zbyforgotpass

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by zbyforgotpass 6mo ago
A list of systems that implement this or related ideas: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/notes/related-systems/rela... This list is also part of my own contender in this race: https://zby.github.i
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by zbyforgotpass 6mo ago
My favorite would be llm runtime.
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by zbyforgotpass 6mo ago
Isn't there a better word than harness? I understand the metaphor of leading and constraining a raw power - but I don't like it.
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by zbyforgotpass 6mo ago
I don't know - we are discussing techniques - like having information in files, or in a semantic database, or in a relational database - as if there was one way that could dominate all information access. But finding the right informa
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by zbyforgotpass 7mo ago
Files work as long as you can find them. This means search and/or indexes - at some scale they start breaking. The question is: how big your agent operated knowledge base needs to be? Files are practical now - but I think we should mor
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by zbyforgotpass 3y ago
The problem with all these new fields is that the first code that gets popular is from people who are good at marketing not those who are good at programming.
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
The strength of science used to be that it was anti-authoritative - experiments not institutions used to be the ultimate source of truth.
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
""" If 10-year Treasury notes yield 5%, for example, and you want at least a 3% equity risk premium, then you’ll only invest in a stock if you think you can get an 8% annualized return or higher. However, if 10-year Treasury
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
The number one scenario - inflation starts, Feds raises rates, debt service costs raise => debt grows even more and at some point people realize that it cannot be paid back without too much inflation. Reinforcement in raised rates =>
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
My brain dump on this: after USD become decoupled with gold it became a kind of measure of total USA production capacity (capital) - that is mostly equities and real estate. The Feds for now has all the levers to make it so - and make the e
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
An honest question - what is the problem with inconsistency in using lambda calculus as a programming language and not as foundation of mathematics? """The lambda calculus was introduced by mathematician Alonzo Church in the
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
I wish there was a 'Modern Python' tutorial that would walk me through all the new python stuff like this or the type declarations or the new libs, etc.
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
The "magnifying" part of this is probably just a red herring - in the article itself there is nothing about the magnifying effect.
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
My point was that to informative about a product you need to know the person you are advertising to. First of all because you need to choose the product that he might be interested about.
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
Unfortunately if they don't know anything about you - then they will not be able to deliver anything informative.
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
The problem is that what is addictive to someone is harmless for someone other. You cannot ban everything that makes someone addicted. When you have a market niche - then sooner or later it will be filled. It does not make much sense to bla
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by zbyforgotpass 5y ago
Instead of banning unsafe languages how about allowing for tort liability for software? There is a big difference in law between software and other engineering like building bridges. It used to be that software failures were not as severe a