Aqueous

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by Aqueous 7mo ago
If it was the easy part, then why did they pay us hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, sometimes more - to do it? The fact of the matter is that it wasn't easy, not for a brain that's architected the way a human's is. T
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by Aqueous 2y ago
sorry you can’t keep up
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by Aqueous 2y ago
Anyone who thinks LLMs have not come a long way in approximating human linguistic capabilities (and associated thinking) are in fact, engaging in (delusional) wishful thinking regarding human exceptionalism. With respect to consciousness, y
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by Aqueous 2y ago
In just 2-3 years we've gone from primitive LLMs to LLMs reaching Graduate PhD-level knowledge and intelligence in multiple domains. LLMs can complete almost any code I write with high accuracy given sufficient context. I can have a na
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by Aqueous 2y ago
What's odd about the current moment is that in the very same era in which it seems there is conclusive evidence (LLMs) that quantum explanations are not necessary to explain at the very least linguistic intelligence as advanced lingu
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by Aqueous 2y ago
The fact that it takes decades to master such a mundane task may mean the entire approach is wrong. The article hand-waves a lot of the complexity of "automating as much as possible." In my opinion, the solution lies in append-on
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by Aqueous 2y ago
"Doing them swiftly, efficiently, and -- most of all -- completely is one of the most critical skills you can develop as a team." That all sounds great. However, I'd like to understand what teams are actually able to do this,
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Not talking about just monitoring outputs though. I'm talking about monitoring the internals of the model as it reaches its output. The entire issue around interpretability / observability inside the LLM's model is the ha
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Correct- the summary is misleading marketing. This is just normal system / service observability. What people mean by observability in the LLM context is specific.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
I thought Observability in this context means the ability to introspectively make sense of why the LLM output what it did, which is a difficult problem because the model parameters are effectively an unintelligible morass of numbers. Does t
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by Aqueous 3y ago
I guess I'm not sure that there's a practical difference between "It's marketing" and "This is what the market rate is for a CEO." In other words, firms need to pay this much because that's what other
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Not buying it. Tesla has a huge share of a growing pie. They will continue to grow as the EV market grows. While I agree that the past few months were not good, the long-term outlook for EVs is positive and therefore Tesla's outlook is
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Oh give me a break. That’s so condescending to African Americans. If African Americans bought a certain kind of shoe, it’s because they liked the shoes. It’s fun to try shoes. People make their own choices.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
To be sure, this kind of research, whether ‘craft’ or ‘natural’ is the correct word, is simply too risky to continue. The juice is not worth the squeeze.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Those companies largely made the decision for monorepos before there was tooling to support a proper multi-repo existence.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Literally just flew on a United Airlines 737 MAX 9 one week ago. It seems like the craft I flew on has probably been grounded in the week since. I noticed that we were flying on a MAX before boarding and nearly asked to switch flights, but
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by Aqueous 3y ago
It's not applicable at all once you get beyond a few teams. A mono-repo makes decisions for your teams.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
However, it would also be folly to assume good will.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
I actually don’t want the developer experience of co-location. There are millions of things that are totally irrelevant happening in my company’s (thousands of engineers) monolith. The noise in the commit log is considerable. Isolated repos
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by Aqueous 3y ago
So "the fewer people are buying electric cars" canard is still living in a caption under the banner: "Fewer people are buying electric cars — the slowdown hints at a problem at the heart of America's EV push."
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Sorry, but in what world do sales of electric cars going up and market share of electric vehicles increasing lead to the thesis that "fewer people are buying electric cars?" Oh - I get it. It's the world where this publicatio
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by Aqueous 3y ago
While I don’t doubt that Threads addition of ActivityPub is good for both Threads and the fediverse, I wonder if it will become federated in the sense that email is still federated, which is to say email is dominated by a small number of pl
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by Aqueous 3y ago
The board he drew was totally unintelligible but also immediately told me that Netflix didn’t or doesn’t know what its actual domains are. Adding functionality like this, even in a microservices world, should have been trivial and obvious,
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by Aqueous 3y ago
An advertised price that is racing to the bottom by offloading more and more of the cost to tips from customers. Meanwhile the employees blame the customers, the customers blame the corporation, and the corporation blames the employees. The
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Just to clarify, I'm talking about integration testing the service itself - posting a payload, saving to the database, producing messages to a mock queue, etc. Test the entire service in isolation from other services and validate that
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by Aqueous 3y ago
I can think of few better investments than to have a reliable suite of end-to-end tests running as part of your merge pipeline even if they're difficult to set up. Sleep quality improves once you have this in place. Your tests don&#x27
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by Aqueous 3y ago
High level architects should focus primarily on creating a system architecture that is designed to incrementally and composably add functionality. This often means adopting some sort of overarching architecture that nudges people towards co
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Then they can make their own sandbox that doesn’t treat their readers badly. But I see no signs of that.
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by Aqueous 3y ago
Yes, I'm an Apple News subscriber, and it is the closest thing to what I'm talking about, no doubt because Apple is the only company with enough sway to convince publishers this is in their own interests. But even Apple can't
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by Aqueous 3y ago
I can only speak for myself, but here is what I would happily pay for: I would happily pay up to 20 cents to read a single article, ad free (or even, I suppose, not ad free), and for perpetual access to that article. And I would happily pay

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