buffalobuffalo

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by buffalobuffalo 10d ago
If you are spending time on all text forums like this, you are likely a person whose skill set skews towards the verbalization of abstract concepts. This is also the exact skill set needed to use LLMs well. If you are able to articulate e
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by buffalobuffalo 1mo ago
Or a factory chicken. Do you have any idea how many more factory chicken lives have come and gone as opposed to human lives?
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by buffalobuffalo 2mo ago
You forgot to mention the part where, to use any of the PWA features, you now have to get the user to close safari, and re-open the page via the icon now on the homescreen. Not exactly easy UI.
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by buffalobuffalo 2mo ago
No, the fundamental problem is ios. There are a bunch of features that ios locks down so that you are essentially forced to use apps. Want to send push notifications? You need an app. Want to be able to wake your app up in the backgroun
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by buffalobuffalo 4mo ago
If that's a concern, an easy alternative is using companies like novita or fireworks.ai to run open source chinese models. They are incredibly price competitive, have strict data retention policies, and in general are quite fast. Als
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by buffalobuffalo 5mo ago
I mean, that works for you since you're retiring. But for people still working in the industry, you adapt or die. As it's always been. The fact of the matter is, a person working with a bunch of agents is a lot more productiv
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by buffalobuffalo 6mo ago
I use these a lot. My favorite use case is templates, especially ones that were not initially planned in the architecture. Let's say i have some entity like an "organization" that has data that spans several different tables
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by buffalobuffalo 7mo ago
While not on the same level as these guys, I've done some similar stuff using Claude. This is a classic synergy example, where the output of human + LLM is far greater than just the human or just the LLM working on a problem. My expe
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by buffalobuffalo 7mo ago
There are two big advantages to using a 3rd party system. 1) There are a lot of cases where aggregated user data, even if anonymized, allows for insights that you can't get using just your own data. 2) The software is really just a sta
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by buffalobuffalo 7mo ago
So nobody will ever start another successful software project? People will, what, just stop creating software? I understand people's apprehension because of the pace of change, but this is just silly.
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by buffalobuffalo 1y ago
Blockchain only has 2 legitimate uses (from an economic standpoint) as far as I can tell. 1) Bitcoin figured out how to create artificial scarcity, and got enough buy-in that the scarcity actually became valuable. 2)Some privacy coins serve
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by buffalobuffalo 1y ago
I don't know if a bunch of sloppy jQuery modules were ever really a viable option for an SPA. People tried to do it, sure, but I'd say the SPA era really started with backbone.js
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by buffalobuffalo 1y ago
It's still the best RDB schema creation/migration tool I know of. It has a crazy number of plugins to handle all sorts of unusual field types and indexing. I usually add django to any project I'm doing that involves an RDB
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by buffalobuffalo 1y ago
I kinda consider it a P!=nP type thing. If I need to write a simple function, it will almost always take me more time to implement it than it will to verify if an implementation of it suits my needs. There are exceptions, but overall when
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by buffalobuffalo 1y ago
Yeah i was wondering about that too. Even small cap PoW chains have dedicated mining hardware that is orders of magnitude faster than a GPU. I guess in theory it could work if you cobbled together enough hacked AWS accounts, but the scale
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by buffalobuffalo 1y ago
Yeah, the brain is a sparse MoE. There is a lot of overlap in the hardware of the "language brain" and the "math brain". That being said, I can discuss software concepts in a foreign language, but struggle with basic a
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by buffalobuffalo 1y ago
I think the fundamental problem is that next.js is trying to do two things at once. It wants to a) Be fast to load for content that is sensitive to load speeds (SEO content, landing pages, social media sharable content, etc). It also want
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
When I was first getting into Deep Learning, learning the proof of the universal approximation theorem helped a lot. Once you understand why neural networks are able to approximate functions, it makes everything built on top of them much e
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
I've used NEAT a few for a few different things. The main upside of it is that it requires a lot less hyper-parameter tuning than modern reinforcement learning options. But that's really the only advantage. It really only work
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
This criticism is all the more poignant given that it comes from Nabokov. He is one of the few authors for whose works the Russian and English versions are almost equivalent; he was bilingual and did the translation himself.
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
I guess that's objectively worse since it results in false negatives as opposed to false positives. But personally I think it stings a bit more to get tricked into procedures you don't actually need. It's genuinely hard to i
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
This has been going on for a while: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-9
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
Yeah, there is that. I guess this comes with the caveat that you have to have enough say in the project that you can mandate a rewrite.
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
I think one of the most valuable lessons I have learned in software engineering is that you can write entire projects with the express plan of rewriting them if they actually gain traction. If I want to prototype something these days, I wi
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
Sure. I agree Many of those things would be a net benefit. So why don't we have them? It seems to me, the main reason is that representatives won't vote for them. Why not? Mainly because their financial and political incentives
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
I agree that such mockery isn't very charitable, but there is an underlying line logic to their thinking. We know that a system like North Korea's is possible. We know a system like ours is possible. We don't have any evide
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by buffalobuffalo 2y ago
This appears to be the logical build up to his critique of the Cartesian Theater . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_theater
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
Yeah. Bookmark indexing was my original goal. But yacy doesn't have a great interface for that. Doable with some work, but not something i wanted to sink too much time into.
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
I ran YaCy for a while, but not as a node on their distributed search index. I just ran it as a search engine for all my own bookmarks. Unfortunately I never found a particularly good way of getting bookmarks into the system. So eventual
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
I just switched back to firefox yesterday. Not a long sample period, but so far I completely agree, less painful than chrome.

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