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by lazarus01 9mo ago
Really cool experiment Phillip, thanks for sharing! This makes me recall a conversation from a podcast with Sam Harris where he discusses the “pornography of doubt” Here is the YouTube clip, less than a minute long https://youtub
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
In response to your direct question -> https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and-insights/tech-re... “ This indicates that while CoT can improve performance on difficult questions, it can also introduce variabilit
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
It isn't thinking it's RL with reward hacking. It's like taking a student who wins a gold in IMO math, but can't solve easier math problems, because they did not study those type of problems. Where a human who is good a
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
Yes, the current technology cannot replace an engineer. The easiest way to understand why is by understanding natural language. A natural language like english is very messy and and doesn't follow formal rules. It's also not spe
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
excellent article and appreciate the author sharing his perspective which is very valuable. For me the main lesson is, don't let your ego develop from success. Any human is vulnerable to narcissism. It is an interesting phenomenon, w
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
That's a great question. Machine Learning is the overarching space where deep learning is a subspace of machine learning. So if you grasp some basic concepts of machine learning, then you can apply them to deep learning. All the exci
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
https://deeplearningwithpython.io/
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
The project I’m working on emulates a scientific abstract. I’m not a scientist by any means, but am adapting an abstract to the public transit system in NYC. I will publish the project on my website when it’s done. I think it’s a few wee
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
I like Karpathy, we come from the same lineage and I am very proud of him for what he's accomplished, he's a very impressive guy. In regards to deep learning, building deep learning architecture is one of my greatest joys in findi
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
Thank you for sharing your setup, I will certainly examine it and compare a bit later. I know my setup is a bit over the top, but it is the easiest to learn, since I live in gcp everyday. I certainly don't expect the .5m traffic, but
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
Got it! It's amazing how many languages are out there... very interesting
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
I remember ASP (application service provider, before cloud became synonymous with hosting), you are making me nostalgic. Back then I was in sales, I was selling real time inventory control, CRM and point of sale systems distributed over Ci
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
I agree. To be more clear, that $60 is an estimate for a small configuration and includes serverless infrastructure to process 500,000 requests per month, plus storage, including a 20gb sql database and 100gb of object storage to serve vid
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
I just wanted to learn how to create an enterprise grade web application. I read a book on Django last year and did a few tutorials and enjoyed it. I also deploy infra on gcp and it works well there. It cost about $60/month for base
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
I just started building my own website today with Django. I’m doing it because I just enjoy doing it. Most of my work is in data and ML infrastructure and it is just killing me. Working on the front end has opened my mind to possibility
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
Many good observations here. I had time to read 50% through. >> I think I’m particularly suspicious of community, because as a writer and pedantic arsehole on the internet, I value truth-seeking behaviour. I want people to think and s
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
did warren buffets success help america or just his shareholders? How does the $350 billion cash concentration affect the economy and his businesses? I would think it would be better served redistributing it back into the economy to creat
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
Learning to adapt to stress without unhealthy vices is a skill. Finding healthy ways to blow off steam maintains continuity with your most important goals. Well done!
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
Hope is a great foundation, especially if you’re in a negative environment. It’s important to deal directly with reality, but sometimes reality is harsh and you need a break from the present moment. Hope is that break.
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by lazarus01 9mo ago
Cynicism is something I was curious about, particularly what drives people to feel this way. It’s such a powerful emotion that tilts someone’s worldview. It comes from negative experience and not dealing with the effects of that experience
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by lazarus01 10mo ago
Cheers :)
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by lazarus01 10mo ago
Totally agree. In my 25 years in tech, there were no meritocracies. I came from a simple working class upbringing and experienced upward mobility into the white collar class. I differentiated myself by always finding ways to solve problems
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by lazarus01 10mo ago
Some things LLMs can do are amazing and some things they fail at miserably. I do enjoy programming and low level programming helps you build a mental model on what a system is capable of. If you know what a system is capable of, you can fo
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by lazarus01 10mo ago
>> But right now, the best way to help an LLM is have a deep understanding of the problem domain yourself, and just leverage it to do the grunt-work that you'd find boring. This is exactly how I use it. I prefer Gemini 3 personal
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by lazarus01 10mo ago
My god, what terrible marketing, totally written by AI. No flow whatsoever. I use Gemini 3 with my $10/month copilot subscription on vscode. I have to say, Gemini 3 is great. I can do the work of four people. I usually run out of p
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by lazarus01 10mo ago
There is $8 trillion said to be earmarked to build 100 AI data centers[1]. At 10% hurdle rate, the industry will have to generate $800 billion a year to pay it off, while GPUs are replaced every three years by faster chips. If you watch Il
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by lazarus01 11mo ago
Very weak writing. There’s nothing in there that I couldn’t capture with a very basic imagination. While I appreciate how women face misogyny, we have made great progress where women are showing better progression than men in income and car
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by lazarus01 1y ago
AI coding works amazingly well But only on micro tasks, coming with explicit instructions, inside a very well documented architecture. Give AI freedom of expression and they will never find first principals in their training data. You will
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by lazarus01 1y ago
Thanks for including those information resources. This is something I’m interested in digging deeper into.
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by lazarus01 1y ago
I wouldn’t call it “successful” or “useful”. It was a low effort attempt to make something interesting and it wasn’t. It’s a response to the hype of vibe coding. Lowers the bar for what good software really is. Perhaps you may want to qu

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