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by philipswood 8mo ago
Dune quote: > It is said that the Duke Leto blinded himself to the perils of Arrakis, that he walked heedlessly into the pit. > *Would it not be more likely to suggest he had lived so long in the presence of extreme danger he misjudge
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by philipswood 8mo ago
I think we can now begin to experimentally test Conway's law and corollaries. Agreed, a flat set of workers configured like this is probably not the best configuration. Can you imagine what an all human team configured like this would
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by philipswood 8mo ago
Are you sure that guy who wakes up tomorrow after you've gone to sleep is you? Or the one who wakes up after 10,000 sleeps? I'm sure he's going to be quite different... Maybe that dude (the one who woke up after you went to s
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by philipswood 8mo ago
It might be one of the only reasonable-seeming ways to not die. I can see the appeal.
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by philipswood 8mo ago
To be clear: I'm not engaging with your main point about whether LLMs are usable in software engineering or not. I'm specifically addressing your use of the concept of determinism. An LLM is a set of matrix multiplies and function
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by philipswood 8mo ago
Build systems may be deterministic in the narrow sense you use, but significant extra effort is required to make them reproducible. Engineering in the broader sense often deals with managing the outputs of variable systems to get known good
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by philipswood 8mo ago
Yes, tomato's ARE actually a fruit. But really!? I'll keep calling it in nice round powers of two, thank you very much.
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by philipswood 9mo ago
Strangely enough, even mankind producing more food than it eats isn't enough to stop world hunger either. (A fact that he does mention)
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by philipswood 9mo ago
> Consider what happens when you build software professionally. You talk to stakeholders who do not know what they want and cannot articulate their requirements precisely. You decompose vague problem statements into testable specificatio
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by philipswood 9mo ago
Yup, I also couldn't figure out after scrolling and skimming two or three pages. Some understandable short sentence or paragraph early on needs to answer the main question the title raises.
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by philipswood 9mo ago
In a blind culture there probably are no guns at all - so your hypothetical sighted-person-amongst-the-blind would need to be able to make his own. Then again, just throwing rocks might be pretty effective.
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by philipswood 9mo ago
Um... > This experiment was inspired by @swyx’s tweet about Ted Chiang’s short story “Understand” (1991). The story imagines a superintelligent AI’s inner experience—its reasoning, self-awareness, and evolution. After reading it and foll
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by philipswood 9mo ago
I think he's trying to write fiction, not non-fiction! :p
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by philipswood 9mo ago
I'm glad the author spent some time thinking about this, clarifying his thoughts and writing it down, but I don't think he's written anything much worth reading yet. He's mostly in very-confident-but-not-even-wrong kind
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by philipswood 11mo ago
Cool! I've wanted something like this for a while to use with architectural PlantUML diagrams rendered to SVG with hyperlinks linking to their implementations. I'll give it a spin.
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by philipswood 11mo ago
LOL. You're not spoiling the punchline!
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by philipswood 11mo ago
Agreed, but a check of superficial details you've read and a detailed discussion grounded in the text can really help to cement the book in your mind. I've experimented with sessions that start with prompts like: > Hi, Please a
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by philipswood 1y ago
One could design a toolchain that posts a hashed signed version of the source used to produce a signed binary. Build and deploy what you want and if you want people to trust it and opt in then it is publicly available. In this case you get
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by philipswood 1y ago
I'm sure you are going for the meaning: "a quantity of things or people heaped together" (Plural of). But "piles" also means "hemorrhoid" and when you Google that's the first definition you find.
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by philipswood 1y ago
Ars longa vita Brevis by Scott Alexander also has some interesting perspectives on the art of learning and teaching: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/ > “Not infinite. Archi
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by philipswood 1y ago
Yes, which is why we should try to train for it.
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by philipswood 1y ago
I think one could add fake artificial knowledge - specifically to teach the network how to recognize "not knowing".
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by philipswood 1y ago
Has anybody tried what seems obvious? Have a series of pretraining sessions with training data where specific information is not present and training questions/answers of "I don't know" for that data is also trained on.
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by philipswood 1y ago
Personally, I wouldn't consider HTMX to be a good fit for those scenarios. Obviously you _could_, and it might even work well, but I think that's using the tool against its grain.
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by philipswood 1y ago
The philosophy of HTMX is not to send JSON, but HTML fragments.
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Philosophers and Anthropic's Claude(dailynous.com)
2 points by philipswood 1y ago|1 comments
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by philipswood 1y ago
Philosophers celebrate philosophy involvement in Claude's personality development and the welfare assessment in its new model card.
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by philipswood 1y ago
Could you add the ability to do word groups? Like two or three words.
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by philipswood 1y ago
The edge is not slight. And usually in a new domain you're usually not completely clueless. There is value in growing a truly deep expertise by spending a lot of time in one domain, but a lot of the deeper skills do transfer (or partia
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by philipswood 1y ago
You don't need to wait for AR/VR. For computer work the real space of interaction is currently the screen. Unstructured pair programming for two remotes with a shared screen and audio and chat is a way more effective interaction t

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