lordnacho

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by lordnacho 2mo ago
But you did read and maybe watch the movie of Det Forsømte Forår. Interestingly we had a couple of much more recent books about young people in my school. But again, how would you know even about your own country without quite a lot of cont
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
No way, there was simply no time for that. How would he have taught me economics anyway?
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
As an old man I now think the art and humanities classes in school landed at the wrong time. You need context to really understand a book or a work of art. You want to know what kind of environment produced it, what it's talking to. Bu
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
It's not a cost-benefit calculation. You just do it because you do it and you wouldn't be you if you didn't. Hard to put in words. And yes, you will feel like "WTF why did I do this" at times. A lot of people have p
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
This makes me think of Factorio. When you make a breakthrough like getting robots, what do you do with it? Use it to make more robot factories. But in the real world, haven't we got to see whether all this investment will pay off? What
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
Nah, why would you say that? AI was in the news at least since ChatGPT 3, and you would have done well to buy eg Nvidia up to now.
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
Well, I don't buy it. There's probably a lot of people who picked out those trends, after all they are just what's in the news. Most of them didn't get 45B to invest. I'm going to need better evidence to believe he
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
It's real. Obviously he's a pretty accomplished young guy, but that doesn't mean he knows anything about investments. It's an interesting look into who gets opportunities in our society.
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
One example is Sudoku. It's NP-hard, but in practice, it takes no time at all to solve your newspaper puzzle.
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
I didn't, I had dinner.
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
I don't know how you can claim it's all vapour ware. Two years ago, I couldn't just roughly describe my backlog and then have the code fixed. I had to type it out myself, run it, look at logs, fix toolchain issues, and so on.
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
This is a simple n=low issue. You get a kid, and they are not extreme. Most kids will indeed respond to parenting. Don't you ever think about what would happen if your kid was born with a handicap? You talk like I'm somehow not re
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
> Yes, you can decide that the child will eat vegetable and do their homework. You literally cannot. When I was 5, I was told I couldn't go out and play until I'd eaten my lunch. I didn't go out and play. But I also didn&#
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
Apologies in advance, but this reads like someone who hasn't actually had kids. Keep in mind that people who have kids still only have a small number, and there is luck involved. You can't decide that they will eat their vegetable
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
I would say that the mechanism for this is actually due to the nature of working with LLMs: they free your attention. Say you're working on a project, and it does an ok job like what the GP says. Each step looks fine, but put together
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by lordnacho 2mo ago
Are local models more snappy? I'm at a stage where I can work with the output of LLMs, and the next win is really just getting things written out quickly.
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
> Honestly, it feels like the emperor has no clothes on this topic, and the crowd defending LLMs to death are way too quick to call it a skill issue. I feel it's the other way around. The LLM skeptics are unwilling to admit that the
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
But are those pernicious issues more common than what you would write yourself? Keeping in mind that you will get your LLM code back a lot sooner and have more time left over to check for them?
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
I think I may have a minority view about surveillance. At least I need someone to explain something to me. Is the backlash really about privacy, or is the real problem a complete lack of trust in government? Because if I thought someone wou
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
I understand what you mean. Those are just some small examples. But I had this conversation with a friend today, and it goes something like this: 1) It was good for me to spend years learning the little stuff. Loops, variables, if condition
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
> how did you decide to pick the most trivial kind regression for this example? Why would this be a regression? You might just be writing a new line of code. > do you compile your code before checking it in? Well obviously. That is ge
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
How much of the identity of a mathematician is tied up in being the first to discovery? How much of it is the contest between smart people producing excitement? Maybe someone could chime in on this. For a mortal like myself, I've never
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
> The other thing that the "LLMs write code camp" misunderstands is that writing was never the bottleneck. Understanding was. And understanding the code is still the bottleneck. But understanding is truly gained during the writ
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
That's the digestion part, yes. It won't have friends because it isn't human, but it actually does have an interior life, aka a global workspace.
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
Doesn't matter. If they all go bust, I can still run an open weights model locally.
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
But this is exactly what you expect when you ask intelligence (machine or human) to fill in missing information. It picks some plausible, middle-of-the-road filler. If you were a restoration artist with an airbrush (or photoshop) with just
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
I presume running an electric shower includes heating up the water? Otherwise I don't understand how it could be so energy intensive. The energy is the mgh of the water lifted, plus the heat you put into it. Heat tends to be by far big
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
Zitron might be right about the economics of it, maybe it really does come crashing down. But we won't be forgetting about it. Even if AI stopped progressing today, it will still be massively, undeniably, insanely useful. I could use c
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
Yeah but you would just be doing the same thing: mashing up some known information about humans and Poland. You would pick plausible names like Marek or Piotr, plausible places like Warsaw or Gdansk, and some random flavour of story that is
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
No, it's the same as a camera recording it and digesting it.

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