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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
> The US has a global reputational advantage that will take decades to fall behind China, regardless of what any US administration does. As a former academic at a top US university, no, the US no longer has that strong reputation. 10 yea
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
Chess is in such a sad situation again. The world champion (which is determined for classical chess) isn't even remotely the best player. He's barely even in the top 10 and may soon fall out of that too. In terms of strength he&#x
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
By market cap? Is the money using slack? Company size when you're talking about tools for humans makes no sense in terms of market cap. Plenty of companies with many more employees than Google use slack.
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
I don't understand if you're intentionally obstinate or just oddly brainwashed? I'll try one last time, in a simple sentence. Cannot vote for means even if the entire result is tied and it hinges on one vote, my vote does not
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
> and I also doubt a large co like Google could operate out of Slack Plenty of corporations much larger than Google operate out of Slack.
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
It's not misleading. I have no idea why people are voting this down. It's just a simple fact. We have 3 parts of the federal government we can vote for: executive, senate, and house. Yet, the vast majority of people reading this h
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
85% of Americans pay taxes to a federal government that they cannot vote for. My vote is totally irrelevant. I've moved 3 states in my life. Never once has it mattered because of how we vote. My state will be blue. My congressional dis
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
Sparsity != symmetry. It's simple to say "Ah well, it's sparse" that doesn't mean anything and doesn't explain anything. Symmetries are equivalent to a conserved quantity. They exist because something else is i
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
Why would you report this?! A second time. When they already closed your first issue. Just enjoy the free ride.
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
Assembling code doesn't require typing. Linking doesn't require typing. Even though once upon a time both did. Claiming that this isn't coding is as absurd as saying that coding is only what you do when you hook up the wires
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
That's just gatekeeping. It was and is my craft. I've been doing it since grade 5. Like 30 years now. Writing tight assembly for robot controllers all the way to AI on MRI machines to security for the DoD and now the biggest AI on
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
I'm that 40 year old now. Been writing code since grade 5. Loved it so much I got a PhD, was an academic, then moved into industry. I don't mourn or miss anything. No more then the previous generation mourned going from assembly t
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by light_hue_1 8mo ago
> This was a clean-room implementation (Claude did not have internet access at any point during its development); This is absolutely false and I wish the people doing these demonstrations were more honest. It had access to GCC! Not only
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by light_hue_1 9mo ago
This is the argument that people used to fight against rich customized IDEs like emacs for decades. What if you need to ssh into a machine that only has baseline vi in an emergency? I'll happily optimize my life for 99.999% of the time
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by light_hue_1 9mo ago
Yup. That's the brainwashing for you. That having a bit more money matters when your employer can fire you for any reason. When college costs are astronomical. When you can lose your healthcare for any reason. When getting cancer might
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by light_hue_1 9mo ago
I grew up in Canada and live in the US now with kids. The US is not one country. It's two that are radically different. There's wealthy America. The top 5% to 10% that have healthcare, have their own safety nets, don't need t
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by light_hue_1 9mo ago
Keep in mind that the boat on competing with machines to generate assembly sailed for 99% of programmers half a century ago. It is not surprising that this is an area where AI is strong.
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by light_hue_1 9mo ago
Browsers are pretty much the best case scenario for autonomous coding agents. A totally unique situation that mostly doesn't occur in the real world. At a minimum: 1. You've got an incredibly clearly defined problem at the high le
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by light_hue_1 9mo ago
Nothing to do with quality. It's all image. When Americans discover again how crappy their cars are compared to what's available elsewhere, like we did with Japan, there will be a reckoning once more. And again American cars will
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by light_hue_1 9mo ago
No one cared to begin with. Just look up the horrors involved with Apple phones. People want their fancy devices. Doesn't matter if slave labor is involved. Doesn't matter if we need to add nets to prevent laborers from killing th
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by light_hue_1 10mo ago
But becoming wealthy by enabling a company to spend billions on data centers to spy on all of us and sell our data is ok? The anti AI hysteria is absurd.
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by light_hue_1 10mo ago
Companies and wealthy individuals don't fund the same research as the government. The government funds research that other scientists think is important. That's long term, often not flashy, meat and potatoes kind of stuff. Compani
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by light_hue_1 10mo ago
The conversation has radically changed. 10-15 years ago my foreign grad students all wanted to stay. Only question was how. There was always a big crowd who found the process of staying in the US painful, random, humiliating, and sometimes
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by light_hue_1 11mo ago
This is terrible advice that will hurt your career progression. The problem isn't that people speak out too much. It's that basically no one is proactive enough to speak out. In my experience the people who speak are the people wh
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by light_hue_1 11mo ago
I was saying the same thing you were, this is the original post: > If you allow a transformer to keep generating tokens indefinitely this is probably Turing-complete, though nobody actually does that because of the cost. Either they&#x27
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by light_hue_1 11mo ago
As someone who is an expert in the area, everything in this article is misleading nonsense, failing at even the most basic CS101 principles. The level of confusion here is astounding. > People were saying that this meant that the AI wint
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by light_hue_1 11mo ago
If people actually read history books we'd make much better decisions as a society. No. Water and electricity were not mandated in a magical past where the government was awesome. The government has been captured by corporations and sp
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by light_hue_1 11mo ago
None of this makes a lot of sense. Validation errors are largely irrelevant for LLMs and they can understand them just fine. The type structure looks good for LLMs. You can definitely pretty print a schema at runtime. This all seems pretty
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by light_hue_1 1y ago
> Then your case is the exception, not the rule. To reach the level of principal, you generally have to be recognized for delivering high impact. Visibility is not just ego, it is how organizations perceive value. Of course you need visi
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by light_hue_1 1y ago
> From what little I have seen, this kind of role is tightly coupled and dependent on the their Manager. As you go up the chart you have more independence and are less tightly coupled to your manager. By the time you get to principal you

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