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by pyman 1y ago
Should the people developing AI agent protocols be exploring decentralised architectures, using technologies like blockchain and peer-to-peer networks to distribute models and data? What are the trade-offs of relying on centralised orchestr
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by pyman 1y ago
If humanity moves to Mars one day and leaves behind all the AI servers running on solar power, then comes back a billion years later, the AI would still be saying the same things. Why? Because no matter how powerful it is, AI doesn't e
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by pyman 1y ago
What they're saying is that pattern-matching isn't the path to AGI. Humans and AI can both solve the Tower of Hanoi, but once the number of disks goes up, we both struggle. Apple's point is that if we want to build something
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by pyman 1y ago
I think you may have misunderstood my point. I was calling out a possible conspiracy theory. Going back to your comment about AI, teachers have seen a huge increase in the use of em dashes over the past year, so they have been forced to bec
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by pyman 1y ago
This is funny :) But that's exactly why I said that even though having so many languages is inefficient, the real solution is to create an interface that makes the problem obsolete. LLMs only care about intent, not syntax.
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We live in a world with 7,000 human languages and around 8,000 programming languages. Most people only learn a handful, which limits how effectively they can express intent. This is inefficient. In theory, one universal language would solve
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by pyman 1y ago
I'm not saying fast is better than slow, or slow is better than fast. I'm just saying time changes the shape of creativity. Shakespeare wrote under pressure because he had deadlines. His creativity was shaped by the need to delive
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by pyman 1y ago
We live in a world with 7,000 human languages and around 8,000 programming languages. Most people only learn a handful, which limits how effectively they can express intent. This is inefficient. In theory, one universal language would solve
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by pyman 1y ago
This is an interesting debate. For me, the real question is: What's the goal of any language (human or programming)? In my opinion, it's to communicate intent, so that intent can be turned into action. And guess what? LLMs are inc
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Sounds like a good process, but I'm curious: are you looking for someone who understands code, or someone who knows how to solve problems and happens to understand code?
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I think it depends on the age. The younger the student, the more important it is to learn how to solve problems than to code. Those who choose to become software developers will eventually learn how to read code. For me, what matters early
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No, but I've studied the history of computers and keyboards. There's plenty of evidence that writing with typewriters was much slower than using a computer. Writers were also more limited creatively, since they couldn't easil
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100%. It's mostly large corporations and governments doing the real experimenting at scale. We didn't vote for any of this but we're living with the consequences.
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This problem has been around since calculators were invented. But I do agree with you that it's a real issue: students not using their own brain, just relying on the artificial one. That's why teaching methods need to evolve. They
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by pyman 1y ago
You've basically got Einstein, Curie, Tesla, Newton, Charpentier, and Gladys West in your pocket, ready to help. We carry the sum of human knowledge around with us, but no one's teaching us how to actually use it. Schools are more
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by pyman 1y ago
Feels like we're heading towards a world where computer languages disappear, and we just use human language to tell machines what to do. Kinda like how typewriters got replaced by computers in the 80s. Back then, people spent so much t
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This belongs in a museum!
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Interesting paper. LLMs have the knowledge but lack social skills. they fail when interacting with real patients. So, maybe, the real bottleneck isn't knowledge after all?
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Re: the infinite resistor grid If you take an endless grid made of identical resistors and try to measure the resistance between two neighbouring points, the answer turns out to be about one-third of a resistor
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No problem at all. I just wanted to confirm where the interview had taken place. I assumed it was in India.
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True... they're going to squeeze every last cent out of it
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Same thing happens in Latin America with Microsoft. They give schools free Windows licenses, so we're expected to teach students how to code using C# instead of Python
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We are probably just picking up the ancient Wi-Fi signal from a civilisation that went underground a billion years ago after upgrading their neutrino network from 50G to 51G.
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I live in Montevideo, here people use "usted" (the formal "you" in Spanish) to show respect to older people. But there's no strict rule about when to switch from "tu" (informal you) to "usted". S
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The Github paradox: GitHub's whole platform is built around developers. But if GitHub Copilot becomes the only developer a company needs, then developers no longer need GitHub.
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From what I read once, Sven wanted to open source it to make it more stable and actually finish it but then realised that doing so could affect his business model
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There's nothing wrong with asking in which country the interview took place. It's funny that (1) you quickly assumed I was white, with a negative connotation, and (2) you implied that mentioning the name of a country that's n
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by pyman 1y ago
It's common sense: you either believe what you read on Bernhard Engelbrecht's Twitter account (this is the same crypto influencer who scammed startup founders out of thousands of dollars) or you trust what's published on The
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I share your frustration. But for better or worse, computer language will eventually be replaced by human language. It's inevitable :(
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They're using a specific model for that, and since they can't access private GitHub repos like MS, they rely on code shared by devs, which keeps growing every month.

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