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by holtkam2 1y ago
“ It’s going to take most of our lifetimes to redo what’s going to get undone in the next four years,” Ault says Honest question; why does everyone seem to assume the Trump administration will only be another 4 years? Is it hard to imagine
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by holtkam2 1y ago
Hot take: we were already glue. We take in ideas / directives from product people and turn that into instructions for a computer to use to build a software package. The only difference in a “vibe coding” world is that now these “instru
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by holtkam2 2y ago
One thought I’ve had many times (open to feedback on this philosophy) Estimates for completion dates in software should be given as a probability distribution instead of a date. Instead of: I estimate the release will be shipped by 03/
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Honest question: are there people who know about Lucid and don’t consider them nicer cars than Teslas? Tesla doesn’t make a car as nice as the Air Sapphire… I don’t think they could if they wanted to. So they’re forced to stay in the less e
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Engineering is just means to an end. In most cases the end is: make money. That typically involves minimizing labor (engineering / R&D) costs. That’s why you see solutions implemented in a quick / scrappy way even though it’s
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Yeah and an "artifact" of that "compression" is the "signal" that "you're a dork"
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Thank you for this post! I get too pessimistic sometimes but this helped me see things from a different perspective today. Kudos.
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Does anyone have evidence that these so called “idiots” have fewer grandchildren as a result of being scammed? If not, this “natural selection” mechanism isn’t working
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by holtkam2 2y ago
This bootcamp grad now works on AI (LLM augmented services as well as traditional ML models) on a daily basis at a big tech company.
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by holtkam2 2y ago
I find it less comical. I don’t think my friends or family care that much about democracy… they just want their guy in charge.
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by holtkam2 2y ago
How is this different from RAG using a search API? I didn't get their blurb about this being a standalone fine-tuned model.
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Can we also see the stats for how much code used to come from StackOverflow? Probably 25%
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Unfortunately they are extinct
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by holtkam2 2y ago
What hard steps exist between mapping the physical structure of the brain and simulating a running one via software?
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Agreed; as someone working on a GenAI app in a big tech company, the main lesson I've learned is the gigantic delta between the effort required to make a intriguing prototype and a true, production ready, scalable, customer-facing, use
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Couldn’t one make the argument that EVERYONE is in a bubble of sorts? I (one of the SV tech workers you mention) was recently in rural Georgia for a cousin’s wedding, where I was shocked to learn that many people in the area considered the
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Love it. I'm curious, anyone know how this was implemented? Is it a webassembly port of the original kidpix code or did he code it up from scratch via JS?
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by holtkam2 2y ago
What do we even mean by "AI engineer" these days? Are you an AI engineer if you spend months on end writing complex langchains, building datasets, evaluating them, and deploying them to prod? What if you did all that without havin
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Agreed. I worked in tech in Chicago from 2017-2021 before moving to SF to take a new job in SF @ big tech. Feels like a different planet.
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Why will there only be trillions of years after you? Why not quadrillions? Couldn't we just pick an arbitrary number up to the largest variety of infinity?
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by holtkam2 2y ago
Anyone else get the strangest sinking feeling in the final seconds when it's almost fully zoomed in and you come to the realization that the hundreds of specs in the distance are GALAXIES?
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by holtkam2 3y ago
I'm in exactly the same boat. Yeah ofc you can run LMs on cloud servers but my dream project would be to construct a new gaming PC (mine is too old) and serve a LM on it, then serve an AI agent app which I can talk to from anywhere. Ha
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by holtkam2 3y ago
I'm really interested to hear what regular customers (not journalists etc) have to say about it. I hope you love yours. I'm jealous! Like the others in this thread, I'm happy to see Apple investing in truly new, risky venture
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by holtkam2 3y ago
Yeah. I think I have a tough time feeling bad for him because it's sort of the bargain you have accept working for big tech... in the low chance that you build a world-changing product, you're going to benefit very minimally relat
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by holtkam2 3y ago
I read this for the first time years ago and I still think about it a few times per month at least.
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by holtkam2 3y ago
The visualization I've been looking for for months. I would have happily paid serious money for this... the fact that it's free is such a gift and I don't take it for granted.
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by holtkam2 3y ago
I wonder if more politicians will follow suit.
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by holtkam2 3y ago
Idk what it says about me (I guess I’m more evil than you?) but the first thing I thought was “how could AI be used to trick a nuclear armed state into thinking an enemy nuclear strike is impending, forcing their hand to launch their own fi
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by holtkam2 3y ago
If your startup uses OpenAI’s API an API credit is effectively a cash injection.
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by holtkam2 3y ago
These are great! Would love it if you had a section on RNNs / Transformers. I’d even pay for it.

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