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by solidasparagus 2y ago
This is just blatantly false. The 10% number is ridiculous which anyone involved with foreign aid knows. But you can easily tell that the countries want the money from the cases where the US threatens to take away aid over some disagreement
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
In what world is CUDA not an industry standard?
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
I'm out here waiting for model compute costs to drop so I can run model ensembles and immediately improve accuracy.
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
I think you are underestimating the fear of being beaten (for many people making these decisions, "again") by a competitor that does "dumb scaling".
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
Why did your comment need to be so condescending?
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
I haven't played with that much! This isn't really a problem in general for my approach to writing this sort of code - when I use multiprocessing, I use a Process class or a worker task function with a setup step followed by a whi
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
Nice work! There is a gap when it comes to writing single-machine, concurrent CPU-bound python code. Ray is too big, pykka is threads only, builtins are poorly abstracted. The syntax is also very nice! But I'm not sure I can use this e
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
People know this. But most actually useful software built for humans doesn't have a good programmatic API. So computer use is the only way to connect AI agents to that software. And that's where a lot of the true (medium-term) fin
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
> there's little benefit to mixing it with threads > If you think something will block it you should check out "process pool executors." Note that its very tricky to share resources like sockets between processes so i
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
That's only one of many definitions for the word agent outside of the context of AI. Another is something produces effects on the world. Another is something that has agency. Sort of interesting that we've coalesced on this term t
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
Or the test wasn't testing anything meaningful, which IMO is what happened here. I think ARC was basically looking at the distribution of what AI is capable of, picked an area that it was bad at and no one had cared enough to go solve,
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
For some subset I am certain AI is just the latest excuse to justify bad existing business practices. Much safer to say the world has changed due to AI and that's why you're changing your hiring plan instead of "our plan was
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
The author was a tech lead on protobuf. I suspect that "JSON is worse than protobuf" is an obvious truth in their eyes.
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
Sure. But then they added "maybe they should be". Yeah, it's a clickbait title not backed up by the content, but I think it's fair to criticize the words the author chose to write.
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
I appreciate the blog post and I learned a bunch from it! But the quote that comes to mind is: "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it" It's quite a stretch to say that JSON is broken and
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
How is that different than tests? Or is it just that the tests aren't used as context when creating the app?
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
Who cares? That's someone else's problem. I just pay 2-3$/hr and the H100s are usable
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
LLMs have dramatically different results depending on the domain. Getting LLMs to help me learn typescript is a joy, getting them to help me fix distributed consensus problems in my fully bespoke codebase make them look worse than useless.
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
It's an open secret that we have no idea how to actually measure tech company productivity. That's why there isn't and will not be clear evidence for or against RTO. Best you can do is pick a narrow enough sliver that it is m
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
It's not just the hardware, it's the software stack too and my understanding is that they aren't very good. Even TPUs aren't great if you aren't either (1) doing something extremely standard and a little bit old (e.
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
I have to disagree with the scammy part. They were pretty serious/intense about teaching you how to use superhuman, so the daily emails for the first week could be considered spammy, but personally I found them useful when trying to le
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
No one really cares enough about hobby developers as a customer segment to rebuild the billing infrastructure to make this possible. Scalable billing at huge scale is solved at the cost of latency and being "eventually correct" (u
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
But it is a junior dev and changing the UX won't fix that. That's why the proactive, non-blocking, easy-to-dismiss design is so effective. The cost of failure is extremely low. The moment you switch to a UX where you have to push
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
Sure. But I'm not standing here saying my argument is valid because SolidAsparagus made it. > And if I have to decide whose assessment I trust regarding AI, I take the Turing award winner who worked for almost 40 years on AI over a
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
You're right, it was hastily written and I was annoyed. But I generally hold out hope that people can see a claim "A!=B" and a response "A=C, explain how C!=B" and understand that is not the same as claiming "C
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
Ah that's excellent! I didn't notice that, it might be a good idea to highlight it a bit more. On the front page, "Build custom UIs without writing Javascript/CSS/HTML" made me think CSS wasn't an option
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
This is really cool - I love Python UIs. This seems very similar to streamlit. But the demos aren't very pretty :( I feel like being able to build something beautiful should be a requirement for any tool to build UIs. People like me wh
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
Fine, you can ignore my previous comment, that's just my answer to the question that this discussion ultimately takes you to. But I feel like you are just sitting on the sidelines making strawmen and playing pedantic games instead of s
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
You can disable Recall.
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
Any pointers for where to start? Linguistics is dense, the terminology is a slog, it seems huge, and I was never clear that there was real value to be gained. But it's always useful to be more informed.

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