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by jonahx 1y ago
Because that was the only evidence you offered to back up the claim you just quoted. I understood the claim... it might be interesting if you presented some specific example of your own as counter-evidence, instead of straw-manning the a
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by jonahx 1y ago
I feel this kind of critique, which I see often as a response to articles like this, is so easy as to be meaningless. How is one supposed to ever talk about general principles without using simplified examples? Aren't you just saying
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by jonahx 1y ago
You're assuming the goal of the marketing is merely "to be remembered". But it's not. It's to be remembered in some positive way, or at least some way that still increases sales. This campaign will live forever a
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by jonahx 1y ago
I am so happy this is the top comment. My experience was... Skim through sentence after sentence of award-winning inanity like "Expressive design makes you feel something" as my powerful Macbook stumbles and wheezes... Then think:
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by jonahx 1y ago
This is the narrative, of course. In practice, it is sometimes true, and often not. You can't overstate how often decisions are large orgs are driven by hype, follow-the-herd, or "use popular framework X because I won't get i
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by jonahx 1y ago
See also: Meiosis Pattern: https://meiosis.js.org/docs/01-introduction.html Mithril: https://mithril.js.org/
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by jonahx 1y ago
This is not borne out by immigration data (to say the least): https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/01/27/key-findi...
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by jonahx 1y ago
If you acquire fluency in APL -- which granted takes more time than acquiring fluency in numpy -- numpy will feel bloated and ungainly. With that said, it's mostly an aesthetic difference and there are plenty of practical advantages t
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by jonahx 1y ago
To rephrase crudely: "inline everything". This is infeasible in most languages, but if your language and concise and expressive enough, it becomes possible again to a large degree. I always think about how Arthur Whitney just real
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by jonahx 1y ago
Indeed numpy is essentially just an APL/J with more verbose and less elegant syntax. The core paradigm is very similar, and numpy was directly inspired by the APLs.
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by jonahx 1y ago
Not being glib, but this is like the famous comment when dropbox was first announced: "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CV
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by jonahx 1y ago
> 3. Learned behavior. It's ironic how even something like ChatGPT (it has hundreds of chats with me) barely knows anything about me & I constantly need to remind it of things. I've wondered about this. Perhaps the concern
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by jonahx 1y ago
The original article discusses this explicitly.
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by jonahx 1y ago
> Now, I will be impressed by the ai that can remove code without affecting the product. Current AIs can already do this decently. With the usual caveats about possible mistakes/oversight.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Sure, there's no authority who stamps the official definition. I'll make my case. To me, if you look at how the phrase is usually used -- "when humans have achieved AGI...", etc -- it evokes a science fiction turning po
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by jonahx 2y ago
Thanks for the reply. I am not sure the vision is the failing point here, but logic. I routinely try to get these models to solve difficult puzzles or coding challenges (the kind that a good undergrad math major could probably solve, but
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by jonahx 2y ago
It can't solve this puzzle: https://i.imgur.com/AJqbqHJ.png Thought for 3m 51s Short answer → you can’t. The breathtaking thing is not the model itself, but that someone as smart as Cowen (and he's no
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by jonahx 2y ago
Yes. And you won't always be able to do that, because you won't always feel that way. Even then, some (honest) sense of your own fallibility and basic respect for where the person might be coming from can help.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Right, you dislike phony validation. When it's real, you won't notice it. What you'll probably experience is just "an honest actor" or "a good guy" or "someone like me." And the things that per
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by jonahx 2y ago
Just want to say I appreciate your posts here on HN and on your blog about AI/LLMs.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Another effect I notice consistently in myself is I will eat more, and less healthy, if I haven't slept enough.
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by jonahx 2y ago
My personal experience is right in line with the author's. Also: > I think what's going on is that large language models are trained to "sound smart" in a live conversation with users, and so they prefer to highlight
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by jonahx 2y ago
I doubt it. It still flails miserably like the other models on anything remotely hard, even with plenty of human coaxing. For example, try to get it to solve: https://www.janestreet.com/puzzles/hall-of-mirrors-3-index
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by jonahx 2y ago
<3 To be clear, the use case of this is anything where I have lots of text on a canvas? Like, a canvas based game with thought bubbles or something like that?
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by jonahx 2y ago
I'd add that while I was already familiar with coroutines from a few different contexts and languages, I found this particular framing of them -- especially seeing them contrasted side by side with a state-machine -- enlightening and
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by jonahx 2y ago
I agree with most of what you've written, particularly the sense of hopelessness around getting most students to "see" the beauty -- most simply won't. Quick story: When I first TA'd a stats class at age 23 or so, I
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by jonahx 2y ago
For those who read only the headline or article: > In this paper, we aim to address this gap by conducting a survey of a professionally diverse set of knowledge workers ( = 319), eliciting detailed real-world examples of tasks (936) for
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by jonahx 2y ago
> The mustache looks like "%" Yeah I got that, but I don't see how it looks like a mustache! Is the "/" a crooked filtrum and the each "o" one half of the stache?
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by jonahx 2y ago
I am one of those who does naturally find the beauty; nevertheless, I think your claim is indisputably true. It matches the empirical evidence, as well as my personal experience teaching math. With that said, there is a spectrum. And even
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by jonahx 2y ago
I really like this, but I'm not visually seeing the mustache...

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