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Show HN: DskDitto
2 points by jdefr89 10mo ago|0 comments
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by jdefr89 10mo ago
I hold a R&D Position at an MIT lab. I also hold gov clearances for DoD work. They are pretty accepting of the fact that a lot of folks in the field are neurodivergent. No one cares because if you deliver results you deliver results. No
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by jdefr89 10mo ago
The amount of pressure young kids are under... I am surprised the numbers aren't much higher. I grew up with debilitating OCD/Tourettes. I am glad kids growing up today have more resources than I did. Society itself is sick and br
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by jdefr89 11mo ago
Ok.. Let’s ask a different question. Assuming development of super-intelligence is possible.. How do you measure it? What criteria satisfies the “this is super intelligence”? You honestly sound like most pseudo-intellectuals I hear discussi
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Your employees won’t rat you out… Just don’t say “sucky” to those above you. If I have a cool ass manager who looks out for me and is real (I’m lucky enough to be at a MIT lab where everyone is cool as hell), I will always have their back…
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Professional Security Researcher here.. I haven't really seen any models reliably find and exploit a 0day. Folks are are at least TRYING to develop such models internally at the MIT lab where I work, but not sure how far along they are
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by jdefr89 1y ago
It is best used for yack shaving in my opinion. Anything other than that and I feel like I cannot trust its output.
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Kind of funny I ended up as a researcher at MIT without having finished my degree some how...
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Again... You don't need the "best" engineers to develop some crappy derivative app that probably already exists. 99% of the stuff people are trying to build these days requires nothing more then a few competent engineers.
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by jdefr89 1y ago
He wants to see a comparison and the article shows no out put comparison. It shows two inputs, says one gives more accurate output than the other without showing us...
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Yea they sound like plausible enough arguments.. I often test my vague input against structured ones and for many tasks it didn't seem like hallucinations happened significantly less. Honestly the more structured you have to be, the le
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Its sad content like this makes it too front page. AI has been developed and used at both companies far before LLM TRANSFORMERS made such a hit. The author clearly doesn't have even a basic understanding of what AI is... AI is a giant
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Nice. I an researcher at MIT LL. In order to work at the lab you need to be a US citizen since a lot of it is federally funded. I tried to get my buddy, a Waterloo grad currently at Google, an interview but he is Canadian...
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by jdefr89 1y ago
How about anyone pushing AI or AGI or anything of the sort? You think they aren’t high on their own supply? The author doesn’t hold a candle to Altman when it comes to sniffing their own farts… Cmon now. If anything it’s the opposite.
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by jdefr89 1y ago
That’s exactly the problem the author has. Lying and hype have replaced genuine innovation. It’s sad that lying and pushing nonsense is “part of the game” because it shouldn’t be. The game is only of benefit to a handful of people like Altm
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by jdefr89 1y ago
I think from the authors perspective, LLM hype has been mostly the same exact thing you’re accusing him of doing. People with very little technical background claiming AGI is near or all these CEOs pushing these nonsense narratives are gett
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by jdefr89 1y ago
So far I’ve needed hundreds of “all you needs” beginning to think papers with that title are not all I need… Let’s try and get a bit more creative than stealing the same name scheme used when Transformers were introduced.
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by jdefr89 1y ago
It's ironic because the executive aspects of the job are easily the ones almost anyone can do. I say that as someone who has created and sold startup with a couple friends. We had to take on the role of both engineers and executives. G
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Unfortunately It seems most companies only purport to have "growth mindset" In my experience, at least now, the author nails the issue right on the head. You have executives with a dogma that ultimately means controlling others...
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by jdefr89 1y ago
It's cute when people think they can all exploit the current market and "get rich" when in reality they almost always just help the same people who are already rich, get richer. I say that as someone who has himself, started
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by jdefr89 1y ago
It kills the magic of coding for sure. The thing is. Now with everyone doing it, you get a ton of slop. Computing’s become saturated as hell. We don’t even need more code as it is. Before LLMs you could pretty much find what you needed on g
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by jdefr89 1y ago
as someone who’s been coding most of his entire life I have to admit.. LLMs kind of killed the magic of programming for me… It’s not as cool when I create something with the LLM.. It just feels like you had someone else do the work for you…
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Or shit you know what… Hacker News for that matter…
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by jdefr89 1y ago
You just said we won’t need to develop apps anymore.. What will be the AI need to create at all?
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by jdefr89 1y ago
ChatGPt agent can do it for you or just ask an AI the questions and type in their answers lol..
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by jdefr89 1y ago
This is exactly what I would do. Simply have an agent do it perfectly lol..
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Was thinking exactly this. Why not just let an AI agent take the interview for you? Sounds like a perfect thing to exploit..
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by jdefr89 1y ago
That just shows you how warped the minds of the general public are. They fail to realize the only thing Jobs did was know the right people then take all the credit…
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Lmao right!? Dude stole all that from Xerox and MS came out with palm pilots early 2000s then you had black berry. Amazing how many people think CEOs actually did the work they get credit for when they almost virtually all were in the right
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by jdefr89 1y ago
Seriously. The transformer coupled with tons of compute is why we got here. When that paper came out and people (AI researchers) saw the results many were confused or unconvinced. No one has any clue such an architecture would yield the res

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