JoshMandel

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by JoshMandel 3mo ago
I identify with this perfectly. (I mean, was able to get by in physics but it never crystallized into intuition for me the way math and CS do.)
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by JoshMandel 8mo ago
Same. Sometimes even repeated nudges don't help. The underlying 3.0 Pro model is great to talk and ideate with, but its inability to deliver within the Gemini CLI harness is ... almost comical.
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by JoshMandel 10mo ago
I think that it's basically fair and I often write simple agents using exactly the technique that you describe. I typically provide a TypeScript interface for the available tools and just ask the model to respond with a JSON block and
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by JoshMandel 1y ago
But to be clear, mdoc already accounts for this through its selective disclosure protocol, without the need for a zero knowledge proof technology. When you share an mdoc you are really just sharing a signed pile of hashes ("mobile secu
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by JoshMandel 1y ago
Last week I tried Google's Jules coding agent and saw it requested broad GitHub OAuth permissions --essentially "full access to everything your account can do." When you authorize it, you're granting access to all your r
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by JoshMandel 2y ago
Fair enough! I'll document my progress at https://github.com/jmandel/advent-of-claude/tree/main , though I may not keep up.
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by JoshMandel 2y ago
My personal challenge last year was to solve everything on my mobile phone, using LLMs (mostly ChatGPT4 with code interpreter; I didn't paste in the problems, but rather described the code I wanted.) This year I'm declaring "
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by JoshMandel 2y ago
I find "higher level" format issues to be of greater concern. These are issues like: is the recipe structured in a way that makes the prep/process flow clear, makes it obvious when a certain ingredient needs to be prepped but
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by JoshMandel 2y ago
There's so much good stuff here, and I agree it's an important message for you to get across. I think trying to convey these ideas through a quantitative benchmark result (particularly a benchmark which has a clear common interpre
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by JoshMandel 2y ago
I appreciate the response! I can't understand your methods without example prompts or code, so it's hard for me to interpret the data in figure 6. It will be important to document the methodology carefully to avoid concerns that y
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by JoshMandel 2y ago
>LLMD-8B achieves state of the art responses on PubMedQA over all models Hang on -- while this is a cool result, beating a limited number of models that you chose to include in your comparison does not qualify LLMD-8B as SOTA. (For examp
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by JoshMandel 2y ago
Server-Sent Events (SSE) with standard gzip compression could be a simpler solution -- or maybe I'm missing something about the websocket + zstd approach. SSE Benefits: Standard HTTP protocol, Built-in gzip compression, Simpler client
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by JoshMandel 2y ago
I'm surprised this does so well in benchmarks, given the intuition I'm getting about its behavior from quick testing. I gave it a medium-complexity design problem: Design the typescript interface for the state of a react app that
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by JoshMandel 2y ago
We used essentially this technique in the SMART Health Cards specification for vaccine and lab result QRs. https://spec.smarthealth.cards/#encoding-qrs It's well supported by scanners but can create unwieldy values for
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
I'm very pleased this UX includes "can edit any previous conversation turn" functionality, making conversations a tree rather than a list. For me this is one of the highest-impact and most-often-overlooked features of the Cha
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
I wish the native ChatGPT app on Android had all the functionality of the web app. I dearly miss the ability to navigate conversations as a tree, going back and editing any prior turns to try out different ideaa.
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
My experience putting together https://chat.openai.com/g/g-bdnABvG92-reci-pop (transcribes recipes as succinct bullet lists, suitable for scrolling during meal prep) was that the Actions configuration for custom GPTs i
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
Yes -- the distinction with "function calling" is that you have to play a game of telephone where you describe your target schema in JSON Schema (only, apparently, for OpenAI to turn into a typescript interface internally) vs desc
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
FWIW, I've seen stronger performance from gpt-4-1106-preview when I use `response_format: { type: "json_object" },` (providing a target typescript interface in context), vs the "tools" API. More flexible, and (evalu
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
ChatGPT 4 can not only play, it can design and implement a commitment scheme to make the game more interesting (...as long as you don't peek at the code interpreter output -- that's foul play... and the entropy in that nonce is su
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
> So... we're actually worse off Careful about inferring causality here. What kind of active person suddenly stops being active? You presumably don't want to be that kind of person... but the stopping isn't necessarily a c
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
I just learned about Mackay's lectures on YouTube and am working through the same. Outstanding teacher. I was so sad to see he died shortly after the course was recorded. He has a gripping/heartbreaking chronicle at https:/&
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
I have read both of these but I did not notice any in-context examples, meaning prompts fed to the model showing it how to call a function and response to a user query, rather than docstrings telling it how to call a function.
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
Interesting to see this plugin-adjacent functionality landing in the chat API. It seems like there is no way to provide in context examples of calling functions, since they are now no longer just "assistant"-authored chat turns wi
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
I find GPT very helpful for trying to understand the rationale behind decisions from a bit outside my field. These are cases that probably don't take any great insight for a practitioner, but which can be hard to arrive at for an outsi
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
Lots of tasks that I understand, but where I'm not familiar enough with the details to be productive. Anything that's easier for me to read than to write. Anything where I'd otherwise be stumbling around trying to build a tem
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by JoshMandel 3y ago
On the other hand, the level of effort to integrate a plugin into OpenAI's ecosystem looks to be extremely small, beyond the intrinsic effort to build a service that does something useful. ( https://platform.openai.com&#x2F
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by JoshMandel 4y ago
Not the down voter, but if you look through guidance from the malpractice insurance industry (e.g., https://www.thedoctors.com/articles/medical-and-dental-recor... ) you will see that defense against potential malpracti
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by JoshMandel 4y ago
Obviously subjective but since comments mention UI: I love the web/desktop UI. It's got great power user features including well designed keyboard shortcuts. https://zulip.com/help/keyboard-shortcuts for deta
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by JoshMandel 5y ago
This brings one of my favorite features from https://hackmd.io (a site that I still love for early collaboration). I still love hackmd for its "gists on steroids", though I wish it had included git hosting.

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