kmacdough

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by kmacdough 1y ago
I'm with you on the skepticism, but I also think the underlying point is worth acknowledging: Social media represents a step change in how we consume news about current events. No longer are there central sources relied on by huge swat
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by kmacdough 1y ago
But the point others make is, this type of libertarian free is wide open to the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy. A very successful, repeatable business strategy to own supposedly "open" domains. There's a reason people h
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Try abrego garcia. Illegally detained. Now he's got a whole criminal conspiracy built around him with no independently verifiable evidence.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
US citizen, re-read the previous post. But great that we're now assuming "well they must have good reason for violating due process." But that's the whole damn reason for due process. This shot.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
IPv4 vs IPv6 seems like a great example for why to keep it simple. Even given decades to learn from the success of IPv4 and almost a decade in design and refinement, IPv6 has flopped hard, not so much because of limitations of IPv4, but bec
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by kmacdough 1y ago
If you have an idea and are putting it together, you might use Claude for a few things: - Search the web for related ideas. This could help if someone's already had the idea or if there are things to learn from related ideas. - Review
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by kmacdough 1y ago
For now. They have a legacy of openness that will take a while to squash for sure. But they're experts at this kinda maneuver.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Not when vendors you count on require you to use a provably locked down version and when the government makes it a crime to circumvent. At first u It'll be the banks who are pushing for it now, but why not Amazon and Netflix abd everyo
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by kmacdough 1y ago
A stepping stone on a path. Have a login. Pin features to a login. Mandate a login but w/ backdoor. Close the back door. "It's a backdoor, why not use the front door?"
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by kmacdough 1y ago
I agree and disagree. I think it's important to make it very visually clear that it is not really a PR, but rather an advanced style checker. I think they can be very useful for assessing more rote/repetitive standards that are a
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Anthropic has always been one of the best at not optimizing for stupid metrics. Rather, they spend significant energy researching weaknesses and building metrics around that. Google is also pretty on point IMO, but they can also afford to d
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by kmacdough 1y ago
What does AGI mean to you, specifically? As is, AI is quite intelligent, in that it can process large quantities of diverse unstructured information and build meaningful insights. And that intelligence applies across an incredibly broad set
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by kmacdough 1y ago
I too am skeptical of these models, but it's a reasoning focused model. As a result this isn't a very appropriate benchmark. Small models are going to be particularly poor when used outside of their intended purpose. They have to
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Sure, we eventually react to ubiquitous issues like blue LEDs, but it's been 2 decades since blue LEDs were new/fancy and it's just barely popping up now. It's very reactive and very slow. Just look at microwave interfac
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Not really, it's not a zero-sum game. You're not competing against anything, you're working with something. It's just a tool that takes practice, has some variability and isn't free. Like most things in life. More l
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Perhaps for some, but the entire point of the article was about building momentum. She didn't talk much about the bigger tasks, but frequently alluded to getting more "real work" done. If you find yourself never getting thoae
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by kmacdough 1y ago
You interpreted opposite of what he said. The original exception allowing for 100% of R&D expenses to be deducted in the 1st year was the juice. The issue at hand is this exception being reversed.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
I could see it being inferred that way but, the way I read it, they are not meant as unilateral facts. Rather, they serve as rhetorical examples of where you might find contractors doing similar work, but where the one more in service of &q
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by kmacdough 1y ago
With "AI can code", though, we can get pretty far by working around the problem. Use it to augment the workflow of a real SWE and supply it with guardrails like linters, tests, etc. It doesn't do the hard bits like architectu
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by kmacdough 1y ago
It's not supposed to be impressive. It's a faster way to do the unimpressive stuff. Which is the bulk of real-world software work at most companies. Maybe you just have that dream job where you only have to think hard thoughts. Bu
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by kmacdough 1y ago
I similarly don't have those specific expectations, but plenty of others. I'm expected to understand the most recent updates in Gaza, and the latest DOGE cuts. People act smug when I don't have a good understanding of current
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by kmacdough 1y ago
But you still get the same problem, no? Limited good WhatsApp handles. Just domains are older, more common internationally and have had longer to be hoarded.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Came here to learn what people think about Claude 4. Seems to be only armchair opinions on previous versions and the state of AI. The industry is not at all surprised that the current architecture of LLMS reached a plateau. Every other mach
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by kmacdough 1y ago
And they might all be right! > This tech could lead to... I don't think he's saying this is the version that will suddenly trigger a Renaissance. Rather, it's one solid step that makes the path ever more promising. Sure, e
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Ok, but this is a technicality. Spell-checkers have slowly evolved into grammar checkers and what people really want is error correction. Whether people call it a spell checker a minor language issue (and the kind of things humans do all th
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by kmacdough 1y ago
Certainly would be better to laminate IF you're using wood. But it's still got a long road ahead. Aluminum still has a higher strength/weight ratio which is everything in aero. Also, I'm not finding any information on cy
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by kmacdough 1y ago
The more exciting something would be, the more likely it's BS. It's what survives. Projects just make it a lot further that way. The consumer wants to believe. The doer has to believe. The invester will take a hit on the cheek f
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by kmacdough 1y ago
For consumers. A load of professional software still exists only for Windows, particularly as you do more niche.
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by kmacdough 1y ago
> Will it just allow me to run let’s say a model with a 2048 token context window with a 4-6k context window It reduces the memory footprint of a particular model. You can do what you like with that. Extending the context window post-tra
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by kmacdough 1y ago
> Read practicing philosophers. When you want to learn swimming, learn from swimmers turned coach, not someone who stood by poolside and watched 10000 swimmers (like Jim Collins did) I think "turned coach" is incredibly key her

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