jwilber

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by jwilber 1mo ago
Somehow I don’t think people are confusing raw seismic station earthquake counts with the three back-to-back high profile/magnitude earthquakes that recently occurred in Venezuela, Colombia, and Indonesia. I understand the point, maybe
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by jwilber 3mo ago
I don’t think mapping tooling to ability makes sense here, particularly when the “advanced” tools here just abstract more away, though I agree that Cursor is terrible. So many useless windows.
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by jwilber 3mo ago
It was almost impossible to unsubscribe a few years ago. Seems like not much has changed.
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by jwilber 4mo ago
Well, the average grade at Princeton is an A. Not sure how much this will change anything.
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by jwilber 4mo ago
You can paste this exact response under your other post, as well. Emotionally compelling, scientifically weak. Worth nothing. But also, what you wrote is just wrong. There are plenty of measurable, significant, ood effects in the last few d
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by jwilber 4mo ago
Author clearly doesn’t know the field well at all. First few paraphrases reveal this. Opening sentence: I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. Everyone is allowed to have an opinion, but that doesn’t mean they’re all worth l
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by jwilber 5mo ago
That’s just playing semantics. Nobody is talking about, “objective facts” or need define them here. If the step time is measured in days, and your model takes years to train, then it will never get trained to completion on consumer hardware
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by jwilber 6mo ago
Ah yeah, well I didn’t know it was that high! But I’m responding to the rescue mission comment, which, since Vietnam, have overwhelmingly employed helicopters (Huey’s then, Black Hawks today). But machinery aside, the larger point is that a
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by jwilber 6mo ago
…against the viet cong, where the biggest risk was the pilot getting pierced from small arms fire (in addition to the helo going down from pilot error). Quite different from the anti-air weapons modern day Iran possesses.
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by jwilber 6mo ago
No shame rewarded as expected in the post-cluely world of contemporary VC.
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by jwilber 6mo ago
Fair point, I just think that example is better off running on a cron job than using compute from llm inference, (though that will become negligible over time, anyways).
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by jwilber 6mo ago
I see this critique about autoresearch online often, but I think it’s misplaced. Here’s a use case that may illuminate the difference, from my own work at Nvidia. Im currently training some large sparse autoencoders, and there are issues wi
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by jwilber 6mo ago
I agree with the sentiment that there are use cases for web scraping where an agent is preferable to a cron job, but I think your particular example can certainly be achieved with a cron job and a basic parser script. Just have Claude write
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by jwilber 6mo ago
That has, unfortunately, been business as usual in Iran for the last few months. But these are all additional points in support of what is already said.
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by jwilber 6mo ago
You really don’t see how the situation is materially different? The bombed oil fields, hotels, dead American soldiers - all business as usual?
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by jwilber 7mo ago
Looks great, if I remember correctly the author mentioned that the spring color palette + fruit examples are a bit tongue-in-cheek.
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by jwilber 7mo ago
Or empathetic, especially when they throw money away à la $70M parties: “General and administrative expenses increased by $68.1m ... The increase was primarily driven by … an in-person company event held in Q3 2025”
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by jwilber 7mo ago
Some choice Jack Dorsey quotes: From New Yorker profile: “His goal… is… by making information freer, he hopes to make the world fairer, kinder, and nicer.” Where he also writes, “I definitely feel the most fundamental issue is economic equa
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by jwilber 7mo ago
Will never not complain about languages not giving code examples. It’s like writing a charting/UI/style library and showing no examples. Just what?
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by jwilber 9mo ago
The Venezuelan people?
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by jwilber 9mo ago
You must be fortunate to have a lived experience where the answer isn’t immediately (and obviously) financial security. Also: plenty of meaning outside of running a SaaS. Hell, undergraduate research assistants probably contribute more to s
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by jwilber 9mo ago
The article didn’t even mention that, at 29 years old, he abandoned his 5 year-old son to go on his middle-aged crisis journey. Some person to celebrate.
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by jwilber 10mo ago
Would love to see the percentage of Forbes 30u30 who also had (sorry, claimed) a disability in college.
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by jwilber 10mo ago
You work in tech and are somehow convinced working on a blockchain app is a good thing ? We should make employees pass a basic economics test!
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by jwilber 10mo ago
Yeah, my guess is the team vibe-coded it because wow is does it have poor performance /is difficult to use. A few links didn’t even work for me…
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by jwilber 11mo ago
I understand your argument but it just seems like you’re purposely being contrarian. Here’s why what you wrote seems needlessly contrarian: Amazon just posted an $18B quarter, so there is no pressing financial pressure. Okay, so you suggest
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by jwilber 11mo ago
Ah yes, our government where career politicians from both sides have bent the rules to create 9-10 figure fortunes.
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by jwilber 11mo ago
The reason people were screaming is because they expected America to lose. They were screaming about how stupid it is.
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by jwilber 1y ago
Hardships do come from high screen time, definitely. The poor job market is not one of them. The “screen” effect doesn’t exist. But the percentage of students enrolled in cs programs grew a lot of the last few years, and I’ve seen the passi
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by jwilber 1y ago
Well, it could be both. Having more doctors before cuts means having more after cuts.

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