kamaal

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Perplexity Computer(perplexity.ai)
2 points by kamaal 8mo ago|1 comments
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by kamaal 8mo ago
>>If you build a walkable/bikeable city, you raise the exercise floor for everyone. There are ripped men in prison. >>That requires intrinsic motivation How do you make some one do a thing, they don't want to do?
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by kamaal 8mo ago
Oh well had a talk with a director at office. He says, instead of using AI to get more productive, people were using AI to get more lazy. 1) What he means to say is, say you needed to get something done. You could ask AI to write you a Pyth
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by kamaal 8mo ago
You are just validating the point that code is spec. For your proposed system to work one must have a deterministic way of sending said spec to a system(Compiler?) and getting the same output everytime. Input/Output is just one thing,
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by kamaal 8mo ago
>>If the behavior of the system is specified well enough, then the code itself is cheap and throwaway. Why have a static system that is brittle to external changes when you can just reconstruct the system on the fly? You mean to say i
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by kamaal 8mo ago
Start ups mostly move fast skipping the necessary ceremony which large corps have to do mandatorily to prevent a billion dollar product from melting. Its possible for start ups because they don't have a billion dollar to start with. On
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by kamaal 8mo ago
One part of the system moving fast doesn't change the speed of the system all that much. The thing to note is, verifying if something got done is harder and takes time in the same ballpark as doing the work. If people are serious about
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by kamaal 8mo ago
>>It's funny to me how still so many don't realize you don't get hired for the best positions for being a 10x programmer who excels at hackerrank Competitive coding is oversold in this generation. You can log in to most
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by kamaal 8mo ago
>>replace LLM with employee in your argument - what changes ? I mentioned this part in my comment. You cannot trust an automated process to a thing, and expect the same process to verify if it did it right. This is with regards to any
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by kamaal 8mo ago
A women can at times, in extremely rare occasions have twins, or triplets, or quadruplets. In 9 months. So that only goes some distance and then you face new limitations.
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by kamaal 8mo ago
>>How is that different from handwritten code ? I think the point he is trying to make is that you can't outsource your thinking to a automated process and also trust it to make the right decisions at the same time. In places whe
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by kamaal 8mo ago
Its crazy how management has gone from productivity to a kind of policing, crowd control and abstract number management that has no sense. One of things that's being discussed now is AI won't really help people ship products faste
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by kamaal 8mo ago
Lots of really dangerous jobs. Like working brick kiln, physical strenuous work which requires eod alcoholism etc.
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by kamaal 8mo ago
>>given that the alternative would be spending 12 hours sewing fast ... That is the best case scenario. Mostly women roll beedis(a kind of needle sized cigar) on which you get like 1 paise per 10 rolls or something like that. Or worse
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by kamaal 8mo ago
To me thinking hard involved the following steps- 1. Take a pen and paper. 2. Write down what we know. 3. Write down where we want to go. 4. Write down our methods of moving forward. 5. Make changes to 2, using 4, and see if we are getting
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by kamaal 8mo ago
>>This is just a question. I have no expertise at all with this. On the similar lines, why can't one run a refrigerator in space?
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>Skills atrophy. I keep telling my friends while experienced devs feel extremely productive. The newer ones will likely not develop skills needed to work with finer aspects of code. This might work for a while, but you do a year or t
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by kamaal 9mo ago
That could be true, but the real question is why haven't they built and shipped a Starship yet? You can play around with words as much as you can, but Musk even with a very high rate of failure seems to be making a lot of things work.
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>sending raw materials up there That's what asteroid mining is for. >>service technicians are necessary ALL THE TIME Optimus is already very well tele-operated. Even though over time it can likely be trained to do specific
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>Actually asking a naive question there was to get horribly flamed on the site. It, and the people using it, were very keen to explain how stupid you were being AI's biggest feature is being able to ask it question and not getti
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by kamaal 9mo ago
Simply put whatever you write should produce the same output regardless of how many times you execute it. The more verbose you make it, the more pointless it becomes. More terse the better.
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by kamaal 9mo ago
If you are planning to write so many if else statements. You might as well write Prolog.
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>new ways to create specifications. Thats again programming languages. Real issue with LLMs now is it doesn't matter if it can generate code quickly. Some one still has to read, verify and test it. Perhaps we need a need a terse
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by kamaal 9mo ago
I mean there are nearly two full decades between the appearance of Prolog(1972) and PC revolution late 1980s and early 1990s. >>The people who dealt with Prolog on punchcards were the academics who created and/or refined it in it
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by kamaal 9mo ago
Personal computers are a thing from the late 1980s. Even then PC use in businesses was fairly limited. Prolog appeared in 1972. Either way before the PC, Programming was nothing like it is today. It was mostly a Math discipline. Math is don
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>"doing it right the first time" beats iterative refinement. Its not iterative refinement which is bad. Its just that when you use a keyboard a thinking device, there is a tendency to assume the first trivially working solu
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by kamaal 9mo ago
Before personal computer revolution, compute time and even development/test time on a large computers back then was rationed. One can imagine how development would work in a ecosystem like that. You have to understand both the problem,
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>I have to admit that writing Prolog sometimes makes me want to bash my my head against the wall I think much of the frustration with older tech like this comes from the fact that these things were mostly written(and rewritten till p
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>he said very plainly hes not sticking around to find out what happens next. Can't blame him, US residency really is a like a game of high attrition. Its your classic up or out scenario. Some times even a passport doesn't g
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>I would consider that overly wasteful. ChatGPT tells me thats very likely Puya PY32F002A and that can be as cheap as $0.0682 a piece if you order 5000 and upwards, which should be fairly the case for a mass market vape. Hearing th

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