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by le-mark 5mo ago
> Majority of the devs are over 60 and there's simply not enough new talent coming in to replace them. Yawn this tired old yarn, again. Mainframe development was offshored from the US decades ago. These retiring cobol programmers si
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by le-mark 5mo ago
> We don't have engineers sitting on their hands because AI wrote up everything the leadership could imagine. The idea of leadership knowing what they want is laughable, always has been. If anything AI will expose them as the bottle
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by le-mark 5mo ago
The great thing about spaghetti is you only have to be as smart as the person(s) who wrote it; there’s generally a self enforced bound on how obtuse it can be.
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by le-mark 5mo ago
> fought against X adoption because it was "too complex", only to slowly reinvent X badly This is a surprisingly common pattern in technology and software. Some things are definitively the “standard” at this point yet so many p
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by le-mark 5mo ago
How do you protect against prompt injection in this case?
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by le-mark 5mo ago
This sounds very intriguing have you written more about it anywhere we can read?
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by le-mark 5mo ago
> The model essentially served as an on-call teammate across MLOps and DevOps tasks, compressing feedback cycles that typically consume expert time I personally would not characterize automating training processes as “meaningfully”.
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by le-mark 5mo ago
> but it is achieving exponential improvements “Exponential” used here is pure hyperbole. Can you justify it?
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by le-mark 5mo ago
Nausea aside, what evidence does anyone have that “super intelligence” of the sort your argument alludes to is even possible? Because that’s what we’re really talking about; greater than human intelligence on this sort of academic task. For
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by le-mark 5mo ago
The only stop gap we have is for the states to start investigating and prosecuting these cases. And they don’t, I can I only suppose there are issues of jurisdiction even if the opposing party controls the apparatus. Too bad the the Georgia
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by le-mark 5mo ago
Most if not all high schools and colleges in the US required TI “graphing” calculators for algebra/trig on up. I don’t know if they still do. I never saw this HP28, sounds awesome!
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by le-mark 5mo ago
> 'we couldn't change a damn thing because XYZ but we asked nicely' They literally can’t do anything. The constitution is structure so the party not in power can only obstruct legislation (filibuster). The current Supreme
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by le-mark 5mo ago
In practice it just meant the “zero page” could be anywhere, not the 256 bytes starting at 0x00 (like the 6502 zero page). The opcodes that operate on zero page are shorter and thus faster.
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by le-mark 5mo ago
There’s already a full text search module for redis so your uncharitable characterization isn’t really valid.
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by le-mark 5mo ago
It’s hard to imagine what two millions lines of Haskell could possibly be doing. I mean that’s a lot of code and I have the impression that Haskell is “tight” meaning a little code can do a lot. Maybe they have a lot of libraries to do thin
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by le-mark 5mo ago
Google will definitely lose. Llms supplants search. But not the old document search which they stopped doing long ago. Add in the fact that open weight models are 6-12 months behind frontier models means AI companies aren’t building a moat,
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by le-mark 5mo ago
This exactly; self driving was a large part of their valuation iirc.
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by le-mark 5mo ago
Follow a routine every day. I posted elsewhere in this thread what worked for us. It was tough when they were infants because neither of ours slept through night till about 2. The routine saved us.
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by le-mark 5mo ago
People were always amazed at how our kids went to bed with no problems. In that spirit I offer what worked for us which may not work for anyone else. First we limited nap time. Second we did the exact same routine every night. Rocking and a
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by le-mark 5mo ago
> who remark how the thought of changing nappies horrifying and a really big deal It’s a similar experience to changing parents diapers when you are an adult and they are end of life. Seems horrific, then you just do it.
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by le-mark 5mo ago
All those things can be specified in text. Fortress was a language that had the facility to use mathematical notation. Turned out to be not so compelling iirc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_languag
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by le-mark 5mo ago
Local models are 6-12 months behind the “frontier” models. This mean anthropic, openai, and google don’t have a moat, they’re on a treadmill running to stay ahead. Treadmills don’t justify their valuation.
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by le-mark 5mo ago
It’s clear at this point local models are sufficient so what gives? These big providers don’t have a leg to stand on. Their only path to relevance is super ai that local models can’t run. So the “we have it but you can’t use it” is either t
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by le-mark 6mo ago
When it’s in a browser you don’t need to install anything on the local machine. I used to use Apache guacamole to access my machine at home from work when I was stuck in a cube all day. https://guacamole.apache.org/
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by le-mark 6mo ago
> We argue complexity conceals underlying regularity, and that deep learning will indeed admit a scientific theory That would be amazing, but personally I’m skeptical.
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by le-mark 6mo ago
“Good” for their bottom line, not for the people.
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by le-mark 6mo ago
There was a sci-fi story that explores this idea. The person who wanted to live past their death had to transfer their assets to a trust controlled by the person derived AI (uploaded consciousness in this story) in a roundabout manner. The
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by le-mark 6mo ago
> This is like going to work in a drug-lab where everyone is required to strip naked to ensure no "product" can be smuggled out. I believe this has been the reality of diamond mining.
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by le-mark 6mo ago
Upwork is such a miserable platform. Have you diversified to other sources?
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by le-mark 6mo ago
Cogent point, expertly applied, thank you.

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