs in legacy code> And fundamentally, that isn't a function of "capital". All code bases are shaped by the implic
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> reduces programming or math to a checklist I mean, you can. "Have an initial idea. Define a utility function. Apply gradient descent". It's just that all three steps are really really hard. TDDs insight is that gradient
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by groby_b 1y ago
And not to forget, many (most?) Indians are bilingual. Multilingual speakers tend to skip languages within conversation if both parties are fluent -> training material includes those switches.
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by groby_b 1y ago
It's making the same reasoning mistake that a lot of discussion of the Entscheidungsproblem makes - the problem talks about a generic algorithm to answer for all programs P if they can solve T, for all tasks T, the discussion assum
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by groby_b 1y ago
In what world is that 'productivity software'? Sure, it helps you do a job more productively, but that's roughly all non-entertainment software. And sure, it helps a user create documents, but, again, most non-entertainment s
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by groby_b 1y ago
I think it's cool you built and shared it - grats on shipping. But you (or your users) are about to learn a few truths about bugs and users :) Foremost: unless your users pay for the product, there's a downside to easy bug reports
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by groby_b 1y ago
Calling 138240 TB of DRAM "storage-free" is... impressive.
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It is "inevitable" in the sense that in 99% of the cases, tomorrow is just like yesterday. LLMs have been continually improving for years now. The surprising thing would be them not improving further. And if you follow the researc
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by groby_b 1y ago
> Except, they make bizarre mistakes that human juniors would not, You underestimate juniors - Stack Overflow has done marvels to expand the capacity for bizarre mistakes :) > these models do not themselves have a model of the computa
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by groby_b 1y ago
> add some missing destructors to a working but leaky C++ project. That's amazing, given C++ provides default destructors. They don't "miss" unless you or the AI omitted them deliberately. So I'll guess you meant
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by groby_b 1y ago
Is there an argument outside of a quip you'd like to present? These tests have replicated pretty well. Are you really trying to make the point that there's a collective effort to defraud here?
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The question you'll need to answer is "why". What does embodiment provide that is recognizable as intelligence. As for "not able to recognize", it's also worth keeping in mind that LLMs by now regularly pass th
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by groby_b 1y ago
Huh? Can you cite _one_ major AI researcher who believes intelligence is a total ordering? They'll definitely be aligned on partial ordering. There's no "smartest" person, but there are a lot of people who are consistent
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by groby_b 1y ago
Possibly. Meta's HPT work sidesteps that issue neatly. Will it lead to AGI? Who the heck knows, but it does not need a meta system for that control.
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by groby_b 1y ago
"State your constraints and requirements well and exhaustively". Meanwhile, I just can't get over the cartoon implying that a React Dev is just a Junior Dev who lost their hoodie.
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by groby_b 1y ago
"Conquered" is a loaded term, but a 43% reduction in mortality since 1990 is nothing to sneeze at. The 5 year survival rate for localized (early stage) breast cancer is 99% Did we remove it as a cause of death? No. But the prognos
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by groby_b 1y ago
Let's be clear, it's not just the age of tech. It's been normalized to offload things to the recipients, because it reduces cost. Be it self-checkout, be it governments and large corporate entities doing the absolute minimum
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by groby_b 1y ago
Not sure if he talked about photography, Desktop Publishing, spreadsheets, or some other labor-saving invention. But what I heard over the din of whining was "It was hard for me, it should be hard for you". And... that's not
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by groby_b 1y ago
This time is, as every single time before, not actually different. The singularity has no calendar appointment for end of 2027, and businesses still care about making money, and will for the foreseeable future.
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by groby_b 1y ago
While that's a great slogan: The infra you need to create and update models dwarfs inference infra. Without that liability, you won't get a working model. No, the infra itself isn't the moat. Being in an economic position tha
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by groby_b 1y ago
"The Russians" is a copout, though, if you can buy a GPS jammer for 50 bucks. It's commonly used e.g. by truckers who'd prefer their corporate liege lord don't track them every second they exist. You'll have to
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by groby_b 1y ago
I think it's worth keeping in mind that word2vec was specifically trained on semantic similarity. Most embedding APIs don't really give a lick about the semantic space And, worse, most latent spaces are decidedly non-linear. And s
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by groby_b 1y ago
> Buses, like Amtrak and pub transit, degrade and degrade and degrade - look how government can’t do anything! As an LA resident: Public buses degrade just fine without any uber buses. And we seem to lack the political will to fix that.
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by groby_b 1y ago
While there are some valid points hiding deep in the sewage flowing across the page, it also misses a core point: The web (HTML/CSS/JS) is by now good enough to make actually decent UI that doesn't look like it's escaped
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I was with the author right up to the Marc Aurelius quote "You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." The funny thing is that actual engineering _requires_ being resilient in the f
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The problem any realistic assessment will have to struggle with is that they did illegal shit, exploited existing loopholes and created a better experience. Taxis before Uber were a shit show. The worst Uber drive you had would still be a
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by groby_b 1y ago
Meanwhile, you're missing the wider point: You don't get to claim "everybody can do this from nothing" if the "nothing" is actually a substantial amount of implicit access to resources. Nobody (well, few) begru

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