cornel_io

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by cornel_io 17d ago
I'm guessing you've never been exposed to Kumon...
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by cornel_io 4mo ago
That's what focus looks like to a just-say-yes engineer. They're just focused on shipping, not tinkering.
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by cornel_io 6mo ago
Yes, it can. So can I. But neither of us will write the code exactly the way nitpicky PR reviewer #2 demands it be written unless he makes his preferences clear somewhere. Even at a nitpick-hellhole like Google that's mostly codified i
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by cornel_io 6mo ago
Just tell Claude to create tmux sessions for each, it can figure out the rest.
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by cornel_io 7mo ago
As an investor in Anthropic, I'd say that anyone who wasn't aware of where they stood on various values issues the whole time should not have been putting money in, it was not hidden.
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by cornel_io 9mo ago
Asking questions on SO was an exercise in frustration, not "interacting with peers". I've never once had a productive interaction there, everything I've ever asked was either closed for dumb reasons or not answered at al
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by cornel_io 9mo ago
This article claims that's false, that 8-12 at higher weight leads to the same result as 20+ at lower weights.
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by cornel_io 9mo ago
And at the end of the day it's not really a tradeoff we'll need to make, anyways: my experience with e.g. Claude Code is that every model iteration gets much better at avoiding balls of mud, even without tons of manual guidance
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by cornel_io 9mo ago
Theoretical "proofs" of limitations like this are always unhelpful because they're too broad, and apply just as well to humans as they do to LLMs. The result is true but it doesn't actually apply any limitation that matt
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by cornel_io 10mo ago
When a tool call completes the result is sent back to the LLM to decide what to do next, that's where it can decide to go do other stuff before returning a final answer. Sometimes people use structured outputs or tool calls to explicit
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by cornel_io 1y ago
There are thousands of projects out there that use mocks for various reasons, some good, some bad, some ugly. But it doesn't matter: most engineers on those projects do not have the option to go another direction, they have to push for
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by cornel_io 1y ago
Of course. But I've screened far more out because I was in a rush and got 40 resumes in that day and they just didn't pique my interest as much as the next one over.
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by cornel_io 1y ago
There may be a ceiling, sure. It's overwhelmingly unlikely that it's just about where humans ended up, though.
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by cornel_io 1y ago
I'm all for benchmarks that push the field forward, but ARC problems seem to be difficult for reasons having less to do with intelligence and more about having a text system that works reliably with rasterized pixel data presented line
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by cornel_io 1y ago
If ChatGPT claims arsenic to be a tasty snack, OpenAI adds a p0 eval and snuffs that behavior out of all future generations of ChatGPT. Viewed vaguely in faux genetic terms, the "tasty arsenic gene" has been quickly wiped out of t
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by cornel_io 1y ago
Even though this post says exactly the thing that most Proper Analysts will say, and write long LinkedIn posts about where other Proper Analysts congratulate them on standing up for Proper Analysis in the face of Evil And Stupid Business Du
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by cornel_io 1y ago
I think you're being downvoted because you're agreeing with the post you're quoting, but arguing as if they're wrong: the example in question was there to show how DI can be useful, so there's nothing to argue again
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by cornel_io 1y ago
I've often run multiple Claude Code sessions in parallel to do different tasks. Burns money like crazy, but if you can handle wrangling them all there's much less sitting and waiting for output.
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by cornel_io 1y ago
None of that seems at all user-hostile to me, it's literally all aimed at making sure what the user is shown is more likely to actually be useful to them. I guess this is a big and probably unbridgeable divide, some people think this s
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by cornel_io 1y ago
There are a couple important things to also keep in mind: First: just like there can be individuals who lift up an entire team but are not ticking off tasks themselves, there can be apparently individually productive team members who slow t
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by cornel_io 1y ago
There are various results that suggest that LLMs do internally have everything they'd need to know that they're hallucinating/wrong: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09733 https://arxiv.org/abs
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by cornel_io 2y ago
It's a bit shocking to me: I still remember all the concepts quite clearly from when I studied Galois theory ~20 years ago, to the point where I can run through a lot of the proofs conceptually in my head, but the vocabulary is GONE. L
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by cornel_io 2y ago
The entire p-zombie concept presumes dualism (or something close enough to it that I'm happy to lump it all into the generic category of "requires woo"). Gravity having an effect on something is measurable and provable, where
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by cornel_io 2y ago
We don't know every fact, either, so I don't know how you can use that idea to say that we're not Turing machines. Apart, of course, from the trivial fact that we are far more limited than a Turing machine...
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Adult humans can do symbolic reasoning, but lower mammals cannot. Even ones that share most of our brain structure are much worse at this, if they can do it at all; children need to learn it, along with a lot of the other things that we con
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Another view is that the Internet exactly matched this model, and that it's much closer to the norm than not: the Internet became available to normal people in the mid-to-late 90s, depending on where you were, but all that was on the w
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by cornel_io 2y ago
If you roll it back upon seeing problems, then you're doing something meaningful, at least. IMO 90+% of the value of A/B testing comes from two things, a) forcing engineers to build everything behind flags, and b) making sure feat
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by cornel_io 2y ago
No, they just ship their org chart. Which has grown incredibly, to the point where even internally nobody knows what's being shipped three branches over on the tree.
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by cornel_io 2y ago
So, what's happening here on the surface is that it's an optimization (fairly meaningful, from the looks of it) aimed at doing roughly the same things we could already do with chain-of-thought (CoT), but IMO the downstream effects
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by cornel_io 2y ago
Counterpoint: our CEO spent 25 minutes shitting out a bunch of AI ads because he was frustrated with the pace of our advertising creative team. They hated the ads that he created, for the reasons you mention, but we tested them anyways and

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