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by woah 7mo ago
Somebody needs to coin a new term for the scattershot zero-thought AI griping that is pervasive in online comments these days. Meatslop? Obviously it's going to be more productive for a manufacturer to do a years-long curing test on 10
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by woah 7mo ago
My guess is Sam Altman is a better VC than CEO. Better at hype, networking, fund raising, and back room political hijinks than shipping a focused product He seems to be trying to take almost a "venture studio" approach by throwing
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by woah 7mo ago
OpenAI is making $24b a year. It's a 32x revenue multiple. High, but not insane. Spinning this as a story of overinvestment doesn't make sense.
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by woah 7mo ago
> the more liquidity that gets dumped on a particular outcome, the more motivation there is to tamper with the real-world outcome This only works if there are enough people betting on the other side. It's not some kind of magical mo
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by woah 7mo ago
Are there any takeaways here for builders of social media applications who are not Facebook or Google? Is this a warning to not make your newsfeed algorithm "too engaging" or is it only really relevant for big companies?
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by woah 7mo ago
How are these IT workers fake? Sounds like they are really doing the job.
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by woah 7mo ago
Steelmanning the other side of this question: LLMs mostly do useful work by writing stories about AI assistants who issue various commands and reply to a user's prompts. These do work, but they are fundamentally like a screenplay that
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by woah 7mo ago
The current fad for "agent swarms" or "model teams" seems misguided, although it definitely makes for great paper fodder (especially if you combine it with distributed systems!) and gets the VCs hot. An LLM running one q
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by woah 7mo ago
Why does understanding computer science principles and software architecture and instructing a person or an ai on how to fix them require typing every line yourself?
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by woah 7mo ago
Build features faster. Granted, this exposes the difference between people who like to finish projects and people who like to get paid a lot of money for typing on a keyboard.
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by woah 7mo ago
Reading through this i feel like i'm on substack
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by woah 7mo ago
No idea what these guys do exactly but their tagline says "Feldera's award-winning incremental compute engine runs SQL pipelines of any complexity" So it sounds like helping customers with databases full of red flags is their
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by woah 8mo ago
Seems pretty unimportant and inconsequential though because LLMs don't work anyway because they aren't logic-based symbolic AI, right?
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by woah 8mo ago
And you can't escape. Facebook is less of a concern because you can just not go to the website and you're good. The US Postal Service is the basis of an entire huge industry devoted to finding you at your physical location to try
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by woah 8mo ago
> You searched for people who do what you need to have done, found me, looked at what I've worked on and determined I'd be a good fit and you reached out? That's the number one way to get me to want to work for you. No, th
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by woah 8mo ago
I just got an incredible idea about how foundation model providers can reach profitability
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by woah 8mo ago
This very forum was founded by a VC who had great success recruiting 22 year olds with fancy diplomas to automate away the job of the guy who copied the numbers from the TPS report pdf attachment into excel. I didn't see people on here
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by woah 8mo ago
This looks like those rough cardboard inserts. Is it actually any better? Especially since they can use the lowest grade of recycled cardboard.
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by woah 8mo ago
I thought it was going to be 2027
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by woah 8mo ago
Nobody is saying it's a problem.
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by woah 8mo ago
you think they can't de-anonymize you extremely easily from all the other data they have?
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by woah 8mo ago
Post the file here
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by woah 8mo ago
Singularity or just Chinese New Year?
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by woah 8mo ago
> If something claims to be conscious and we can't prove it's not, we have no choice but to believe it. Can you "prove" that GPT2 isn't concious?
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by woah 8mo ago
For some reason setting up agents in a loop with a solid prompt and new context each iteration seems to result in higher quality work for larger or more difficult tasks than the chat interface. It's like the agent doesn't have to
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by woah 8mo ago
Seems like a very cool technique, but also very oversold. He's seeing a 5% improvement on a find and replace benchmark of his own devising and saying stuff like this in the blog post: > Here is why that is backwards. I just showed t
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by woah 8mo ago
The Mission Local is a good source for hyperlocal Bay Area news, but it does have a strong SF leftist/progressive political tilt in most of its articles, and Gary Tan is a favorite boogieman for these types. Here's what they have
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by woah 8mo ago
Is this a lot cheaper to run (on their service or rented GPUs) than Claude or ChatGPT?
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by woah 8mo ago
> It was at Netscape Communications where Gelobter first began working on the development of the GIF. > Lisa Gelobter, a computer scientist who helped shape the modern web by leading the team that developed the animation technology us
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by woah 8mo ago
I have an agent write a file with this template each run: ```markdown # Run NNNN ## First Impressions [What state is the project in? What did the last agent leave?] ## Plan [What will you work on this iteration? Why?] ## Work Log [Fill this

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