tough

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   by tough 1y ago

   how does one get to be a coder in a research project
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   by tough 1y ago

   > trying to build a complex front end using Django's ORM with physically separate per-user MySQL database servers. didnt they hear about sqlite, great for this setup
3. 303.▲
   by tough 1y ago

   or a shell script
4. 304.▲
   by tough 1y ago

   One cold also just wait for things to not work before to try and fix them
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   by tough 1y ago

   also isn't DeepSeek's Mixture of Experts? meaning not all params get ever activated on one forward pass? 70B feels like the best balance between usable locally and decent for regular use. maybe not SOTA, but a great first step.
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   by tough 1y ago

   wait so the same key will open any car of the same model??? lol
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   by tough 1y ago

   dockutil --remove all https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil
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   by tough 1y ago

   emergentmind is pretty good
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   by tough 1y ago

   Maybe in a true -capitalistic- market that'd happen. but the state keeps meddling and making oligarchs and friends have unfair advantages. It's hard to compete when the system is rigged from the start.
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    by tough 1y ago

    And even in Silicon Valley you get the survivor ship bias of the 1% of companies getting to IPO and making their employees decent exit stories... 99% of startups die off worthless and your equity never realises.
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    by tough 1y ago

    As a non-founder / not a VC you max get a few percentage points, and its mostly paper toilet money until there's an exit or IPO, and the founders will always try to squeeze you if they can, not because they're bad people, but
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    by tough 1y ago

    maybe the issue is capitalism where even if your productivity multiplies x100 your salary stays x1 and your work hours stay x1
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    by tough 1y ago

    The Turing test is contrived to chatting via textual interface. These machines are only able to output text. It seems hard to think they could reasonably think any -normal- person. Tech only feels like magic if you don't know how it wo
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    by tough 1y ago

    I read on some other thread perplexity / android integration and app was somewhat decent. Might be the easiest way to acquire a team for Android dev?
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    by tough 1y ago

    Claude can be used via amazon bedrock technically on your own managed AWS infra... But yeah you're not trusting Anthropic but Apple + Amazon I dunno if thats even a win?
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    by tough 1y ago

    I think the problem is we train models to pattern match, not to learn or reason about world models
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    by tough 1y ago

    Rustc is the compiler, rustup is the updater, cargo is the package manager.
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    by tough 1y ago

    llms mostly can help at customer support/chat if done well. also embeddings for similarity search
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    by tough 1y ago

    > It then seemed to snap into a mode of roleplaying as a real human.5 this happens to me a lot on cursor. also Claude hallucinating outputs instead of running tools
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    by tough 1y ago

    its a wourd soup machine llm's have no -world models- can't reason about truth or lies. only encyclopedic repeating facts. all the tricks CoT, etc, are just, well tricks, extended yapping simulating thought and understanding. AI c
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    by tough 1y ago

    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked (1934)
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    by tough 1y ago

    Its the curse of the -assitant- chat ui who decided AI should happen in an old abtraction like using for saving icon a hard disk
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    by tough 1y ago

    yep was this one ty, would be cool as TUI
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    by tough 1y ago

    I'm pretty sure this existed (typing out code) can't remember the name now
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    by tough 1y ago

    i liked one that let you type codebases, great way to learn syntax alongside typing someone else shared on other comment typing.io pretty sure it was this
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    by tough 1y ago

    A very good lawyer could argue that creating the data sets for training, doing the evals, and RLHF, constitutes -human creativity- and not a mechanical endeavor. but who knows judges can be weird about tech
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    by tough 1y ago

    well im still not going to an AirBnb if I can afford an hotel and avoid it
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    by tough 1y ago

    i just need to check my neighborhood to know
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    by tough 1y ago

    gotchu, maybe i could see github donations enabling issue creation or wahtever in the future idk but foss is foss, i guess source available doesnt mean we have to read your messages see sqlite (wont even take PR's lol)
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    by tough 1y ago

    I have not tested it but its from a deepseek employee i don't know if it's used in prod there or not!