exhaze

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by exhaze 5d ago
You are referring to Boubakhism, not mathematics. “Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural sciences. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap” - Vladimir Arnold On the ma
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by exhaze 2mo ago
Wasn’t that almost the norm for both new OS drivers and subsequently GPU SoC firmware of ‘gamer cards’ to literally optimize for the latest AAA titles? I feel in that case, the interests aligned - in a world where I had a chance to actuall
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by exhaze 2mo ago
“Today, the NASDAQ fell by 18% moments after Simon Willison published his latest blog evaluating the Legend 7.4 model that rendered an animated SVG of a pelican on a bicycle and the pelican fell off”
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by exhaze 2mo ago
Agree directionally - even back in sonnet 3.5 days, I was helping some friends by showing them how to create intermediate representations for SVG building blocks mapping to parametrizable functions that can be used to make interactive SVG-r
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by exhaze 2mo ago
Not an expert on this, so won’t speculate regarding what traits would create robustness specifically attributed to SVG visual representation capability, but felt you might find this paper on reasoning models trained on physical world video
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by exhaze 2mo ago
What if they’re just unsuccessful at it and something about a model grokking how to create a realistic visual representation of a pelican on a bicycle ends being key to the next OOM of capability unhobbling. And since we have established th
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by exhaze 2mo ago
Simon - thank you for not dismissing it (and surviving the text that came before the question). I asked because I genuinely feel that the % of people working on some of the most important technology these days - things such as these 's
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by exhaze 2mo ago
I thought my joke post was silly and then I read new comments and I'm like, "I didn't try hard enough" lol
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by exhaze 2mo ago
Simon - has no one told you about the Willison-Pelican Scaling Law? ``` if is_willison_pelican_blog_post: [redacted] ``` You haven't seen their final form [1] [1] final form is a frontend/react/let's not talk about it, l
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by exhaze 3mo ago
My best learnings came from mistakes - mine, my team's, my company's, other companies - but almost always, it was when those mistakes were promptly followed up with a thoughtful incident report. For example, when I launched what i
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by exhaze 3mo ago
Nice! Just added your comment to my list of Perl script-inspired lists
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by exhaze 4mo ago
Claude Code’s feature cardinality is breathtaking. At this rate, the next pope will be from Anthropic
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by exhaze 7mo ago
> I highly recommend talking to strangers! People are lovely. Go out and try it. I’ve been here since 2009 and this is one of the loveliest comments I’ve read. At face value, it may seem ‘duh!’.. but there’s a distinct aesthetic to it th
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by exhaze 10mo ago
Push notifications and mental real estate by being “an app” are the primary business reason (based on both statsig experiments I’ve seen across my career as well as some intuition about behavioral psychology regarding the app mental real es
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by exhaze 1y ago
There are a few ways, but I believe SSOT (single source of truth) is key, as others basically said. Some ways: 1. Shared TypeScript types 2. tRPC/ts-rest style: Automagic client w/ compile+runtime type safety 3. RTK (redux toolkit
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by exhaze 1y ago
Tangential, but thought I'd share since validation and API calls go hand-in-hand: I'm personally a fan of using `ts-rest` for the entire stack since it's the leanest of all the compile + runtime zod/json schema-based val
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by exhaze 1y ago
Back in 2015ish Uber we liked to emphasize everyone building at the company to never forget about the long tail [distribution]. When your N crosses gets above N per day, even the 0.1% edge cases happen several days times a day. When this ha
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by exhaze 1y ago
Cool project! I built a similar tool [0] last year, but: 1. Targeting fbt (Meta's internal i18n tool) 2. Used CST (<3 ast-grep) instead of AST - really useful here IMO esp. for any heuristic-based checks. 3. Fun fact: this was made
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by exhaze 1y ago
Food for thought, a snippet from a highly specialized project I created two months ago: https://gist.github.com/eugene-yaroslavtsev/c9ce9ba66a7141c5... I spent several hours searching online for existing solutions - co
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by exhaze 1y ago
Cite things from ID based specs. You’re facing a skill issue. The reason most people don’t see it as such is because an LLM doesn’t just “fail to run” here. If this was code you wrote in a compiled language, would you post and say the langu
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by exhaze 1y ago
Install MCP plugin and call a search engine of your choice. If you’re unhappy about something, try to first think of a solution before expressing your discontent.
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by exhaze 2y ago
It would be great to hear from actual folks working for one of his companies rather than folks that presume that they can speak on behalf of those people, and, even worse, go so far as to liken them to "people in abusive relationships&
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by exhaze 2y ago
Can you show me any longitudinal studies that show examples of a causal connection between incrementality of latency and churn? It’s easy to make such a claim and follow up with “go measure it”. That takes work. There are numerous other thi
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by exhaze 2y ago
Curious - how would one frame the cat before/after box reveal within the conceptual framework of causal closure?
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by exhaze 2y ago
That’s a nice generalization from a single data point but the problem here is that I have experience with… 10-15? across 7 companies in my career and it’s worrying to me to hear you say it takes you a few months - especially in today’s worl
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by exhaze 2y ago
LLMs output can often be like a prism in front of a mirror - a fusion of humanity with the specific human, reflected back at the human. Simon, perhaps you're just not funny.
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by exhaze 2y ago
Using LLMs to bootstrap development in unfamiliar frameworks is a valuable approach when balanced with pragmatic engineering principles. While framework idioms are important, they're secondary to delivering working, maintainable softwa
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by exhaze 2y ago
Sounds plausible given I’ve recently observed a ton of research papers in the space that in some way or another incorporate MCTS
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by exhaze 2y ago
I wasn’t aware of others attempting manifolds for this before - just something I stumbled upon independently. To me the “eerie” part is the thought of an LLM no longer using human language to reason - it’s like something out of a sci fi mov
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by exhaze 2y ago
I think the wildest thing is actually Meta’s latest paper where they show a method for LLMs reasoning not in English, but in latent space https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06769 I’ve done research myself adjacent to this (m

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