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by keeda 9mo ago
Sure, technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, but we haven't quite figured out how to exeed the speed of light just yet ;-)
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by keeda 9mo ago
I had called this a while back, since the reasoning is simple: frameworks primarily exist to minimize boilerplate, but AI is very good at boilerplate, so the value of frameworks is diminished. The larger underlying shift is that the economi
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by keeda 9mo ago
Here are my thoughts, which are not fully formed because AI is still so new. But taking this line of thought reductio ad absurdum, it becomes apparent that the elites have a critical dependency on us plebs: Almost all of their wealth is ult
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by keeda 9mo ago
Important snippet that has bearing on the adoption of AI as a whole: > “Disorganized data silos” have been an issue for Copilot, analysts wrote. This is true in almost every large organization, and will affect every enterprise AI produ
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by keeda 9mo ago
Personally I agree with that sentiment. But unfortunately, as the success of Facebook and Google have shown, most people really don't care about their privacy.
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by keeda 9mo ago
> And airport security in Israel makes Indian airport security feel like a breeze Not just in Israel, but even at other airports for flights to Israel! I was surprised to find that flights to Israel from JFK and EWR actually have a sec
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by keeda 9mo ago
Oh for sure, as a non-white, bearded person I've had more than my fair share of "random" screenings! My dad, with similar features, had the additional (mis)fortune of several work trips to the Middle East and China on his pas
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by keeda 9mo ago
> The TSA was NEVER about security. It was designed as a jobs program and make it look like we were doing something for security. To a great extent, it is security, even if it's mostly security theater, in the sense that it is s
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Using Interpretability to Identify a Novel Class of Alzheimer's Biomarkers(goodfire.ai)
2 points by keeda 9mo ago|1 comments
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by keeda 9mo ago
Fascinating study where they trained an AI model on a large dataset and then used interpretability analysis to figure out what biomarkers it had "learned" to look for. "This is the contribution we want to highlight: interpre
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by keeda 9mo ago
> astronomical overprovisioning ??? Literally all the cloud providers have been reporting severe capacity crunches for the past few quarters -- to the tune of backlogs of triple-digit billions each . As a reminder, a backlog or &quot
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by keeda 9mo ago
Totally makes sense. Turns out that a lot of what Palantir's "Forward Deployed Engineers" do is navigating these bureaucratic and political obstacles to get access to the data: https://nabeelqu.co/reflections-
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by keeda 9mo ago
Hmm, I wonder if it would be cheaper to hire a couple of software engineers to vibe-code custom SaaS apps on top of the company's existing data layer instead of paying for a hundred different SaaS subscriptions. Financial consideration
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by keeda 9mo ago
Hmm, 8M paid M365 Copilot users leaked in August, and at last week's earnings call the number was 15M. Assuming the leak was accurate, almost doubling usage in 4 months for an enterprise product seems like pretty fast growth? Its growt
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by keeda 9mo ago
Well, this is what Anthropic's CEO told Congress in 2023, the message was not quite "AI is just peachy": https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-07-26_-_... Or here's his more
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by keeda 9mo ago
I mean, they're literally pointing out the negative effects of AI-assisted coding? > We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few m
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Complaining about Windows 11 hasn't stopped it from hitting 1B users(arstechnica.com)
2 points by keeda 9mo ago|1 comments
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by keeda 9mo ago
Another study from 2024 with similar findings: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/10/4115 -- a bit more preliminary, but conducted with undergrad students still learning to program, so I expect the effect woul
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by keeda 9mo ago
Interestingly, this observation holds even when you scale AI use up from individuals to organizations, only at that level it amplifies your organization's overal development trajectory. The DORA 2025 and the DX developer survey reports
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by keeda 9mo ago
Yeah, it apparently damages the weatherstripping (and maybe the window and other things) and is meant to be used only in an emergency /facepalm. Which is probably why your friend was alarmed. I didn't care, I still tested it out t
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by keeda 9mo ago
True, the tech VC incentive structure is weird from a typical perspective -- it is very hit-driven... throw money at a thousand startups burning cash to capture a market, and hope one of them becomes a unicorn. However, it has been working
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by keeda 9mo ago
> In any other industry... Why bring up any other industry when we all know this is the VC playbook for tech companies, and has been working for them for decades? Reminder that Amazon, Uber, DoorDash etc were burning VC cash for upto a
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by keeda 9mo ago
Even if we're being charitable and assuming it's group-think, it is still a form of collusion. The group of competitors collectively decides on specific outcomes that are beneficial to the group as a whole even if they know that t
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by keeda 9mo ago
Right, but I'm contending there is a form of collusion. Here's a paraphrased conversation I had with someone who's in the exec class when I remarked on all the layoffs happening at the same time: "Elon has signaled to
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by keeda 9mo ago
This is not a conspiracy theory, even though what I'm about to say will sound like it. If you can talk to someone from the exec class in confidence (which unfortunately may require a close personal relationship or high trust), they&#x2
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by keeda 9mo ago
Eh, I did say he's not necessarily better than the rest of them, just more aligned with the rest of us, likely because he's more forward-looking than the others. He's seeing the backlash against AI, the pushback against data
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by keeda 9mo ago
I'm not sure about "profitable" because these are very young (2 - 3 years old) private companies, but there have been a few reports showing their growth indicating very strong PMF i.e. utility: https://a16z.com&#x2
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by keeda 9mo ago
Yes, but I think that is the exact attitude Satya's advising against: Where many leaders are looking inward to see how they can optimize their own businesses, they should be looking outward to see how they can improve the world.
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by keeda 9mo ago
Agreed on all counts; despite his stilted style of talking, he does come across as much more human than the rest. That said, he's competing in circles dominated by absolute sociopaths. I can't imagine how you could battle with mon
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by keeda 9mo ago
Cryptocurrency startups were just ways to bring "novel" trading strategies into the world of unregulated finance. The only "innovation" there was freedom from regulation and accountability, which turned out just as you&#

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