spprashant

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by spprashant 1mo ago
They moved the goalposts. I think the landscape has changed since their initial Python superset pitch. It seems like a deliberate pivot towards creating an AI-era language which make GPU programming as easy as writing Python.
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by spprashant 1mo ago
I am finding the goal of the project at odds with the anti-local approach in the article. I understand the point about people not wanting to be sysadmins - but surely hosting your Guardian Angel in a AWS data center has its own risks. Imagi
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by spprashant 1mo ago
> While I have found LLMs useful for researching and planning code changes, my attempts at actually making them write code have been quite lackluster. I found them to be slow and expensive to generate, for a mediocre result. I think this
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by spprashant 2mo ago
I agree with your observation. Although the framing of the question signals some of the response "Do you think.. " forces the model to check for the cost-benefits. We can definitely mould AI agents to think more critically about t
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by spprashant 2mo ago
The OS changes all the time, Apple/Google stop supporting an API your app relied on, security vulnerabilities get published, even stupid stuff like timezone changes can break a perfect app in strange ways.
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by spprashant 2mo ago
I think we are moving from "can you build this product?" to "do i trust you to support this product?". Software is cheap, trust is a premium. Developers and companies who put real care into their product will come out on
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by spprashant 2mo ago
I only see a hat under 3.5 Flash-Lite. Is it a model issue or a rendering issue?
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by spprashant 2mo ago
For some reason it is not able to detect 64GB RAM on my Fedora Linux mini PC. It shows only 8GB.
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by spprashant 3mo ago
I am just offering a different point of view, not disagreeing with the other experiences on this thread. I d like to think I have fully recovered from confirmed Lyme diagnosis with Doxycycline for 14 days. I had fever and weakness for a wee
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by spprashant 3mo ago
Yes the era of the no-fly list is coming to AI.
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by spprashant 3mo ago
This is a extremely common issue that happens in growing firms. You start off with everything in Postgres, it makes the most sense. Soon you realize some tables are growing really huge - usually some sort of time-series or log data reachin
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by spprashant 3mo ago
If your data is too big for postgres, it seems like moving straight to Clickhouse is the best option. We have been through an whole array of distributed database technologies, and Clickhouse might be first one that doesn't have too man
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by spprashant 3mo ago
Not ever profession has an insatiable desire to automate away their own jobs.
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by spprashant 3mo ago
The Atlas Obscura version of clustering seems especially bad. The presence of the cluster circles with unchanged numbers, even after zooming in, is just plain wrong. I have seen some better clustering implementations, which give good sense
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by spprashant 3mo ago
The US really is just allowing all sorts of horizontal and vertical mergers. There is enough economic theory to suggest this is a net negative for consumers. We are powering through it anyway.
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by spprashant 3mo ago
He is just being willfully obtuse to make a point. This has to be one of his weaker essays. He is trying to "gotcha" AOC by talking math instead of debating the larger point. The kind of thing he has himself argued against in the
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by spprashant 3mo ago
I thought Amazon has a stake in Anthropic, and would want them to succeed.
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by spprashant 3mo ago
This has David Sacks written all over it.
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by spprashant 3mo ago
Are people really going to hurt by this? Opus 4.8 can do a vast amount of the same tasks at half the price. How many people are really doing cutting edge work?
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by spprashant 3mo ago
Yeah I don't agree at all with this stance. I am as tired of capitalism as anyone else. But let's not pretend money is not important. Just like open source projects need money and funding to keep delivering. I d rather donate $1 t
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by spprashant 3mo ago
We do have people with real incentive to not allow self-driving cars to succeed.
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by spprashant 3mo ago
It took me this map to realize the capital of Sri Lanka is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, and not Colombo as I thought for over 30 years. Always interesting to find capital cities which are in fact not the most famous cities from that country.
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by spprashant 3mo ago
Couple of anecdotes from the last week. Yesterday the Gmail virus scanner stopped working. For a while I couldn't download my attachments. A few minutes later it said the virus scanner was offline and download at your own risk. Meet a
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by spprashant 3mo ago
I do wish they had left a window open for criteria to whitelist developers who can create PRs. By closing off their developer circle, they are losing the best parts of open-source - new software developers eager to solve large problems wit
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by spprashant 3mo ago
Its in a weird space right now. These models are actually extremely good but they are far from an intelligence unto themselves. Truth is if someone told you they could build these things 5 years ago, you d write them a check for a trillion
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by spprashant 4mo ago
Outside of coding what other tools expend that kind of tokens? People are not creating that many slide decks or videos are they?
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by spprashant 4mo ago
I really doubt that 400M number. They try to get me to login to Threads see comments on Instagram posts. Technically I am monthly "active" user, but not really. I see more Bluesky links in the wild than Threads and they claim only
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by spprashant 4mo ago
The only thing scary is that federal government interns have discovered how to one-shot shitty web apps.
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by spprashant 4mo ago
I guess that first piece was important to me. I actually assumed, based on statements Musk has made in the past, that they are purely working off cameras and AI. Isn't that his whole pitch as to why Tesla FSD will scale out faster than
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by spprashant 4mo ago
I agree. With Altman at least it seems he is making the pivot because he thinks its better messaging. Amodei is just re-framing what he actually sees as the endgame here. He says 10x productivity, he means 10x less jobs.

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