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by ibestvina 6mo ago
On a related note - would it be easier, instead of doing a benchmark sweep across the whole NxN set of start-end pairs for which layers to modify, to instead measure cross-correlation between outputs of all layers? Shouldn't that produ
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Churning butter while agents churn code(ibestvina.substack.com)
2 points by ibestvina 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ibestvina 6mo ago
I think that "hovering the code" and "broken rhythm" are correlated, but still separate issues. There are parts of my code (e.g. vibe-coded mockups) that I don't look at the code of at all, and I don't care abo
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by ibestvina 7mo ago
Exactly! I now feel bad for not thinking of that example, thank you.
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by ibestvina 7mo ago
There's a whole industry of "illusions" humans fail for: optical, word plays (including large parts of comedy), the Penn & Teller type, etc. Yet no one claims these are indicators that humans lack some critical capability
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by ibestvina 7mo ago
This is very "distant" suggestion if you enjoyed Antimemetics, but The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro is another one of my favourites, and it too explores this idea of unreliable and inconsistent memories, although from a completely
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by ibestvina 8mo ago
First, that's quite a sad view of incentives structures. Second, you can't be serious in thinking that "worker worried they might be fired" puts the person in charge closer to the "materials" and more "han
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by ibestvina 8mo ago
I don't see why his involvement, explaining to his team how exactly to build a piece, is any different from a developer explaining to an LLM how to build a certain feature, when it comes to the level of "being hands on". Obvi
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by ibestvina 8mo ago
This makes no sense to me. There are plenty of artists out there (e.g. El Anatsui), not to mention whole professions such as architects, who do not interact directly with what they are building, and yet can have profound relationship with t
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by ibestvina 3y ago
Gates of Heaven (1978) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077598/?ref_=ext_shr
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by ibestvina 3y ago
I always send myself messages as bookmarks, notrs, and general "here's an idea I might want to come back to later". It's an awful system when it comes to discoverability (I do it in Messenger so search is... bad), but I
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by ibestvina 3y ago
How do you look at hiring "experienced people" vs. "enthusiastic interns" on something like this? More generally, how quickly do you think the team will grow, and what the ratio should be between the "old" and
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by ibestvina 3y ago
Could you give an example of content where such critical distilation would be useful to you?
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by ibestvina 3y ago
Interested in this as well - do you already work on this somewhere out in the open?
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by ibestvina 3y ago
As someone who daily sends messages to myself as a form of notetaking, for everything from todos and shoplists to ideas and bookmarks, I've thought about this a lot . The only conclusions I came to are that I keep using messages becau
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by ibestvina 3y ago
Great work! Any plans to open up an API?
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by ibestvina 3y ago
I'm always drawn to these types of initiatives, and your whitepaper looks (at least with my very limited knowledge of the domain) interesting. What I am always wondering, and maybe you can give some details here, is the following: isn&
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by ibestvina 3y ago
So if the product from OP used Azure OpenAI, it would be okay? You say "companies happily pay up", but the pricing is exactly the same (source: my company is paying for both APIs). It's been quite clear for some time that, be
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by ibestvina 3y ago
That (LLM -> SQL -> Pandas using PandaSQL) was my approach with Datasloth [1] some time ago. It then grew into Qluent [2] which I now work on full time, along the lines of what the sibling comment wrote about managers being able to an
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by ibestvina 3y ago
Thank you for the information. I'm sure there are a lot of people who'd be interested in the full 1 hour talk, if you ever find time to film it.
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by ibestvina 3y ago
What an amazing person. I first learned about Clifford when he did his TED talk, and I was immediately a fan. The quote from the Hayes Hall Bell Tower resonated, and stayed with me, for all the years since. I'm deeply grateful that peo
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by ibestvina 4y ago
On the flipside, it might create more demand for some engineers (or skills in general) as the bottlenecks move "upward" on the skills ladder (if we define that ladder as "how hard is it for AI"). E.g., faster and cheaper
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by ibestvina 4y ago
Incredible work, and great explanation, thank you. Could you comment more on the cost of running this (e.g. per query or per hour, or however it's set up)? Where are you running the model from? Also, could you provide more details on t
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by ibestvina 4y ago
We are currently building something similar at Qluent [1], and are considering expanding into the usecase you described. If you find it interesting, I'd love to talk about your exact requirements. You can find me at ivan (dot) bestvina
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by ibestvina 4y ago
Great work, and a really interesting application of GPT3. Some time ago I developed Datasloth [1] which might be a nice complementary feature to Sketch. Ping me if you're interested to bounce ideas :) [1] https://github.com&
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by ibestvina 4y ago
Here are the stats :) - Found the optimal path 504 - Found a (non-optimal) path 293 - Correctly reported no path exists 131 - Found a solution when none existed 19 - Ended on wrong node 0 - Used edges that don't exi
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by ibestvina 4y ago
Great writeup! I made a couple of changes in your code and it seems it gets ~90% of examples correct (inside the first three categories you have) with aroung 65% having either optimal path or correctly saying that there is no path. What I c
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by ibestvina 4y ago
Thanks! I found this project[0] recently that does what you described, but it is not open sourced. Maybe if I get around to it, I might build a UI. [0] https://www.askedith.ai
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Show HN: DataSloth - Query Pandas using natural language(github.com)
14 points by ibestvina 4y ago|2 comments