stephenboyd

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by stephenboyd 7mo ago
The iPhone SE was only $400.
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by stephenboyd 3y ago
“hundreds of micro-services for a web application that barely have 1k concurrent users.” That would not be appropriate in any of the mainstream cloud-native architecture styles.
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by stephenboyd 3y ago
Did they say it was an LLM? I didn’t see that in the reporting.
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by stephenboyd 3y ago
It isn't just the projections that distort our perception. North being up and south being down is so ubiquitous that it seems like Earth (and the Solar System) has a top side and a bottom side. But that's just a convention. https
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by stephenboyd 3y ago
If there are no breaking changes, is it really a disadvantage for a language to add new capabilities frequently?
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by stephenboyd 3y ago
That is also the advice given in the article. Unfortunately it follows that with "occasionally connect the TV to the internet for a minute to see if it needs any firmware updates" which is pointless if the TV is already working pr
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
It looks like the recent popularity of hybrid poodle mixes explains the decline of purebred retrievers.
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
The training data is so large that it incidentally includes basically anything that Google would index plus the contents of as many thousands of copyrighted works that they could get their hands on. So that would definitely include some tes
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
I wonder if the sequel will also have a mortuary-based economic system.
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
If the future of AI is LLMs like ChatGPT, which are trained on literature and other things that people create, you're going to need humanities scholars like you need computer scientists to understand the AI. Microsoft gave their chatbo
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
I've been spending some time trying to get a sense of how it works by exploring where it fails. When it makes a mistake, you can ask questions in a socratic method until it says the true counterpart to its mistake. It doesn't comm
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
I don't think that it's natural for something like an LLM to have any real self-preservation beyond imitating examples of self-preserving AI in science fiction from its training data. I'm more concerned about misanthropic or
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
I have to wonder how much of LLM behavior is influenced by AI tropes from science fiction in the training data. If the model learns from science fiction that AI behavior in fiction is expected to be insidious and is then primed with a promp
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
I've been a crypto skeptic for most of the past decade. I especially hate the industry, the overhyped blockchain-magic ideology, and the ubiquitous scams. But I remember when I was a CS student and Bitcoin was a new thing. I thought it
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
The qualities that make a social network successful have little to do with the protocol technologies involved. If the next hit social network happens to be on Mastodon, that will only be a coincidence.
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
And Atlantic Canada.
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
The worst ghost kitchen I've seen is for an exclusively gluten-free pizza place in Seattle. That's an appealing prospect if you have a serious celiac case and you can't eat food that's made in a typical pizza place where
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
The first generation iPhone from 2016 can still be updated with the latest iOs version.
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A 2,700-Mile Cycling Race Is Now Even More Extreme(nytimes.com)
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
How could anyone decide on an appropriate price for Bitcoin when there's no fundamental intrinsic value to it? That lack of a fundamental value helps it increase because nobody can ever say when it's too high, but the inverse, tha
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by stephenboyd 4y ago
If checking your logs is hard work you should make it easier. I just click on my Datadog bookmark and select some filters to check logs.
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
I just looked through the app list of my iPhone’s location privacy settings and every app has either “never”, “while using”, or “when shared”. I never opt in to always sharing my location with apps that I’m not actively using and iOS makes
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
The question is too vague. Why do you even need a CRUD app?
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
I got really into it for a while and had to stop for the same reason. Plus the whole aesthetic and theme of the game felt gross to me.
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
Now let’s see if they can give more than 10 PTO days
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
Communications of the ACM is a great magazine-like journal. They do a great job of making some of the deepest and newest technologies accessible to a typical smart software developer. Everything in it is written assuming the reader is gener
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
My favorite thing about Reels is the videos have the TikTok watermark including the username so I can find new people to follow on TikTok.
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
My team of 5 has 5 services. 3 of those are tiny function-as-a-service APIs. 2 of those are Azure App Services, where our involvement in the infrastructure is minimal. And we're about to add a 3rd one of those. That sounds like a lot b
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
I can’t imagine anyone on my dev team or the others at my company being able to spend multiple weeks consecutively on vaguely defined unplanned work. We collaboratively make a plan with product management covering many weeks of work (PI pla
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
My company's technical interviews are really practically focused. We ask candidates to achieve a specific simple web application development goal, using any technologies of their choice, with help from the interviewers as if they were

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