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by roadside_picnic 7mo ago
I've long considered writing to be the "last step in thinking". I can't tell you how many times an idea, that was crystal clear in my mind, fell apart the moment I started writing and I realize there were major contradic
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by roadside_picnic 7mo ago
This seems to be the same misunderstanding about agentic coding I see a lot of places. Agentic coding is not about creating software , it's about solving the problems we used to need software to solve directly . The only reason I put
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by roadside_picnic 7mo ago
> not a single one actually launched. I think this represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how these AI tools are used most effectively: not to write software but to directly solve the problem you were going to solve with softwa
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by roadside_picnic 7mo ago
This was my thought as well. Trump today claims he had long discussions with Iranian leadership over the weekend and Iran claims such a thing never happened. Not only is Iran justifiably angry at its attackers, they have no reason to trust
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by roadside_picnic 7mo ago
That more-or-less happened over the weekend [0]. Five minutes before Trump's unsurprising TACO announcement an unexpected large number of WTI futures contracts were sold and an even larger amount of S&P 500 futures were purchased
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by roadside_picnic 7mo ago
> like entity recognition As someone who has done traditional NLP work as at least part of my job for the last 15 years, LLMs do ofter a vastly superior NER solution over any previous NLP options. I agree with your overall statement, t
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by roadside_picnic 7mo ago
I'm a pretty big fan of Roadside Picnic !
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by roadside_picnic 7mo ago
> develop new technology, research culture solutions. The technology and culture solutions have existed and been evolving for 20 years. It really sounds like your experience with remote work is not representative.
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by roadside_picnic 7mo ago
Sounds like you don't have a lot of remote work experience. The majority of my career (years before the pandemic) has been remote work. I find in office work painfully slow. I pair program quite often remote, and when someone gets st
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
> The use of the word agents is interesting is mostly a coincidence, it is used today in a sense that didn't quite exist 2 years ago I'm sorry but it's wild to me that you could write so much about "agents" witho
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
We will never recovered from the fact that "literally" now means "figuratively but with emphasis".
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
The apprenticeship was after this was painted. Prior to engaging in formal training he largely ignored school and spend his time painting and seeking out other painters to learn from: > As a young boy, Michelangelo was sent to the city
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
Many of the comments here are expressing disbelief that this could have been created by a 12 year old, but people fail to recognize that, not only did Michelangelo have tremendous natural talent, but grow up in a world where, as a child, he
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
Thankfully social media is getting so much worse so fast it's making this easier and easier. HN is the last social media platform I still participate in... and I suspect that might not be for too much longer. I recently logged onto Fac
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
I can't tell if this is a tongue-in-cheek comment or not, but all of that is shipped off to 3rd party "recyclers" who pinky promise that they will dispose of it properly. Very often those 3rd parties rely on other 3rd parti
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
> "it's a scam, just chuck it all in the garbage" This sentiment is the case because very often that's where recycling ultimately ends, we just pay someone to move it far away from us so we don't have to see it w
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
> It’s beautiful Especially since both the waste created in the process of making the device and the e-waste created with it's disposal are somebody else's problem!
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
> young founders While this place has always been attractive to people building startups, back in the day (my original account is from 2009) "Hacker" News was much more about Hackers. Most people posting here had read "On
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
> Because we could buy stuff without leaving the house? I'm guessing you were still pretty young/not yet born at the time? Online shopping didn't just mean "I don't have to leave the house", it opened up a w
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
I'm not a particularly big Gary Marcus fan, but I'm even less of a fan of the term "always". I browsed back looking for posts of his that most obviously made predictions, and "GPT-5… now arriving Gate 8, Gate 9, Gat
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
Thank you, I had corrected it earlier when I had some time to further investigate what was happening. Formal verification combined with AI is, imho, exactly the type of thinking that gets the most value out of the current state of LLMs.
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
You are correct, I assumed context was implied, but I do mean "recent work with LLMs". Friends of mine where doing side projects with him about two decades ago, and I have a few of his books on my shelf, so yes, I am aware that Te
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
> It is still likely very tedious to confirm what the LLMs say, A large amount of Tao's work is around using AI to assist in creating Lean proofs. I'm generally on the more skeptical side of things regarding LLMs and grand vis
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
Projects are essential, but I've found there is a huge problem with your advice: you have no clue about the possible solution surface. My advice to learners has been "try to learn as much about a topic as someone who has taken t
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
> negligible odds of death or assault? Negligible odds of death I'll buy, but a very large number of my women friends over my life have been sexually assaulted (and probably far more than I realize, it's not like it's so
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
> a wave of elective sociopaths swoop in to flag posts and derail discussion The biggest vulnerably of the entire social media model is the "engagement pyramid" where the number of viewers is much larger than the number of upv
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
> One might as well say that neural networks trained with gradient descent are a reinvention of numerical methods for function approximation. I don't know anyone who would disagree with that statement, and this is the standard fra
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
I will beat loudly on the "Attention is a reinvention of Kernel Smoothing" drum until it is common knowledge. It looks like Cosma Schalizi's fantastic website is down for now, so here's a archive link to his essential re
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by roadside_picnic 9mo ago
The key word here is "Wall Street". And this statement is playing off a popular misconception around corporate investors buying up American houses. There has been a bit of a panic around "Investors buying up all the property!

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