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by physix 1y ago
Actually I didn't. Correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that RL is still an LLM tuning approach, i.e. an optimization of its parameter set, no matter if it's done at scale or via HF.
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by physix 1y ago
In the meantime, I discovered that it might simply be a type of acquisition that circumvents regulatory oversight https://medium.com/@villispeaks/the-blitzhire-acquisition-e3... seen from https://news.ycomb
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by physix 1y ago
I've been actively working with Spring since about 2008. About 3-4 times a year, I cuss and curse some strange side effects that occur during refactorings. And in some areas we've painted ourselves into a corner. But all in all, i
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by physix 1y ago
I'm not sufficiently familiar with the details on ML to assess the proposition made in the article. From my understanding, RL is a tuning approach on LLMs, so the outcome is still the same kind of beast, albeit with a different parame
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by physix 1y ago
I'd really like to know which use cases work and which don't. And when folks say they use agentic AI to churn through tokens to automate virtually the entire SDLC, are they just cherry picking the situations that turned out well,
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by physix 1y ago
That reminds me of a thought I had about the poachings. The poaching was probably more aimed at hamstringing Meta's competition. Because the disruption caused by them leaving in droves is probably more severe than the benefits of havin
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by physix 1y ago
"Sprawling distributed systems". I like that. Sounds like a synonym for "Platform Engineering". :-) I remember being amazed that lambda architecture was considered a kind of reference, when it looked to me more like a wo
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by physix 1y ago
That may hold to a certain extent for relational databases where your business model doesn't align well with physical model (tables). Although you might wonder why stored procedures and triggers were invented. In databases where your d
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by physix 1y ago
Take off, eh! It's missing.
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by physix 1y ago
I was curious to know the statistics on the mentions of various programming languages on HN over the years, so I got me a copy of all HN comments from a BigTable public source. But now I need to interpret each comment and so what I need is
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by physix 1y ago
This looks to be really well written. After 25 odd pages, I'm saying to myself, can't wait to read the whole book.
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by physix 1y ago
Thanx!
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by physix 1y ago
What's ASI?
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by physix 1y ago
I vote for "unhinged" as Word Of The Year. Interesting that The Economist thinks they are "verging on the unhinged", and not yet actually unhinged. Is that a buy signal? :-)
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by physix 1y ago
I think that's what evolution did when developing the brain! :-) I'm a total noob in ML. I just had to vent something for not understanding this stuff and realizing that knowing physics doesn't mean you can grok ML mechanics.
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by physix 1y ago
We developed an Entity DBMS where the entities are FSMs. https://medium.com/@paul_42036/entity-workflows-for-event-dr... I believe that FSMs are a very powerful approach, even for building entire systems. So much so, t
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by physix 1y ago
I was waiting for that comment to appear. If your core product isn't any good, A/B testing seems like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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by physix 1y ago
I think it's indeed the opportunity cost and the commoditization of the infrastructure and operational expertise that drives startups to AWS. But over time, as you scale, they can easily become your biggest component to your marginal
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by physix 1y ago
It was cool reading your article. We're also bootstrapped and use Hetzner, not AWS (except for the occasional test), for very much the same reasons as you. And we are also fully infrastructure as code using Ansible. We used to be a pur
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by physix 1y ago
We met on a project in a bank. Worked together for a number of years. Became friends. We trust, respect and understand each other. I think that's really important. You'll be going through think and think together.
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by physix 1y ago
It's an interesting article that makes intuitive sense. But from what I understood, the scenarios are still pre-AGI. From what I understand, we are far from achieving AGI, and the article would have benefited from defining the term and
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by physix 1y ago
A colleague upgraded the production database for a securities financing settlement system on a Friday evening by accident 20 years ago. We were devs with root access to production and no network segregation. He wanted to upgrade his dev env
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by physix 1y ago
Ah, yes. > I immediately messaged my co-founders.
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by physix 1y ago
I dunno. The effort needed to ensure you have backups is tiny compared to the work done to create the product. And to pull a backup before deleting stuff in production only needs a smidgen of experience. They were extremely lucky. Imagine w
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by physix 1y ago
Without having looked at it, I would assume the value comes from not having to know the data model in great detail, such that you can phrase your query using natural language, like "Give me all the back office account postings for paym
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by physix 1y ago
> Build sociotechnical systems with “normal people” in mind From the perspective of the composition of software engineering teams: Most of us have to make due with the average, we strive to find the above average and avoid the mediocre,
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by physix 1y ago
It's a good article, but does it go without saying that when one says "engineers", it's about "software engineers"? One reason I clicked on this one is that I was hoping to learn stuff about engineers beyond ju
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by physix 1y ago
I love it, it's crazy! It would be cool to start with a random ROM image and then use a Monte Carlo technique (simulated annealing), making a set of random changes to the image by flipping bits, use the change in the "composite sc
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by physix 1y ago
I think this is a great summary. It's quite intuitive and elegant. Does anyone have any information about what the author's peers think of this model? I'd love the idea that we are living inside a black hole, which is inside
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by physix 1y ago
Not being in agriculture, it took me a bit to understand that "natural enemies" refers to the natural enemies of pests threatening crops. Not the natural enemies of the crops themselves. Good to know that diversity promotes growth

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