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by swalsh 1y ago
I want a protocol, not a company that will act as a proxy.
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by swalsh 1y ago
I'm tired of the "this doesn't require blockchain" argument. The alternative is a centralized entity that controls payments. Is that REALLY your preferred solution?
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by swalsh 1y ago
Crypto should be taking off in use in the AI age. Right now I have credits I paid open AI for so I can use their API. I have anthropic credits, I have some credits in a video generator app. A2A is becoming a thing, and now it's a rea
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by swalsh 1y ago
Really hard disagree. Coming from hadoop, databricks is utopia. It's stable, fast, scales really well if you have massive datasets. The biggest gripe in have is how crazy expensive it is.
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by swalsh 1y ago
How do you make that assessment? I'll admit, the knowledge base is not 10x every few months anymore, but the agent capabilities keep getting better. The newer models can do a lot of useful work accurately for a while. That wasn&#x27
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by swalsh 1y ago
To me, they key to the next generation of models needs to be neurons that fire together wire together. I think spiking neural networks offer an exciting alternative approach.
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by swalsh 1y ago
In general, if you bring something up in the prompt most LLM's will bring special attention to it. It does help the accuracy of the thing you're trying to do. You can prompt an llm not to hallucinate, but typically you wouldn&#x2
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by swalsh 2y ago
The google search appliance might have been one of the worst products I've ever used in my career. If they're going to make a box, I hope they put some effort into it.
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by swalsh 2y ago
This is what's so wild about Anthropic. When they release it seems like it's rolled out to all users, and API customers immediately. OpenAI has MONTHS between annoucement and roll out, or if they do it's usually just influe
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by swalsh 2y ago
Anyone who has tried prompting AI to create an image should know it's not "trivial". It takes skill to get a good image, and the prompt itself is human creativity. The idea that the work produced is not from a human is insa
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by swalsh 2y ago
These really large scatterplots are also useful for visualizing claims, and finding fraud.
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by swalsh 2y ago
At this point, this is enough autonomy to have a set of these guys man a howitzer (read as old stockpiles of weapons we already have). Kind of a scary thought. On one hand, I think the idea of moving real people out of danger in war is
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by swalsh 2y ago
> It seems to me that now, instead of that tug-of-war discussion happening between the two parties, I'm REALLY looking forward to 2028, because I think that potentially will be the first election where we start to see what modern po
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by swalsh 2y ago
> Continuing the senseless partisan drive of the 20 years does. I think what the government is going through right now is wrapping up the last political system. The idea that Democrats and Republicans just need to learn how to work tog
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by swalsh 2y ago
> I'm all for distributed / P2P social media, but crypto is full of some of the most scammy and downright shameful behavior I've ever seen in my life. Pump and dumps, rug pulls, money laundering. The SEC's answer no q
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by swalsh 2y ago
It's remarkable to me how "Web3 is a grift" has seemingly become tribal consensus here, without any real basis in reality. I think the last administration's explicit efforts to block crypto legitimization played a big pa
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by swalsh 2y ago
I've been thinking about building a recruiting tool with the main selling point being it's NOT AI. I'd call the app "The Rejects Bin" And I say this as a person who uses AI for everything. I just think AI is too m
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by swalsh 2y ago
As i've been interviewing people, i've found that when I used AI to generate questions people gave me near perfect answers. When I wrote my own, I got real answers. That was useful for gauging peoples general knowledge, but fran
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by swalsh 2y ago
In my opinion it's probably closer to real agi then it's not. I think the missing piece is learning after the pretraining phase.
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by swalsh 2y ago
Work with chat bots like a junior dev, work with o1 like a senior dev.
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by swalsh 2y ago
They already do release open weight models, in this very keynote he released some of the bigget open weight models yet: https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/cosmos-6751e884dc1...
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by swalsh 2y ago
I ask what their current workflow is, how they check and verify things, what their approach to prompting is etc. I'm looking to see that they've developed basic skills, have a reasonable mental model of what models can do well, w
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by swalsh 2y ago
I don't really test any specific tools or frameworks, what i'm using has changed twice just in the last year. More so, I just want to hear that the candidate has some knowledge of what the current models can do well, what they ca
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by swalsh 2y ago
My expectations around productivity are going to assume you're using AI. That means stuff that might have taken a few days, i'm going to expect in a few hours or less. It's not unreasonable, i've seen over and over agi
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by swalsh 2y ago
It's amazing this is still an opinion in 2025. I now ask devs how they use AI as part of their workflows when I interview. It's a standard skill I expect my guys to have.
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by swalsh 2y ago
I'm a big believer in Claude. I've accomplished some huge productivity gains by leveraging it. That said, I can see places where the models are strong and weak. If you're doing react, or python. These models are incredibl
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by swalsh 2y ago
Every profession seems to have a pessimistic view of AI as soon as it starts to make progress in their domain. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. Artists seem to be in the depression state, many programmers are still
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by swalsh 2y ago
I kind of love the idea of reducing the tech, and bringing everything back to the basics, and searching for improvements on the core stuff like the pump. Hope you succeed. I'm in the market for an espresso machine, probably not an un
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by swalsh 2y ago
It's kind of amazing how there seems to be a wall where sizing up the model starts to diminish in terms of intelligence gains. I guess that's why we can still compete with whales even though their brains are like twice as big as
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by swalsh 2y ago
I call them OpenAI instead of Meta.

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