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by jgord 4d ago
cc my comment from reddit : This is true of almost any field - if we have black-box technology that only the AI can understand / fix / augment / extend, then we will lose the ability for humans to learn and understand that te
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by jgord 8d ago
Stunning, heart-warming read. This is possibly more exciting and of more future value than solving Navier Stokes. It also shows us a way, when it seems we are lost.
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by jgord 9d ago
Other topics we seem to have been unable to have deep and informed discussion on, leading to sane policy : - inequality / taxation - demographics / aging population - climate change mitigations - affect of social media e
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by jgord 9d ago
It needs a more coherent cogent discussion, leading to dare I say it sane _policy_ ... which the frontier model companies and hyper-scalars are not incentivized to finance, and governments too slow and weakly funded to finance.
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by jgord 9d ago
Enjoyed this. More importantly its an emerging problem we need to urgently solve. Apart from my own desire to read the internet to find out what actual people think .. Im worried about a kind of bit-rot, where any decade now, gen-pop reade
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by jgord 9d ago
to be fair .. the tour does have a list of contents on right hand side, which I noticed much later. and sql examples. I guess we are in the age of "Ill get my people to talk to your people" or "Ill get my AI to summarize your
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by jgord 9d ago
I am interested in what features postgresql 19 has .. and would like to see a summary that starts with a bullet list of highlights. I found this tour unreadable. Here's the official release notes page : https://www.postgresq
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by jgord 13d ago
I think the current gold-rush of nearly all money into GPU Datacenter and frontier LLMs is essentially starving the economy of innovation. Academics and founders who might work on developing practical products using NN / ML / RL t
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by jgord 23d ago
yeah, Id actually like to see a reasonable prediction of the trajectory, factoring in recent few years data [ faster warming, current emissions, cleaner air / reduced aerosols and issues like those you mention such as equilibration and
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by jgord 23d ago
Generally, what progress is being made on Alzheimers ? Are advances like AlphaFold likely to speed up progress ?
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by jgord 23d ago
Recent studies estimate climate warming is happening faster than it was, ballpark +0.3C per decade. As we are at or nearing +1.5C now, with global emissions at an all time high [ perhaps peaking soon ] theres a good chance we are headed tow
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by jgord 23d ago
to be fair.. almost all of human civilization happened over the last ~10k years, the Holocene, during which the climate was unusually stable. Its reasonable to question whether our agriculture at scale is adaptable to such sudden climate ch
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by jgord 1mo ago
... theres a lot of anecdotal evidence executives aren't good thinkers. Why not replace all mid-execs with LLMs trained on every MBA textbook and linked-in blog post ? why stop at grunt coders, graphic designers and phone marketeers ?
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by jgord 1mo ago
I personally look at react-foo and see something thats the opposite of how I want to work as a software craftsman [ small code, lispy / function flavored style, opinionated, few dependencies ] For similar aesthetic reasons, have only d
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by jgord 1mo ago
see also, his : https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/
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by jgord 1mo ago
I think AI detection will increasingly be an arms race .. so we might need other solutions, eg : - blockchain attestation [ crypto-graphically signed by human author / artist ] - proof of work in the traditional sense, eg video
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by jgord 1mo ago
I have strong opinions on how Calc should be introduced - visually. I think we don't cover basics like the distributive rule in school very well, and that it should be a much more nuts n bolts visual / measuring / counting ex
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by jgord 1mo ago
Turbo Pascal is such an iconic and beloved product, they need to make a movie about it.
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by jgord 1mo ago
.. presumably hyper-inequality also erodes the use of common resources, or resources available to commoners ? eg. large companies ( 'hyperscalars' ) pre-ordering RAM and GPUs driving up the prices to the point where PC gamers and
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by jgord 1mo ago
I worry about the finger-on-the-scale mean-reversion aspect of this .. the LLM corralling you ever so gently back towards the median. otoh, LLMs really could become the great illustrated primer for educating kids in science / history &
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by jgord 1mo ago
upvoted for fair point .. its possible an LLM AI could be put to work to search widely for attribution / similar results. eg. "we spent another 2k on searching for pre-existing proof but found only the weaker result xyz by abc in
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by jgord 2mo ago
followup .. one reason I now love and detest C++ is the regularity of new features in the core working set [ particularly the current politically correct incarnation of the smart pointer. ]
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by jgord 2mo ago
A good tool does a job well with minimal side effects and maximal predictability. Perhaps this is why users dislike monthly SaaS - they cannot trust stability of the tool, because often the incentives are to keep adding features well past p
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by jgord 2mo ago
Many people are calling them circular, eg bloomberg, BIS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwcM0By4aJQ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bursting-ai-bubble-collaps... diagram : https://cms.z
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by jgord 2mo ago
Has a competent economist modeled the circularity of these deals ? [ numerically or analytically ] It seems a healthy economy has a lot of wide circularity .. money circulating is a good thing, a result of a functioning market, tracking the
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by jgord 3mo ago
care to share the one glaring obstacle ? slightly related .. I saw a talk on DCs in space, and it said median Earth orbit had a latency of 500ms .. but back of envelope seems to be : 15,000km above Earth would have around 100ms latency, com
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by jgord 3mo ago
not least because of the bureaucratic delays making nuclear slow to roll out.
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by jgord 3mo ago
Im surprised they haven't doubled down on deep drill geothermal.
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by jgord 3mo ago
imo, theres a reasonable chance we will have functioning fusion reactors before these are turned on.
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by jgord 3mo ago
Their VanDyke Brown looks more like a Burnt Sienna to my eyes, but that might just be my screen. You may also enjoy the Chromatopia book : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40554590-chromatopia The author produc

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