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by highfrequency 5mo ago
> LLMs have got to the point where if a problem has an easy argument that for one reason or another human mathematicians have missed (that reason sometimes, but not always, being that the problem has not received all that much attention)
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by highfrequency 5mo ago
What’s wrong with the finance team (vibe) coding a janky prototype for planning?
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Main quests, subquests, side quests and minigames(stevepavlina.com)
1 points by highfrequency 5mo ago|0 comments
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by highfrequency 6mo ago
Why do you prefer the laptop to be thicker and heavier?
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by highfrequency 6mo ago
I believe that's why 90% of the focus in these firms is on coding. There is a natural difficulty ramp-up that doesn't end anytime soon: you could imagine LLMs creating a line of code, a function, a file, a library, a codebase. The
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Lessons from Building Mercury(thespl.it)
1 points by highfrequency 6mo ago|0 comments
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The Dynamics of Competition in Search Engines (2001)(tesble.com)
1 points by highfrequency 6mo ago|0 comments
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by highfrequency 6mo ago
Agreed, but are you also implying that the process of iteratively "programming something that's not it, and then replacing it" multiple times is not in the scope of what LLMs can/will do?
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by highfrequency 6mo ago
Interestingly, non-coding improvements seem less clear. In the Virology uplift trial, Mythos does about as well as Opus 4.5, and Opus 4.6 is notably much worse than Opus 4.5 (p. 27).
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Project Mario: the inside story of DeepMind(colossus.com)
17 points by highfrequency 6mo ago|1 comments
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Stackelberg Competition(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by highfrequency 6mo ago|0 comments
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I Created Rosie's mRNA Vaccine(twitter.com)
4 points by highfrequency 6mo ago|1 comments
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Hummingbird: Venture Firm You've Never Heard Of(generalist.com)
2 points by highfrequency 6mo ago|0 comments
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by highfrequency 7mo ago
"The window described above is not a metaphor. It is an arithmetic deadline...The window is not a metaphor for someone at your coordinates. It is a number." 9 to 1 bet that this is written by AI (perhaps proving the writer's
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by highfrequency 7mo ago
“Your objective is to find the weirdest niche possible that still has the potential to change everything.” “Virality based social media is inherently homogenizing.” Some nice nuggets in here!
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by highfrequency 7mo ago
> I’ll tell the LLM my main goal (which will be a very specific feature or bugfix e.g. “I want to add retries with exponential backoff to Stavrobot so that it can retry if the LLM provider is down”), and talk to it until I’m sure it unde
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by highfrequency 7mo ago
Can you be more specific about which math results you are talking about? Looks like significant improvement on FrontierMath esp for the Pro model (most inference time compute).
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by highfrequency 7mo ago
Given how good Apple Silicon is these days, why not just buy a spec'd out Mac Studio (or a few) for $15k (512 GB RAM, 8 TB NVMe), maybe pay for S3 only to sync data across machines. No talent required to manage the gear. AWS EC2 costs
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by highfrequency 7mo ago
Principles aren’t tested until they bump into conflicting incentives.
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by highfrequency 8mo ago
Engineering is a continual lesson in axe-sharpening (if you have 6 hours to chop down a tree, spend the first 4 sharpening your axe). My favorite framing, from Kent Beck: “first make the change easy, then make the easy change.”
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by highfrequency 8mo ago
> Of course, ai will continue to improve. But it is also likely to get more expensive…Microsoft’s share price took a beating last week as investors winced at its enormous spending on the data centres underpinning the technology. Eventual
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by highfrequency 8mo ago
> you need to stay off the critical path. As soon as you start handling essential tickets, you’ll block your team when managerial work pulls you away. Very well put
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by highfrequency 8mo ago
There’s a great quote from Nick Patterson of RenTech who says that the most sophisticated technique they generally used was linear regression, and the main thing was avoiding stupid mistakes: “I joined a hedged fund, Renaissance Technologie
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The Arithmetic Return Doesn't Exist(breakingthemarket.com)
1 points by highfrequency 8mo ago|0 comments
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by highfrequency 8mo ago
Good instinct. A lot of the day to day is debugging nitty things, reconciling small differences in results, trying not to make dumb mistakes. Almost all attempts to do very smart theoretical novel work fail, often because of extremely munda
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Generative models for power law vs. lognormal distributions [pdf](eecs.harvard.edu)
2 points by highfrequency 9mo ago|0 comments
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Engineering Is Becoming Beekeeping(bits.logic.inc)
8 points by highfrequency 9mo ago|0 comments
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by highfrequency 10mo ago
What were the main drivers?
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by highfrequency 10mo ago
Overcomplicated take. Burn out comes from lacking a feeling of forward progress and tractability to your problems, regardless of current objective state.
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by highfrequency 10mo ago
A useful angle: does doing this thing make me more able to enjoy it over time (eg by increasing the subtlety and dimensionality of perception), or less able to enjoy it over time (eg by desensitization)? This is the practical reason to favo

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