jeffreyrogers

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by jeffreyrogers 11d ago
I think there's aspects of this viewpoint that are true. I'm sure I'm less skilled at programming now in some ways than when I started using LLMs, but I'm a lot more productive and I can work on a broader variety of soft
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by jeffreyrogers 12d ago
People are still interested in chess even though computers are much better than humans.
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by jeffreyrogers 13d ago
Not really unique to VC, similar things are happening to private equity with secondary funds.
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by jeffreyrogers 14d ago
I rarely use image search, but I went to look something up recently and I was shocked at how many obviously AI generated images showed up. I couldn't even find an image of the thing I was looking for and eventually gave up. Bing has th
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Armageddon by Anthropomorphism: On Security and the Frontier(hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
4 points by jeffreyrogers 17d ago|0 comments
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by jeffreyrogers 22d ago
I do think it is kind of funny when VCs talk about how they can tell who will be a successful founder. They are picking the people who get to call themselves founders so it is close to tautological that who they think will be successful mat
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by jeffreyrogers 22d ago
There's a trend in top MBA programs called entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) where you raise money to buy a business that you acquire through a mixture of debt and equity. Basically lets MBAs skip the building phase of buildin
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by jeffreyrogers 22d ago
I guess one thing universities have to decide is how important having founders is to them. PG talks about how Harvard has more founders than Yale and Princeton, but I don't really see that as a good or bad thing for any of those school
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by jeffreyrogers 22d ago
No, it's been my experience asking LLMs to explain complicated code to me. They can do a pretty good job of it. You can also ask them to write a bunch of tests and then rip out the old implementation and fix it with a new one. LLMs are
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by jeffreyrogers 22d ago
I think it is easy for companies to waste time and money on lots of things when it is hard to measure the impact. For example, I think most people would agree that the big tech companies are bloated and have too many employees for the amoun
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by jeffreyrogers 22d ago
It makes organizations more productive at producing code and doing other tasks, but translating that into something that affects PnL is different. Where I work it's sped up individual tasks I've worked on but I don't think it
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by jeffreyrogers 22d ago
The LLMs are pretty good at helping with that though.
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by jeffreyrogers 25d ago
Sol
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by jeffreyrogers 25d ago
That's surprising to me. I recently switched from Claude to Codex because I was blowing through my Claude limits. With Codex I haven't been able to use up all of my usage on the 20x plan, with Claude and fable I could do that in a
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by jeffreyrogers 25d ago
No it didn't. It used to be more readable and he changed it to look like this.
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by jeffreyrogers 25d ago
His site didn't always look like that, for some reason he changed it a while ago and now I have to use a custom stylesheet so I can read his articles. It used to be more readable.
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by jeffreyrogers 27d ago
I hope at some point Anthropic does a post-mortem on the strange behavior their models have been displaying recently. I mostly switched to Codex because I was finding Claude's behavior increasingly frustrating.
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A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms(nature.com)
199 points by jeffreyrogers 1mo ago|85 comments
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by jeffreyrogers 1mo ago
I haven't run into this yet. My test failures have either been real or have been triggered by an (intentional) breaking change. The later does require updating the tests, but I think catching the real bugs is worth that tradeoff. I hav
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by jeffreyrogers 1mo ago
I was fairly skeptical of agentic coding before I used it for a real product. Although I still have to be heavily involved in planning the code that LLMs write for me, they can write code much faster than I can, and they know more about edg
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by jeffreyrogers 1mo ago
I wonder how it compares to small business fraud. I know of multiple frauds in non venture backed ecom and real estate development. In some cases the person involved seems to be a professional fraudster, having had no real employment outsid
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by jeffreyrogers 1mo ago
> Like, the one high signal claim he made turned out to be 25x incorrect! He has dozens of high signal claims in his prediction blog posts. Picking out one of the ones he got wrong doesn't tell you much. Overall his track record is
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by jeffreyrogers 1mo ago
Last time I checked xgboost and lightgbm still outperformed anything NN based for tabular data.
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by jeffreyrogers 2mo ago
You can also roll your traditional IRA into an employers 401k (if the plan allows this) to zero out your traditional IRA balance.
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by jeffreyrogers 2mo ago
Yes, although some plans let you roll contributions into an IRA.
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by jeffreyrogers 2mo ago
You can convert your 401k to an IRA when you leave an employer. Some employers also offer in service rollovers (I think these mostly have minimum age restrictions on them though)
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by jeffreyrogers 2mo ago
Roth contributions are withdrawable without penalty. Also most employers offer a match of some amount, which is essentially free money.
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Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment(rodneybrooks.com)
28 points by jeffreyrogers 2mo ago|10 comments
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by jeffreyrogers 2mo ago
I can flag a lot of content that does pretty well online as AI. There are certain rhythmic patterns in the sentence structure and the way arguments are set up that give it away. The writing is obviously "successful" in that it get
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by jeffreyrogers 2mo ago
Jim Simons (mathematician turned billionaire trader) was a chainsmoker and claimed that he had his genome analyzed and found he was unlikely to get cancer. I always wondered whether he'd really done that or whether it was just a flippa

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