jaccola

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by jaccola 1y ago
By this logic anything could become government run but never transition from government run to privately run, creating a ratcheting mechanism that would eventually lead to ~everything being government run! The pro case for privatisation (th
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by jaccola 1y ago
What is the Ship of Theseus?! Your argument on parts being replaced is interesting though... Reminds me of Triggers broom.
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by jaccola 1y ago
Firebase (Firestore is the DB) is the best I've ever used but not open source. MongoDB has Realm which achieves similar, is open source and is OK.
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by jaccola 1y ago
Most people (average and below average) can tell when something is above average, even if they cannot create above average work, so using RLHF it should be quite possible to achieve above average. Indeed it is likely already the case that i
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by jaccola 1y ago
I've found LLMs particularly bad for anything beyond basic styling since the effects can be quite hard to describe and/or don't have a universal description. Also, there are often times multiple ways to achieve a certain styl
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by jaccola 1y ago
Maybe (and I mean this genuinely, I don't know for certain) "Who cares?" is a cause of wage stagnation.
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by jaccola 1y ago
Ironically, I think the biggest dissonance is between two terms you grouped together: "learning/training". What universities were (and still are) really great at is being a place for intense learning. What 99% of their custom
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by jaccola 1y ago
Yup, I see comments like the parent all of the time and they are always a head scratcher. They would be far more rational (and a bit desperate) if they were trying to sell something, but they never appear to be. Always "10x"/
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by jaccola 1y ago
If I pay £200,000 for a car, I received more value than I gave up, otherwise I wouldn't have given the owner £200,000 for her car. No reasonable person would say the car was "free"...
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by jaccola 1y ago
Doesn't seem true to me either, but AI can absolutely not perform an exhaustive search of the game space, there are far too many possibilities.
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by jaccola 1y ago
I read your (excellent) blog post just now. This reminds me very much of the Apple "Do you want to share your location" feature. Do you think that this practically limits the usefulness of an LLM "agent"? In your email e
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by jaccola 2y ago
I have reduced my traditional search engine use by, I'd guess, 90%. Having said that, I use ChatGPT exactly like a search engine. If I want to find info I will explicitly enable the web search mode and usually just read the sources, no
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by jaccola 2y ago
How hard can it be to create a universal "correctness" checker? Pretty damn hard! Our notion of "correct" for most things is basically derived from a very long training run on reality with the loss function being for how
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by jaccola 2y ago
The argument for "vibe coding" (or generally heavy-use of AI coding) is always along the lines of 1. Vibe coding is much more efficient than regular coding 2. If you don't learn vibe coding you will fall behind I see lots o
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by jaccola 2y ago
I would say SQL still is that! My wife had to learn some SQL to pull reports in some non-tech finance job 10 years ago. (I think she still believes this is what I do all day…) I suppose this could be useful in that it prevents everyone in t
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by jaccola 2y ago
LLMs are not difficult to use and learn though, if so called "greybeard" skills are valueless (or close to) then knowing how to use an LLM certainly won't be valuable either! Just like in the 2000-2010's knowing how to e
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by jaccola 2y ago
I have considered this before, but then if the content can be cached why wouldn't the website just do this themselves? They have the incentive, it is relatively easy and I don't think there's a huge benefit to centralisation
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by jaccola 2y ago
When I ran these prompts, I saw in the chain of thought Hmm, I need to run some code. I'm thinking I can use Python, right? There’s this Python tool I can simulate in my environment since I can’t actually execute the code. I’
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by jaccola 2y ago
I agree - the reformatted IDs are shorter than the originals, so by the pigeonhole principle you are increasing the chance of collision. I doubt this matters in reality for this case, but the number of comments stating "there is no dif