namaria

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by namaria 2y ago
If you start from scratch trying to build an ideal system to program computers, you always converge on the time tested tooling that we have now. Code, compilers, interpreters, versioning, etc. People think "this is hard, I'll re-i
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by namaria 2y ago
There are three things this hype cycle excels at. Getting money from investors for foundational model creators and startup.ai; spinning lay offs as a good sign for big corps; and trying to look like clever tech blogger for people looking fo
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by namaria 2y ago
That's the thing, we don't know any reason for a preferred spin and assumed it would be equally distributed. So this is an interesting fact.
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by namaria 2y ago
Those two things are related. Linear algebra is a fantastic field in mathematics! Mathematical reasoning is a superpower. Most of what is worth learning is some specific case of more general reasoning and at the root of general reasoning li
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by namaria 2y ago
What we get from the sun isn't energy. All the energy we receive has to be irradiated away, or we'd be cooked. We get low entropy energy that we dissipate to sustain our local low entropy systems going and growing. What LLMs offer
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by namaria 2y ago
"While average effective tax rates barely changed in the US from 1945 to 2015, the average tax rates of high-income households fell sharply—from about 50 percent to 25 percent for the highest income 0.01 percent and from about 40 perce
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by namaria 2y ago
I think that's the biggest disruption of all, and goes well under the radar. Universities were originally guilds of students who hired masters of fields to profess their knowledge. Now anyone with a computer connected to the internet c
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by namaria 2y ago
“According to the Library of Congress, wearing gloves while handling antiquarian books may do more harm than good. Portland State University Library Special Collections follows their advice to handle most rare and valuable books with clean,
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by namaria 2y ago
Are you just running code you don't understand to see what happens?
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by namaria 2y ago
I'd rather run commands and write code than try to reverse engineer an non-deterministic, non-documented, ever changing API.
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by namaria 2y ago
> To me, "AI is the letdown" is the letdown. The sheer lack of imagination and wonder you must have to see what are almost virtual people, something that was _unthinkable_ five years ago, and to say it's a letdown, I will
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by namaria 2y ago
Repeated games are studied in game theory, and the winning strategy is to "trust, retaliate, and trust again". Logic isn't limited to first order logic.
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by namaria 2y ago
Frankly the "this didn't exist before" and extend-the-line "it will keep getting better" is not only bad reasoning, it's getting tired. Yeah transformers doing NLP well is pretty impressive. No, it is not worth
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by namaria 2y ago
Better yet than the whole 'unknown, fluctuating and non deterministic rates of failure' is the whole 'agentic' shtick. People proposing to chain together these fluctuating plausibility engines should study probability th
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by namaria 2y ago
Sure, as long as it keep selling $130B worth of GPUs each year. Which is entirely predicated on the capital investment in Machine Learning attracting revenue streams that are still imaginary at this point.
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So it's a natural language interface, except it can only be useful if we stick to a subset of natural language. Then we're stuck trying to reverse engineer a non documented, non deterministic API. One that will keep changing under
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by namaria 2y ago
You're right but you're also missing the fact that the currently predominant mindset of selfish resource accumulation was actually manufactured. In the early 20th century, psychological and psychiatric research was weaponized by l
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by namaria 2y ago
Spot on. The trouble with accelerationists is that they assume they know what will happen. The French revolution was pretty much unleashed with that mindset. Upper class figures wanted to get rid of the nobility/royalty monopoly on pow
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by namaria 2y ago
We either pay now to have this civilization last longer or we pay later in terms of the unsustainable systems not being sustained any more.
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So we just need to solve the halting problem in NLP?
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No, but some people claim that compressing text into vector spaces and using the patterns to extend bits of text will somehow do more than extend texts in a sometimes plausible, sometimes nonsensical way if we just: add enough data, and pro
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by namaria 2y ago
Complete with the alt text mentioning USB, which is used in the MCP website to describe it. Someone else said it and I agree, it's not a good analogy. Most of what we do in software development is connecting things. Saying "this i
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by namaria 2y ago
It blows my mind that developers will install things like npm, random libraries and so on on their machine, sometimes their personal one with the keys to the kingdom so to speak. But then again, people are now installing MCP servers the sam
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Requesting read and write access to all repos public and private no less.
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Yes. But we haven't heard from them what they did with it.
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This is interesting. The blog post links several papers, and I recommend reading them. Responses here however seem not commensurate with the evidence presented. Two of the papers[0][1] that provide the sources for the illustration in the bl
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AI is just a marketing term for software at this point. It's become essentially meaningless.
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Veritassium's video about it helped me a lot with understanding this idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo
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Knowingly keeping sensitive US national security data on a personal phone would be a very bad idea.
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> Another example would be how the A-10 had to be fueled right before takeoff because it would leak fuel until at top speed. I think you mean SR-71? The A-10 is very hardened for close air support. It even has self sealing fuel tanks ht

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