jmatthews

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by jmatthews 3mo ago
It's always weird hearing yourself described and recognizing approximately nothing, right? The hubris to think a group of people could precipitate the rapture is just awe inspiring and the hubris to reduce someone's relationship w
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by jmatthews 4mo ago
That's great compensation. I'm glad justice was served but couldn't have happened to a bigger piece of crap.
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by jmatthews 5mo ago
Well done
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
I learned some of this the hard way. I did the thinking and the distillation, but I had AI write the prose and that's all a lot of people saw, the AI tell-tales.
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
it's a worthwhile lesson. thank you. There was a great deal of effort on my part, but not in the prose. You've taught me something and I appreciate it.
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
it's not that you're teaching the AI, it's that you're framing the conversation on a reference material and having a conversation around it. Exploring a problem with referential framing, like a white paper or a dense blo
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
I'm trying to untangle the "this content isn't valuable" signal from the luddite "Anything with AI is low effort slop" I appreciate the former and am trying to filter the latter.
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
I'll give a software example because I'm just better at it, but if you describe Trello and tell me to decompose it on a white board I start thinking in terms of queues and write|edit|save tuples. I don't have to invent queues
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
It's not a trick bud. The github page shows my user name and Claude. The content is intended to be read by an AI agent and explored through a text interface. That is explicit in the readme and the primer itself. If you think you can ge
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
my apologies it wasn't up to your standards. In fairness to me, that line is exactly what my effort was. I wasn't trying to "learn ML" I am trying to build a mental model that let's me decompose real problem into ML
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
I've bounced off of many good textbooks. Even Karpathy's YouTube series was too dense for me. I'm trying to come in at a more palatable level. This was a two day exploration where I provided the syllabus and ran through it wi
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
I tried to tackle that under Topology for the problem but it may not be well named https://github.com/dreddnafious/thereisnospoon/blob/main/ml-...
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
I'm just trying to develop the lens where I can see a problem and know what properties of it are meaningful from an ML standpoint. Coming from a specific domain where I have a sharpened instinct for how things are haven't really g
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
thanks Oleg
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There is no spoon – A software engineers primer for demystified ML(github.com)
98 points by jmatthews 6mo ago|32 comments
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
This is my weekend project. I am building up my pattern recognition in machine learning. By that I mean see X problem, instantly think of Y solution. The primer markdown file is the artifact of that exploration. read it from top to bottom o
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by jmatthews 6mo ago
For me getting the AI harness to solve the puzzle has become the puzzle. Just one more level of abstraction. Just like I don't code in assembly language anymore, now I don't name every variable. AI coding is just a non-determinist
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by jmatthews 8mo ago
I find this so hard to get my head around. I am wildly more prolific with agentic coding. It's at minimum a 10x for the first several iterations and when you get into the heavy detail part I am still the choke point.
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by jmatthews 1y ago
How many hours do you have mastering git or your IDE or your library of choice for UX?
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by jmatthews 1y ago
Even if the round trip efficiency is 25%? Seasonal storage at competitive prices per megawatt hour is somewhat of a solved problem it just doesn't seem to be getting investment.
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by jmatthews 1y ago
In the same way that black hats will always be advantaged versus white hats, frontier models will always be advantaged versus derivatives.
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by jmatthews 1y ago
You essentially outline why it should be broken up. I'm not convinced making the ad tech sector more competitive would prompt that outcome but, "It would disrupt mature products" isn't a compelling argument to allow the
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by jmatthews 2y ago
I would like to post this respectfully, just for posterity. The anti science insular concepts being assumed as fact, the discredited overpopulation theories, the sky is falling parts of climate change. I can't credibly participate beca
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by jmatthews 2y ago
It is insane how tone deaf most of the comments are, jarring even. I forget how insular so much of the community is and I often make the mistake of equating intelligence, which exists here in spades, with critical thought. Understand that m
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by jmatthews 2y ago
I've read the couple of critical responses but on merit, the message is true. Anecdotally, my wife takes hundreds of photos every month that essentially no one will ever see again. Android has a memories feature that serves them back u
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by jmatthews 2y ago
I was that kid, now I have 3 sons and I am homeschooling my oldest because he is similar. The hack is essentially to praise the work, not the outcome. On some level you have to be unfair to your kid to be fair with him.
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by jmatthews 2y ago
Any non paywall version?
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by jmatthews 2y ago
Copper and copper alloys are great antiviral and antimicrobial. Why not work out the minimum deposition required to create that mechanic?
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by jmatthews 3y ago
You can't take this as authoritative but my business has a data relationship with Toyota and they have a ton of juicy telemetry data. Their attorneys are mad protective of the PII they have. Our relationship serves the public interest.
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by jmatthews 3y ago
The creation of the steam turbine is also fascinating. It's a testament to engineering that hot air engines are remotely competitive when so many of the physics line up for steam.(phase change, heat capacity, heat conductivity) The lim

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