casualscience

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by casualscience 2mo ago
> There was never any plausible explanation for why this wouldn’t happen. What a nice post hoc revision of history. Distillation is still an active area of research, that you can distill models as easily as you can it genuinely interesti
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by casualscience 3mo ago
Honestly, 60-70% of this feeling is just inflation. If things were still affordable, the doom and gloom would be much less palpable. Inflation will get under control, but we still have other problems with the direction of social cohesion.
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by casualscience 3mo ago
brain was grown in house and likely deserves as much or more credit than open ai for the current llm boom
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by casualscience 4mo ago
Search, yt, etc.. are the real revenue sources for Google. But they are serving [3.2 quadrillion tokens per month]( https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/... ) and have ramped up a ton in 2026,
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by casualscience 4mo ago
How are the Google numbers calculated? I've seen their net income increasing a lot as they've rolled out Gemini. This suggests that Gemini tokens are actually profitable, or at least not extremely unprofitable. Yet this site sugge
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by casualscience 4mo ago
If you actually have time to read all your code, understand it, and are willing to be bottlenecked by human understanding, then yes, you are living in a different world. In my world, that is far too slow, and you will be seen as a low perfo
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by casualscience 4mo ago
Not my experience, most people are mercenaries, most people make mistakes, most people need their code and architecture reviewed. Obviously working with a person and working with an AI are not identical, but most of the broad responsibiliti
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by casualscience 5mo ago
While this isn't a unique perspective, I think it's wild more people don't understand this. What happened is everyone is being "promoted" to staff+ level engineer and they're realizing the realities of that sit
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by casualscience 5mo ago
A lot of people focus on the whole dynamic of corleone family and their position in American society in the Godfather. But seriously did you see what vito was eating in the restaurant?? Makes no sense Kojima always has some paranormal activ
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by casualscience 5mo ago
Not much, just accurately predicted the next 30 years exactly
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by casualscience 5mo ago
Are these meta engineers that were let go? The one thing you learn more than anything else as a Meta engineer is how to sell your work and how amazing it is
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by casualscience 5mo ago
Idk, do you think it's sensitive for the employer to train an AI with it and then put that AI on Instagram for everyone to use and ask for employee SSNs?
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by casualscience 5mo ago
They absolutely do, wtf are you talking about. Also people use their work accounts and laptops to read their w2 and other sensitive info.
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by casualscience 6mo ago
How does it not apply anonymity? All you see is some vote came in with a particular public key. That's it. Thats more private than we have now
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by casualscience 6mo ago
Even in small groups, being respected and considered valuable is important? I'm not sure what you mean here. I take your point, and I too get triggered when people invoke mate selection and dopamine. I could be with you in being skepti
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by casualscience 6mo ago
Victim blaming cancer patients as cope so you can convince yourself "it won't happen to me" is a disgusting trend
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by casualscience 6mo ago
Okay, average person uses a special key picked up from the DMV one time that allows them to login to vote.com and cast their vote. This is a totally normal experience and understandable by anyone who has done online banking.
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by casualscience 7mo ago
Google's profits have been going up while 'giving away gemini for free', so I don't think they're 'being irrational', they're unit economics apparently work.
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by casualscience 7mo ago
Hmm, whats stopping you from running claude code on a separate machine you can ssh into? I don't understand that point at all, I do that all the time. Using a claude code instance through a phone app is certainly not something that is
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by casualscience 7mo ago
I see, so there's actually an additional for loop here, which is `sleep(n); check_all_conversations()`, that is not something claude code does for sure. As far as the 'soul' file, claude does have claude.md and skills.md file
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by casualscience 7mo ago
what is the memory architecture, doesn't this already exist in claude code?
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by casualscience 7mo ago
Can someone explain what value openclaw provides over like claude code? It seems like it's literally just a repackaged claude code (i.e. a for loop around claude) with a model selector (and I guess a few builtin 'tools' for w
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by casualscience 8mo ago
People succeed in spite of these systems. They have resources, tremendous network advantages, and the people at the very top crust of engineers are indeed quite good at their job.
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by casualscience 8mo ago
> Crapping something out as quickly as possible and leaving somebody else to deal with the fallout of a bad data model and violent on-call isn't something to be rewarded IMO. Sadly you've described precisely the optimal enginee
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by casualscience 8mo ago
Also lets 50% of errors through
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by casualscience 8mo ago
Honestly, I feel like I have to know more and more these days, as the ais have unlocked significantly more domains that I can impact. Everyone is contributing to every part of the stack in the tech world all of a sudden, and "I am not
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by casualscience 9mo ago
Yeah I hear you. My understanding is that on youtube you can make ~2k per 1M views with the default ads. I'm hoping that I can be funded by some combination of that and something like patreon/membership/merch. But we will see
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by casualscience 9mo ago
These are impressive metrics, are you able to make a living off of your 10M views? I'm planning to leave my job this year and focus on content, mostly have been considering YouTube, but if blogging can work too, might consider that as
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by casualscience 9mo ago
If you work at a megacorp right now, you know whats happening isn't people deciding to use less libraries. It's developers being measured by their lines of code, and the more AI you use the more lines of code and 'features&#x
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by casualscience 10mo ago
Also worked with Soumith. The man is a legend, moves mountains and completely changed the course of my career because he liked something I wrote. No arrogance, no politics, just an extremely down to earth and chill guy who elevates everyone

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