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Wintering(joanwestenberg.com)
3 points by rossdavidh 5mo ago|0 comments
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by rossdavidh 5mo ago
Should note that "top US markets" really means "most expensive US markets", not for example the largest by population.
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by rossdavidh 5mo ago
It's somewhat akin to how documentation inside code is so often inaccurate; it may have been fine when it was written, but it doesn't get updated.
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Fisherian Runaway in the Modern Economy(rosshartshorn.net)
3 points by rossdavidh 5mo ago|0 comments
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by rossdavidh 5mo ago
Sorry, didn't know/remember that a GR account was required just to read...
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by rossdavidh 5mo ago
One of the authors of this paper, David Reich, has written a book called "Who We Are and How We Got Here", which is worth reading. My thoughts on it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2605841954
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by rossdavidh 5mo ago
No matter what your politics, sooner or later someone you don't agree with will be in charge at the national level. There are also cases where states take on cases that the national government never pursues in the first case. IIRC, st
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by rossdavidh 5mo ago
In case you wondered what the point of the federal (i.e. states not totally controlled by federal government) system is, here's a good example. If only the federal government were allowed to pursue this case, it would have ended when
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
I'm building a framework for making small-to-medium sized factory management systems.
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
True enough, but I think that a lot of "actually programming the thing" turned out to be "figuring out what exactly needs to be programmed". Afterwards, people did not want to admit that this was the case, perhaps even
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
All of this article, both the good (critique of the status quo ante) and the bad (entirely too believing of LLM boosterism) are missing (or not stressing enough) the most important point, which is that the actual programming is not the hard
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
My favorite line: "I got basically all the extensions with this, making everything I did before this look really stupid." Not at all; all good developers succeed by finding ways to make their past work look unnecessarily complicat
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
So, "BS-as-a-service" allows you to make more money off BS, including deepfake before-and-after, and falsifying doctor profiles at scale. I mean, fraud is definitely one application where "hallucinations" are not so muc
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
I don't understand; where is the cloud connection to an LLM agent? I don't even see how you could get Kubernetes or React in this thing.
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Axios Hacked, Anthropic Leaked [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rossdavidh 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
If the algorithm (whatever it is) evaluates its own output based on whether or not the user responds positively, then it will over time become better and better at telling people what they want to hear. It is analogous to social media feedi
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AI is making CEO's delusional [video](youtube.com)
5 points by rossdavidh 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
Good idea; call it "Children of Cronos" (who ate his children).
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
Hypothesis: the ridiculous amount of resources put into the LLM (and other "AI") technologies currently, far beyond any realistic hope of profit from it, is because a bunch of techno-billionaires believe in Roko's basilisk. I
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Roko's Basilisk(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rossdavidh 6mo ago|3 comments
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
One is reminded of the Behaviorist's attempt to do away with introspection and pretend that they could understand what was going on in the mind purely by examining behavior. Like the drunkard looking for his keys under the light rathe
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by rossdavidh 6mo ago
"One or two hybrid days per week capture nearly all the fertility upside." That is an interesting point, and not obvious why it would be so. In fact, it kind of calls into question whether the whole relationship is causal. The p
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by rossdavidh 7mo ago
Agreed, but I think the mechanism relates to different microbes. If there are two microbes in your gut, and type A requires a dose of high-calorie, low-fiber food coming down the pipe every day, and type B is not able to reproduce as fast
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The Noble Path(joanwestenberg.com)
2 points by rossdavidh 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rossdavidh 7mo ago
I think that "vaccine" is really not the right word to use for this; they sound as different as bandages and blood transfusions. But if it works as advertised, it could be useful if used in the right situation. I do wonder if the
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by rossdavidh 7mo ago
As Deming once said in regard to manufacturing inspections: "Inspection does not improve the quality, nor guarantee quality. Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product." The fact that software is &
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by rossdavidh 7mo ago
Well, the Great Fiscal Crisis did not result in mass starvation, so in some sense, it "wasn't all that dramatic". But, it was a big deal in comparison to a normal downturn. So, it depends on what you mean. Medium term, I th
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by rossdavidh 7mo ago
In time, every organic system has to develop an immune system. Immune systems do, sometimes, misfire (allergies, auto-immune disorders). But, eventually, it becomes impossible to do without them.
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by rossdavidh 7mo ago
Many years ago, as a grad student in Electrical Engineering, I got asked to help judge at a high school science fair. It was fairly disillusioning. The best presentations were pretty obviously done with a lot of parental "help",
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by rossdavidh 7mo ago
1) I love the idea, but there's not a lot of confidence building, "I'm not going to harvest and sell your data" vibe here. 2) I should get extra points if I discover a new species

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