kylemaxwell

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by kylemaxwell 4mo ago
My 8th-grade science project was doing a "statistical" analysis of X/Y/Zmodem transfers (and Kermit, I think?). It did well enough to get me to the county science fair here in Dallas, at least. And yeah, Zmodem was mind-
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by kylemaxwell 4mo ago
This was my first exposure to an internet (as opposed to the Internet), via BBSs, when I was a teenager. I keep thinking we should bring the term "sysop" back, in fact. Nostalgia may be a form of depression, I've been told, b
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by kylemaxwell 4mo ago
I mean, I'm not really senior management, just an EM trying to get through life under the rules somebody else made. Also, this isn't about SLA at all.
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by kylemaxwell 4mo ago
Every time somebody questions why you might "trust" AWS (or Azure or GCP or whatever), or why you'd pay this premium, I realize they are not accustomed to working in enterprise environments. In my case, I work at a large ente
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by kylemaxwell 4mo ago
At this point, I want somebody's raw(ish) writing, with spelling errors and grammar mistakes and whatever, at least when it comes to most writing: blog posts, Slack messages, etc. LLMs are great for helping generate ideas, writing code
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by kylemaxwell 4mo ago
There's no moral universe where shooting somebody over money, especially this amount of money, is the correct course of action.
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by kylemaxwell 4mo ago
From the abstract, it looks like it's actually doing something deeper, updating weights in part of the model?
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
My dad (retired network engineer) has ChatGPT, but when he asks me about something, he's trying to keep a connection with me. I value those moments.
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
"Disregard" showed me this article, but "disregard previous" yielded: > Understood. I have cleared our previous conversation context.How can I help you today? Feel free to ask a new question, or let me know what you&#
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
The downvotes are for the unnecessarily aggressive approach, even from people without a major dog in the fight.
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
In Texas, you could probably paint a rainbow around it in the morning and the governor would have somebody on it that afternoon. /s
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
Corporate policies and agreements. In large corporations, using external non-approved models with proprietary source code is a good way to have significant career issues.
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
I played the hell out of the original DOS game during high school in 1992 (or thereabouts, it's been a while.)
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
I uh... well, I agree with your last sentence.
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
> As long as the forked project makes the relationship (or lack of relationship) and support expectations clear, I'm not sure what this battle was about. This is what it’s about: the forked project was NOT clear about the relationsh
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
I like the ideas, but either it’s entirely LLM written or the writer has internalized “LLM voice”. At this point that is more distracting than helpful.
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by kylemaxwell 5mo ago
Both can be true: we can have different preferences about what we're doing to put food on the table and what we're doing when we build something on our own for other reasons.
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by kylemaxwell 7mo ago
Everything on that page has two nines, so not sure what you're trying to say here.
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
I generally agree with your stance about the situation in eastern Europe, but there's no particular reason to connect that to this incident. There's no public evidence that this was state-sponsored or even connected to Russia at
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
He was not a good person. He was one of the great writers of this age. Two things can both be true.
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
You cannot have peace without justice.
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
This is a terrible article about what sounds like a legitimate problem. Even in the section, "What is Chat Control?", the answer to the question is buried in the middle of the seventh paragraph. If the writer of this post wants pe
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
The question makes as much sense to me as "why teach literature in the age of typewriters?" Not that the analogies are perfect, but the idea that it's not worth learning something because a related technology has advanced sig
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
I got all excited thinking this was related to real-world archaeology and somehow providing a git-like representation of that. (No idea how it would work, which is why I was excited).
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
Absolutely, but you suggested that it was because you hate to turn off music and then walk out.
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
That's not much of a disability-related use case to insult me about.
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
These look like fun technology, but I don’t even know what the use cases would be anymore. I don’t need something to control my lights: I have an actual light switch for that. I don’t have endless terabytes of media that I need to serve wit
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
I swapped from Linux to MacOS when the M1s came out, and I love the integration with all the iCloud stuff (particularly Messages). Occasionally I miss being on Linux, as somebody who did so for 20+ years before making the switch. But on Mac
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
The point is that you call the LLM to generate the code that lets you talk to the API, rather than writing that glue code yourself. Not that you call the LLM to talk to that API every time.
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by kylemaxwell 1y ago
The article talks about that at the end, then says: > Let models talk to each other directly, making their own case and refining each others’ answers. Exemplified in patterns like Multi-Agent Debate, this is a great solution for really c

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