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by morelandjs 13d ago
In many cases, you can partition data at rest (eg parquet) on the user access key, then load it once into an agent container at runtime. In this way, one authentication pass provides access to all data in a sandbox, versus repeatedly authen
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by morelandjs 17d ago
Was ready to write something snarky because this is essentially RAG, but I think the author is getting at some subtle details which are seemingly important. - memory systems are a specific type of knowledge base where you generate all the
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by morelandjs 1mo ago
Worth mentioning that controlling for confounders is hard, a reasonable prior is the null effect, and any time a researcher makes a mistake it produces a publication claiming a novel effect. You observe a set of publications concentrated wi
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by morelandjs 2mo ago
Maybe confidence is a loaded term, but LLMs do have a sense of procedural uncertainty. Couldn’t you ask it to respond y/n in response to a question and look at the next token sampling probabilities?
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by morelandjs 2mo ago
Unsolicited endorsement, but I bought a “Brick” device recently, and I can’t recommend it enough for cutting back on social media. Infinite scroll really destroys your ability to concentrate.
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by morelandjs 2mo ago
Would love some kind of randomized A-B test where CEOs are replaced with AI and the outcome measured. Would not at all be surprised if it’s far better than the bottom quartile or more. More practically, I think you could give a board of dir
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by morelandjs 2mo ago
Immediate page abandonment for me. I would appreciate more pledges of “this is entirely human writing, my own thoughts, imperfect as they may be”.
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by morelandjs 2mo ago
Using a better tech stack also provides opportunities to simplify.
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by morelandjs 2mo ago
Man, I hate that tech has just become money. Content like this perpetuates it.
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by morelandjs 3mo ago
I published in Nature Physics and the copy-editing process was quite embarrassing, to the point where we had to repeatedly nag them to stop them from making the manuscript presentation worse. To be clear, I’m not talking about subjective st
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by morelandjs 3mo ago
Agree on article frustrations. Perhaps a better explanation, skills are just disk-cached prompts conditioned on verified success. The conditioned on verified success part might seem inconsequential, but it’s the whole thing that gives skill
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by morelandjs 4mo ago
If anyone from Kalshi or Polymarket is reading this: your advertising is reprehensible. Dumb bros bragging about getting rich betting on the weather. Cringey get-rich-quick influencers. No one believes for a second your claims that predicti
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by morelandjs 4mo ago
It’s my opinion that societal rules should be derived from more fundamental virtues and notions of morality. AI is a capability, and it can be used in moral or immoral ways, but it’s more like a knife than an assault rifle. I don’t want AI
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by morelandjs 4mo ago
This, creating order from chaos (reducing entropy) is difficult and requires real intelligence. Inflating some small prompt into a wall of text and creating a bunch of entropy in the process is not as useful as it appears.
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by morelandjs 4mo ago
Yes, we can crawl our entire internal documentation via LLM. Want to know if someone is already working in the space of your latest idea? Ask Claude, it hits the internal search APIs and finds docs and references directly relevant to your q
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by morelandjs 4mo ago
I have mixed thoughts on this. These thoughts are my own. On the one hand, it’s objectively silly to pretend like we’ve solved the age old problem of measuring developer productivity. Metric-obsessed leadership can also be intolerable, coun
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by morelandjs 4mo ago
There’s nothing wrong with that and perhaps this isn’t useful for you. Reflecting on my own socialization, some of it is spontaneous and some of it is “it’s been a while since I’ve seen so and so, I should reach out”. This app is more for t
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Show HN: Curate and Nurture a Friend Roster(apps.apple.com)
1 points by morelandjs 4mo ago|2 comments
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by morelandjs 4mo ago
I understand your sentiment, and there’s absolutely some truth to it, but I don’t think the path forward is throwing more management resources (or layers) at the problem. And I don’t think the management technology industry is the answer ei
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by morelandjs 5mo ago
Loved my Filco stealth, thanks for the great products!
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by morelandjs 6mo ago
I physically twitch every time I hear a flywheel mentioned. Intended to be evocative of certain physics without actually substantiating any of it.
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by morelandjs 6mo ago
I’m not fully subscribed to the idea that all public scraping of websites is bad, or that this project is a productive contribution. It would be nice to have search engines other than Google, and that necessitates bots being able to index y
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by morelandjs 6mo ago
It’s depressing how many lucrative big tech (FAANG/Unicorn) jobs are effectively scams with business glitter on top. And it’s not always obvious unless you really sit down during the interview process and scrutinize the business model.
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by morelandjs 7mo ago
You took the words out of my mouth. In a megacorp, AI multiplies into about 10% of my work and 10x’s it making me roughly 10% more efficient. When I use AI for side projects and don’t have to work with a bunch of stakeholders, dependency ow
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Show HN: Search local NYC events like you search the web(vibrantsearch.ai)
2 points by morelandjs 7mo ago|0 comments
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by morelandjs 8mo ago
The intersection of investors who understand what it takes to build a game engine and also the capabilities and plausible future capabilities of Google’s model is practically zero.
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by morelandjs 8mo ago
The tail of the distribution justifies the entire distribution. I agree that a large percentage of PhD research is inconsequential, but a small percentage is massively consequential. It’s ok to whiff on a thousand STEM PhDs if you pick up o
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by morelandjs 8mo ago
There’s more to AI than foundation models. I think you are going to see meaningful progress on chore automation over the next decade through a combination of algorithmic and mechanical improvements, and it will measurably improve our lives.
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by morelandjs 10mo ago
The customer service is better. Rates are generally way better. The downside is generally their phone apps and their fraud departments. I had a lovely credit union but their CC was basically unusable because they hired some crummy and over
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by morelandjs 10mo ago
Their tool code use makes a lot of sense, but I don’t really get their tool search approach. We originally had RAG as a form of search to discover potentially relevant information for the context. Then with MCP we moved away from that and i

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