jillesvangurp

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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
It's a start. Where it gets tricky is companies with years/decades of highly unstructured data, duplicated documents, obsolete or draft versions of those documents, etc. And where it gets more tricky if the data is spread all over
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
RAG is basically good old information retrieval with LLMs doing the querying. This can include vector search but it works without that as well. Treating vector search as magic pixie dust that makes search great without effort is not necessa
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Depends on your perspective. People think nothing of spending 50-100K on a car that basically gets them to work. But the thing they use for day to day work then gets the evil eye when it costs more than 1K. It's slightly irrational. No
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
This sounds more like a capacitor than a battery. That might still be interesting but probably not for automotive applications any time soon. > Everyone knows that the larger the battery, the longer it takes to charge This is actually no
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
It's nice that Y Combinator cherry picks the best students from the ivy league universities. But of course universities need to serve all students and most universities aren't in Silicon Valley (ivy or otherwise). A lot of student
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
The nice thing about open, federated protocols is that it is relatively easy to connect them together. There actually is a Mastodon to Bluesky bridge already for example. These protocols should compete on merit. There's no good fundame
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
The honest answer is that this is one of the edge cases that will probably electrified late. There are of course a lot of other use cases where electrification is a lot easier and more doable (e.g. tug boats are already being electrified).
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Andrej Karpathy has a great Youtube series on how to build LLMs from scratch. Perfect for somebody who just learned a lot of high school math. Would start there and get busy with some handson python coding.
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
> Is anthropomorphizing a real problem? Completely rational and smart people talk to their pets, plants, their car, and other inanimate objects. This is not considered abnormal by most. It's just what we are wired to do. Some LLMs a
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
> My language (C3) is fairly recent, there are others: Zig, Odin, Jai and older languages like eC. Looking at C++ alternatives there are languages like D, Rust, Nim, Crystal, Beef, Carbon and others. He acknowledges C++ in the first para
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
That's a business decision for Github of course. They are getting some value out of being the goto place for source code hosting for what is essentially a shockingly high percentage of OSS projects and a really large amount of enterpri
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
I really enjoyed the article. What's great about the design outlined in it is that it builds on things that work, like leveraging S3 rather than improvising your own distributed storage system. Of course S3 goes beyond just Amazon thes
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Agentic coding puts a lot of pressure on team communication. Individuals produce more output. So there now is a lot more to discuss and synchronize on. This favors smaller teams that typically are responsible for more things. That doesn&#x2
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
> Then I guess you didn't deal with much of the empty-headed-managment type much. I worked in a big multinational at the time ;-). So, yes. Mostly my direct managers were alright. Some were excellent even. But organizational politic
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
The complaint here is about lazy answers. But what about all the lazy questions? What's the equivalent of "Google it yourself" these days? When you ask something of somebody, the expectation of the other side to drop everythi
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
I lived in Sweden in the late nineties. The local phone book had my Dutch name sorted under the V & W section because it has the word 'van' (means of in English) in it. In the Netherlands my name would be in the G section (van
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
EVs use regenerative braking. So they hardly produce any brake particulates. And the tire particulates are heavy so they don't stay airborn for nearly as long. At low speeds, tires don't wear out as quickly. Europe has quite a few
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
I remember I had the CD but rarely used it because having to pop in the CD just to play the game was annoying. So, I mostly played it without the sound track. Also, I never was that much into nine inch nails. Just not my genre. But my memor
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Email indeed still works. That is in fact why I brought it up. But it still has the same deficiencies that it had before Github even existed. Which I would predict is not going to convince a lot of open source projects to suddenly start pro
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Git is decentralized in the sense that you can clone your repository wherever. But there is no real networked community on top. The first versions actually piggy backed on the social network that is email. Linux still is managed via email.
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
> Github is hard to displace and it is similar to the era of the Twitter Fail Whales Hard but not impossible. Being unreliable might nudge a few people. Also, Twitter had their fail whale in their early phase (mostly), not twenty years o
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
The other implication here is that this is all software improvements and optimization. There might be a lot more wiggle room for improving quality over time. It seems the model and reasoning quality is improving faster than the hardware cur
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Commoditization is a beautiful thing. It seems Anthropic and OpenAI are really struggling to maintain much of a moat. Mistral might not be leading but it's not trailing by that much either. And of course the Chinese are doing their own
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
A lot of especially the US market needs high oil prices to justify production cost. Some refiners might actually reduce capacity rather than sell below cost levels or at lower margins. The reality is probably going to be lots of price uncer
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
I don't use spreadsheets much myself. But I'm not against them as a means of interfacing with non technical people used to using them. And I have used them as an alternative to a UI with very poor UX that developers came up with f
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
One consequence of the transition to renewable energy and electrified transport, is that oil imports will start to decline. And the dollar is of course the currency of choice for that. The US economy and other countries that export fossil f
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Interesting, I've been looking at this space with a realization that there's a big piece of UX missing to enable groups of people to collaborate with AI support. Basically most companies and teams spend a lot of time talking to ea
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Their communication definitely needs work. I listened to the interview with Chris on the Lex Friedman podcast a few years ago. Back when the pitch still was "minimal python superset that allows us to make it go voom". It wasn&#x27
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
> it’s simply not usable purely by virtue of who’s there. You are describing X here. It kind of turned into a very toxic political platform. The exodus to Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky happened for a good reason. After Elon Musk took ov
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
People talk to their pets, plants. Their cars or other inanimate objects even. Anthropomorphizing stuff around us is a natural thing to do. It might be irrational but it just fits the way our brains work. The natural way to interact with an

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