cleandreams

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by cleandreams 26d ago
AI is missing the part of intelligence which involves insight. LLMs generate language blobs with highly sophisticated correlations. The governing insight in human cognition is essential to intelligence. It prunes the tree. It puts things in
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by cleandreams 1mo ago
I am not excited about tech anymore. I dread it to be honest. I was an early engineer at a AI company that got acquired. From that and related stock (golden handcuffs) was able to retire a couple of years ago. There were some tech problems
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by cleandreams 1mo ago
I don't think the bottleneck was engineering time alone. There is context, brand, customer support, etc. I am not sure big complex products are particularly vulnerable in the way you state. However I have been thinking of a one smallis
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by cleandreams 2mo ago
Anyone who is worried about their gum inflammation should consider going on metformin. I had bleeding gums for my entire adult life. In my late 60s I was put on metformin for pre-diabetes. A year later all traces of gum inflammation have di
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by cleandreams 2mo ago
"Software quality is tied to the market incentives and always has been." Yes -- but. The market is irrational especially in a time of mania or panic. The AI phase we are in has mania, bubble aspects. There is no rational calculati
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by cleandreams 2mo ago
I really noticed this a few years ago to the point that I changed a few things and they have helped. 1. I notice the movement of my attention. I used to default to something like: sit down at my computer to look something up. But before I d
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by cleandreams 2mo ago
My son has ADHD and I never knew what it meant but this year I made him get coaching for it and I made him get meds. He was living at home for free rent and the condition of staying was to address this. My experience is that getting treatme
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by cleandreams 2mo ago
There is more to this story. I have heard Harvard (and its ilk) described as a smallish university attached to a massive investment fund. One of the criteria for admission is how much you and your family will be "good for" donatio
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by cleandreams 2mo ago
No. Briahna Joy Gray and a guest whose name I don't remember.
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by cleandreams 2mo ago
We'll be cleaning up tech debt from over-reliance on AI.
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by cleandreams 2mo ago
I was listening to a podcast where the host and the guest were both Black and both had been to Harvard. This was before the Supreme Court ruling. They joked that it was well known that the Black students at Harvard who were descendants of A
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by cleandreams 3mo ago
what is missing from this is the issue of power. tech companies interpret the rise of AI as empowering management and disempowering workers. It's the American way to disempower workers. Tech people used to have a moat called expertise
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by cleandreams 3mo ago
I was walking through a startup neighborhood in San Francisco the other day and I encountered several telephone poles which were posted with advertisements for software engineering jobs. These were not generic or scam advertisements. This w
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by cleandreams 5mo ago
Shout out to American Giant. I have like 15 t-shirts from them, some are ten years old and they look new. Buying good stuff saves money in the long run!
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by cleandreams 6mo ago
Not just many foreign militaries. Our military. General Dan Caine by report advised Trump about the negative consequences of this action. MAGA elected a fantasist and narcissist and we will all bear the consequences. I was no fan of Kamala
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by cleandreams 7mo ago
Wonderful to hear. Her long Covid was heartbreaking (saw the videos). I hope she gets stronger and stronger! Welcome back!
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by cleandreams 7mo ago
Private car ownership is better everyday for suburbs and rural areas but in cities that is not true. Public transit can improve downtown access and reduce congestion. You need some density for transit.
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by cleandreams 7mo ago
San Francisco put in some bus only lanes and those routes have greatly improved bus speed and ontime performance.
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by cleandreams 7mo ago
This is not Facebook but I have a young friend who gets her news on Epstein from tiktok. She is convinced they were eating babies. I do worry (a little) that she will go over the conspiracy theories deep end. I told her tiktok news was bad
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by cleandreams 7mo ago
My son -- early 30's -- is impacted by how everyone's life seems much better than his. I think it's a real issue for young people.
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by cleandreams 7mo ago
To be fair SF has had incomprehensible (to normies) billboards since at least the early 90's.
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by cleandreams 7mo ago
I have a friend who was put on a GLP-1 and had an astonishing reduction in arthritis pain.
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by cleandreams 7mo ago
The prospect of going the last mile to fix the remaining problems reminds me of the old joke: "The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts fo
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by cleandreams 8mo ago
I'm anxious about code quality in critical infrastructure in 5 years or so. Also my mastery of code starts with design and implementation that results in deep, intuitive understanding. Then I can do good code reviews and fix bugs fast
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Extracting books from production language models(arxiv.org)
4 points by cleandreams 8mo ago|2 comments
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by cleandreams 8mo ago
If you can extract a whole copyrighted book from a large language model, what is the point in copywriting your book?
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by cleandreams 8mo ago
What I find missing in the vibe coding discussions is precisely what we can't know, which is how this will work out over time in practice. A couple concerning data points I gleaned recently (sorry no references): - the LOC per PR is g
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by cleandreams 10mo ago
For the first time I have begun to doubt Microsoft's chosen course. (I am a retired MS principal engineer.) Their integration of copilot shows all the taste and good tradeoff choices of Teams but to far greater consequence. Copilot is
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by cleandreams 10mo ago
This is great. Thanks for sharing. Should be a book someday.
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by cleandreams 10mo ago
I'm amazed no one brings up the obvious: the need for reactions that are reliable at high speed. There is no way I will trust my tuckus to a freeway driving Waymo for a couple of years.

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