hansonkd

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by hansonkd 2y ago
The difficulty stems from you have to rewrite the encoding/decoding canonicalization library in every language you want to consume the data with as opposed to simply piggy backing off of default implementations and the language's
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by hansonkd 2y ago
> The price point is too painful for home use unless you place your frame high above inaccessible without ladders. When i read this comment i had to go look at the product because i was expecting 10-20k. Looks very reasonable to me. The
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by hansonkd 2y ago
Same reason you hire an architect, electricians, carpenters and plumbers to build a house instead of getting an equal number of handymen and telling them to get at it. Thats not to say a layperson can't build a house, but having experi
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by hansonkd 2y ago
TBH the hardest thing for a long time about Node backend engineers isn't that there isn't great frameworks but a lot of times people choose node for the above use case. So developers who write Node backends were some breed of fr
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by hansonkd 2y ago
You articulated it beautifully.
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by hansonkd 2y ago
perhaps you are the exception that proves the rule :shrug: or perhaps its hard to objectively measure one's owns abilities. which is the most common thing i have seen from "full stack" interviewees.
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by hansonkd 2y ago
> So what? Both of these developers would be able to ship a typical feature in a typical web product by themselves, without back-and-forth with their counterpart all the time, and that's a huge productivity boost. Its a short term p
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by hansonkd 2y ago
Hard disagree. Just as I disagree about "full stack" developers. People that call themselves "full stack"are a backend developer that dabbles in frontend or a front end developer that can dabble on the backend. Almost ne
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by hansonkd 2y ago
I think the trap people fall in is that LLMs don't need to be novel or reason as well as a human to revolutionize society. Plenty of value is already added just by converting unstructured data to structured data. If that is all LLMs
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by hansonkd 2y ago
> clearly untrue Maybe you haven't been paying attention the past 5 years, but there has been a dramatic shift to the right in media. Companies change ownership and the new owners take advantage of the historical left leaning nature
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by hansonkd 2y ago
> NYT is just as blatant as Fox News is to you After this past election cycle I don't see how people can make that comment with a straight face. Media in general is very right leaning. Some like CNN and NYT are maybe slightly more
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by hansonkd 2y ago
I was at a speaking engagement where yudkowsky said quite clearly said to the audience "Even if my research has a 0.0000001% chance of preventing AI from destroying humanity it is worth it to fund my research" To them their ration
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by hansonkd 2y ago
Could be a bottleneck some ways. In other ways its an accelerant (think space race). Like most things in nature you probably get the most out of "progress" (kind of a slippery word in itself) through some type of equilibrium rathe
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by hansonkd 2y ago
TBH looking at helpdesk software in 2025, I would expect new ones to be built AI first. It would be hard for me to consider one without at least some sort of LLMs helping with triage or at classifications of tickets, etc.
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by hansonkd 2y ago
> this future has AI like a commodity Thats why I like the idea of openrouter so much. Next token prediction is a perfect place to run a marketplace and compete on price / speed. It's hard for me to see a future where the long
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by hansonkd 2y ago
I'm saying the intelligence factor doesn't matter. Only the utility factor. Today LLMs are incredibly useful and every few months there appears to be bigger and bigger leaps. Analyzing whether or not LLMs have intelligence is miss
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by hansonkd 2y ago
> how much further we may be from what we wan The timescale you are describing for 3D graphics is 4 years from the 1997 cover you posted to the release of Halo which you are saying plateaued excitement because it got advanced enough. An
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by hansonkd 2y ago
It doesn't need to be general intelligence or perfectly map to human intelligence. All it needs to be is useful. Reading constant comments about LLMs can't be general intelligence or lack reasoning etc, to me seems like people wit
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by hansonkd 2y ago
i think when people say things like this it indicates that they tried LLMs in 2022 and solidified their opinion there. I had the same impression about the hallucinations 2 years ago. The reality is in at the end of 2024, you can get incredi
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by hansonkd 2y ago
I wonder if the next Turing test is if LLMs can be used as humans substitutes in game theory experiments for cooperation.
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by hansonkd 2y ago
The other problem I find is that LLMs are changing so fast, that what you evaluated 6-12 months ago, might be completely different now with newer models. So the strengths and weaknesses quickly can become outdated as the strengths grow and
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by hansonkd 2y ago
I mean it doesn't need to compute all programs in a human length reasonable amount of time. It just needs to be able to compute enough programs to be useful. Even our current infrastructure of precisely defined programs and compilers
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by hansonkd 2y ago
> It's free Free in terms of monetary costs but not free in terms of absolute costs for example time and emotional depletion. For some people they see social connections as more risks that they can possibly lose something and be hu
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by hansonkd 2y ago
See von neumanns work on reliable machines from unreliable processes. I wouldn't doubt that if each layer of an LLM added some additional check for an unreliable process that eventually you can make something reliable from the unreliab
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by hansonkd 2y ago
> it’s not like humans are en mass terminating the non-orange siblings, Black cats for instance are disproportionately more likely to be euthanized: > According to the National Library of Medicine, of all cats in shelters, black cats
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by hansonkd 2y ago
Thats irrelevant to what I am saying. You want all or nothing. I am saying AI will dominate in the majority and human generated content will still survive in the minority. It doesn't matter what luddites like myself think. It matters w
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by hansonkd 2y ago
This isn't an economically driven platform that is directly revenue driven like ads, movies, news articles, podcasts, etc for one. go to reddit or even linkedin which is revenue driven and it is a sea of bots parroting the same tired p
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by hansonkd 2y ago
the CocaCola commercial that everyone "hated" that "destroyed the brand equity" according to numerous news outlets solidified to me that we are passing a mark and this is the last desperate gasp of multiple industries co
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by hansonkd 2y ago
I think the mistake is that in the media it is extrapolating linear growth but in practice it is a wobbly path. And this wobbly path allows anyone to create whatever nearrative they want. It reminds me of seeing headlines last week that NVD
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by hansonkd 2y ago
My favorite thing is the "silent terminal" concept. Most major airports if you arrive groggy at 5am waiting for your flight, you are blasted with a bunch of nonsense announcements that have nothing to do with your flight every 2-5

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