DubiousPusher

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by DubiousPusher 5d ago
Exactly. You can buy on server grade mobo and CPU, stock it with ddr4 and run qwen and basically get gpt 3+ level quality now. A year from now, I imagine we'll see even better efficiency.
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by DubiousPusher 9d ago
I've spent 10 years implementing new technology into businesses from all over the world and the thing that has killed the most projects at the proof of concept phase has not been whether it works. It's whether the cost of going to
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by DubiousPusher 2mo ago
This is really something which feels like it should be a library of regexp.
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by DubiousPusher 2mo ago
If you're standing in GNC staring at a tub of creatine wondering if it will make you smarter, you better hope it does... exits stage left I'll be here all week folks!
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by DubiousPusher 2mo ago
I think this is a really sober comment. There are lots of knock-on effects of this claim, even if it's not true which are consequential. The fact that a spokesperson for the US government is going out of their way to comment is concern
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by DubiousPusher 2mo ago
It's especially sad because on of the things those LLMs are best, almost purpose built for is to tell those students which books to go open, where to find nuggets people haven't bumped into for years, to make cross-connections tha
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by DubiousPusher 2mo ago
My bona-fides here amount to little more than being a big time reader of non-fiction. But IMO, there's a nice synthesis here. Rather than going long rounds of asking LLMs about a subject, I usually end up asking it for book recommendat
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by DubiousPusher 2mo ago
Yeah, this is very much one of those stories where people from many different perspectives or chopping it up on a plate and ripping it through a straw.
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by DubiousPusher 2mo ago
I think the important lesson is to use clear eyes to evaluate what the rewrite buys you. I was on a team that rewrote a native code app in C#. We also had access to early cloud tech in the Azure stack, what is called queue now and then was
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by DubiousPusher 2mo ago
What do your tests look like. Because rewriting by hand and rewriting via AI have the same load bearing on whether or not your tests cover your scenarios and your integrations well.
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by DubiousPusher 3mo ago
Because there is more value in understanding someone else's ideas than as some kind of cultural favor? East Asians built empires, invented and discovered incredible things. They have developed elaborate artistic, musical and familial t
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by DubiousPusher 3mo ago
I don't think the intent of Robert Pirsig's work was to outline a git gud strategy cloaked in chillness. The book is heavily inspired by Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery which is explicitly not about trying to get g
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by DubiousPusher 3mo ago
If you're in the US and this excites you, you'll probably enjoy GSA auctions. https://gsaauctions.gov/
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by DubiousPusher 4mo ago
We're approaching the definition of magic here aren't we. And I think this is what really divides this discussion. There is one set of people who insist that things must be explainable. And if something is explainable, it yields t
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by DubiousPusher 4mo ago
Sleep paralysis entered the chat
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by DubiousPusher 4mo ago
But the sensation in a sense is a lie. Cold strictly speaking isn't real. And for much of human existence we spoke of it as if it was a substance due exactly to this specific sensatation.
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by DubiousPusher 5mo ago
I would caution outright categorizing this as paranoia stemming from a mental illness. The problem with delusional paranoia and justifiable paranoia is that clinically they can present the same. > Just keep in mind all the dangerous peop
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by DubiousPusher 5mo ago
This is what sprint planning is all about. It's ostensibly to accept the work. But my God how everyone's hidden assumptions come to the surface.
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by DubiousPusher 5mo ago
I think it comes down to your team discipline. It can magnify your sins and your virtues.
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by DubiousPusher 9mo ago
LLMs have single handedly turned the hardest part of this job into entire job. The hardest part of this job is troubleshooting, maintaining and developing on top of an unfamiliar code base. That's not a new experience for anyone who ha
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by DubiousPusher 11mo ago
There's the rub I suppose. I don't think an LLM can achieve AGI on its own. But I bet it could with the help of a Turing machine.
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by DubiousPusher 11mo ago
I guess I'm very confused as to why just throwing an LLM at a problem like this is interesting. I can see how the LLM is great at decomposing user requests into commands. I had great success with this on a personal assistant project I
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by DubiousPusher 11mo ago
I guess maybe the tone would be less noxious if the core coceit of the satire felt more legitimate. I mean, Wikipedia was kind of a shit show back in the day. It's had 20 years of maturation which is more what makes it useful today. An
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by DubiousPusher 11mo ago
The sneering and nihilist tone is very off putting. But not nearly as much as the boomer brained conception of the world's information model pre 2004, which was not nearly as good as those who invoke Murrow and Cronkite believe it was.
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by DubiousPusher 1y ago
lol, qualia
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by DubiousPusher 1y ago
A stream of linguistic organization laying out multiple steps in order to bring about some end sounds exactly like a process which is creating a “plan” by any meaningful definition of the word “plan”. That goal was incepted by a human but I
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by DubiousPusher 1y ago
This is a phenomenon I call cinetrope. Films influence the world which in turn influences film and so on creating a feedback effect. For example, we have certain films to thank for an escalation in the tactics used by bank robbers which inf
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
This is a false dichotomy. The choice isn't between total exploitation of the biosphere and poverty. Nowhere did I say that European development should have been minimized. I simply said the example of European development was not a go
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
More habitable for whom? The point is that we do not need this land. There is plenty of land all around the United States that is "habitable". And given the trend of birth rates and urbanization there is virtually no reason to go
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by DubiousPusher 2y ago
If you think this is a convincing counterpoint, I assure you it is not.

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