brotchie

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by brotchie 21d ago
I'm going steal "slopped together", great quip.
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by brotchie 23d ago
Technology is stacked sigmoids. There's a lot more to unlock. What's becoming more important in human's relationship with technology is restraint. Dopamine comes from the journey, not the destination, and for a journey to be
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by brotchie 26d ago
There’s still 50-500x cost reduction in “this is only an engineering problem” low hanging fruit from specialized chips to run the models + improved distillation. Entirely feasible that by 2031, Fable 5 (or greater) intelligence level models
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by brotchie 29d ago
Yep, switched from CC to 5.6 Sol. Not using it in my day job (only side projects), but I can crank 5.6 Sol on Extra High "fast mode" and never have to worry about credits. Not doing crazy multi agent swarms, but have yet to hit an
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by brotchie 1mo ago
The impact on the psyche on some Mathematicians of this AI progress must be pretty brutal. To me, it breaks the mystique of Mathematics a lot. You still need a lot of skill to digest and understand the proofs, but "this is the worse it
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by brotchie 1mo ago
Luckily never been bitten by component orientation issues. But every time I get a PCB assembled at JLCPCB with WS2812b or WS2816b LEDS they always email me to confirm LED orientation. I'm assuming customers have messed this up frequent
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by brotchie 1mo ago
If you just say “implement this” you’re going to have a bad time after a certain point. You really need to add yourself as a human in loop to be in the middle of design choices. That is, ask the model for a plan, what the trade offs are, sh
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by brotchie 2mo ago
I guess the orange sphincter is really a flower…
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by brotchie 2mo ago
Text to SQL is the wrong framing of the problem. Ideally you ask the agent the thing you want to know / business question you want answered. An agentic loop then runs. The agent can look at the schema, look at any existing SQL scripts
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by brotchie 2mo ago
GPT 5.6 already is an explainer agent. Fork Tao’s convo and prompt this (with your own math level described). GPT did a great job of translating Tao’s questions and concepts (e.g. “pre image”) into a progression I could understand. “Ok I ha
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by brotchie 2mo ago
My hand wavy math. One person dedicated to a single project / task baseline 100% total output. One person split between two tasks / projects that require context switching, 70% total output at best, perhaps 50% total output, a los
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by brotchie 2mo ago
3000 RPM is 50Hz right?
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by brotchie 3mo ago
I said a better “human driver.” Waymo is probably safer, but safety comes at the risk of not behaving like a human, and hence causing confusion for other human drivers. Tesla drives more like humans drive.
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by brotchie 3mo ago
99% of my FSD disengagements are navigation related: leaving it too late to merge into an exit lane (or CA drivers speeding up to not let me merge), not being aggressive enough at going into the opposing lane to overtake a stationary truck
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by brotchie 3mo ago
I've done 234 Waymo rides and ~5k miles driven FSD in a Model Y (HW4), all in and around the bay area. The gap isn't that big. Tesla still needs supervision (most around navigation honestly). Waymo's have definitely done some
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by brotchie 3mo ago
If consciousness didn’t exist, you wouldn’t exist! you’d have no interior experience.
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by brotchie 3mo ago
You don't need quality or flexibility for an AI demo. Hand crafting a voice agent to schedule simple appointments for a barber in San Francisco where the caller is in a quiet environment, is a one day exercise in prompt engineering. Bu
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by brotchie 3mo ago
Try a different translation. First time I started to read it, it was a slog and I didn’t get far. Did a bit of research on translations and chose another one (can’t recall the exact translator). The 2nd attempt’s translation used more conte
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by brotchie 3mo ago
We need the equivalent of the MEAN / LAMP stackronym for agents.
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by brotchie 3mo ago
100% agreed, the "this is what an agent looks like to write" is the wrong pitch for a new agent framework. The better pitch would be, "this is how easy observability, guardrails, monitoring, deployment, evals, versioning, A&#
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by brotchie 3mo ago
I'm still on the fence about agent frameworks, they have their place, and it depends on the nature of the agent: e.g. "Low latency, return a good enough response in 3 seconds, vs. working for 3 hours on a problem." BUT, if yo
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by brotchie 4mo ago
Closest I've been to losing vision in one eye was creating these 3x chain links for Burning Man. Naive thought: I could use a large bolt cutter to cut chain links. Started trying to cut a link, felt it was sketchy, went and put on some
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by brotchie 5mo ago
This is a good counter argument to the paper, honestly.
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by brotchie 5mo ago
Are you saying that, in some abstract sense, that actually pouring the cup may be isomorphic to running a perfect simulation of pouring the cup? Genuinely curious about your statement that its an illusion / arbitrary distinction, to fi
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by brotchie 5mo ago
It's the difference between: a) Actually pouring a cup of water into a pond (layer zero), and b) Running a fluid dynamics simulation of pouring a cup of water into a pond (some layer above layer zero).
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by brotchie 5mo ago
Originally rejected the paper premise, but I get it now, certainly made me question my belief that consciousness binds to any arbitrary information processing that's of sufficient complexity. IIUC the author is saying that the human br
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by brotchie 5mo ago
Yeah, I think about this a lot. Those days of grinding on some grad school maths homework until insight. Figuring out how to configure and recompile the Linux kernel to get a sound card driver working, hitting roadblocks, eventually succeed
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by brotchie 6mo ago
Gambling ads are to Australia what Pharmaceutical ads are to the USA.
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by brotchie 6mo ago
OpenClaw is just like any other tool, you need to learn it before its power is available to you. Just like anything in engineering really: you have to play around source control to understand source control, you have to play around with dat
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by brotchie 6mo ago
For the tax thing. I had Claude write a CLI and a prompt for Gemini Flash 2.5 to do the structured extraction: i.e. .pdf -> JSON. The JSON schema was pretty flexible, and open to interpretation by Gemini, so it didn't produce 100% c

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