DenisM

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by DenisM 3d ago
Perhaps our own statefullness is a hack of nature. We have electrical signals in our brains, neurotransmitters, neuron growth. By any reasonable measure it’s a hack on top of a hack. But it works well enough for us to get buy. So it does f
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by DenisM 4d ago
For practical fixes, consider replacing the TV with a “commercial monitor” and connecting an Apple TV device instead (or an open source thingy). Disconnecting “smart tv” from internet to use Apple TV is possible and might work, but you will
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by DenisM 8d ago
The original selling point of mobile web (tiny screen with text-only data, before real mobile web) on mobile phones or even watches was checking stock prices and weather. It was really weird that checking stock prices was something you need
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by DenisM 10d ago
Most valuable thinking is done at the margins, where you don’t have much capacity to emphasize with a diverse and unknown audience. That said, abdicating to an LLM is the worst of all worlds - you’re not thinking and the product is not tail
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by DenisM 11d ago
In very broad strokes, it seems that Europeans on the average have much more of these things than Americans. Are they noticeable happier? Would be nice to hear from someone who lived both sides of the pond for a long while.
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by DenisM 11d ago
Does it work? Journaling is a major commitment, I hope it pays for itself.
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by DenisM 15d ago
Do you find that given a formal spec an agent can write complete implementation you don’t have to even read? I keep thinking about various ways of “pushing back” on an agent, shortening feedback loop and extending what we can grantee about
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by DenisM 15d ago
Is the source material good, in your opinion?
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by DenisM 17d ago
Can it debug the apps? That would the app singularity - user speaking at their phone until phone complies and produces desired app for the current moment.
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by DenisM 17d ago
Memory-hard hash functions maybe? Like, you must dedicate 4gb of ram to compute the function. Not a problem for a one-off, but is a problem when reading lots of pages at once. Or… the site will serve a random seed and the device must comput
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by DenisM 19d ago
Or calling into a full-knowledge model “I’m facing problem x, how do I ask myself the right questions?” I should do that myself, come think of it.
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by DenisM 20d ago
I think the labs will always get the first stab at breaking the vm, and fixing it, while developing newer models. Whatever people can do later is what labs already did.
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by DenisM 20d ago
Do you explicitly ask for metaphors? I wonder if we need a list of things to tell AI to stay sharp, like this one. Sometimes I tell the model existing design is stupid and then it explains reasoning to me.
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by DenisM 21d ago
I’m guessing the new world will be a small set of VM tech that’s consistently hardened by all labs every day with each new model before model release. This won’t make the tech secure, but it will nullify models ability to breakout by making
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by DenisM 23d ago
> They're fast and deterministic and I run them in git pre-commit. Isnt that too late? I would want the agent to stumble into this as early as possible in the agentic loop, eg at the same time as compiler.
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by DenisM 24d ago
Once upon a time my grand-grand-boss explained that he had no problem hiring top-notch engineers - pick up the phone, call recruiters for new candidates, connect the incoming stream to the interview pipeline, two months later you get the re
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by DenisM 24d ago
Does CTE not allow composability?
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by DenisM 24d ago
Snowflake has STREAM which can be crated on a view. It also has Dynamic Tables, from which you read a delta using STREAM or using row timestamp. SQL server has Query Notification. You can also read from debezium or other cdc, but thats more
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by DenisM 27d ago
Fair point. I’m in a position of “creating horizontal influence” and I’m lucky enough to be able to focus on less than a dozen outcomes per quarter, so that colors my perception.
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by DenisM 27d ago
You missed my point. As a possible reader of your email I’m facing dozens of emails every day, my default reaction is to skip past and “read it later”. Maybe you did put a lot thought into it, how would I ever know? If you show up in person
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by DenisM 27d ago
> what have you found so far? Love it, thank you!
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by DenisM 27d ago
> talk, don’t write” people is based on their inability to logically think through, structure, and communicate their ideas and, instead, would rather connect directly and hope the solution emerges from a conversation. That is a remarkabl
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by DenisM 27d ago
Whats the worst that could happen if you read GP’s words in a positive bias? Best case you learn something, made a friend, amd trained yourself to look for useful feedback in the future. Worst case you improved your mood and moved on. You’r
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by DenisM 28d ago
I actually got repulsed by it, and now I’m avoiding ChatGPT. I can’t easily explain why.
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by DenisM 29d ago
> as the LLM progressed through my project, learning more and more about it… This means that it needs to start over, learning the project. I am in the process of exporting from the previous account, but I’m not sure how well this will tr
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by DenisM 1mo ago
When you get too nostalgic just think back to XSD type system in Xquery. That should cure the nostalgia real fast.
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by DenisM 1mo ago
The article really just glosses over this. Just because a model doesn’t kno a fact does not mean it will go and fetch it, the model just as well can invent the fact. For that to not happen the model needs to know that it’s missing the infor
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by DenisM 1mo ago
Shuttling? Once you remove the motor and put it into a backpack downhill riding should be quite decent. Decent enough I think to make it worth it for the space and cash saved.
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by DenisM 1mo ago
Mountain bikes one level down from professional tier start at 6-8k. If I could pay 2k and get a nice electric bike from my nice muscle bike it would be a bargain. However bimotal is not that nice - adding a motor to rear triangle alters wei
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by DenisM 1mo ago
Sometimes it’s just an awkward turn of phrase on my part that creates a wrinkle in the conversation. Sometimes agents identify that, and we can work together and direct that, but correction itself eventually loses competition to the origina

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