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by aerhardt 3d ago
I haven't done it in a production project - this will be the first time for me. I have specified the architecture and data definitions pretty well. The tests will be run against the customer's Excels, which is what the warehouse w
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by aerhardt 3d ago
I've used Astra, Fable 5.1, Sol 5.6, Opus 5. They're definitely making progress and the proof is in the pudding - I reach for the most advanced model as much as I can. But I wouldn't say their capabilities have increased dra
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by aerhardt 3d ago
I still develop in smaller chunks, checking nearly all the output. However I have a work project (building the warehouse and BI for a client) that is well-specified and where I will try to few-shot the development. Hope it delivers.
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by aerhardt 3d ago
I really enjoy the balance of speed and accuracy of Astra. I can definitely see it become my driving model for most tasks, technical and non-technical. However, I don't see it as such a massive leap compared to Fable or Sol. As ever, t
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by aerhardt 10d ago
Is this your idea of an intelligent contribution to the conversation? There is plenty of evidence in the article from real professors at real universities (ex: Princeton), saying that they’ve had to dramatically cut reading workloads from
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by aerhardt 10d ago
Like I said in another comment, this famous article by the Atlantic [1] has pretty convincing testimony that kids studying the humanities at elite universities can't read either. I agree with the sentiment that we tend to misrepresent
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by aerhardt 10d ago
One of the reasons why we read less long-form, according to a bunch of cognitive science studies and to my own anecdotal experience, is because our attention is shot. A viral article in The Atlantic [1] shows evidence and testimony that kid
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by aerhardt 13d ago
It's a load-bearing poster.
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by aerhardt 1mo ago
Sorry for defending Aristotle? Have we lost the plot as a society?
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by aerhardt 2mo ago
Claude Design with Fable 5 is an absolute killer app that you’d have to pry from my cold dead hands. I’m not an Anthropic fanboy - Codex has been my daily coding driver for the last year. But my point is these companies are building app + m
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by aerhardt 2mo ago
One can almost smell the vibes. This is peanuts compared to a major cybersecurity catastrophe that’s surely in the making. To give credit to the technology and the people using it - and I’m not being facetious - it’s actually incredible tha
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by aerhardt 2mo ago
I'd be scared shitless to even try something like this. There is just a pretty website, a video, and a blog post. No info on the founders, I can't find anything on LinkedIn, just a company Vineyard Finance LTD that was incorporate
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by aerhardt 2mo ago
My guide was to pick the best model on "High" for 99% of tasks.
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by aerhardt 2mo ago
The website linked is an utter mess. In design and performance.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
AI can be used in classification, extraction, and synthesis quite effectively. Not to speak of code generation, or like the author says, for research and strategy. In enterprise workflows these are essentially super generalizable NLP and CV
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
His criticism of characters being laid bare at the beginning of the novel is fair, especially in Karamazov. Unlike Nabokov I don't think it detracts from the work.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
Dostoyevsky was massively popular way before the USSR. Nietzsche and Freud were huge admirers. His book sold well in Europe in his lifetime. Same with Tolstoy. Sincerely doubt the USSR soft power moved the needle in any meaningful sense.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
I'm reading Crime and Punishment now. I've previously read Karamazov. I agree that it's not particularly hard reading other than the names. And also, maybe, the characters tend to go on long tirades. And I guess you need to k
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
Google Stadia worked like a charm. I put hundreds of hours into it without a single problem. The tech felt like magic.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
I studied in a French Lycée in Spain. We did dissertations, brutal 3h live writing tests. There was no problem with it other than the difficulty. Kids didn’t come out screwed up or impaired.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
The parent comment is AI generated drivel, that’s why. Incredible that it has generated such a lively discussion.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
I don't know what to tell you bro. I type much less code but I haven't stopped thinking altogether. I still write to myself and to others. I read longform. I walk and introspect. I think about high level problems. Any general cogn
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
I'm sure they think of them as a matter of national security, because they think of everything as a matter of national security, but a few analysts I respect say that the mood there is not nearly as AGI-pilled, and I have no trouble be
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
You say soon but what you just described is still sci-fi as far as I can tell.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
I’ve seen analyses pointing to the fact that the gap is growing, which would be worrying. I think all the benchmarking and whatnot is not reliable so who knows, but we’ll definitely have a good feel in a couple of years.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
Well, if you believe the people who sell the tokens, you should be creating loops that keep yanking the bandit’s arm.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
This is utopian thinking. The products are way too useful to not subscribe. The argument presupposes the worst-case negative-utility in the long-term scenario (AI companies will create a totalitarian nightmare) and pits it against the radic
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
It’s perfectly reasonable to believe that a law of marginal decreasing returns will kick in at some point (if it hasn’t already), and that what one point looked like an exponential may start looking like an s-curve. I do not see how being e
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
It tests general reading comprehension. Is it possible that a generation with abysmal reading comprehension and attention copiously reads for pleasure? Yes, but I’m very doubtful.
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by aerhardt 3mo ago
They should ask the Ministry of Culture here in Spain, who claims that reading is on the up and up among 14-24 year olds [1]. Nothing points to that in our abysmal PISA reading results, general educational attainment and outcomes, or anecdo

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