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by sgt101 1y ago
>We don't fully understand how we relate words to concepts and meaning ourselves, This is definitely true. >but to the extent we do, LLMs are by far the closest implementation of those same ideas in a computer Well - this is half
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by sgt101 1y ago
> Most of banks worldwide still use COBOL for most (all?) their software infrastructure. Nahhh - some banks have some parts of the infrastructure in COBOL. Specifically larger retail banks often have their ledgers in COBOL. Most of them
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by sgt101 1y ago
I did a project where we predicted transformer failure (they blow up!) from changes in the oil that they have in them (its insulative properties suddenly change). This was 30 years ago so it's all a bit fuzzy, but the one thing that re
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by sgt101 2y ago
money
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by sgt101 2y ago
All about trust - I wrote an article about it. https://medium.com/@sgt101/trust-me-im-an-agent-78e4bbdb288a if you trust it, you're fine.
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by sgt101 2y ago
These examples seem to be tools built on this tool - which is cool and all, but it's not the equivalent of "a mail order catalogue you can access through your computer", or "a replacement for a travel agent". What a
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by sgt101 2y ago
This is a key point - where are the applications? Normally we have a standard when we have applications, but I am not seeing these yet... perhaps I am blind and mad!
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This is what torpedoed the first AI Assistant push in the late 1990's and early 2000s (see electric elves as an example). Basically we thought that personal travel assistants and open trading platforms would be cool things, but then di
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by sgt101 2y ago
>hey plan to provide experiment agnostic and unified framework that is actually unified and user accessible. The field really need something like that, it is usually the pain point of most junior graduate student. The field suck at docum
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I think that the other question is "what do we mean that Gemini 2.5 built it" - was it with a prompt like "build me a missile command game with a reward system that will enable me to buy upgrades"? Or was it interactivel
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by sgt101 2y ago
I think logical reasoning - so reasoning about logical problems, especially those with transitive relations like two way implication. A way round this is to get them to write prolog relations and then reason over them... with prolog. This i
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by sgt101 2y ago
There are privilege boundaries within which this fundamentally is a problem as well, for example inside banks where this could be used to silently monitor for events that could then be used to trigger frauds or other bad things. The problem
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by sgt101 2y ago
It's not like they're the controlling power behind the scenes of the international hedgemon. They're a person commenting on HN. Calm the drama.
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>Claude will plan what it will say many words ahead, and write to get to that destination. We show this in the realm of poetry, where it thinks of possible rhyming words in advance and writes the next line to get there. This is powerful
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There's some challenge there. - service interactions are pretty complicated - the satisfaction is dependent on a lot of factors - customers mostly give 7/10 mostly because giving nps is so unnatural
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by sgt101 2y ago
I don't get how RL can be applied in a domain where there is no simulator. So for customer service, to do RL on real customers... well this sounds like it's going to be staggeringly slow and very expensive in terms of peeved custo
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an llm or other nn construct
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by sgt101 2y ago
Let's say you want to program a system that uses a variety of neural nets for reasoning about a problem, and you also want to use more traditional programmatic reasoning - for example to score and rank results. I think this is the kind
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by sgt101 2y ago
Thank you. you seem to be more in the know than me :) Please could you just sketch out a few bullets and explain the relationship between Scallop and Lobster and what you think is going on?
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by sgt101 2y ago
Anything can do anything else given enough time and power, but I think: no, not without shenanigans. This has primitives for interfacing to nn's including foundation models so you can ask it (for example) to label images of cats and do
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by sgt101 2y ago
Ironically the OP is called A_D_E_P_T - ADEPT was the first "proper agent project" I got involved in, back in 1996! I just looked at a couple of deliverables & tidied a demo as it was closing then, but then I did more work on
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by sgt101 2y ago
Also, I think it's existence might disrupt the financial system shomeewhat!
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vibe testing, vibe model engineering...
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So, when you say "they" you mean the Protestant Irish ruling class?
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by sgt101 2y ago
I think that this is a new(ish) thing though. When the UK was pulling gas out of the Irish Sea and the North Sea for domestic heating gas was much much cheaper than electricity. Then gas started being used at scale for electricity generatio
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by sgt101 2y ago
Look at what the major banks are doing. All of them have some sort of post quantum security program. None of them have deployed post quantum security at scale. To me this means that they have a estimate of >10 years <30 years for Q da
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by sgt101 2y ago
When I was asked to work on this stuff (I didn't want to because I knew very little about it, but it was a "do you like eating hot food and sleeping inside" kind of moment) I got this book: https://amzn.eu/d&#
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by sgt101 2y ago
I think that the issue is claimed to be that the pump will use lots of electricity trying to keep up with the heat escaping and therefore will not be economical.
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Super interesting - more info like this helps. I have a 17th Century cottage and the folks came and just said that there was no point at all... maybe they were clueless!
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Climate wise: yes. Housing stock wise: not so much. Heat pumps seem really good for well insulated modern houses, much of the UK's housing stock is >100years old and pretty drafty.

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