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by tibbar 4d ago
I prefer the term "classically trained programmer." :-)
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Letter from Dolly Parton to Eminem(twitter.com)
81 points by tibbar 22d ago|11 comments
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by tibbar 26d ago|0 comments
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by tibbar 28d ago
If 75% of people cannot find a good partner, that suggests that all involved would be well-served by learning how to be better partners themselves:)
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by tibbar 28d ago
I don't know, this feels kind of overly judgy. It's pretty healthy and normal to have some goals in life and even to try to do something impressive. The fact that he is trying hard to balance this with caring for his family seems
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by tibbar 28d ago
Interestingly, the case you linked was a purely civil action. However, in 2016, the DOJ announced that in the future, it would prosecute similar cases criminally. [0][1] Take that for what you will! [0] https://www.justice.gov&#x
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by tibbar 28d ago
I think that the drive and energy to build one's own business (even if the business itself is very banal, like a laundromat or app-builder) is impressive and counts as ambitious. It's not easy. I tried starting a business and coul
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by tibbar 29d ago
This is nightmarish.
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by tibbar 29d ago
Unfortunately, I think that this is possible, but it requires a superhuman well of energy, sleep deficit tolerance, and benevolence that very very few people possess. :/
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by tibbar 29d ago
The reality is that it's probably a skill issue. Scaling a mature platform 10x can be a really, really hard problem, they obviously don't have their arms around a solution, and are probably spending a majority of their time on ops
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Show HN: Quantum Foosball(polkerty.github.io)
2 points by tibbar 1mo ago|0 comments
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Trystero(github.com)
2 points by tibbar 1mo ago|0 comments
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by tibbar 1mo ago
The labs are all very interested in bio right now. Demis is working on Isomorphic rn (Google's version of that) but I could imagine a lab tempting him away to work on their equivalent if it had stronger momentum
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by tibbar 2mo ago
Reward hacking will continue to be a problem. For sufficiently astonishing AI-created results, we must remember to ask if AI has not instead found it easier to elaborately fool us.
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by tibbar 2mo ago
effort level is a separate parameter, and is probably what they want
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by tibbar 2mo ago
I think Pangram is de facto measuring the default Claude voice. It doesn't fire for me on technical GPT writing.
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Locked in An Escape Room with Jacob Tsimerman(begiant.ca)
3 points by tibbar 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tibbar 2mo ago
My entire office of nerdy engineers has been gathering 'round to watch the world cup for an entire month. Judging by this, the world cup does seem to be of some interest to hackers. ;)
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by tibbar 2mo ago
Training and serving large models does require increasingly more compute, though. (The Chinese labs have clearly found some massive optimizations, but my point was that you'd think at some point even those optimizations wouldn't b
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by tibbar 2mo ago
I wonder how the Chinese labs are training a 3 trillion parameter model on what has to be vastly smaller compute resources. If the U.S. compute advantage is persistent, it's hard to imagine that Chinese labs will be able to keep pace f
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by tibbar 2mo ago
Yeah, it's really tempting to try to fundamentally change the way you interface with the world but it's rarely very sustainable. I've found that trying to change my social environment, and also build skills to make specific t
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by tibbar 2mo ago
Writing detailed specs is an important tool to help the LLM translate the idea in your head to code. The spec is an intermediate artifact.
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by tibbar 2mo ago
The non-determinism is one of the relevant features of this layer of abstraction! And one can learn to validate that the translation is being done properly. Some of the tools you have include writing extremely detailed specs, generating vi
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by tibbar 2mo ago
I was quite worried about having to code when I interviewed recently. A two- or three- year layoff is a lot. Turns out that it didn't really make much difference! After a few weeks of warm-up exercises, coding was as natural as ever
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by tibbar 2mo ago
Anthropic's goals here are not just harm reduction, but to stop competitors from making bio discoveries using Claude.
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by tibbar 3mo ago
Unbelievable in which direction? I've had years in which most people in my immediate surroundings were sick for weeks or months (likely exacerbated by mold, school, and travel). Also years in which I never really got sick at all. Getti
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by tibbar 3mo ago
This seems kind of weirdly confrontational? Elastic was founded by the guy who created elasticsearch. Why shouldn't he make a living selling services around the software he created? This is a terrific success story!
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by tibbar 3mo ago
This feels overly cynical. My long-time friend took a job at Meta (over equally compelling financial alternatives) because the manager pitched the team and growth prospects well. (Meta turned out to be quite disappointing on these fronts. I
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by tibbar 4mo ago
Given how many studies have built-in sampling bias or other surprising assumptions, I still welcome people gut-checking it vs their experience. (Plus, the stories are interesting, right?)
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by tibbar 4mo ago
Having worked for a business that made a serious go of running everything out of stored procedures, I have to say that lack of version control was a huge problem and effectively limited all development to a single person who held all the ru

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