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by wood_spirit 2mo ago
Of course mainstream ORMs leave a lot of perf on the table. For example, I once patched the ORM in a struggling php web app that i had to help. I started as a logger profiler thingy but then had the crazy idea of being a trace optimiser.
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by wood_spirit 2mo ago
Yanis Varoufakis - aside from being radically left and becoming the finance minister in Greece after their financial crisis hit - is a professor in game theory and economics. He did a pretty good explanation of the difference between theory
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by wood_spirit 2mo ago
Meta to this is anyone remember those days - ages ago now, probably months at least! - when Anthropic’s moral stance against the administration (combined with general consensus they had by far the best model) was making them the underdog ch
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by wood_spirit 2mo ago
Generally at altitude the wind goes from west to east. During the Cold War the US would launch spy balloons to overfly Russia whilst the wind was blowing against the Russians reciprocating. This is generally true in the current Ukraine wa
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by wood_spirit 2mo ago
Perhaps sometimes they saw it hit and went to find it? But the night is long and people should be indoors asleep near the fire and meteorites fall all around the clock anyway? So perhaps they mostly just picked weird rocks up off the groun
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by wood_spirit 2mo ago
I thought there wasn’t exit polls in this particular by-election?
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by wood_spirit 2mo ago
Brexit hardly caused unity. It split the country almost exactly down the middle. And nobody on either side seems happy with the result.
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by wood_spirit 2mo ago
Britain has a first-past-the-post election system so the candidate with the most votes wins in each constituency. As Farage didn’t get an absolute majority last time, and as a majority of voters didn’t even vote last time, I was extrapolati
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by wood_spirit 3mo ago
It is interesting that the big selling brands are Skoda (VW group) and VW itself, then a resurgent Tesla in third place. These are companies that are claiming hardship from Chinese EV imports and VW is planning to lay off 100K employees.
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by wood_spirit 3mo ago
Both can be - and seem to be - true.
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by wood_spirit 3mo ago
Likely your kids cars will drive themselves?
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by wood_spirit 3mo ago
My experience - in the Nordics, but this is transferable - is they are also much nicer to own and drive. I don’t know anyone who went electric and then went back. The generation who went electric a few years ago is now on their second or
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by wood_spirit 3mo ago
As soon as the competition is bankrupted they no longer need to release for free? It’s like how big players enter markets by launching at a loss to destroy competitors?
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by wood_spirit 3mo ago
Rather than DSLs I’ve found careful force tools results force the same kind of discipline in a more straightforward way to implement. So it’s normal to ask the llm to answer only yes or no and they are pretty good at following that instruc
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by wood_spirit 3mo ago
For a lot of people it’s not the job that is rewarding it the role having a job gives them in life and home life. Financially contributing to the household through earning it through work is a meaningful and rewarding thing that can define
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by wood_spirit 3mo ago
Another ancient board game to be decoded is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur . This is from 2600BC so is older to Christ than Christ is to us. The videos on the game (and all his other videos) with Irving
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
This looks staggeringly brilliant. I was searching for something like this recently but ended up rolling my own using a block-based OT to local server and diff sync to remote ones. I’m reading the system guide and nodding along. It’s super
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
Countries can be repugnant in different ways, but the trust in their word is completely orthogonal. Can a country trust a trade deal with the US? Whereas when has China ever not honoured a trade deal?
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
This is not about whether being a customer of the us or china is morally worse. It’s about trust. Does any country trust America at its word any more?
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
I am a careful follower of politics and don’t think I’m ignorant. And on every point you made I could rebut with an example of America doing likewise. On your last point abour “causing instability on the internet”, for example, I could poi
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
As the US jerks from being BDFL to bullying zero summer, it’s not surprising that the abstract fears of china seem manageable compared to the new pressing fears of the US. Why as a European be more afraid of a country that whilst you wouldn
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
Expect the US to sanction non-US-controlled models and put sanctions on individuals, companies and countries that use them? They already do this with other things like oil.
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
Beautifully written but when the lack of a better compiler gets attributed to rational actions my brain glitched. That’s not fitting my mental model of how big corps operate at all! Occam’s razor IBM didn’t invest in Fortran I because the
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
Middle managers were about making work legible https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/ Now that wasn’t the most efficient and it has a whole bunch of perverse incentives too, but it’s what happened
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
This completely chimes with my own thoughts on this. In my mind a lot of AI adoption has been about AI Efficiency” - ICs using AI to do what they’ve always done with less effort but no actual change to the org chart. Whereas I think we ne
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
Zigzag encodings are a common compression scheme used in the Parquet format. It is fun to speculate that these kind of tricks could be applied there in something so commonly under the hood of a lot of data processing and analytics
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
The articles and discussion around this and the Amazon story all seem to me to be an earnest tech press and community searching for a genuine reason for the administration blocking Anthropic’s models. However, thinking back to the spat with
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
In my own multi agent framework I use cheap models to check the responses of the expensive models, as well as using multiple expensive models adversarially in debate. The cheap models are great at spotting eg the model getting stuck in the
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
Yes context management is key. I do my own framework and spend a lot of time trying to debug this and it’s not so much the context size in hard numbers but rather the probability that there is debris or wrong directions in the window that a
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Superpowers for Claude, Codex etc.(github.com)
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