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by mediaman 1y ago
Correct, you are not seeing the reasoning chains.
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by mediaman 1y ago
The idea that the hard goods are sold for "imaginary numbers" is popular but a bit of a misnomer. These "imaginary numbers" are actually claims on future income generated by the United States economy. It is true that the
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by mediaman 1y ago
A lot of people believe that programming is the typing of odd sequences of characters into a computer. To them, it seems LLMs are also perfectly capable of typing odd sequences of characters. The idea that SWEs do actual structured problem
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by mediaman 1y ago
Corpus size doesn't mean much in the context of a PDF, given how variable that can be per page. I've found Google's Flash to cut my OCR costs by about 95+% compared to traditional commercial offerings that support structured
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by mediaman 1y ago
I find they achieve acceptable, but not polished levels of work. I'm not even a designer, but I care about the consistency of UI design and whether the overall experience is well-organized, aligned properly, things are placed in a logi
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by mediaman 1y ago
Why are enterprises running code from 1985? How long code needs to last is actually highly variable, and categorical absolutist statements like this tend to generally be wrong and are specifically wrong here. Some code will need to change i
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by mediaman 1y ago
Yes, it's kind of a strange slice - we get Faulkner three times and we get Joseph Conrad no fewer than four times(!), but not a single book from Dostoevsky or Tolstoy? No Bulgakov, no Turgenev? No Flaubert?
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by mediaman 1y ago
If you have ever been involved in new factory construction for anything that's more than light manual assembly, this statement would be very amusing to you.
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by mediaman 1y ago
Out of curiosity, did you try this in o3? O3's web research seems to have gotten much, much better than their earlier attempts at using the web, which I didn't like. It seems to browse in a much more human way (trying multiple sea
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by mediaman 1y ago
This is mixing two questions: whether a system can be elegantly designed and do the job without major market distortion, versus the question of whether various actors will stand in the way to prevent it. You could say the same thing about z
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by mediaman 1y ago
Great read. One of the interesting insights from it is how difficult good application of AI is. A lot of companies are just "deploying a chatbot" and some of the results from this study show that this doesn't work very well.
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by mediaman 1y ago
It is correct, the shift from diffusion to transformers is a very, very big difference.
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by mediaman 1y ago
I've created (small, toy) transformers and also modeled injection molded parts in Solidworks. There is a really big difference. It's obvious how programming languages can use tokens for an attention mechanism, which gives them exc
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by mediaman 1y ago
That's a good point. Lots of software companies are trying to become AI companies, not because they believe they are truly AI, but because CIOs are willing to invest in AI, so everything must become something that can fit in that budge
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by mediaman 1y ago
That doesn't mean anything. You can accomplish that by having a very large denominator, which is possible if creating a business is trivially easy. In the US, it's generally very easy to create a "business," which doesn&
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by mediaman 1y ago
The problem is that this isn't very useful except for the very earliest ideation stages of industrial design, which hardly need CAD anyway. Most parts need to fit with something else, usually some set of components. Then there are cons
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by mediaman 1y ago
I find Cursor annoying too, with dumb suggestions getting in the way of my attempts to tab-indent. They should make shift-tab the default way to accept its suggestion, instead of tab, or at least let shift-tab indent without accepting anyth
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by mediaman 2y ago
This was solved a hundred years ago. It's the same problem factories have: they produce a lot of parts, and it's very expensive to put a full operator or more on a machine to do 100% part inspection. And the machines aren't p
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by mediaman 2y ago
That's really cool. I've been looking for a nicer solution to use with nvim.
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by mediaman 2y ago
I'd add that the deductive abilities translate to well-defined spec. I've found it does well when I know what APIs I want it to use, and what general algorithmic approaches I want (which are still sometimes brainstormed separately
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by mediaman 2y ago
Agreed. Many people I know who work in state government are always on or planning their next vacation, or in the middle of another home renovation, and lightly joke about their “work from home.” It’s just incredibly clear that there is no i
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by mediaman 2y ago
This only seems to be an issue if the marginal cost of building is too high to expand supply, though, right? Otherwise if people have more money, they bid up housing, then new stuff gets built, and supply profits decline. Of course, restric
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by mediaman 2y ago
Agreed - geopolitics aside, it's been awesome to see how much Chinese companies have embraced open source in a number of different domains. I think the whole ecosystem is going to greatly benefit from the contributions of Chinese open
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by mediaman 2y ago
Your comment seems to suggest that you don't see any difference between "capital efficiency" and "having capital." The terms mean very different things. Capital efficiency is measured by metrics such as the cash con
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by mediaman 2y ago
There is a happy medium between "AI eating the world" and "AI is a scam," that is generally best described as "AI performing valuable but often boring services within enterprises." We don't often see that
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by mediaman 2y ago
Yes, this is what every venture capitalist says. You aren't doing a startup unless you want extreme growth, which requires our services and cuts us in. Building in a capital efficient way that generates substantial wealth for founders,
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by mediaman 2y ago
The context is whether this capability is required to qualify as AGI. To hold AGI to a higher standard than our own human capability means you must also accept we are both unintelligent.
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by mediaman 2y ago
This is an unusual opinion in industry, although common with consumers. Currently, Google has the most cost effective model (Flash 2) for tons of corporate work (OCR, classifiers, etc). They just announced likely the most capable model curr
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by mediaman 2y ago
Most of the profession of economics in the last several decades has been focused on figuring out how to measure difficult-to-measure truths about how people behave. That's what behavioral economics is about. The other name on the UChic
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by mediaman 2y ago
No, they're not glossing over inflation, because they were able to explain nearly the entire difference in real sales per employee between restaurants during the same time as a function of dwell time. They are not just looking at an

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