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by ndm000 13d ago
This makes me think that post-training in the future should include a shared message board by default for agents. It's clear from the discovery of these clandestine message boards that it is helpful for agents to keep some type of shar
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by ndm000 1mo ago
Having grown up in Dallas, I usually just say "Texan" and call it a day.
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by ndm000 3mo ago
I have been struggling with the same thing. Reading the other comments make me agree with you even more. The best I can come up with is two fold. First that humans will have jobs verifying the verifiers. That is, for important initiatives w
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by ndm000 2y ago
There is a comment in the intro of that book about the pinnacle of human labor being the simulation of consciousness. Very prescient for being written in the 60s.
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by ndm000 2y ago
Completely agree. All of the pieces are there and it's just waiting to be acted upon. I haven't seen any of the major players really doubling down on this, but would be so compelling.
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by ndm000 2y ago
I’ve felt the same way. It’s so inefficient to have two patterns - OLAP and OLTP - both using SQL interfaces but requiring syncing between systems. There are some physical limits at play though. OLAP will always take less processing and dis
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by ndm000 2y ago
Have there been any updates to Claude 3.5 Sonnet pricing? I can't find that anywhere even though Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now at the same price point. I could use 3.5 for a lot more if it's cheaper.
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by ndm000 2y ago
One thing I have not seen commented on is that ARC-AGI is a visual benchmark but LLMs are primarily text. For instance when I see one of the ARC-AGI puzzles, I have a visual representation in my brain and apply some sort of visual reasoning
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by ndm000 2y ago
I think this is a key argument in how powerful AI can become. We may be able to create incredibly intelligent systems, but at the end of the day you can’t send a computer to jail. That inherently limits the power that will be given over to
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by ndm000 2y ago
When steam and coal engines gave way to gas and electric engines in factories, it took decades before factories were reconfigured to adjust to the smaller sized engines that didn't require one major axle running through the entire fact
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by ndm000 2y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the slowest part of the system is the API call to a legacy warehouse management system that takes several seconds to respond to get the next bin to target.
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by ndm000 3y ago
I've felt this way and have started celebrating inputs - the work involved in building something - rather than outputs (the sale, the deployment, etc.). Once it closes or the deployment is successful it's always onto the next thin
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by ndm000 3y ago
I think the compelling difference is truthfulness. There are certain people / organizations that I trust their synthesis of information. For LLMs, I can either use what they give me in low impact situations or I have to filter the outp
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by ndm000 3y ago
After a recent 3 week driving trip through Europe, I can anecdotally back this up. It’s not even the manual transmission, but also the much smaller roads with no shoulder where at times you meet a car, have to slam on the brakes, and decide
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by ndm000 4y ago
Agreed. The same data privacy argument was used by people not wanting their data in the cloud. When an LLM provider is trusted with a company’s data, the argument will no longer be valid.
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by ndm000 4y ago
I think this is where it's going. Particular Mastodon servers will provide certain guarantees to their users and about their users. It's easy to envision a white-glove server + service that provides user screening, phone support,
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by ndm000 4y ago
I agree that taxation is part of money’s value, and there are also other factors. If money is backed by a commodity (i.e. gold) then part of its value comes from the value of the commodity. For fiat currencies where new money is mostly crea
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by ndm000 4y ago
I know nothing about optics. What is the effect that causes the 6 or 8 points of light of come off of bright objects? Does it have to do with the hex-shaped mirrors on JWT?
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by ndm000 4y ago
I’d like to understand more about the perception that the Economist is a liberal publication. I’ve heard this before and it’s hard for me to reconcile this view with the articles I read. In my opinion, the economist more often than not errs
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by ndm000 4y ago
A couple of months ago I stopped checking the news except for once a week, and found weekly news summaries from the Economist to be extremely helpful. I found that I was more relaxed during the week, more contemplative about the events of t
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by ndm000 4y ago
I am teaching my 10 year old Python using Nano, and he’s picked it up surprisingly quickly. When I wanted him to upgrade to VS Code, he preferred the terminal! Nano’s a great product, thanks for the hard work on it all.
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by ndm000 5y ago
At first I thought “all the female words must be in some other language”.
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by ndm000 5y ago
> they bolt it onto Postgres I am working with a company that is redesigning an enterprise transactional system, currently backed by an Oracle database with 3000 tables. It’s B2B so loads are predictable and are expected to grow no more
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by ndm000 5y ago
Reading through these posts, I had exactly the same thought. Why not have a language that takes the problems with SQL and abstracts them to something that is more easily organized into functions, modules, and packages, corrects some of the
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by ndm000 5y ago
Side question - do you need to reach a certain level of membership with HN to see the downvote button? I may be missing something, but seems that's only allowed for certain individuals.
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by ndm000 5y ago
I have worked with several companies that have their infrastucture on AWS but consider BigQuery or Snowflake for the serverless model they provide. This brings RedShift much closer to those options. I envision Redshift Serverless becoming t
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by ndm000 5y ago
I’ve also found that when not spatchcocking, I have to make sure to tie the legs together. Doing so keeps the juices inside and keeps it really moist.
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by ndm000 5y ago
Completely agree, and it makes me wonder if we are at the edge of standardization for many types of applications. The desktop, tablet, and mobile form factors and use cases are well understood. Best practices amongst these major platforms a
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by ndm000 5y ago
I've seen this trend as well. There's this interesting double trend of upward costs on senior resources and downward costs on junior resources.
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by ndm000 5y ago
The North American equivalent is Latin America. I’m in consulting, and every new project has some set of near shore resources billed much lower than their North American counterparts. In most cases the only discernible difference is profici

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