marstall

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by marstall 1mo ago
how do you define the specialists? a prompt? what do you mean by using protocols as guardrails? Also, can you give me a TLDR on how these voice interfaces work? What kinds of problems are you solving, and how, in an ELI5 way. I might be a l
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by marstall 1mo ago
cool. i like what you've done here with a virtual panel that can answer questions ... i have similar ideas for kabuki syndrome (currently: https://www.thekabukipapers.org ). talk? marstall at gmail.
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by marstall 1mo ago
i've been using Cascade (a third party harness) since the 3 week period in 2023 when it was hot. I think it's called something else now. Devin? Things got confusing there for a second and I stopped paying attention. Anyway very ha
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by marstall 1mo ago
is it just for coding? the docs don't mention code, just "agents"
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by marstall 3mo ago
"force phone providers to collect identity information from ordinary people before they can acquire or renew service with a phone carrier." don't see the harm in this? isn't this already the case for 99.9% of phoneline h
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AI in the rare disease news desert(thekabukipapers.org)
3 points by marstall 4mo ago|1 comments
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by marstall 4mo ago
I'm the creator of a newsletter using AI to make the science behind a rare disease, Kabuki Syndrome, more accessible. In this blog post I walk through the steps I took to translate scientific papers into sparkling prose that maintains
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by marstall 4mo ago
Philip Ball helped me understand this in his book "How Life Works." He makes the point that you can't understand language by understanding letters. Walking up to someone and just saying "L" won't have any effec
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by marstall 4mo ago
yes it all comes back to iteration, the original "vibe coding". for me, programming has always been about making it up as i go along. like an artist starts with one stroke, i started when i was 10 years old typing '10 print &
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by marstall 4mo ago
i've actually been wanting something like this. issue seems to be there is way off the site? top story about thinking machines has no way to click through to original link AFAICS
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by marstall 5mo ago
I've been reading "Elusive Cures" by Nicole Rust, about the failure of neuroscience to cure major ailments like schizophrenia and alzheimers, despite decades of work modeling neurons and other brain systems (costing far in ex
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by marstall 5mo ago
> the OS layer will "see" everything and be able to ingest everything you do into a context that makes sense, i could see it being useful. though it would be a feature easily replicated by Apple or Android if it got some tract
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by marstall 5mo ago
here are some iphone apps i use often: - Spotify - Le Monde (french news) - Maps - Find My - Amazon Anyone have a take on how these (maybe not precisely) could be "replaced by an AI agent"?
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by marstall 5mo ago
TNR - DNR
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Fast Forward 10 years. What does computing look when AI is mature?
2 points by marstall 5mo ago|0 comments
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by marstall 5mo ago
it may be hard to measure, but it's definitely helping everyone who uses it to be more productive in certain aspects of their work. that's clear to me. but it might be, say, 20% more productive in 20% of your workday, or 1000% mor
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by marstall 5mo ago
I got 20% autistic, 80% Irish?
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by marstall 6mo ago
| iterate on their product faster. i've run into a situation where it really slowed iteration down, because i wasn't able at some point to explain in english what I wanted it to do and had to go into the code, which, lo and behold
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by marstall 6mo ago
and he wrote them when he was completely blind!
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by marstall 7mo ago
or democracy/civilization attack. DHS/Putin siccing this kind of thing on democratic voter rolls around Nov. elections could be the least of it. i could see a long tail of impenetrable chaos as private correspondence gets hacked,
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by marstall 7mo ago
yes - i've thought that could work. returning to a more protected object oriented programming model (with hard-defined interfaces) could be a way - "make these changes but restrict yourself to this object" etc.
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by marstall 7mo ago
Let's take that vibe coded product and iterate what it gave you 100 times, as you tweak it to fit your vision. When you do that 101st iteration, can you prevent it from breaking something else, or changing it in a way you don't li
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by marstall 7mo ago
with these posts I always wonder, what happens when this code runs into a customer? Or 1000 customers, or a million? All with their own divergent needs year over year. I have just gotten off 3 years as a developer for that kind of project,
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by marstall 7mo ago
I take it; still obsessed.
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by marstall 7mo ago
holy crap, that's amazing. i struggle to get my head around the agent hype - but i guess this video helps a little. I have Agent FOMO, I guess.
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by marstall 8mo ago
i wonder if the skills will divide a bit. That there will be those who still program by hand - and this will be a needed skill, though AI will be a part of their daily toolset to a greater or lesser degree. Then there will be the AI wrangle
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by marstall 8mo ago
yet tim cook still feels the need to attend the melania premiere
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by marstall 8mo ago
"barratry" - thanks for that one, too!
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by marstall 8mo ago
I have tried the Cascade toolbar with RubyMine and it works well ...
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by marstall 8mo ago
The Myanmar story was definitely the worst (Mark Z + callow execs being willfully ignorant as Facebook clearly inflamed ethnic cleansing there and caused many deaths). Later in the book, the China story was a close second. In order to get i

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