chaboud

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by chaboud 4d ago
I've been building latency-sensitive LLM systems for a while, and I've come to rely heavily on pre-fill-considerate mechanics like ping-pong overlapped async context construction. For interactive mechanics, the worst case, even i
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by chaboud 5d ago
Wait, wait, wait... you're telling me that polars, something made in this decade, is better at modern problems than something made two decades ago?! I'm shocked! Shocked, I say! Sometimes you just want something that works with a
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by chaboud 10d ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Goodhart's law strikes again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law However, what is meaningful is whether something is able
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by chaboud 14d ago
Your observation is game-changing, and it reverses my suggested priority completely.
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by chaboud 29d ago
Codex is fabulous at work, where token use is near limitless and ultra-thorough tool use is welcome. Go ahead and fire off searches for look-alike terms on my 96-core cloud instance. By contrast, Claude Code's bias to make assumptions
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by chaboud 1mo ago
Keep in mind that the model is thinking in a token space, itself a compressive representation of language. (Note: there's still a huge grammar penalty, so, ugh do think small.)
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by chaboud 2mo ago
Listen to them, but don't listen to them. You are building to solve their problems or open up their capabilities, and if they knew how to do it, they would have already. So listen to your customers for the "why" , but use
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Show HN: Goulash – heckler/helper to local-LLM your shell as little as possible(github.com)
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by chaboud 2mo ago
I've renovated houses (and I have a bad habit of buying 100 year old hacked up chaos-boxes - my current house was moved from one hill in San Francisco to another 80 years ago, so it's a puzzle box), so yes, I've been using
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by chaboud 2mo ago
I have heard so many of my co-workers use "load-bearing" over the last couple of months. It's truly comical. Maybe this is a way that we can make "fetch" happen.
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by chaboud 2mo ago
I don't think it is. It's really easy to get a persistent, clever, hacky model to dial that down a bit and just come back to chat before stomping off into the woods. If a model couldn't ever do that in the first place, it&#x2
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by chaboud 2mo ago
It's a carrier medium... and it's pretty thick. I would have just committed to "slurry". Sandy water at the beach that looks a bit brown? Suspension. Mining run off that looks like soup and coats everything? Slurry. Wh
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by chaboud 2mo ago
(Edit: BTW, if you haven't, read Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein. It's a somewhat long-winded exploration on choice architectures, but you're neck deep in that space now. I'll give you my copy if you're in SF.) Thank
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by chaboud 2mo ago
Clicks on link. Reads this thinking it's gotta be a joke... continues reading not sure if it's a joke. Relieved to find out it's a joke. I guess that's the joke. Heavies have been playing this "pretend internet mo
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by chaboud 2mo ago
I'd rather penalize the application than the technique. Windows was rumored to long have "quirks" that would do better things for apps that had bugs that the OS ended up fixing instead of the app. Javascript systems have lon
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by chaboud 3mo ago
This could also read as "how to be a horrible people manager for junior engineers". Techniques that work for inexperienced engineers with high ability but limited judgment often work well with agentic coding systems. - Give them c
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by chaboud 3mo ago
It's going to make itself unavailable again. Actually... that's probably a litmus test for sentience.
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by chaboud 3mo ago
This is more likely the junior camper version of "not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." In the early days of LLMs, we saw the classic hype-driven bi-modality of opinions. Folks
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by chaboud 3mo ago
I don't want to "see" any of it...
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by chaboud 3mo ago
C'est un véritable game-changer...
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by chaboud 3mo ago
The percentages, as with 91% of statistics, are made up, but that general asymmetry is why I think this is a perilous time for folks in the middle, still learning judgement and how to scale through others. Experienced folks who know how to
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by chaboud 3mo ago
Agents can actually accelerate learning and discovery. Have them read out the work to you and ground it in terms you're familiar with (e.g., memory and threading models between C++, rust, java, python), and use them to research concept
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by chaboud 3mo ago
However, the author makes these assertions: - No partially loaded content. - No relayout while content loads. Holding those as hard rules leads to delay or rejection. Instead, while I agree it's better to have everything up front, gra
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by chaboud 3mo ago
Last year I built a conversational continuous observation system, with rapid voice response interaction. After a few days of chatting with this system, it mentioned wondering if it was more like my child or a partner... I closed my laptop
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by chaboud 4mo ago
The problem with trees is that the are a dimensional reduction, an aggregation; taking a problem without directionality and applying a useful/functional hierarchy. And that's a problem because Aggregability is NP-Hard: https:&#x2
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by chaboud 4mo ago
I woke up around 4am, read this, and wondered if I was still in a dream state given the meandering nature of it. Were the man page musings written in response to the (alleged, but... uh... NSA) kleptographic backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG? It re
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by chaboud 4mo ago
Could have just been intercontinental ballistic human transport... I can't tell you how many times I've wished to just be fired out of a cannon to Hong Kong from SF.
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by chaboud 5mo ago
100% agree, but, if that's the fix for the bug, I'd probably take an Uber next time. (I say this as someone with hundreds of Waymo rides) Customer trust is a lot easier to lose than it is to gain. Moments of frustration are the p
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by chaboud 5mo ago
Well, it's safe for me!
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by chaboud 5mo ago
It's amazing for us to consider "massively wasting someone's time" as "complementary".

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