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by tharant 8d ago
OpenPilot and comma.ai are very close to a bolt-on after-market solution; not FSD 14 quality but you can get a lot of autonomy and intelligence with a $1000 Android device and thirty minutes for installation.
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by tharant 1mo ago
How long ago was it that you tried FSD? My car (HW4) had a lot difficulty like this in the early days of FSD 11 but over the past thirty months it's gone from "good at highway driving, not very good at navigating city streets and
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by tharant 1y ago
When you’re digging around in tens to hundreds of PCs each day, the odds of zapping something are higher. I’ve killed a few chips and boards.
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by tharant 1y ago
Hi, it’s me.
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by tharant 1y ago
I can find no such requirement in the App Store Guidelines. Or is there anecdotal evidence somewhere?
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by tharant 1y ago
Sure, the model would not “know” about your example, but that’s not the point; the penultimate[0] goal is for the model to figure out the method signature on its own just like a human dev might leverage her own knowledge and experience to i
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by tharant 1y ago
Please stop giving me project ideas. :)
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by tharant 1y ago
> In the very narrow fields where I have a deep understanding, LLM output is mostly garbage > Thus I have to assume that for any topic I do not fully understand - which is the vast majority of human knowledge - it is worse than useles
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by tharant 1y ago
> A use-case that can be carefully considered requires more knowledge about the use-case than the LLM I would tend to agree with that assertion… > it requires you to understand the specific model's training and happy paths But I
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by tharant 1y ago
It sounds like the engineer may have little/no experience with concurrency; a lot of folks (myself included) sometime struggle with how various systems handle concurrency/parallelism and their side effects. Perhaps this is an opp
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by tharant 1y ago
In my experience, and for use-cases that are carefully considered, language models are not confidently wrong a majority of the time. The trick is understanding the tool and using it appropriately—thus the “carefully considered” approach to
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by tharant 1y ago
I don’t know for certain (he’s no longer around) but I suspect he did. The prevalence of folks who nowadays believe that Gen-AI makes everything worse suggests to me that not much has changed since his time. I get it; I’m not an AI evangel
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by tharant 1y ago
> I really fear that a number of engineers are going to us GPT to avoid thinking. They view it as a shortcut to problem solve and it isn't. How is this sentiment not different from my grandfather’s sentiment that calculators and com
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by tharant 1y ago
Again, is it possible you and the other party have (perhaps significantly) different mental models of the domain—or maybe different perspectives of the issues involved? I get that folks can be contrarian (sadly, contrariness is probably my
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by tharant 1y ago
Is it possible that what happened was an impedance mismatch between you and the engineer such that they couldn’t grok what you told them but ChatGPT was able to describe it in a manner they could understand? Real-life experts (myself inclu
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by tharant 1y ago
I was hoping for a Desk Set reference; thank you.
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by tharant 1y ago
This is one reason I see to be optimistic about some of the hype around LLMs—folks will have to learn how to write high quality specifications and documentation in order to get good results from a language model; society desperately needs b
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by tharant 2y ago
> As for not merging the PR - why are you entitled to have a PR merged? I didn’t get entitlement vibes from the comment; I think the author believes the PR could have wide benefit, and believes that others support his position, thus the
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by tharant 2y ago
Although the practicality of what you described towards the end of your original comment conceptually demonstrates an MoE-like architecture, the fact that you explicitly mentioned not understanding why larger models are smarter and then pro
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by tharant 2y ago
> What expanded scope in new TVs is actually something I would care for? I think this is the crux of our confusion; you may not desire the expanded functionality but others certainly do. You can suggest that manufacturers force unwanted
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by tharant 2y ago
I get your frustration with bugs but, what TVs (or any other consumer electronic product) aren’t reliant upon software for basic system control nowadays? Hardware isn’t inherently bug-free and the “quality” of old hardware is usually due t
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by tharant 2y ago
Sigh. It didn’t take 100 years to grow the ICE repair industry and I imagine you know that; I suspect you’re just being stubbornly argumentative for the sake of vanity. There’s already a fledgling industry of third-party repair shops for B
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by tharant 2y ago
>There are no parts from the OEs, there are no tools, the packs are not meant to be serviced, and it is SERIOUSLY DANGEROUS work. The same was true for the ICE vehicle third-party repair industry 100 years ago. It seems like your objecti
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by tharant 2y ago
Are you suggesting that since the third-party EV repair industry is still in its infancy that EVs are therefore objectively bad? If so, how is that perspective different from any other mass-market industrialized consumer product? I rememb
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by tharant 2y ago
> In our content, we don’t generally worry that someone is reading our inner dialogue… Really? Is that what’s wrong with me? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by tharant 2y ago
Have you seen the Tesla Model S Plaid, or the Lucid Air Saphire? Heck, even the supercar/hypercar market is slowly becoming predominantly BEV.
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by tharant 2y ago
> Other cloud providers aren't part of PRISM and generally don't receive the same level of concern from the world governments. Um, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, and AOL are/were PRISM Service Providers an
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by tharant 2y ago
> Self-incrimination is about speech. Seriously? So,what, mutes can’t incriminate themselves? Even if you wanna stick to that shaky narrative, consider that text messages are speech. Notes to myself are speech. Pictures in my phone ar
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by tharant 2y ago
Millions of people do—and have to—often because it’s the most effective way for a PA intern to be useful. Is the practice wise or ideal or “safe” in terms of security and/or privacy? No, but wisdom, idealism, and safety are far less
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by tharant 2y ago
The new Sonnet 3.5 refused to decode it which is somehow simultaneously encouraging and disappointing; surely it’s just a guardrail implemented via the original system prompt which suggests, to me, that it would be (trivial?) to jailbreak.

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