hermitShell

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by hermitShell 6d ago
It will happen eventually, especially with AI generated books published electronically. I wonder if there is a cutoff date or something to try and avoid this problem of low effort books.
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by hermitShell 6d ago
If you've not read Fred Brooks MMM, give it a shot. It seems like you're implying that teams of 60-80 developers should be expected to outperform teams of 12. This is simply not true. The most important feature of source code as a
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by hermitShell 7d ago
As a user of local models, does this mean that there are 'magic incantations' that can increase the performance of some local models? I see some details about recovering information via whatever technique. It's interesting, b
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by hermitShell 7d ago
When I look at the technology and capability of frontier models for ideation, brainstorming, and research, or when I look at the open source community and open weight models, and running local LLM's... I'm convinced that this is a
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by hermitShell 12d ago
honestly that would still probably mean more than story points. maybe all this AI insanity has an upside that the new cargo cult washes out the old one.
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by hermitShell 12d ago
In the novel Anathem by Neal Stephenson, the internet becomes unusable for humans thousands of years before the events of the book, due to a process called Artificial Inanity. AI generated content, both good and bad, some riddled with erro
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by hermitShell 20d ago
America is headed towards techno zaibatsu economy. Just a product of the dynamics of capital and power. Too much cash, Nvidia is forced to try and find ways to deploy excess capital very quickly. Most efficient way is to absorb players in e
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by hermitShell 21d ago
I tend to agree, but the Semianalysis + Dwarkesh side of reporting still does surface interesting information. You just have to take it all with a grain of salt, as indeed it is more hype focused, and look for real information hidden in the
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by hermitShell 1mo ago
It seems they had a head start but are now facing stiff competition on all fronts. Software moat, GPU's for gaming, and its distant cousin datacenter compute. They rightfully invested their insane profits into many ventures, and how ma
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
I take your point, statistically we're already there. Unless humanity was to bootstrap its own biological intelligence to be consistently higher, there's little point in any individual attempting to safeguard the tech stack to fir
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
That is a truly terrifying future to imagine. Fortunately I would hazard to guess the medical technology to accomplish something like this is very, very far away. Not only because of the raw technological challenge, but also the barriers to
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
Would you be able to recommend any articles or videos that do a deeper more honest analysis than the current media hype cycle?
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
Do you think this necessarily sends us as a society (as a species) towards a future where we eventually stop understanding technology and science itself? Like in Asimov's Foundation or Liu Cixin's 'Taking Care of God'. M
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
The author of the article mainly talks about agentic programming, code generation, and reasoning. Ans very rightly identifies a big problem with agentic programming, in my experience. If developers can't maintain the software without A
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
You might find this interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636230
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
I've been using dual NVIDIA GPU's with Ollama. Even when I push to 30b models and more context window, Ollama manages RAM / VRAM very well. I never got OOM errors, just massive slowdown as the PCI-E bottleneck throttles the G
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
I have great interest in fine-tuning open models, and I'm looking for resources that HN folks can personally recommend. This article looks good and I've bookmarked it to read more thoroughly over time. I've gotten as far as r
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
Sure, most of the developed world is facing a demographic crisis. But will it trigger a meaningful reset of wealth distribution? Or be ineffective like the peasants revolt... The core question seems to be whether the economic systems and fi
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by hermitShell 2mo ago
I maintain some FPGA code in VHDL and also some C code for microcontroller. One thing I appreciate immensely about VHDL is how strict it is. You have no option but to think carefully about modularity and heirarchy. By comparison C is very f
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by hermitShell 3mo ago
I understand Gates has also helped in reviving Nuclear power, from reading news on this site and others. Smaller, updated designs that don't face quite the same level of pressure from regulators. If we assume you are right about billio
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by hermitShell 3mo ago
I used to be a believer in daily standup plus bi-weekly sprint planning, but lost faith with the (possibly cargo cult) methodology I was trying to follow. Adding 1:1 in with that would be far too frequent, and probably far too little real c
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by hermitShell 4mo ago
Very good explanation and interesting take on the 'humanity scale' or internet scale significance. I work on a phased array system so significance of white rabbit for me was always sample alignment. Assumed CERN had a similar use
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by hermitShell 4mo ago
I have to admit, I feel the same envy about industry and economic growth. But there also seem to be many explanations of why Canada continually fails to attract large cap business other than resource extraction. The cost of living / sk
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by hermitShell 4mo ago
The sane thing would be to ban Excel and promote SQLite. Excel is often used for tabulated text (issue tracking) not calculations. Perfect use case for a relational db
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by hermitShell 4mo ago
If you like sci-fi takes on software systems, check out Vernor Vinge "A Fire upon the deep" and sequels. I recall ship systems software is something like all the code humanity has ever written, plus centuries of LLM churn. One of
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
Exactly, and how bright is your display compared to your surroundings at time of viewing?
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
I partially agree with this idea, but there will always be the Jeff Dean and Fabrice Bellard of the world... but 99% of companies won't ever get the chance to hire the top 1% of programmers. Therein is the problem. Maybe a better way t
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
This article touches on an extreme case "what if all your Sr. Engineers are financially independent?" but I think could do more to explore real world examples and address the elephant in the room, compensation through vested share
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by hermitShell 5mo ago
"Mom can we get some RAM?" "No dear, we have RAM at home." RAM at home...
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by hermitShell 6mo ago
What do you think of the pace of hardware level freedoms? My context is also from Corey Doctorow: https://youtu.be/3C1Gnxhfok0?si=RjmADE5pQ3s7fBIk For me the freedom to own my computer means I can run any software I want on

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