itishappy

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by itishappy 9d ago
My company ran a test and found that they reduce token output on flagship model by something like 2-4x, and that number has been increasing with newer models. I suspect the increased subagent usage is driving this trend, because this mean
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by itishappy 10d ago
Because "depth" is recursive. You can search twice without waiting for the results of your first search: iteration. You can't if the thing you need to search for is the results of your first search: recursion.
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by itishappy 10d ago
That sounds more iterative than recursive. Recursion requires feeding the output back into the input, so creating version 4 requires results from version 3. You cannot recur in parallel. Iteration does not. You can iterate in parallel.
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by itishappy 12d ago
A published formalization is code. I would not think humans have any edge when it comes to citing previously published results.
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by itishappy 12d ago
It is, but it was also a rhetorical device! I wanted to highlight that we're actually looking at a trio of concepts: intelligence, IQ, and value. Strongly correlated concepts, yes, but also meaningfully distinct!
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by itishappy 13d ago
What does IQ have to do with intelligence? (Please forgive the flippant response. I believe it cuts to the core of what the parent was intending.)
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by itishappy 17d ago
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XMCU2vxtxxqqQ2NY567n... You can download it in various forms as well, such as txt. Won't fix the tone, but at least it's scannable.
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by itishappy 17d ago
Embeded slides URL is a great hack from which you can just download as .txt directly.
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by itishappy 17d ago
No, you've been charged for every one of those licenses.
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by itishappy 17d ago
> Also, the statement was valid because it will be true for most. The statement seems more like a preconception than data.
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by itishappy 17d ago
That is the appeal. It's an opinionated distro designed around keyboard navigation.
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by itishappy 20d ago
Those self-interested unions better stay away from my interests!
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by itishappy 20d ago
My distinction is "systems" vs "scripting" but yeah. I'm bringing Y2K back next!
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by itishappy 20d ago
Agreed, efficiency is still important, but being at the "frontier of efficiency" is significantly more relevant to commodity model providers than state-of-the-art model providers. Frontier labs are incentivized to route their spen
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by itishappy 21d ago
> Given that OpenAI is ahead in intelligence, it's also reasonably likely that they are at the frontier of efficiency too. Frontier labs have no incentive to be at the frontier of efficiency. Claude still leads the pack in general i
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by itishappy 22d ago
Scripting languages are awful. Python is one of the nicest scripting languages.
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by itishappy 24d ago
Happens with humans too! My senior colleagues check in with me significantly less often and cost significantly more in the meantime!
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by itishappy 24d ago
I feel like these are two competing goals: * the dev wants to describe an app in natural language then fall asleep while an AI works on it * the dev wishes that the same AI would write less comprehensive tests What exactly is a vibe coder t
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by itishappy 24d ago
The session is "just" the raw chat history in it's entirety (human and agent) and can be disseminated as such. This is what enables swapping between models, you simply send the whole context. Not sure how others do it, but op
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by itishappy 24d ago
> [...] there is one unquantified, unproven comment at the top saying it's 100% [...] The parent was clearly not stating anything confidently. > Look at the later comments, they have substance oriented discussions. There are two
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by itishappy 1mo ago
I don't follow. The default today is that an unprivileged user space application should not crash the machine. The kernel reserves what it needs, then hands the rest to user space. Thus, all available memory should not crash the machin
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by itishappy 1mo ago
I don't think anyone can objectively judge the attractiveness of both genders on one scale.
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by itishappy 1mo ago
I like "pretty privilege." In my experience, improving appearance is already one of the top suggestions for job applicants. We're attuned the other way too, showing up to work in a nice outfit tends to be met with "got a
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by itishappy 1mo ago
Isn't that the default? The user has access to all available memory unless they (or an admin) set a restriction. Unavailable memory is only unavailable because writing to it crashes the kernel, thus preventing you from using your hardw
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by itishappy 1mo ago
Disk, memory, and CPU limits? The app should crash, not the kernel.
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by itishappy 1mo ago
> if we wanted every human on Earth to be over 6' tall, we could just cull the short ones (or stop them from reproducing) This is a testable hypotheses. What's actually stopping us? Science is not the issue here.
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by itishappy 1mo ago
Pantone is not a color space. They are a supplier of physical color samples. Most pigments can be represented in a color space, but that representation differs based on illumination so it not unique. Some Pantone pigments, fluorescent color
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by itishappy 1mo ago
Gilbert's is a liver disease... https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17661-gilbert...
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by itishappy 2mo ago
This applies to engineers as well! The ability to connect specialties is what separates the outstanding from the great.
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by itishappy 2mo ago
Yeah, I don't mean it literally, nor do I necessarily agree with the concept of 10x engineers in general, but it's a useful shorthand. I would bet doctors vary somewhat less than other fields, but my family has been surprised and

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