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by killthebuddha 2y ago
A function that implements natural language -> bytecode is IMO way more likely to be under the hood an LLM operating a compiler (or maybe a compiler operating LLMs) rather than a "bare" LLM. From an end user's perspectiv
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by killthebuddha 2y ago
FWIW this (approximately) is what everybody (approximately) is trying to do.
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by killthebuddha 2y ago
On the one hand this is interesting to me because it's closely aligned with my own ideas about what will be the general form of the first AGI systems. On the other hand, just like with my own ideas, there's very little concrete ev
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by killthebuddha 2y ago
What you're describing is one possible resolution and part of what's interesting. A very big open question is "which, if any, of the known factors are wildly rarer than we think?". Another possible resolution is that mos
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by killthebuddha 2y ago
> To me it seems like the probability could have been anything. The point is that we do know some things about the universe and, given what we do know, we think the probability is high. So we're obviously missing something but we do
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by killthebuddha 2y ago
A kind of radical belief that I hold is that basically everyone would benefit from working as a planner for a year or two, especially if you can spend a good amount of time away from your desk and out on the floor. The lessons you can learn
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by killthebuddha 2y ago
+1 to this. IMO the first versions of AGI are going to be program synthesizers.
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by killthebuddha 2y ago
You could bootstrap a niche model using what's available and go from there. I don't think it's all that different from any other kind of bootstrapping startups tend to require.
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by killthebuddha 2y ago
I don't see it that way. If you build a genuinely novel application then the critical data doesn't exist yet (IMO almost by definition). Sometimes it's easier for a startup to do this rather than for an incumbent who's t
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
FWIW they provide this [1] map. Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio are roughly collinear. [1] https://kinder.rice.edu/sites/g/files/bxs4896/files/images/U...
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
I think it would be useful if the full domain (vitalik.eth.limo) was displayed. Not sure if that's possible or if it violates any HN policies about how links are displayed, apologies if it's a silly/useless suggestion. Edit:
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
+1 As another comment suggested, I think it's the crowds and the commercialism. It might as well have been erected inside Disney World. Maybe I'm insensitive, but it takes more than the literal/physical art (the building itse
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
Wow, that playlist is absolute gold. These kinds of instructional, high-quality, long-form lecture series are IMO maybe the best thing on the internet. The kind of thing when I encounter it makes me take a step back and really appreciate th
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
Not a direct answer to your question but > We have several exciting new CodeWhisperer for command line features coming in 2024 including support for Linux
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
Spoiler: this comment does not technically answer OP's question. Many of the answers in this thread talk about skills where AI seems unlikely to have any direct sort of impact at all (like plumbing). In my opinion, that could easily en
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
10M tokens is an absolute game changer, especially if there's no noticeable decay in quality with prompt size. We're going to see things like entire domain specific languages embedded in prompts. IMO people will start thinking of
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
FWIW if you hold down the big white button it won't submit until you release it. I had no idea this was a thing until seeing someone tweet about it.
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
Hmm. I always thought "not even wrong" meant "correct, but answering the wrong question" or more generally "correct but irrelevantly so".
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
FWIW I don't see mention of incompleteness on the book's site http://book.dtornow.com/
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
Genuine question: From an application developer's perspective, what's the difference between mutating a value and transparently rebinding an old name to a new value? Is it just that in the latter case other references don't p
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
FWIW this is the #1 best use case I've found for ChatGPT. I recently started learning golang and as an experiment decided to use nothing but ChatGPT for reference/documentation. So far, ChatGPT has satisfied roughly 100% of my que
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
Related, thinking out loud: Why is the following timeline counterfactual (as far as I know) for basically all household appliances: 1. it was invented 2. it was commercialized 3. some decades of varying modes of specialization, adva
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
I would love for someone to eviscerate the following idea: Every deployed process receives exactly 3 environment variables, NONCE, TAGS and CONFIG_DB_PARAMS. Every process is bootstrapped in the same way: 1. Initialize config db client.
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
I'd never heard of Sam Kriss before, but the writing drew me in and I spent a few minutes looking through his stuff. I have no clue about the veracity of the things he writes, but boy oh boy does he do the writing part well.
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
Is that his point? Or is his point that shipping rails with his own personal linting preferences is a good idea? (For what it's worth, I think it's a perfectly fine idea).
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
This post is so wonderfully confused it's throwing my brain into an infinite loop. Misunderstanding newspeak, then a howler of a non sequitur, all about elegant composition, all the while turning a simple announcement into a super clun
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
In case the author is here: In the first code block we have `<KeyInsight ... />`, should it be `<Improvements ... />`?
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
One summer evening drunk to hell I stood there nearly lifeless An old man in the corner sang Where the water lilies grow And on the jukebox johnny sang About a thing called love And its how are you kid and whats your name
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
I'm interested in taking this approach to learning, would you mind sharing some good starting points?
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by killthebuddha 3y ago
If I wanted to learn everything there is to know about email and SMS spam/abuse policies, technical best practices, important standards, etc, what would be a good strategy? It feels like a super important but ridiculously intractable s

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