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by sesteel 3y ago
When I see statements like "garbage-generating machine", I immediately think that the person making such a statement may not be aware of the capabilities of GPT-4.
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by sesteel 3y ago
Look up HSMs.
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by sesteel 3y ago
A lot of the experimentation I've done is too long and complex to fit nicely in an Ask HN post. People have the tendency to move the bar when assigning intelligence to AI. GPT4 is different. Here is a post from earlier today that mi
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by sesteel 4y ago
The impact likely begins in 2024 or 2025. I think a team of 5 may become a team of 2 or 3. In that sense, yes, I think it can have a very real impact to salaries and available opportunities.
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by sesteel 4y ago
It is about iteration and interpretation for me. For Java, there is more to consider, there is more to build, there is more to run, and there is more to move around. With Go, things tend to be faster and smaller. It is not feature soup..
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by sesteel 4y ago
I don't think that is a correct interpretation.
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by sesteel 4y ago
This may have been true elsewhere, but I don't think this holds for GPT4. I suspect that complex intelligence, that cannot be directly attributed to structure of the underlying LLM, has emerged. I am guessing it has to do with the use
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by sesteel 4y ago
Sorry, I wasn't trying to force you to read it. I didn't know I had that ability.
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by sesteel 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I am attempting to understand my own failings in interpreting these responses. I am attempting to evaluate risk in a business context.
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Ask HN: Does this GPT-4 response suggest it has emergent intelligence?
4 points by sesteel 4y ago|24 comments
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by sesteel 4y ago
Agree 100%. This is what stifles innovation and kills companies, people moving into positions where they make more than they ever have before and their goal is look good to financial stakeholders and maintain their position as long as poss
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by sesteel 4y ago
I would have argued against this perspective a few years ago, but given my current situation, you are right. The ability to comprehend and manage complexity faster than others create it is key. The more help you have the better. Work wit
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by sesteel 4y ago
Could not agree more. Naming things for what they do encourages other behaviors like deprecation strategies and extension strategies that are non-disruptive to others. It makes people's lives easier if your work follows a level of ri
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by sesteel 4y ago
You are not alone. If I was made to use this, I'd probably retire early or change careers. Trends towards centralization and uniformity make me sad.
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by sesteel 4y ago
I am looking for somebody who has used a Contabo VPS. They advertise their smallest at: $6.99 / month Starts with 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 32 TB Egress, Unlimited Ingress, and 50 GB NVMe.
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by sesteel 4y ago
Has anybody heard of and formed an opinion on Contabo? I was searching for unmetered or high bandwidth offerings and ran across them. They have a cloud VPS for $7/mo with 4vCPU, 8GB RAM, and 32TB traffic.
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by sesteel 4y ago
Agreed! In my mind, to go back in time is to put all particles or whatever fundamental components back in the same place and state as they were previously. Thus, that would include the particles that make up you as well. How would you eve
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by sesteel 5y ago
I think what you get out of this book really depends on where you are intellectually when you approach it. I read this book decades ago while in college and it helped me conceptualize a recursive universe; thus, how complexity comes from si
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by sesteel 5y ago
It seems like TSMC building a US based foundry may become a mitigating factor.
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by sesteel 5y ago
Leadership is about managing risk, so that is a hard disagreement from me. Any good leader, especially a tech lead, needs to be able to both define the path and execute the path. If you don't have the skills or background to execute
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by sesteel 5y ago
Agreed. Any moderately complex system can have emergent behavior. This is a fundamental feature of complexity. You can sometimes take advantage of it, by finding unexpectedly profitable features that only exist at scale or in conditions
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by sesteel 5y ago
Agreed, there is not enough context to even know why this is newsworthy. Why should we care?
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by sesteel 5y ago
In my opinion, the position of software developers is similar to stonemasons and blacksmiths historically. Skilled professionals to be depended upon. All play(ed) an important role in economics, religion, politics, and society in general.
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by sesteel 5y ago
All this talk about UAPs reminds me of growing up in Texas in the 80's; kids claimed they saw a black planes flying at night. My older cousin claimed one flew over his head at low altitude and we all just wondered what was going on. I
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by sesteel 5y ago
I don't interpret it the same as you. I know this is probably obvious, women faced and continue to face different challenges in the workplace and in business than men do. I feel the writer is simply attempting to acknowledge that fac
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by sesteel 5y ago
Watching over my cousin's shoulder as he debugged a downhill skiing game he wrote for a class he was taking. This was on his newly acquired Apple IIe circa 1983.
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by sesteel 5y ago
I am just trying to forecast how bright Apple's future is. Seems like they have options. So, is there going to be a shift towards ARM/RISC in general or not. If so, where do I put my money?
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by sesteel 5y ago
High throughput at relatively low power. To me, it seems like a match made in heaven. There is the practicality of building rock solid containerization on these CPUs. I don't know where that stands, but it seems like an obvious fit.
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by sesteel 5y ago
If Apple is having this kind of success, it seems they should look to compete in the data center with this or the following generation of chips. I wonder if it is a good time to invest in Apple.
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Ask HN: Are there good materials for stateless microservice patterns?
1 points by sesteel 6y ago|1 comments

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