poslathian

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by poslathian 1mo ago
I’ve heard this about mechanical electronic signage used for team dashboards 30-40 years ago. You’d sit in the office with your back to it and the clicky clacky sounds would be going every so often when the content updated. but people would
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by poslathian 2mo ago
Interesting point. I think there might be something special about sag given the way Hollywood does business. Everyone switches employers constantly as projects spin up and wind down. Having a mostly permanent role in an organization is supe
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by poslathian 2mo ago
Nice, very LTL
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by poslathian 3mo ago
The bibliography is more important, imo, than the peer review. I get the most use of arxiv surfing references and citations.
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by poslathian 4mo ago
This take is oversimplified to where it’s literally scary - heres an honest book about the Rothchilds Bankers and Zionists with the additional context I hope you incorporate. https://ia601309.us.archive.org/20/items&#x2
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by poslathian 4mo ago
Sandberg built the company that polluted everything with this cynical influencer economy. Schmidt built the company that turned users into the product.
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by poslathian 4mo ago
Oh yeah, his decision here updated my mental model a lot
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by poslathian 4mo ago
I’m lucky to have more than my share of really exceptional programmers to hang out with and they all say the same thing: “I haven’t been writing code for months and don’t expect to again” This is a way different sentiment than “programmers
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by poslathian 8mo ago
What if you are going to spend 5400 either way, you go all agent or get an apprentice and an agent for them too.
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by poslathian 9mo ago
This is the freshest take I have ever seen. Kudos, so cool. My professional career has been 20 years of physical ai research and now industry. My dad insisted I take corporate accounting in undergrad. It’s a skill I use every single day, do
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by poslathian 9mo ago
Pushing 20 years in industry and this is the best take I’ve heard
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by poslathian 11mo ago
as I understand, Bell Labs mandate was to improve the network, which had tons of great threads to pull on: plastics for handsets, transistors for amplification, information theory for capacity on fixed copper. Google and Meta are ads busine
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by poslathian 1y ago
They are differentiable which allows for image based rendering via solving the inverse of the rendering function via gradient decent
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by poslathian 1y ago
Absolutely! These techniques are the key unlocks to robustifying AI and creating certifiable trust in their behavior. Starting with pre-deep neural network era stuff like LQR-RRT trees, to the hot topic today of contraction theory, and cont
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by poslathian 1y ago
We always called this “monetizing the brand” and it’s been annoying me since at least when Sperry when private equity and the shoes stopped being multi-year daily drivers
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by poslathian 1y ago
Is it possible that regardless of what they pay they think Anthropic is negative margin on it?
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by poslathian 1y ago
This true - and git was not a moving target. AI core tech has certainly slowed down but still moving fast enough to make hard won lessons worthless and investing in learning them questionable.
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by poslathian 1y ago
After becoming familiar with the reality of the cost inflation of (in my case local government real estate) development projects vs private I chalked it up to graft, incentives, and mismanagement. Actually your comment is probably more corr
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by poslathian 1y ago
I love this quote. mankind having been to space already, the rockets are the sideshow to the way they designed and grew an org that delivered them along with a great business, starting from an amount of capital loads of nobodies have had bu
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by poslathian 1y ago
Is it odd or is it kinda central to the point? It’s exceptional that people centrally organized a huge amount of effort and resources towards something imagined by countless humans since prehistory, was far from being a sure thing, had no p
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by poslathian 1y ago
Given the circumstances and the relatively low dollars involved, it would be interesting to see the experiment: $10B darpa program to establish a scalable fab ecosystem in 5 years via consortium. This was how the internet was created, darpa
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by poslathian 1y ago
It’s super debatable whether or not DARPA has done more for creating enterprise value in the US tech sector than sand hill. At the least, without darpa the whole Bay Area machine would not exist today, so it’s at least necessary if not suff
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by poslathian 1y ago
This comment gives me mixed feelings and some nostalgia for when our company was < 100 people and one of the core software teams was called “meow” - today we call it human robot interaction.
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by poslathian 1y ago
For those wondering how to connect PID to the foundations of AI. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
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by poslathian 1y ago
I like this metaphor about electric lighting. However, having lived in two ~1850 houses, they sure look and function a lot like they did before electricity, despite nearly every element having been “disrupted” by electricity and all the res
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by poslathian 1y ago
I’ve worked in this field for 20+ years and as far as I can tell the only consistent colloquial definition of AI is “things lay people are surprised a computer can do right now”
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by poslathian 2y ago
https://www.folklore.org/Whats_A_Megaflop.html
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by poslathian 2y ago
The way this is rolled out is super weird. Ultra bold - shocking - claims by a credible researcher but zero details amidst tons of documentation and even code that would hint at how these two universes (model based simulation and model free
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by poslathian 2y ago
We’ll see what the future holds but as an old timer, using LLMs to creat applications seems exactly the same as: Python/JS and their ecosystem replacing OS hosted C/C++ which replaced bare metal Assembly which replaced digital log
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by poslathian 2y ago
Place and routing compilers used in semiconductor design are not. Ironically, simulated annealing is the typical mechanism and is by any appropriate definition, imo, a type of AI. Whatever you do in your life using devices that run software

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