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by canvascritic 1y ago
Most healthcare systems are not using Azure, AWS, or GCP
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by canvascritic 1y ago
This may be true for some large players in coastal states but definitely not true in general Your typical non-coastal state run health system does not have model access outside of people using their own unsanctioned/personal ChatGPT&#x
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by canvascritic 1y ago
Healthcare organizations that can't (easily) send data over the wire while remaining in compliance Organizations operating in high stakes environments Organizations with restrictive IT policies To name just a few -- well, the first two
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by canvascritic 1y ago
SnipVex clipjacking wallets is almost beside the point, the real failure is a printer vendor treating software like a side gig. Printer and hardware companies get a pass on basic infosec hygiene that would be unacceptable for open source ma
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by canvascritic 1y ago
Real question is whether this is just symbolic or if the French state will actually redirect procurement pipelines + vendor mandates around these principles. i'd be more impressed if this came bundled with policy teeth, e.g. requiring
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by canvascritic 1y ago
I'm not a fan of neurophysiology analogies because it veer into pseudoscience, but I'll play along. Roam implemented static bidirectional links and called it associative memory. in reality, it's closer to mind-mapping softwar
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by canvascritic 1y ago
this all makes sense and is honestly the most coherent humanoid startup thesis i've seen outside of figure.ai. You're right that the unit economics of hardware are a trap unless you can commoditize the complements. And humanoid ha
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by canvascritic 1y ago
When my grandfather died, the only thing he asked to be buried with was a small pouch of roasted chestnuts. he used to say they reminded him of long cold walks home through wartime forests that smelled like smoke and bark. Anyway after the
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by canvascritic 1y ago
Thanks for the reply IME the COTS angle cuts both ways. It brings costs down and makes iteration faster, but whats the moat then? if the value is in integration, that’s fine, but integration is fairly fragile IP. Open source is good reputat
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by canvascritic 1y ago
This is a clever hack and a cute abuse of SQL joins to brute-force what’s essentially a 2-ply MDP over a finite space. The core idea btw of using precomputed transition/score tables to simulate and optimize turn-by-turn play is a class
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by canvascritic 1y ago
Not surprised to see this. Whats interesting to me in all this is the misplaced faith in emergent structure. Roam bet on the idea that if you link enough atomic notes, structure will self-organize. Which is such a weird fantasy if you spend
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by canvascritic 1y ago
Heh. This landing page takes me to somewhere between deepmind circa 2014 and tesla's AI Day press decks. I mean if you're actually training humanoids in under an hour with sim-to-real transfer that "just works" then cong
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by canvascritic 1y ago
Clearly a labor of love. Props to you I suppose if one is teaching or evangelizing constructor theory, this could be sort of like an interactive textbook Needless to say, constructor theory hasn't really earned a stable foothold in mai
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by canvascritic 1y ago
Right: Maya is a "language continuum" in the sense that geographically proximate speakers tend to understand each other well, and intelligibility goes down as you move further away from any given individual on the continuum
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by canvascritic 2y ago
I use nearly of these tools with the exception of Perl. I go to great lengths to make sure I have access to them because it's so critical for quality of life. I love them and I understand why people love them. Here's the reason: t
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by canvascritic 2y ago
It's not learned helplessness et al, just a plea to drop the smug elitism if you want people to take you seriously. I actually want nice things, I hate writing brittle systems in languages that offer no meaningful guardrails, and setti
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by canvascritic 2y ago
You are missing my point. For transparency, you are talking to someone who writes Racket in emacs on my Linux desktop, has used Rust macros to clean up awful code in widely used open source packages, and regularly generates code for all man
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by canvascritic 2y ago
I agree with you that it is sad there isn't more diversity in languages and tools, and that generally organizations are using the same terrible slop. We could have such nice things You lose me with the smugness. Make no mistake, you ar
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by canvascritic 2y ago
I'll be frank: I think this idea that ${faveLang} is for misunderstood geniuses who truly understand computers where mainstream languages like Python are for dunces who only know how to glue together APIs is a large part of why such la
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by canvascritic 3y ago
This is awesome! Finding an AGN within the halo of a galaxy, especially one as well-studied as the sombrero galaxy, is a bit like discovering a hidden room in a house you've lived in for years. it reshapes our understanding and invites
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by canvascritic 3y ago
I first learned about the microseasons during my second year in Japan when I was wandering thru Tokyo one day in February, and had an experience that introduced me to the bush warblers singing microseason. I was looking for this bookshop ow
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by canvascritic 3y ago
A few scattered thoughts: Firstly, the amalgamation of custom data sources via RAG pipelines sounds enticing on paper, but there are inherent complications. when fusing disparate data silos, considerations around data normalization, entropy
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by canvascritic 3y ago
The real challenge with AutoML isn't just the pipeline creation, but ensuring that the models generalize well to unseen data and real-world scenarios. Your project here is neat and I appreciate that it includes support for preprocessin
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by canvascritic 3y ago
back when we were scaling a saas offering in the late 2000s, we were told by some sales 'engineer' at a certain company well known in those days with lots of hype marketing (that died explosively a year later, big shock), that ML
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by canvascritic 3y ago
A mentor once said to me something to the effect of "don't optimize for the noise - optimize for signal" These guidelines, in many ways, embody that sentiment. While some might complain they are restrictive and harsh (I think
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Early in my career, essentially a lifetime ago, we were launching a new line of eco-friendly kitchenware. My team was divided on two messaging approaches. One camp believed in the emotional appeal: serene images of pristine forests, juxtapo
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by canvascritic 3y ago
I appreciate the author's attempt to contextualize web components, but I have a few bones to pick, having seen web components used to a pathological extent in various projects First, the idea that one of web components' strengths
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Appreciate your insights. A few comments/responses 1. Agree on the introspection point, but it's worth noting that the future of LLMs might involve self-awareness capabilities, which could provide an introspective mechanism simila
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Stumbled upon norvig's pytudes years ago during a leetcode grind. His elegant approach to problems always had this touch of clarity that only few possess. Python, with its expressive syntax, combined with norvig's penchant for cra
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by canvascritic 3y ago
SQL makes the most sense if humans are going to be programming deterministically, but if we're talking about natural language input I can't help but think that compiling natural language to SQL feels a little shortsighted as a lon

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