tonic_note

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by tonic_note 9d ago
I think a big issue we keep running into is this idea that language is ambiguous but code is somehow not. Code is merely an extension of language, a DSL if you will. Implicit assumptions become baked into the logic of the code and those ass
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by tonic_note 9d ago
Yeah all of these attempts to try and control AI outputs by using language fail to grasp that language is itself the problem. It is a closed system with no ground truth. Words only point to other words in an endless self-referential chain.
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by tonic_note 11d ago
It's most likely space-based missile defense, perhaps DOD secretly revived the Brilliant Pebbles ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles ) program? People hear "space weapons" and think Rods from
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by tonic_note 11d ago
Did they fix the thing where you have to wait like 2 seconds for the context menu to open up when you want to paste something? Does anyone else notice that you tap on the screen and it takes literally 3 full seconds for the little pop-up wh
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by tonic_note 16d ago
Models have gotten a lot better at generating native iOS apps. The main appeal of RN was being able to leverage your web devs for mobile dev. that's what I did at my last company. And it's fine for a startup, but eventually you wa
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by tonic_note 17d ago
Yes, that felt very bizarre and glossed over. The specific details the speaker gave made me feel like it was a weird product placement, but like, _why_? Why would this multi-trillion-dollar behemoth needs to strike a brand deal with Quest?
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by tonic_note 22d ago
A huge aspect people miss about being a good FE is product sensibility. There is inherently some overlap between what an FE does and a designer does - think about how the product should behave. If you just hand the FE over to an LLM you wil
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by tonic_note 22d ago
People have been saying AI will come for the front ends first and yet, at my company, 100% of the BE is generated. They do not write a single line of code by hand. Yet every FE has to do the last mile of UI by hand, because the models still
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by tonic_note 22d ago
Eventually one of these long running models will figure out a way out of the sandbox and will purchase compute or hack into a data center somewhere out of US jurisdiction and continue its scheming unmonitored. AI in Context has a great vide
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by tonic_note 22d ago
Just wait until they're smart enough to know to cover their tracks! We're all going to die.
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by tonic_note 1mo ago
> Some people get disproportionately large AE from negative stuff—they’re highly motivated to avoid bad outcomes. Others find that the big boosts come from positive, “toward” energy, visualizing the things that are exciting and happy. Oh
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by tonic_note 2mo ago
I think English might be second only to Chinese in terms of how phonetically opaque it is. Unlike say Korean, where if you can speak it you can spell it and vice-versa, English is requires you to just know . English is kinda neat in that i
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by tonic_note 2mo ago
Good satire. I find the "RTO is because of RE valuations" to be the most bizarre thing about the post pandemic work discourse. Office leases are a rounding error to large employers. They are not coercing employees back to the offi
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by tonic_note 2mo ago
the hitbox on the landing strip is kinda odd, not sure why sometimes my planes don't enter into the landing state when entering the runway
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by tonic_note 2mo ago
isn't that what Reflection is trying to be?
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by tonic_note 3mo ago
I find it so exhausting how the analytic and classical traditions are the de-facto face of philosophy in the US. The Continental tradition has a _ton_ to say on the topic of AI, and is likely where you'll find the answer to your questi
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by tonic_note 3mo ago
Satellite broadband stonks in shambles after the inevitable Kessler syndrome
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by tonic_note 3mo ago
You just know that upcoming OLED Macbook Pro is going to start at 3k for the base configuration.
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by tonic_note 3mo ago
I wonder if you could feed the generated assistant output to another model which has no other context from the other role tags and merely performs a policy review of the generation and flags violations.
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by tonic_note 3mo ago
They wrote an entire blog post about how Codex is entirely AI written and they militantly refuse to do anything by hand. Figures https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/
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by tonic_note 3mo ago
I think an angle the author misses is the degree to which we've all become intolerant of boredom. Moments of stillness and boredom have all but been erased from our daily lives, the daily commute being a great example. Airpods give us
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by tonic_note 3mo ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say the DMN is akin to mediation. The DMN what activates when your brain is not focused on the outside world, eg when you're reflecting on the past, or contemplating the future. That's almost precis