kaashif

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by kaashif 7d ago
Spore had that but I kind of liked it. I guess that was 20 years ago almost, maybe my standards were lower. It felt charming seeing others' animals, some of them looked pretty cool.
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by kaashif 13d ago
AGI would produce novel treatments for diseases at rates equivalent to what a human can do today. Which is to say, not that fast.
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by kaashif 16d ago
Yeah, workflows like ruff then ruff --fix are ideal, or just outright banning certain libraries, or having policies like dependency cool downs. It's funny because we're once again speed running what the best practices already are!
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by kaashif 18d ago
There is a step missing. Impolitely list what's wrong and try to incorporate any persistent themes into a markdown file so that the agent stops making the same mistakes. Put any rules into linters and static analysis and sanitizers and
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by kaashif 21d ago
But this seems to be in agreement with the comment you're replying to. Tourist visas are nonimmigrant visas. So are H1B visas. Was the comment edited?
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by kaashif 21d ago
Pointless images are bad. Like those images at the top of blog posts, I didn't like those pre AI.
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by kaashif 24d ago
The way to use AI is to make sure it has clear, verifiable success criteria, test suites, etc. Make sure any output has citations, reduce the need for trust to zero, etc. I see people one shot stuff and it makes no sense, is completely fake
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by kaashif 26d ago
At some point we'll have enough RAM, surely. The incentives to produce more are huge and all the fabs are booked out. Maybe it'll take 10 years or 20 years. <5 years is not long enough for manufacturing to catch up. Not much of
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by kaashif 26d ago
Which is to say, they'll be banned in the US.
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by kaashif 27d ago
It's a pun on AI winter - if there's not going to be a winter, then it's always summer. But things won't be static. It is in fact normal for new technologies to be adopted, and for there to be no cycle where the technolo
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by kaashif 27d ago
Can you give an example?
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by kaashif 29d ago
Being able to efficiently allocate labor with a more mobile workforce does increase productivity, this is well studied. Here's a source, although it isn't that detailed and is more of a descriptive literature review: https:/
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by kaashif 29d ago
Why does it have to be a choice? Raise the median, raise the minimum, use wealth created through higher productivity and a healthier labour market to redistribute to some degree, everyone wins? The frictions we're talking about, like h
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by kaashif 1mo ago
I'm not American, but most people I know who are not in tech just use ChatGPT like they'd use Google but better e.g. what bird is this, what's a good word for X or Y, what's the weather, what was that movie with Z. Edit
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by kaashif 1mo ago
Why would you restrict to the US workforce? ChatGPT has a billion users.
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by kaashif 1mo ago
Why does being a compressed corpus of knowledge mean it can't discover things? What if it has knowledge of techniques to discover proofs? It does and that's what's happening.
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by kaashif 1mo ago
Damn, looks like we have lower productivity than cavemen!
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by kaashif 1mo ago
(1) Yes. (2) Are you saying that you think we're at the limits of computing in general, or that specific technology? We know, for example, that a human brain level intelligence is possible to run on a human brain. We are nowhere near t
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by kaashif 2mo ago
What if you forget to use that and just use let or const? It is better than plain try-finally or defer because you don't have to remember how to dispose of the resources but in terms of remember to dispose of the resource at all, I don
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by kaashif 2mo ago
If the idea of computers is that they remember stuff for you and do stuff for you, then both try/finally and defer seem like hacks to work around not having RAII like e.g. Rust or C++ where resources are closed/disposed of/de
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by kaashif 2mo ago
"The race condition snapped like a steel spring." I like the idea of the story, and cool ideas can be engrossing on their own. But well written this ain't.
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by kaashif 2mo ago
Right, and if you come up with an efficiency gain that makes scaling better, e.g. a 50% reduction in required compute. Or even asymptotic improvements e.g. moving from quadratic to linear. Then you're much much better off. There is not
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by kaashif 2mo ago
Someone is drowning and calls for help. I throw a bucket of chum into the water and walk away, putting my headphones on. Well I did take the time to help, better than nothing, right?
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by kaashif 2mo ago
I always have my phone with me so I can take a note in that. But when I'm meeting with someone I prefer taking notes in a little notebook I carry, I don't want the other person to feel like I'm...on my phone while speaking to
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by kaashif 2mo ago
Indeed. I guess we're talking about it, which is the point of marketing blog posts like this. If it weren't claudeslop, it would still have to be marketing corposlop.
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by kaashif 2mo ago
I only even heard about Jennifer Pahlka from Tyler Cowen's podcast, I think there are still some podcasts worth listening to. Your point is well taken and very reasonable though.
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by kaashif 2mo ago
Asking this question only a handful of years after a global pandemic... If the next pandemic is 50% deadly, not being able to make gloves is surely the canary in the coal mine proving we wouldn't be able to make any other PPE. And no c
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by kaashif 2mo ago
I think it's great someone is working on a fun little project such as a smart fan but let's not kid ourselves, it's not supposed to be practical! I don't think anyone would claim that. It's a demo of how easy it is
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by kaashif 2mo ago
I like how every time a new technology is invented and becomes big, people start to think it explains everything. Like how in the 16th/17th centuries some people thought the universe was a big clock. Or how in the 19th centuries people
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by kaashif 2mo ago
Why? Are people actually using AI to do programmatic refactors over million line codebases directly? That is far more insane. Using AI to write ruff rules or clang-tidy rules with fixes is literally the same thing and obviously best practic

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