yunwal

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by yunwal 10d ago
sure, but then why be bearish on LLMs? You don't even need to care about the code just check the boxes.
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by yunwal 10d ago
> those who need done a small set of narrowly defined tasks with existing clear guardrails: repetitive physical labor in a controlled environment, call center and customer service chat work, etc. I have no idea how people can so confiden
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by yunwal 10d ago
> If Jev is skipping generation entirely for a narrow structured task, of course it's faster I think this is reasonable if people are actually using LLMs to solve this type of narrow structured task, which they are. The evidence is
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by yunwal 11d ago
> You mean they are Jewish No you, the commenter said what they said. I honestly think this reply merits a ban or at least a warning from moderators
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by yunwal 12d ago
Literally no person on earth can beat a computer in chess. Practically no person on earth can really teach a computer anything about chess. For some crazy reason, people keep playing
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by yunwal 15d ago
> Take Software engineering for example, I can't believe there is a class of software engineers who wake up everyday and tell themselves, "today is the day I am going to automate the rest of my job". And here I thought thi
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by yunwal 15d ago
I think most people here get that this is the point? The point beyond this one is that an AI proof doesn’t prevent humans from working on the problem, it destroys the current economic incentive to work on the problem. Perhaps we should reth
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by yunwal 15d ago
What I’m hearing is “it’s ok when other people lose their jobs…”
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by yunwal 15d ago
It’s not going to be ubiquitous? There hasn’t been a single frontier model where generation n costs less than generation n-1 to run. So the reasonable thing is to assume that GPT-7 will cost even more than GPT-6, and more and more of the fr
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by yunwal 17d ago
> Why does the Vision Pro exist then? They are thinking that VR headsets will not be niche products in the future The apple watch was very niche when it came out as well, but their intention was absolutely to make a major product line
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by yunwal 17d ago
I would love it if I could use it as a second monitor when working in a coffee shop or library. Unfortunately universal control was pretty solid at launch and then just completely left to die
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by yunwal 17d ago
> None of that matters for a phone. Of course it does. They show the most basic example right on the page, which is that you can side-by-side full screen apps.
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by yunwal 17d ago
Anyone understand how cases will work for this?
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by yunwal 17d ago
> should be able to support a lot of niches Apple's whole thing is that they don't do niches. Support a select few versions of select few products very very well is the whole MO
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by yunwal 18d ago
> We’re getting something that isn’t totally crooked Is there a secret corner of LinkedIn that I’m not aware of that isn’t just the most shameless promotion of AI, crypto, and various other techno-babble BS you’ve ever seen?
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by yunwal 22d ago
Acceleration is not quadratic with respect to speed/velocity, and c is a speed/velocity.
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by yunwal 22d ago
> If I asked you the relative activation of the cones in your retina as I showed you some solid color image “I don’t know”
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by yunwal 24d ago
In New York City where disposable bag bans occurred I’m quite certain the average “reusable” bag gets used a single-digit number of times. Grocery stores charge 25c for a “reusable” bag in the case that you forgot to bring your own, and eve
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by yunwal 29d ago
> Bots and such have really ruined the value of customer reviews. This is not true. Bots and such have ruined the value of ratings aggregations. Individual reviews are still useful because you can always find some that you can tell are n
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by yunwal 1mo ago
This is the most baffling comment I think I’ve ever read
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by yunwal 1mo ago
You can't cut entitlements without an equal tax cut. Which is potentially worth discussing but it's not going to help balance the budget.
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by yunwal 2mo ago
The greatest living mathematician uses it for Math https://siliconreckoner.substack.com/p/terence-tao-on-machin... To me it seems like people who are confident in their expertise generally find it useful, even if it&#x
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by yunwal 2mo ago
I think local models will not be “niche” in the future in the same way personal computers are not “niche” just because most computing happens in the cloud. They have entirely different uses
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by yunwal 2mo ago
Read: "I did not even attempt to read the article"
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by yunwal 2mo ago
ok i'm gonna be honest I still don't really understand what you're saying so I'm gonna bow out of this conversation
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by yunwal 2mo ago
Ok, did DOGE decrease those?
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by yunwal 2mo ago
I sort of look at it as putting a flag on the moon. Billboards are how tech companies claim ownership of SF and the tech sphere, any consumer influence is incidental.
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by yunwal 2mo ago
Budget cuts that don't touch military spending aren't real budget cuts.
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by yunwal 2mo ago
I hate billionaires! Ok, maybe a few of them are fine people who have too much money, but the vast majority of them are in their position because they were willing to siphon money from lower classes using unethical means. Of all of the comp
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by yunwal 2mo ago
I just asked Siri "Hey Siri, what's the weather in <nearby town with a generic name> tomorrow" and it gave me a town with the same name ~800 miles from me.

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