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by psvv 5d ago
I think the parent comment meant professional, high-level chess. The kind people get played to play, not just do for a hobby. That's absolutely on life support. I'm not sure what the equivalent would look like in the math field, b
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by psvv 7d ago
I haven't been keeping up with all the math proofs. Does anyone know if there have been any LLM proofs that are NOT counterexamples?
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by psvv 15d ago
LLMs are broader than just coding. The article states this particular Zitron claim was wrong, even at the time, because you can put an LLM on a loop until it generates code that compiles. Mitigating hallucinations (in the subset of applic
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by psvv 15d ago
I'm not familiar with the culture, but that sounds reasonable. I'll quibble with the term rigor. I think the article contains the strictness that word implies, but not the thoroughness.
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by psvv 15d ago
I don't really care what Zitron says or pay attention to him because it seems clear to me he has some kind of agenda. But this article is not nearly as impartial as it claims to be. It interprets all Zitron's claims in a narrow an
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by psvv 1mo ago
I have a whole theory on this I call design innovation through technical innovation. If you want to do something no one has done artistically, it helps if you're also doing something no one has done technically. And novel designs stand
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by psvv 1mo ago
This is an okay introduction, but it shouldn't be considered prescriptive. As with most art forms, the very best and most interesting examples treat rules like these as starting points, not end points.
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by psvv 2mo ago
I really appreciate this comment, so I'll try to return the favor (in small part) by sharing one pretty special to me: WYCE, https://grcmc.org/wyce . Hope you enjoy.
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by psvv 2mo ago
That seems to indicate the market is more confident in walmart's earnings than nvidia's.
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by psvv 2mo ago
You could try a browser extension that just filters all terms like LLM, AI, agent, agentic and removes those posts. Or better yet, call back to a certain classic and replace those words with "butt" and keep them in. Then your fron
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by psvv 3mo ago
What makes another couple big steps like that inevitable in a short time frame? Before the recent floodgates cracked open, AI research made only slow incremental progress for decades. Why couldn't we already be back near that rate of p
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by psvv 3mo ago
Funny, I put parachutes on my airplanes in kerbal space program (as a safety feature) but never considered what the real-life analogue to that would be. Turns out it's very similar!
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by psvv 4mo ago
Fair point. Humans experience reality and use words to reflect that. LLMs only have the words. And it's an open question how much of a limitation that is to understanding.
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by psvv 4mo ago
I like this anecdote because it gets at how words to an LLM have no connection to their real concepts. To an LLM, words are simply numbers arranged in a likely pattern.
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by psvv 4mo ago
I think one could make a hypothetical case that working at a cigarette company in 2026 is a more morally justifiable position than working at meta in 2026, because cigarettes as they're regulated today generally only affect adults, onl
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by psvv 4mo ago
Flipping the question like this was my instinct as well. I think the passion tax and supply and demand are definitely factors, but the real reason for the gap is that big tech has gotten increasingly exploitative and monopolistic, leading t
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by psvv 4mo ago
They're all pretty high margin though. I think flipping the question like this gets at the heart of the true answer. The question is not why video game pay has lagged, but why tech pay has jumped ahead.
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by psvv 4mo ago
I like classes for meeting new people for a few reasons. First, there's a structure around the activity which doesn't force you interact all the time. Second, you're not entering an established group as the one new person. An
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by psvv 4mo ago
The highly random and somewhat convoluted mechanisms remind me of something like character creation in the rpg classic traveller. You do have a little choice there (unlike here), but I think the same appeal is present even without the choic
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by psvv 4mo ago
I was reflecting the other day how discovering things online felt like being in on a secret. You had to just know about a chat room or BBS or website. Each one was like discovering a secret. Now it's the opposite, anything special po
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by psvv 4mo ago
I have a feeling "slop" is the new "spam" (etymologically) -- it could be with us for decades.
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by psvv 4mo ago
I see it as more iterative than revolutionary. I remember before LLMs, someone on HN made a bot to program automatically by pulling the top rated answers from stackoverflow. To me agentic coding just feels like the next iteration of this. A
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by psvv 4mo ago
Yes, that's a good point. It doesn't need to cross the 20% to trigger a larger weighting -- it will smoothly increase at a 5:1 ratio below that.
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by psvv 4mo ago
Not sure what you mean, can you help me understand? Do you mean if free float goes from 5% to 100%, and weighting goes from 25% to 100%, it's more "extra supply" than "extra demand"? That's a good point I hadn&
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by psvv 4mo ago
I'm not so sure the silent majority is positive on AI, I think the opposite is more likely. Let's not forget that national poll where it was less popular than ICE -- I think it was 26% positive vs 46% negative. My view is AI is be
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by psvv 4mo ago
That's true for the S&P but not nasdaq, nasdaq is market cap weighted. There used to be a limit that the available float couldn't go below something like 20%. (This is because 5% float available but 100% market cap would cause
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by psvv 4mo ago
My memory growing up is that making your own C library was basically an inevitable rite of passage for any aspiring programmer.
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by psvv 4mo ago
In hindsight it maybe should have also been obvious from the language alone. "Richmond Hill" feels a bit like saying "Rich Hill Hill" which is basically like saying "Wealthy Desirable Area."
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by psvv 5mo ago
If meat was involved, the cooking time may have been unsafe if other precautions weren't taken by the cook (like checking the internal temperature).
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by psvv 7mo ago
I'll admit that's better than I expected, but these ratings also imply there are plenty of humans who will beat LLMs at chess.

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