ssivark

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by ssivark 3d ago
What about inference providers like Baseten, Modal, Fireworks, Together, etc? I thought one of their value propositions was inference (using open weights models) that guarantees with crisp terms that they will not use your data.
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by ssivark 6d ago
There is potentially a world of difference between how you interpret what is fair and what the terms of service contractually guarantee.
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by ssivark 9d ago
Don't know why the below comment by killix got flagged; it's a legitimate point. In the current version of my setup, I've decided to accept that tradeoff. But it would also be interesting to check whether agent behavior can b
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by ssivark 9d ago
> Someone who has no idea what a standard deviation is can't intuit about distributions. I disagree vehemently with this claim. I could cite my experience in teaching this topic to liberal arts / humanities college students in
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by ssivark 10d ago
Look at the histogram and think about what distribution one could reasonably impute from samples. And what you would set as bounds for "outliers", per your needs. While we're at it, let me also say that it might be useful t
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by ssivark 10d ago
My personal opinion is that statistics textbooks usually come from a prescriptive perspective, and that makes it challenging for the reader to get visceral intuition for what is actually going on. Any reader would be far better off just vis
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by ssivark 10d ago
To the extent that skills are contextual guidance (for this author, this project, etc) and not just (raw) capabilities they are unlikely to be eaten by models. I maintain all my skill files in a central location (like dotfile management
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by ssivark 10d ago
It's one of several downstream problems, including poorer quality of life by various metrics. By emphasizing a PR problem for businesses more than other human problems downstream or the root problem, you are demonstrating priorities th
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by ssivark 10d ago
That's like saying a law and order problem is a PR problem because word got out that crime is spiking. The PR problem is downstream consequence of what can be measured, but the root cause is upstream. Focusing directly on solving the
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by ssivark 11d ago
Which is why I said that cost might be a better metric than output tokens. But even that is somewhat misleading -- because there isn't really a single price -- there are a variety of offers / deals / subsidies, including subs
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by ssivark 11d ago
...the remaining 10% of their Claude usage ;-) > modes are the load-bearing piece: Okay, this write-up is filled with Claudisms.
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by ssivark 12d ago
Duh, that's just a benchmarking artifact. If you run one model at 4x recurrence compared to another, you get 4x thinking without increasing the tokens. So of course it's going to dominate the perf at given output token level. The
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by ssivark 13d ago
I imagine this will only become more important as we have more agents working on codebases in parallel; so a clean solution would be extremely valuable. On the flip side, the rise of agentic coding means that the library/batteries mism
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by ssivark 17d ago
There might be a lot going on, depending on what kind of programming tasks you use AI for, but here's one hunch: I think the current AI usage pattern disrupts our core sense-making mechanism on the code we create. It jumps from nothing
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by ssivark 21d ago
> most people would interpret that to mean You're just asserting common convention among some implicitly selected audience that you consider "most" people, rather than justifying why that is the most reasonable practice. N
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by ssivark 21d ago
> Before you could have invented PageRank, you must think in graphs. For anyone puzzling over what is the graph-based perspective, there's actually a very elegant and simple mathematical way to derive page rank. Define the directed
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by ssivark 21d ago
I'm not an accountant and don't claim to have a clean answer to how it should be accounted, but I hope I can highlight the conundrum. Suppose you run a brokerage or some kind of marketplace enabling transactions. Should all transa
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by ssivark 21d ago
> It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI Yes! And that's because you can't really delegate ownership/authorship to AI (at today's capability levels). Coding agents might have been
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by ssivark 21d ago
The author makes an important point about ownership but that got watered down to code understanding and debugging. What matter is not just ownership of the code that got written, but also ownership of the problem identification and the ch
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AI assistants need adaptive conversational tempo to be good cognitive companions(woventhought.substack.com)
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by ssivark 27d ago
We're in an era where soon (if not already) it will become straight forward to direct a clanker to move an application from one gui framework to another. Once we have robust automated computer use, that becomes the verification loop, a
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by ssivark 27d ago
> We use issue trackers and pull requests to manage work, people write documentation and communicate over email, instant messaging, and in meetings. Keeping all of the information in these channels synchronized and up to date is a full t
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by ssivark 1mo ago
If you're worried about the markup for loading your digital wallet, what is the markup for any tourist trying to get cash from eg. Thomas Cook? I doubt any tourist could get currency at a significantly cheaper rate.
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by ssivark 1mo ago
Perhaps the authors might have originally been going for "rejection" (of transplant) which then got translated into "disappointment".
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by ssivark 1mo ago
To expand on this: rent is a manifestation opportunity cost for a gated resource. So one person lounging around drinking coffee is no more judged on their activity in and of itself, but compared to the other "industrious" person
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by ssivark 1mo ago
But what does it mean to say "in a world where 0+ strings occur more often"? Typically that's not some immutable fact of nature. It might be merely an artifact of the current state of the world, that could change next year. E
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by ssivark 1mo ago
But your definition of compression as prediction is tautological. How would you operationalize that into a measurable metric of compression? The crucial idea is that once you do that and start optimizing for compression, at some point more
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by ssivark 1mo ago
Nope; there is a bit more nuance and the distinction is important. Compression is functionally equivalent to prediction when the data distribution is exactly representative of all future problems . The story changes drastically if you want
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by ssivark 1mo ago
Here's a thought: once could derive the spectrum of the Markov transition matrix, and assign an entropy to each of the eigenvectors. The dominant eigenvector (highest entropy) would be the ergodic / stationary distribution, but it
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by ssivark 1mo ago
If you want something that's like every other harness then what's the point of considering pi? It's specifically for people who are dissatisfied with other harnesses. Also, you can version control your tweaks and easily sync

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