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by petilon 1mo ago
Here's another definition of AGI from Sam Altman: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/podcasts/hard-fork-sam-al... Sam Altman: Let’s say we make an A.I. that is really good, but it can’t go discover
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by petilon 1mo ago
He says the same about AGI: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/podcasts/hard-fork-sam-al... Sam Altman: Let’s say we make an A.I. that is really good, but it can’t go discover novel physics. Would you ca
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by petilon 1mo ago
Sam Altman himself has said it is not AGI unless it can discover novel physics. https://x.com/burny_tech/status/1725233117055553938 In the tweet Sam Altman is quoted as saying: "If (for example) super intelli
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by petilon 1mo ago
This is wild: OpenAI is basically declaring that AGI is here. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989601/o... “If we fast-forward a couple of years, and we look back and say, ‘When was it, really,
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by petilon 1mo ago
You can use another word instead of "port". What is undeniable is that the Gates team looked at the DEC Basic source code, had extensive experience with it (having enhanced it), and the Basic they later made had functional similar
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by petilon 1mo ago
> In 10 years? I predict that healthcare, education, legal services and transportation won't change in a meaningful way at all. "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the ch
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by petilon 1mo ago
What about this sentence don't you understand: "The BASIC they did which we got ahold of the BASIC source code and enhanced t quite a bit was great." That's a direct Bill Gates quote, see here: [1] https://ame
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by petilon 1mo ago
That's completely false. Bill Gates has said [1] he got DEC's Basic source code and "enhanced it". So it is not limited to OS. [1] https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm
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by petilon 1mo ago
> We might recognize that the economics of making such a fascinating and artful experiment like this have completely changed. And this is not limited to software development. In just a few years, the economics of delivering healthcare,
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by petilon 1mo ago
They got the source code of DEC Basic, studied it, "enhanced quite a bit" then wrote their own Basic which is similar to DEC Basic, and you don't think it is a derivative? Ok. It is a derivative in my book.
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by petilon 1mo ago
In this [1] interview Gates says that he and his group got DEC BASIC source code and enhanced it. [1] https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm
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by petilon 1mo ago
Credit should be given to Digital Equipment Corporation. Back then software isn't what companies made money on, it is hardware. Source code wasn't guarded as a secret as it is today, and you could find print outs in the dumpster [
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by petilon 1mo ago
Forget AI, silicon valley parents don't want their kids using phones and computers either. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/silicon-valley-parent... https://www.nytimes.com/2026&#x2
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New Google AI Model Said to Narrow Gap on Coding Ability (Gemini 3.8 Flash)(wsj.com)
3 points by petilon 1mo ago|0 comments
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by petilon 1mo ago
So they will switch to per-agent pricing instead of per-user. Fine, but that doesn't change the fact that Microsoft Office will become a just bunch of viewers as far as human usage is concerned. As far as generating Office documents, y
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by petilon 1mo ago
There is a serious threat to Microsoft here, if everyone starts using AI for generating and updating Office docs. At some point Office will become just a viewer.
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by petilon 1mo ago
No, democracy doesn't mean everyone supports this administration. And in fact, this administration has declared that the blue states are the "enemy from within." If anything you should be sending us survival gear when Trump e
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by petilon 1mo ago
If you want to retaliate against this US administration avoid buying stuff exported by red states. The rest of us can't wait for this admin to be over.
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by petilon 1mo ago
The example is not particularly impressive. The SQL equivalent is much easier to understand, which means it is easier to maintain. Number of lines is not an interesting metric; understandability and maintainability are more important.
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by petilon 2mo ago
Why not take a look at Medicare in the US instead? The US healthcare system has way more money than the UK, so comparing to UK is not meaningful.
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by petilon 2mo ago
Blocking ads wholesale is a terrible idea and unnecessary. What needs to be blocked is ads that execute client-side javascript (consuming your memory and cpu), ads that consume too much network bandwidth and so on. Ads are necessary so that
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by petilon 2mo ago
Yes, at the tactical level, AI is able to find better alternatives.
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by petilon 2mo ago
Yes, for simple "leaf level" features where there are no big architectural trade-offs to make, AI works well.
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by petilon 2mo ago
Right, and that's why humans are still needed in the loop.
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by petilon 2mo ago
One aspect AI is weak in is controlling complexity. If you tell it to implement something it will go ahead and implement it, without considering how much complexity it adds to the system or weighing alternatives. An experienced engineer on
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by petilon 2mo ago
> Omni, their AI agent was terrible What was terrible about it?
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by petilon 2mo ago
> Why not simply rebuild what you need with Claude? Claude isn't some magic genie that can give you whatever you ask for. If you need a spreadsheet, it is much easier at this point to start Excel than to ask Claude to write you an
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Airtable Acquisition Is Kick in the Gut for Software Unicorns and Their Backers(wsj.com)
2 points by petilon 2mo ago|1 comments
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by petilon 2mo ago
Even when the full title is displayed it can be interpreted in two ways.
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by petilon 2mo ago
Not open source, but free for small teams: https://visualdb.com/

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