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by tablatom 3mo ago
Relevant: Antidote to the cult of performance, Olivier Hamant. https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/tracts-n-50-antidote-to-the...
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by tablatom 5mo ago
That’s interesting - how do they define that? Surely they don’t publish raw rgb?
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by tablatom 7mo ago
This is exactly what I’m doing expressed much more succinctly than I could have done myself. Thanks!
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by tablatom 7mo ago
I’m really happy to see this take. It’s not the first time but it’s not said often enough. I once had the thought that anything AI can do really well is probably something that should not be being done at all. That’s an overly broad stateme
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by tablatom 8mo ago
DAG is directed acyclic graph. A bit like a tree where branches are allowed to merge but there are no cycles.
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by tablatom 10mo ago
Wait, lucid dreamers need tells to know where they are?!?
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by tablatom 11mo ago
The link is broken - could you repost please?
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by tablatom 11mo ago
This. I believe it’s the most important question in the world right now. I’ve been thinking long and hard about this from an entirely practical perspective and have surprised myself that the answer seems to be our capacity to love. The idea
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by tablatom 2y ago
There's a better way but it requires a very large space like a big empty parking lot. ...and that's it! Turns out the hard part is not riding a bike but riding a bike in a straight line. Once you've got the hang of riding whe
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by tablatom 2y ago
Came to the comments looking for this. The term alignment-faking implies that the AI has a “real” position. What does that even mean? I feel similarly about the term hallucination. All it does is hallucinate! I think Alan Kay said it best -
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by tablatom 2y ago
Any recommendations for thinkers writing good analysis on the implications of superintelligence for society? Especially interested in positive takes that are well thought through. Are there any? Ideally voices that don’t have a vested inte
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by tablatom 2y ago
Off topic but if I may. The way people use percentages to express multiples is confusing. A doubling is a 100% increase. So a 200% increase is 3x, and so on. Then at some point we forget about the +1 and 1000% is "10 times the sum it p
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by tablatom 2y ago
I thought I could only see photons that hit my retina :)
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by tablatom 2y ago
> Why can’t your protocol just be valid JavaScript too? It is.
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by tablatom 2y ago
Interesting timing for me! Just a couple of days ago I discovered the work of biologist Olivier Hamant who has been raising exactly this issue. His main thesis is that very high performance (which he defines as efficacy towards a known goal
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by tablatom 2y ago
I don’t think the word propagate implies push as opposed to pull. Changes do indeed propagate through the system.
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by tablatom 2y ago
Very good point. For some types of problems maybe the answer is yes. For example porting. The reward function is testing it behaves the same in the new language as the old one. Tricky for apps with a gui but doesn't seem impossible. Th
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by tablatom 3y ago
The “small targeted blasts” thing exists. https://youtu.be/XH-EFtTa6IU?feature=shared
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by tablatom 3y ago
This points towards a big challenge that I think gets overlooked way too often. A lot of these sync libraries/frameworks claim to solve for both real-time interaction, and local-first, sync when you reconnect. But the UX needs are wild
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by tablatom 3y ago
I'm using Replicache in a big project - this simple fact is a big deal. It's basically the same coding model that all the front-end frameworks have gravitated to (central store, unidirectional dataflow, mutators separate from data
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by tablatom 3y ago
People might remember this showing up once or twice before as Replicache. Reflect adds a fully managed, incredibly fast sync server. The local-first/realtime space is getting busy these days. Replicache/Reflect is well worth check
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by tablatom 3y ago
I find them extremely distracting. Evaluating a suggestion is, for me, an entirely different mental process from the creative process I’m in the middle of. The tagline that copilot helps you stay in the flow is very much not my experience.
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by tablatom 3y ago
Link?
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by tablatom 3y ago
> So you mean: "non-AI /aided/ project", i.e. using some algorithmic (or meta-algorithmic) writer to output drafts of the code. No, I meant apps that don't use deep learning, LLMs etc internally.
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Ask HN: Are you worried your non-AI project might soon be obsolete?
16 points by tablatom 3y ago|22 comments
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by tablatom 3y ago
Probably not the idea you were fishing for but https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/201...
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by tablatom 3y ago
Awesome - I knew about vectorising/embeddings for semantic search, but I hadn't thought of using the search results as a prompt prefix - clever!
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by tablatom 3y ago
As an LLM novice, can someone explain what these "your document" apps are doing? My understanding is that GPT-4 doesn't support fine-tuning, and 50MB is too large to add to the prompt (which would be too expensive anyway).
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by tablatom 3y ago
None of us know how this is going to play out. I feel anxious too but let’s at least see what happens. Right now the world is still much the same as it was before LLMs arrived. Take some time to look at the flowers. They are still there.
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by tablatom 4y ago
"If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent." — Dijkstra

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