kamaal

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by kamaal 4mo ago
Its the closest terminology we have to describe that process. https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering Its hard to come up with new names for novel processes, you mostly reuse what is close enough and well kno
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by kamaal 4mo ago
>>AI is just hillclimbing today That's what the Fable harness felt like. You give it a goal and it could try to get there through the shortest path given the tree of possibilities to get there. Iteratively, or recursively. Perhap
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by kamaal 4mo ago
>>I'm not sure how we solve this, other than having management come from engineering. Given the whole point of management is to work to ensure their own survival and growth, it would in their interest to kill genuine competition
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by kamaal 4mo ago
Agency is the last human bastion so far as Im concerned, the day AI has a degree of agency or agents/models in general start to drift towards that direction its genuinely over for masses. You would still have a job to shepherd AI and g
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by kamaal 4mo ago
As a Indian I envy you. My whole life has been a struggle for living in places where there could be fewer humans.
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by kamaal 4mo ago
>>I thought that having this knowledge would set me apart The whole leetcode movement was designed to sell this idea that knowing a solution that can be looked up in a matter of minutes on the internet some how puts you astronomically
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by kamaal 4mo ago
Real question is, are you a 100x prompter?
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by kamaal 4mo ago
>>Why would we want to sever this last thread of human control? Trust me a fair bit of boomers and the generation before lost jobs to computer automation in the 1990s through the 2000s. And they used pretty much the same justification
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by kamaal 4mo ago
>>Similarly, the output of programming is not only a program, but also a programmer. It is you. This can be said about pretty much any job on earth. By that definition nothing should ever be automated. Everything thinks they are spe
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by kamaal 4mo ago
Fear works only if delivered occasionally in byte sized quantities, too much of it and people not only stop fearing, they will also likely be indifferent to it, worse case even out right rebel. If you had a weapon which is powerful, you bet
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by kamaal 4mo ago
Bought a bed last month, the carpenter delivered it and took photographs of it(with his phone) at our home. Next thing I see is he used Gemini to make the bed sit in various(fictional) rooms and interior design contexts. Like in a WhatsApp
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by kamaal 4mo ago
>>It's obvious that AI can't "fix your problems," but just writing stuff down can help us process. Nobody can fix your problems, but having some one to talk to who listens without judgement and advices accordingly
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by kamaal 4mo ago
>>The stock market doesn't operate on long-term principles anymore. Nah, it might appear so, but the moment of reckoning always arrives, always. Like eventually, it arrives. Its a different argument, that most people themselves a
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by kamaal 5mo ago
>>Home ownership is definitely a lifestyle choice first and foremost more than a financial one. Same could be said about Real estate investments. I know people who look up real estate investors as an inspiration as something they want
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by kamaal 5mo ago
>>But the result has no meaning without the human intent behind the objective, human understanding to value the new pathway the AI used (more valuable than the result itself, by far) and the mathematical language (built by humans) to
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by kamaal 5mo ago
Thats coming too. Some times when you go some distance with a subject generates data for new ideas. Once math gets done fast, newer ideas and paradigms also arrive.
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by kamaal 5mo ago
Well that's coming. As a matter of fact more logic and structure to your work, the more easy it is for AI to conquer it. Due to this programming was the first thing that got solved, but pure sciences are next. If what you do, and how y
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by kamaal 5mo ago
If you break down a complicated coding problem in smaller parts, it could be any problem. You will see its basically a very reusable part thats already done uncountable times else where. People who think they do something so special and nov
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by kamaal 5mo ago
>>the real Steve Jobs without the distortion field A lot of things come in full package, same person putting in the same effort(if not better) in a different place/situation doesn't give the same results. I once worked with
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by kamaal 5mo ago
Everything you wrote is some definition of hard, but all doable. None of this is purely in the territory of 'known' impossible(like FTL travel). Now different people have different points where they quit when things get hard. This
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by kamaal 5mo ago
Unfortunately that is also how luck works as well. You are lucky if you think you are, start on this path you are likely to increasing make choices that tend towards increasing your chances of success(i.e luck).
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by kamaal 5mo ago
I think Elon Musk is quite literally the living example of what high agency lifesytle would look like. One could argue he likely knew way less than your day job rocket scientist or battery experts when he started out. But these people bel
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by kamaal 5mo ago
>>The "elongation" of workplace artifacts resonated with me on such deep level. Bulk of pretty much every thing is fluff. Not just work place artifacts. In many ways this is the root of all complexity. “Anything more than th
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by kamaal 6mo ago
>>LLMs can research what a tool does before calling it though Thats stretching the definition of 'research', it basically checks if the texts are close enough. Delete can occur in various contexts, including safe contexts. I
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by kamaal 6mo ago
Using a LLM for these tasks really is somewhat like using a Semi to shuttle your home groceries. Absolutely unnecessary, and can be done via a scooter. But if a Semi is all you have you use it for everything. So here we are. The real deal i
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by kamaal 6mo ago
>>perhaps even eternity If there is an eternity, perhaps everybody that exists, or will exist is already a part of it, and is going through it.
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by kamaal 6mo ago
>>it's a safer bet to treat these experiences as arising from mind rather than beyond it Your brain has to be alive and exist normally for it to have these experiences. So its quite obvious, nothing is coming from outside of it.
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by kamaal 6mo ago
>>Anecdotally, Claude on the $20/month plan can only run 1-3 queries per 4 hours before rate limiting, often stopping in the middle of a query. The free version is pretty much unusable. Not a single query completes, You get only
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by kamaal 8mo ago
Until counting machines got ubiquitous, banks in India would count notes/bills by weight as well. It wasn't very precise but you could move a lot of money in ball park with this method. Atleast internally across branches.
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by kamaal 8mo ago
I've had this many times during interviews. If you had a chat with me through lunch on some technical intensive questions, It would be a breeze. I could not only answer them, I could list limitations, how to address them, and I could e

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