joshuahedlund

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by joshuahedlund 21d ago
> all the various hobbies that people can spend a lifetime enjoying I disagree. AI took chess literally decades ago now, and more humans enjoy playing it now than ever before.
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by joshuahedlund 27d ago
It (hopefully) might not be that easy. The world of bacteria and viruses is a complicated war zone with an arms race of defenses and billions of deaths every single day. It might take thousands of attempts to seed something that doesn’t jus
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by joshuahedlund 1mo ago
Given that the outages are caused by record traffic, so far they are only cooked in the Yogi Berra sense of “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded”
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by joshuahedlund 1mo ago
> jargon-heavy Yes. It’s even worse than jargon tho I think it just invents its own metaphors. At first I thought this was clever and useful, helping me to internalize the code (“the normal path vs the escape hatch”) but I’m increasingly
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by joshuahedlund 2mo ago
Is this a result of too much activity on GitHub (AI-driven jump in repos), though, rather than a fall?
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by joshuahedlund 2mo ago
I may be a dumb layman, but that argument seems too tidy and absolute to me - wouldn’t it suggest, for example, that viruses could never appear because they’d be outcompeted by more advanced bacteria? Earth seems to have room for an incredi
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by joshuahedlund 4mo ago
Why haven’t I heard of this? Is it available in IDEs like Cursor?
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by joshuahedlund 4mo ago
> For equal capability tokens, there has been about a 10x drop in cost every 6 months Is this still happening? Opus 4.5 was six months ago, can you get its capabilities for 1/10 cost now? Are we on track to get the same for 4.6 in a
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by joshuahedlund 5mo ago
For someone who purports not to care about the film, you seem very familiar with the discourse about it. (I have seen zero experts, or anyone really, discussing boat design.)
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by joshuahedlund 5mo ago
> thinkism Thank you for this term. In my view, the belief that AGI singularly will rapidly destroy us because it will think 10,000 times faster than us is a form of thinkism.
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by joshuahedlund 5mo ago
> Last mile is already “solved” with the little robots that drive around cities, no need for hands. And yet we haven’t seen widespread adoption because they can’t handle stairs, steep slopes, streets without sidewalks, sidewalks with mud
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by joshuahedlund 6mo ago
Sometimes it’s hard to objectively tell whether two animals don’t appear to reproduce because they are unable genetically, or technically able still but behaviorally unwilling in normal natural circumstances, or we don’t know but we just ha
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by joshuahedlund 8mo ago
It has, tho the rate of new record highs have been reducing from peak to peak: 10x > 3x > 1.5x
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by joshuahedlund 8mo ago
Any ideas why verified has stagnated? It was increasing rapidly and then basically stopped.
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by joshuahedlund 8mo ago
Scott Alexander blogged about it today: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook
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by joshuahedlund 9mo ago
> If your job is to translate requirements into code manually - and that's it - you're the generalist travel agent. I’ve been a full-stack web programmer at five different companies over the last fifteen years, big and small,
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by joshuahedlund 10mo ago
I would love for SWE Verified to put out a set of fresh but comparable problems and see how the top performing models do, to test against overfitting.
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by joshuahedlund 10mo ago
> most normal people don't know what Claude or Gemini are “Google Gemini” is the No 2 ranked app in the Apple App Store (behind ChatGTP) and has been for some time
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by joshuahedlund 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" I'm also curious what results we would get if SWE came up with a new set of 500 problems t
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by joshuahedlund 1y ago
Won’t those models gradually become outdated (for anything related to events that happen after the model was trained, new code languages or framework versions, etc) if no one is around to continually re-train them?
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by joshuahedlund 1y ago
How about denying the Fourth Amendment rights of US citizens to be secure in their homes in the recent Chicago apartment raid? https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-sufferable-evil How about detaining US citizens wi
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by joshuahedlund 1y ago
There is a hard limit on the number of atomic elements, and an even smaller limit on the number of soluble compounds that facilitate chemical reactions, and water is demonstrably both the best and the most common in the universe. So while i
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by joshuahedlund 1y ago
I have stared at a Blue Jay mimicking while Merlin repeatedly labeled it Red-Shouldered Hawk. I’ve seen it pop up a bunch of suspicious one-offs around a mockingbird as well (same with Gray Catbird, another mimic). But I agree with you that
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by joshuahedlund 1y ago
As a heavy user of Merlin, it definitely isn’t perfect - especially with all the mimic birds - to the point that there are complaints about beginners polluting the citizen science database with erroneous IDs from Merlin. But it’s very very
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by joshuahedlund 1y ago
Doesn't "average" = "middle class" by definition? US median individual income in 2022 was $48k https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_... > The “average person” doesn’t
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by joshuahedlund 1y ago
> You have to be extremely verbose in describing all of your requirements. There is seemingly no such thing as too much detail I understand YMMV, but I have yet to find a use case where this takes me less time than writing the code mysel
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by joshuahedlund 1y ago
This looks like the first submission to get traction on this latest development. Thanks for the search though: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30397201 This one from 3 yrs ago had some interesting comments > of
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
This is true. So now let’s look at the substance of what DOGE has actually done: - indiscriminately fire people who have been in long term positions but recently got promoted and so were considered “probationary” - dismantle the CPFB which
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
What do you mean? There are several special elections happening April 1. New Jersey and Virginia have governor elections this November. Mid-terms in every state next November. These elections, like all elections, are run by states, not the
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by joshuahedlund 2y ago
Elections are run by states, not the federal government. “They” will not be able to control them in this way.

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