sethev

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by sethev 6mo ago
Of course they’re paraphrases. And since when does 37 warrant constantly mentioning how old you are?
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by sethev 6mo ago
I apologize for not quoting you directly “Then go get some!”. That’s what you said in response to there being no evidence. Would you like a link to your comment?
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by sethev 6mo ago
I worked at a company once that posted h-1b jobs on a piece of paper on a board next to a restroom at the office. That was technically a publicly accessible area (if you had a guest pass).
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by sethev 6mo ago
You're the one in this thread claiming people are responsible for "going and finding the evidence" of other people's unsourced claims. You could have just not replied since you didn't have something to contribute.
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by sethev 6mo ago
IMHO, people making claims should provide the evidence for them. One link is behind a paywall and the other clearly states that it is making informed speculations. I could make all sorts of claims on the spot here. It doesn't create a
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by sethev 6mo ago
> They clearly did something crazy at corona They acquired Cerner, which had ~30k employees.
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by sethev 7mo ago
Sure, but Joel isn't saying that's impossible or that people who do that are crackpots. In fact, he was an advocate of writing specs ahead of time [1] - for people. At the time "generating a program from a spec" was an i
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by sethev 7mo ago
Program generation from a spec meant something vastly different in 2007 than it does now. People can and are generating programs from underspecified prompts. Trying to be systematic about how prompts work is a worthwhile area to explore.
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by sethev 7mo ago
It leans on tree-sitter for language handling, so i wonder if they're actually Concrete Syntax Trees.
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by sethev 7mo ago
Yeah, but "it's not X. It's Y" is a common idiom that LLMs picked up from people. That's the point i was making. And it's starting to feel like every post has at least one comment claiming that it was AI genera
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by sethev 7mo ago
LLMs were trained on stuff that people wrote. I get there are "tells", but don't really think people are as good at identifying AI generated text as they think they are...
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by sethev 7mo ago
>There's always a growth phase but then there's a bell curve of age vs competence A bell curve tracks the distribution of a single random variable. You're mixing statistical metaphors.
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by sethev 7mo ago
And gain experience
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by sethev 7mo ago
>Contained conflagration, short targeted exchanges, probability of contamination low, material possibility of nuclear escalation. That's describing something that's not a world war, though. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is al
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by sethev 7mo ago
Folks at Jack's level are just as susceptible to flawed reasoning and trend following as anyone else. Sometimes it feels like more so, possibly because they have so much buffer to absorb the consequences of bad ideas (see how Twitter e
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by sethev 8mo ago
I don't know why but it makes me smile that he did this experiment by having a grad student type the questions for chatgpt and copy the results.
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by sethev 8mo ago
He's not. But he just dismissed a question at a conference, that then somehow got turned into a whole article and a front page story on HN.
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by sethev 8mo ago
The registry did come up, as soon as they had enough information for it to be useful. They were looking for a specific child, starting just from the images that her abuser was sharing on the internet (in which he intentionally tried to hide
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by sethev 8mo ago
Your case #2 doesn't have nearly enough information to say whether it's obviously better for a population of patients. There are a lot of other variables you would need to know: - The accuracy of detecting a mass - The t
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by sethev 8mo ago
I do think it's a crazy thing to say, but not because of the amount. I mean, if putting in more money produces more value, why not $10,000 a day or a million? Does adding more tokens after $1000 stop working for some reason? Forget abo
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by sethev 8mo ago
Yeah, it's hard to read the article without getting a cringy feeling of second hand embarrassment. The setup is weird too, in that it seems to imply that the little snippets of "wisdom" should be used as prompts to an LLM to
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by sethev 8mo ago
These analogies (except for DNS, perhaps) aren't very illuminating on the difference between a CP system and an AP system in the CAP sense, though. In banking, there are multiple parties involved. Each of those parties is likely runnin
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by sethev 8mo ago
Normally, I'm not a fan of putting the date on a post. However, in this case, the fact that Stonebraker's article was published in 2010 makes it more impressive given the developments over the last 15 years - in which we've r
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by sethev 9mo ago
There have been hints in the research that this might be the case-but so far they haven't really beaten the heuristic approach in practice (outside of special cases). For example there's a class of join algorithms called 'wor
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by sethev 9mo ago
In Clojure, vectors literally are functions. You can supply a vector (~= array) or map any place that a single parameter function is expected. So for example: (map v [4 5 7]) Would return you a list of the items at index 4, 5, and
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by sethev 9mo ago
I suspect the answer to this lies in who feels the short term pain vs who benefits from the long term gain.
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by sethev 9mo ago
It's one thing to vote in support of politicians who want to use tariffs to reduce imports / increase the price of goods to support US manufacturing. It's quite another to vote for a politician who wields tariffs in inconsist
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by sethev 9mo ago
Yes, I'm speaking about my experience as I remember it - not what was objectively possible for someone with the right resources and knowledge at the time :)
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by sethev 9mo ago
Yes, that is the context in which I first read it (likely around 1999 when it appeared on slashdot), as a senior in high school with no access to the tools used by most professional programmers at the time.
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by sethev 9mo ago
As you point out in your linked comment, the original essay captured the zeitgeist of the time. It also influenced and inspired many people. From that perspective, it's hard for me to agree that it was bad. However, I don't think

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