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by ianbutler 8mo ago
That's awesome! I love that energy, it's the opposite of the energy I was trying to talk about in the post actually, you're not trying to tell me why your app is the best thing in the world and spamming it everywhere when it
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by ianbutler 8mo ago
When I wrote this blog post, something like this was in my mind as the type of scenario where I view it as a net positive. I don't have a problem with people building things they want for themselves, the problem starts when people try
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by ianbutler 8mo ago
It appears to still be up? It's also running on the server in my office lol
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by ianbutler 8mo ago
I'd argue its not definable globally, but within whatever niches you're a part of it probably is. The reason I didn't try to define it when I wrote this is because the question stands good taste "to whom". So like y
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No Skill. No Taste(blog.kinglycrow.com)
203 points by ianbutler 8mo ago|208 comments
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by ianbutler 8mo ago
I decided to respond to a lot of the replies I see in this thread with my own post. I spent a bunch of time writing and rewriting a reply and decided to extend it into a post since I seem to care a deal. https://blog.kinglycrow.c
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by ianbutler 8mo ago
I answered the more important question of a seemingly lost youngin and how to deal with the stress of inheriting a world in a bit of turmoil. That said, trivially we already see it advancing math and science research as an assistive tool, d
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by ianbutler 8mo ago
I really think the doom consensus is largely an online phenomena. We're in a tense period like the early 80s, and that would be true without AI in the mix, but I think its a matter of perspective. We're certainly still way ahead o
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by ianbutler 8mo ago
Of course, I think about this at least once a week maybe more often. I think that the technology overall will be a great net benefit to humanity or I wouldn't touch it.
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by ianbutler 8mo ago
I just skimmed this and the so called zeitgeist here is fear. People are scared, it's material concern and he effectively stoked it. I work on this technology for my job and while I'm very bullish pieces like that are as you said
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by ianbutler 8mo ago
It’s funny to see where we are on model improvements. Back when I was maintaining a coding harness around the time of Claude 3.5 we tried hash prefixes we tried line number prefixes we tried a lot of different approaches to making the model
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
Had you said this first instead of the snark I would have had a more reasonable initial reply just fyi. My intent wasn't to pat myself on the back it was to make OP aware people have not all just been going along with it using myself a
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
Yes because not assenting to the anon rando who makes a snide insulting comment is outside the bounds of normal well regulated self interest. I can't possibly eyeroll any harder at you.
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
Going by the upvotes I have generally yes people do seem to think so. It's only weird folks like you and the other guy that seem to have a problem. It's exactly why I don't do more because I really don't want to be assoc
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
> Don't lump me in that "we". I did no such thing. I know exactly how it could be abused and have spent 12 years intentionally not working for companies that perpetuate it. I don't think you know how to read because I
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
"We also as individuals [without billions] have fairly limited capacity to directly act against these things. I donate a fair bit to the EFF for instance and I've sent outreach to representatives multiple times over the years for
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
I think that expecting the public to reason through the myriad n-order effects that were going to happen from the whiplash of technology in the last 30 years is a little much. However, I think a lot of people in tech could and did see those
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
Don't lump me in that "we". I did no such thing. I know exactly how it could be abused and have spent 12 years intentionally not working for companies that perpetuate it.
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
If you read that as patronizing that says more about you than me personally, I have no idea who you are so your own insecurity at what is a rather unloaded explanation perplexes me.
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
All models released from those providers go through stages of post training too, none of the models you interact with go from pre-training to release. An example of the post training pipeline is tool calling, that is to my understanding a p
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
I'd argue we jumped that shark since the shift in focus to post training. Labs focus on getting good at specific formats and tasks. The generalization argument was ceded (not in the long term but in the short term) to the need to produ
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
Fair, I worked a lot on data pipelines and found the actor model worked well in that context. I particularly enjoyed it in the Elixir ecosystem where I was building on top of Broadway[0] Probably has to do with not fighting the semantics of
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
Except Akka in Java and for the entirety of Erlang and its children Elixir and Gleam. You obviously can scale those to multiple systems, but they provide a lot of benefit in local single process scenarios too imo. Things like data pipelines
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
It has full web search I often have CC search out docs and compare opinions on an approach
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
In practice the system is such that 'everyone' doesn't really seem to include the people making a lot of money they are effectively outside the system the rest of us have to deal with.
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
It sounds more like a depression and stress brained reduction to me. Tends to put you in a very binary and extreme thinking mode in my lived experience. Also I inherently disagree with the idea of meaninglessness the author presents there.
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
Yeah I've had problems with this recently. "Oh those are just warnings." Yes but leaving them will make this codebase shit in short time. I do use AI heavily so I resorted to actually turning on warnings as errors in the rust
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
We shouldn't ban social media we should ban algorithmically curated feeds that push any specific type of content. Outrage sells and so platform curated feeds have curated outrage and extreme content. In practice I haven't seen muc
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
MetroUI in Windows 8 was pretty universally panned. I thought it was pretty good on tablets and such, but it left a lot to be desired on desktops and hid a lot of functionality, it went too mobile for a lot of people's tastes. Disclaim
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by ianbutler 9mo ago
I really love my qd-oled but the eye strain over the last 2 years when using this particular monitor is quite a bit more than my previous monitors. I just recently got better backlighting and went through some settings tweaking but it'

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