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by iamwil 2y ago
Is this not consensus yet that people in the model layer are fighting commoditization and so-called wrappers have all the moats? I'd written something similar back in Nov of last year, and I thought I was late in writing it down. http
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by iamwil 2y ago
Recently, I paid for OpenAI for Deep Research. I asked it about a topic I'm actively working on and researching: reactivity and effect systems. Deep Research ended up using my blog as a part of its research. At first, I wasn't sur
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The tall office building artistically considered [pdf](ia601407.us.archive.org)
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by iamwil 2y ago
Not just that. I also spent quite a bit of time curating what it focused on. The insights and ah-ha moments.
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by iamwil 2y ago
I'd been using 4o and 3o to read research papers and ask about topics that are a little bit out of my depth for a while now. I get massive amount of value out of that. What used to take me a week of googling and squinting at wikipedia
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by iamwil 2y ago
It's impossible to explain everything from the beginning. You might not be the target audience and the software/blog post was unwittingly posted. And sometimes, people just put things on the web for shits and giggles with no audie
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by iamwil 2y ago
Lots of animals are known to do this. Animals researchers wondered how marine mammals were able to sleep. Wouldn't you drown? Turns out dolphins sleep with half their brain awake, so they can surface and breathe. The brain hemispheres
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Cozy games: good for mental health(reuters.com)
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Webring(webring.xxiivv.com)
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What Screens Want (2013)(frankchimero.com)
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The case against gameplay loops(blog.joeyschutz.com)
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by iamwil 2y ago
There is the very real possibility that automation masks complexity, not reduce it. And that’s what he’s saying.
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Interactive narrative about desire and shame from scanned Risograph prints(ifeelsomuchsha.me)
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by iamwil 2y ago
Yes. Sometimes when I'm doing research into recent history of why certain technical decisions were made, and the arguments for or against, I find archive.org invaluable for piecing a line of thought back then. Recently, this was to loo
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GPU Glossary(modal.com)
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Can OO and FP be reconciled?(jimmyhmiller.github.io)
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by iamwil 2y ago
I don't know. On one hand, it is true we are the last line of defense. I do wish more of us said no to putting tracking on websites, among other things. But on the other hand, a random software engineer's sense of ethics might be
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Visualizing the nth derivative using an osculating curve(bsky.app)
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by iamwil 2y ago
We wrote a zine on System evals for LLM-driven apps. Lots of people building impressive demos with AIs, but to get it working well in production over time (maintainable), you need some kind of system eval. It's like some kind of open s
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Tree Calculus(treecalcul.us)
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by iamwil 2y ago
Writing task-specific evals are pretty important, and lots of people are just going off of vibes right now. If this all seems too much all at once, and you don't know where to start, we wrote a jargon-free issue for getting started wit
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Superposition as a Super Datalog(philipzucker.com)
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A simple way to understand CRDTs(interjectedfuture.com)
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The Moats are in the GPT-wrappers(interjectedfuture.com)
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by iamwil 2y ago
I found the documentation for k8 much better than Docker swarm when I was deciding between the two at the time, even though k8 was more complicated.
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Ask HN: Are there product podcasts/vlogs that talks about making product?
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by iamwil 2y ago
Lots of people can get impressive demos up and running, but if you want to run AI products in production, you're going to have to do system evals. System evals make sure your product is doing what it says on the box with unquantifiable
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The Moats are in the GPT-wrappers(interjectedfuture.com)
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Russian Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in Hack(wired.com)
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The moats are in the GPT-wrappers(interjectedfuture.com)
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