jerb

9 ms·

1.
by jerb 2y ago
Yes. Productivity tools make programmer time more valuable, not less. This is basic economics. You’re now able to generate more value per hour than before. (Or if you’re being paid to waste time, maybe consider coding in assembly?) So d
2.
by jerb 2y ago
But it’s clearly statistically much safer ( https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport ) 7 million miles before an accident w FSD vs. 1 million when disengaged. I agree I didn’t like the feel of FSD either, but the numbers spe
3.
by jerb 2y ago
Thanks, I’ve never heard this and it’s quite profound. It’s always bothered me that there even is a top speed, and further that mass becomes infinite as it’s approached. But “speed of causality” makes these less strange.
4.
by jerb 2y ago
When I say “new knowledge” I mean in the David Deutsch sense. Like the discovery of new physics which Sam mentioned.
5.
by jerb 2y ago
I want to be wildly optimistic too, but I still see no evidence LLMs generate new knowledge. They always hew in-distribution. Please correct me if I’m wrong
6.
by jerb 2y ago
T
7.
by jerb 2y ago
Is the score of 28 comparable to the score of 29 here? https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/ai-mathematical-olympiad...
8.
by jerb 3y ago
Define “waste”. Then explain why your opinion should trump a free market. Then tell me how much coercion will be required to enforce it.
9.
Two physicists who correctly predicted the mass of Higgs boson [video](youtube.com)
92 points by jerb 3y ago|64 comments
10.
by jerb 3y ago
Problem with most chairs (including Aeron) is the bowl-shaped seat pan. It feels comfy / cradling when you first sit down, and that’s why people buy them. But as the minutes and hours go by, your pelvis is turning inward for lack of
11.
by jerb 4y ago
> I often wonder what Minsky would think about the current generation of AI. I suspect he'd react similiarly to Chomsky who in, a recent interview (MLST), was highly critical of LLMs as "not even a theory" (of what, i&#x27
12.
by jerb 5y ago
Scientific progress has slowed, but engineering progress is only just beginning. For instance, the electronic transport chain of respiration/photosynthesis, is a series of quantum tunnels. Man has barely scratched the surface of quan