suthakamal

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by suthakamal 1y ago
You don’t think protein folding and dna prediction will yield better healthcare?
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by suthakamal 1y ago
Yes. There has been a regression in these metrics for white folks in the US. This is the first generation of whites in America who can expect to earn less and live shorter lives than their parents. However, that doesn’t generalize to the re
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by suthakamal 1y ago
LLMs aren’t the end all be all of anything. But they’re clearly a step towards augmenting human cognition and in giving machines the ability to perform cognitive tasks. And when Google says a quarter of its code is being written by LLMs, an
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by suthakamal 1y ago
They were wrong to believe that technological progress could be stopped. The viable path is policy which ensures the gains are fairly distributed, not try to break the machines. That tactic has never and will never work.
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by suthakamal 1y ago
heh, fair enough. I guess my considering it canon is mostly because of the elegance with which Laughlin explains the theory of everything.
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by suthakamal 1y ago
Okay, consider my perspective changed. I take Sutton's Bitter Lesson to basically say that compute scale tends to win over projecting what we think makes sense as a structure for thinking. I also think that as we move away from purely
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by suthakamal 1y ago
I just take screenshots from the Apple Fitness app, and add a little of my own commentary, and GPT figures out what to do for the next session, extracting the right drills, programming it correctly given fatigue, progress, etc.
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Part 2: An AI swim coach that's building an iOS trainer in Swift(suthakamal.substack.com)
3 points by suthakamal 1y ago|1 comments
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by suthakamal 1y ago
I'm experimenting with using GPT-4o (via OpenAI’s o3-pro) as a swim coach—part analyst, part training partner. This post is the second in a series documenting how it’s going, including how I’ve adapted the workflow to be more human-led
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by suthakamal 1y ago
Exploring giving a genetic genius (o3 pro Deep Research) lots of context (workout logs, personal notes, a PDF of a canonical swimming textbook) to build a custom trainer.
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Deep Research as a Swim Coach(suthakamal.substack.com)
29 points by suthakamal 1y ago|7 comments
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4 o4-mini-high Prompts saved me $100-200/yr and yet another SaaS app(suthakamal.substack.com)
2 points by suthakamal 1y ago|1 comments
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by suthakamal 1y ago
o4 quickly built a command line tool that transcribes arbitrary length audio files, and adds a summary and suggested actions/todo’s. It costs only a few cents to use, and using the APIs directly gives me more confidence that the data i
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by suthakamal 1y ago
Rich Sutton's views are far less interesting than Minsky's IMO.
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by suthakamal 1y ago
agree. A lot has changed in the last 20 years, which makes SoM much more applicable. I would've agreed in 2004 (and say as much in the essay).
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by suthakamal 1y ago
I pretty clearly articulate the opposite. What's your evidence to support your claim?
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by suthakamal 1y ago
I don't think we're talking about the same book. Society of Mind is definitely not an in-the weeds book that digs into things like lisp, etc. in any detail. Instead of changing your mind, I'd encourage you to re-read Minsky&#
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by suthakamal 1y ago
amazing find. thank you for sharing this!
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Revisiting Minsky's Society of Mind in 2025(suthakamal.substack.com)
119 points by suthakamal 1y ago|32 comments
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by suthakamal 1y ago
As a teen in the '90s, I dismissed Marvin Minsky’s 1986 classic, The Society of Mind, as outdated. But decades later, as monolithic large language models reach their limits, Minsky’s vision—intelligence emerging from modular "agen
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by suthakamal 3y ago
The benefit is being able to leave your ID in your pocket/bag. It is not to be able to travel without ID. You are describing an edge case, not a reason a frequent traveller would opt to purchase Clear. (Fwiw, I understand this edge cas
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by suthakamal 3y ago
The author suggests that the program is sold on the basis of not requiring ID. This is untrue.
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by suthakamal 3y ago
The author of this doesn’t fly much, and probably isn’t actually a clear member. Nobody who pays for clear uses it because they don’t want to show ID: any frequent traveller has ID (probably a Real ID, too) and uses Clear to jump to the fro
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by suthakamal 3y ago
Troglodyte research done at… lol… Western.
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by suthakamal 3y ago
lol
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by suthakamal 4y ago
Apps that advertise “good place to store your racy photos” without front-and centre profiles of their executives? Seems like a ridiculous security risk.
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by suthakamal 5y ago
An idea only a single-language speaker could love.
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by suthakamal 5y ago
I think the most important part of this announcement (I cried genuine tears of joy when I read it) is that Apple is committing to give Citizen Lab whatever they need. That kind of internal access to Apple's people and infrastructure is
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by suthakamal 6y ago
How helpful is this to some/any of hybrid/multi-cloud and serverless? Analysing most of the telemetry at the edge seems like it could be helpful there. Useful for instrumenting low-latency edge applications?
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by suthakamal 6y ago
hadn't thought of this like DTrace. Thx for that!

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