moconnor

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by moconnor 7d ago
The iPhone Air is nearly 20% larger than the mini
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by moconnor 2mo ago
National strategy. Thanks to smart investments, China's energy costs are far lower than everybody else's. If intelligence becomes a commodity, then China will be providing it for the world. Incredible leverage.
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by moconnor 3mo ago
Seems like China is using them in buses already? https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/cas-in-media/202606/t2026060...
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by moconnor 3mo ago
Literally the very first time I used ChatGPT. I had already been experimenting with GPT3 for various jokes and games via the API but the naturalness of it as a chat interface that understood you changed everything. The first time I used a t
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by moconnor 4mo ago
“Flow” moves agents through a yaml flowchart of prompts and decisions. It’s working quite well for a couple of us in Tenstorrent, more to discover here though: https://github.com/yieldthought/flow Happily, 5.5 is good
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by moconnor 5mo ago
This is the future of all software; the benefits of making it accessible to agents are overwhelming.
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by moconnor 5mo ago
This is an incredibly good first approximation and is often all you need. Source: spent a couple of years developing an energy and performance profiler for cpus and gpus with various government labs.
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by moconnor 5mo ago
Very large, fast, read-only memory now has an incredible use-case: NN weights.
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by moconnor 6mo ago
Is... is this named because they have a lemon they're trying to make the most of?
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by moconnor 6mo ago
Whoever did this must have realised the users will hate it. So… is this just demonstrating that the internal culture emphasises other things than user happiness? I also note that ”for PRs” - will we see these appearing as comments in genera
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by moconnor 6mo ago
I’m not saying I prefer it like this. Just stating that the change is already inevitable.
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by moconnor 6mo ago
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. A lot of it was “debug this issue and fix it” or “write this small tool to do X”
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by moconnor 6mo ago
We also outlaw vices like physical violence and property theft. Society is fundamentally counter to individual freedom, and the degree determines the nature of that society and the degree of cooperation possible within it.
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by moconnor 6mo ago
The article’s “worst case” is not dark enough. The real evil is when someone ensures the famine occurs so they can profit from an outside betting position.
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by moconnor 6mo ago
This is naive. The people deciding about the bombing will profit most by taking a very large and unlikely position against the market’s predictions and then carrying it out immediately. Anonymous trading on prediction markets leads to unpre
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by moconnor 6mo ago
I’ve been programming professionally for 25 years. Well, 24 really because in the whole last year I barely wrote a line myself but my output increased dramatically. If you can’t see that it’s over, I’m not sure what to tell you. You will, i
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by moconnor 7mo ago
Bit flips aren’t always bad hardware. I remember an anecdote from Sandia from my HPC days - they found they were getting more bit flips on some machines than others on their cluster and sometimes correlated. Turned out at their altitude cos
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by moconnor 7mo ago
Same; I can’t believe this AI slop has >1000 points…
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by moconnor 8mo ago
The only software worth writing is tools for agents that contain something hard for them to vibe code in a couple of sessions. Making someone’s agents 20% better, cheaper or faster will be a measurable and easy sales goal.
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by moconnor 9mo ago
To get what?
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by moconnor 11mo ago
The landing page reads like it was written with an LLM. Somehow this makes me immediately not care about the project; I expect it to be incomplete vibe-coded filler somehow. Odd what a strong reaction it invokes already. Like: if the author
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by moconnor 11mo ago
Genuinely interesting how divergent people's experiences of working with these models is. I've been 5x more productive using codex-cli for weeks. I have no trouble getting it to convert a combination of unusually-structured source
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by moconnor 11mo ago
Super cool, I spent a lot of time playing with representation learning back in the day and the grids of MNIST digits took me right back :) A genuinely interesting and novel approach, I'm very curious how it will perform when scaled up
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by moconnor 1y ago
This. There are a dozen vibe coding apps whose landing pages promise roughly what this one does. Why isn’t your tagline “Vibe coding for founders”? All the em-dashes in the AI-generated text on the landing page are… a decision I guess.
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by moconnor 1y ago
"Teams using this system report: 89% less time lost to context switching 5-8 parallel tasks vs 1 previously 75% reduction in bug rates 3x faster feature delivery" The rest of the README is llm-generated so I kinda suspect these nu
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by moconnor 1y ago
Super cool idea! What's your plan for dealing with copyright complaints?
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by moconnor 1y ago
He berated the AI for its failings to the point of making it write an apology letter about how incompetent it had been. Roleplaying "you are an incompetent developer" with an LLM has an even greater impact than it does with people
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by moconnor 1y ago
A very long way of saying "during pretraining let the models think before continuing next-token prediction and then apply those losses to the thinking token gradients too." It seems like an interesting idea. You could apply some s
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by moconnor 1y ago
A colleague of mine did this much more elegantly by manually updating the stack and jmping. This was a couple of decades ago and afaik the code is still in use in supercomputing centres today.
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by moconnor 1y ago
> I use them myself... I don’t pay for them. This seems to be a common disconnect. If you're using the free version of ChatGPT, you don't get to see what everybody else is seeing, not even close. > None of the past “big thin

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