mikehollinger

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by mikehollinger 27d ago
> Is anthropomorphizing a real problem Yes. There's a difference between scrapping a session and starting over, or going back and branching something, or using sub-agents to see five outcomes, vs arguing with a system in a long draw
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by mikehollinger 5mo ago
Oh. Nice. I'd add the Zones of Thought series by Verner Vinge. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
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by mikehollinger 1y ago
(needs a tag to be 2017)
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
From a different robot (Boston Dynamics' new Atlas) - the system moves at a "reasonable" speed. But watch at 1m20s in this video[1]. You can see it bump and then move VERY quickly -- with speed that would certainly damage som
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
> what were you thinking then before your aha moment? :D My naive view was that there was some sort of “normalization” or “pattern matching” that was happening. Like - you can look at a trend line that generally has some shape, and notic
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
This doesn’t capture work that’s happened in the last year or so. For example some former colleagues timeseries foundation model (Granite TS) which was doing pretty well when we were experimenting with it. [1] An aha moment for me was reali
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
> About "people still thinking LLMs are quite useless", I still believe that the problem is that most people are exposed to ChatGPT 4o that at this point for my use case (programming / design partner) is basically a useles
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
https://c4model.com/ is very useful for this. :-) I've told it before, but when we were doing some clean sheet work a while ago I decided to use the C4 model and drew out the obligatory "Context" diagram with
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
Relationships and sequences. But if you want to talk about REAL complex systems talk to a microprocessor logic owner or architect trying to shoot a bug. A while ago we found a bug that could crash a system (fixed in a new RIT of the chip) i
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
> compression mostly makes imperfections go away The ultimate compression is to reduce the video clip to a latent space vector representation to be rendered on device. :) Just give us a few more revs of Moore’s law for that to be reasona
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
Eh. A better analogy - the output would decide that there needs to be conduit between floors for chilled water, hot water, sewage, dutifully make several 4” pipes, and then from floor to floor forget which is which.
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
I am fascinated by how complex JIRA is. We evaluated it in 2008. It seemed fine enough. Looking at it 16 years later, and… what is this nonsense? It’s so customizable that it’s loaded with footguns.
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
Semi-related story with some insider baseball: There are quite a few memorable words you can spell using 32 or 64 bits—like BA5EBA11. This is the story of me -not- choosing one of those. These bit-pattern words are handy because they’re eas
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
Even highly precise and expensive timers will drift. Lesson learned: we built a 42-node several petabyte storage cluster. Worked fine as we were starting small, and got bigger, and bigger. When we “had it” and disconnected from our internal
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
>If they want to salvage Alexa, they need to forget shopping and start doubling down on the smart home and assistant experience. Agree. Go look at the Alexa Skills for any random category and sort by "best sellers," then sort a
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
The Peter Drucker compliment is pretty amazing. As an aside for anyone who’s technical and wants to understand how most corporations work, read “Effective Executive.” It’s from the 60’s but is still very relevant. It (more or less) is “how
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
A counter example: I like making hasselback potatoes for special dinners. It’s incredibly tedious to peel, slice, and stack 4 pounds of potatoes. I dumped in my recipe and notes, suggested the 1 lb bag of shredded raw potatoes instead of th
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
> Numbers like these really don't bode well for the long-term prospects of open source models, I doubt the current strategy of waiting expectantly for a corporation to spoonfeed us yet another $100,000 model for free is going to wor
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
> I don't see the gotcha, that's how it is supposed to work. It's just their purpose The issue here is that docker evolved rather rapidly and in a “let a thousand flowers bloom” sort of manner. And because of that you have
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Red Hat Unveils InstructLab: A Simplified Path to AI Adoption and LLM Creation(redhat.com)
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
I use 1Password to manage passkeys. It’s pretty nice. They sync across my devices, I can erase one if I need to, and generally with the exception of something odd with Firefox and one website they just work.
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
> According to everyone that has ever told me how to do powerpoint presentations, they need an intro slide that tells the audience what they are about to be told in the presentation they are about to be told, and a conclusion slide that
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
You might want to read Edward Tufte's Beautiful Evidence.[1] He discusses stuff like what you brought up about readability and distracting from the message / point of the data. If you've seen sparklines, [2] Tufte coined the
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
> Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. Yup. I got the chance to go shopping at one in 2018 (so it's been a while).
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
Oh absolutely. It's pretty amazing tbh. I wonder how many people were turned away from positions because they didn't have "SLQ" experience?
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by mikehollinger 2y ago
Semi-related - I continue to be amused by the number of people that blindly-copy things without understanding what's what. I've seen / heard people refer to LLMs for Vision, which are certainly a thing, but not always what pe
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
Y - the concept of frequent validation differentiated the stuff I’ve worked on that’s done well from the stuff that didn’t. Put a different way: the items that we didn’t get good validation on had to landed with a thud in market, or needed
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
This is remarkable. Lasers were invented in 1960 as a point of reference. The painted rope on two spools was also remarkable because of its simplicity - and it holds up today on explaining what a "download" is. ;-) And even cooler
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
I’ve worked with someone named True, who, when I went to go add her to some event or another, something along the way helpfully changed it to “TRUE.” I also worked with a guy whose last name was Null. His email was null@ for a period of tim
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
I can email mike@somedomain.com but I can't "call" or "text" mike@somedomain.com . You can kinda sorta see this now with imessage / facetime, but that's not consistent and implemented in a standard protoc

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