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by j2kun 11mo ago
I would contest that this is not a "bitter lesson" in the sense that it has not been demonstrated repeatedly over decades as a truism of computer science.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
> prevents progress "progress" is doing a lot of work here. Progress in what sense, and for whom? The jury is still out on whether LLMs even increase productivity (which is not the same as progress), and I say this as a user of
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by j2kun 11mo ago
I guess you have to read a lot into what the OP means by the italicized "the." I read it as a question of the size and scale of working groups vis-a-vis the scale of the impact.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
I don't see how "they improved the models" is related to the bitter lesson. You are still injecting human-level expertise (whether it is by prompts or a structured API) to compensate for the model's failures. A "bit
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by j2kun 11mo ago
"the" Bell Labs was effectively gone by the 1970's anyway. So the Bell Labs described in this article was "the" Bell Labs
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by j2kun 11mo ago
The US gov't broke up AT&T and killed Bell Labs for this, so at least they owe us to bust this monopoly
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by j2kun 11mo ago
> I'm pretty excited for this Aside from historical interest, why are you excited for it?
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by j2kun 11mo ago
If you enjoy that problem you might enjoy: Cut one corner off a chessboard. Is it possible to tile the remaining board with 3-by-1 dominoes? (Spoiler/solution: https://www.jeremykun.com/2011/06/26/tiling-
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by j2kun 11mo ago
Nobody is using this thread to actually talk about what's in the paper, just as a place to rant about short form videos... One question that comes to mind to me is: r=-.034 a reasonable effect size? Having seen many scatter plots of r
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by j2kun 11mo ago
My position is that the negatives outweigh the positives, and I don't appreciate your straw man response. It's clear your question is not genuine and you're here to be contrarian.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
Well said.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
I am not anti-AI, nor unhappy about how any current LLM works. I'm unhappy about how AI is used and abused to collective detriment. LLM scraper spam leading to increased centralization and wider impacting failures is just one example.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
Did it search the web?
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by j2kun 11mo ago
I could see someone interpreting "computation" to be more practical.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
IMO LLMs have been a net negative on society, including my life. But I'm merely pointing out the stark contrast on this website, and that fact that we can choose to live differently.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
And yet half the HN front page every day is promoting LLM stuff. "The internet sucks", yes, but we're doing it to ourselves.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
"All human work is just an iterative search with a feedback function" is the kind of trite and ignorant take that belongs only in the private group chats of VC bros.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
> best search agent Except that, instead of telling you that the idea came from a particular source, it fools you into thinking it came up with the idea. In other words, it cannot be described as "search", but rather "laun
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by j2kun 11mo ago
A more measured and principled take: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/crossover-project/
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by j2kun 11mo ago
> that mimics how people do real math Real people do not do math like AlphaEvolve...
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by j2kun 11mo ago
Read https://www.argmin.net/p/lore-laundering-machines Given time, we may find out that the solutions in this paper were also in the literature, as was the case in the anecdotes from the linked article :)
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by j2kun 11mo ago
People don't want that. This article is largely empty marketing. Claiming they have "the successor" is all you need to read before you can infer it's hot air.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
Probably an AI wrote large parts of this press release.
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by j2kun 11mo ago
Careful there, ChatGPT was initially released November 30, 2022, which was just about 3 years ago, and there were coding assistants before that. If you find yourself saying the same thing every year and adding 1 to the total...
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by j2kun 11mo ago
> except at least the junior is a person. +1 Juniors can learn over time.
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by j2kun 1y ago
I'm just clarifying OP in response to parent comment that ignored the most important parts of OP's message. Your comment also seems to ignore the meat of OP's complaint. But maybe I'm interpreting OP's comment as &q
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by j2kun 1y ago
You should not have to ask for permission, but you should have to honestly set your user-agent. (In my opinion, this should be the law and it should be enforced)
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by j2kun 1y ago
I think OP's complaint is rather that using `uv` is leaky: now you need to learn all the underlying stuff AND uv as well. The alternative, of course, is having Python natively support a combined tool. Which you can support while also n
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by j2kun 1y ago
you mean you can't just do `venv/bin/python --version`?
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by j2kun 1y ago
This article appears to be NOT about someone who discovered uv after using venv/pip, but rather an article about someone who discovered uv after not using virtual environments at all, and is mostly excited about the cleanliness of virt

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