tlrobinson

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by tlrobinson 1y ago
I always assumed LLMs would be one component of “AGI”, but there would be “coprocessors” like logic engines or general purpose code interpreters that would be driven by code or data produced by LLMs just in time.
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by tlrobinson 1y ago
100%. I know I’m in the “get off my lawn” phase of my career when I see things like MCP and LangChain, but know I would have been excited about them earlier in my career.
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
Tailwind’s abuse of CSS classes as a DSL has always felt like a hack to me. You shouldn’t need a special editor extension to get highlighting/autocomplete/etc, just use TypeScript and a CSS-in-TS solution.
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
Or not even imagery collection, but testing to see what our response is like. If we're scrambling and unable to explain/contain it, that's useful for an adversary to know a little about our current defensive capabilities.
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
This is all inevitable. At worst it's pulling the issues forward by a few months or years, and I don't think anyone will meaningfully address the problem until it's staring us in the face. I believe the internet needs a dist
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
> not responsible for the technical successes He's not doing the nitty gritty engineering day-to-day, but he understands enough to ask the right questions, give his teams permission to try ideas that seem crazy at first, and sometim
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
> Fixed in master: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=84bd... Waiting for the bug report that the fix broke someone’s workflow. https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
Not quite the same, but EMT conduit is very popular for shade structures at Burning Man and similar events. You can get fittings that will hold up very well in windy conditions (if properly secured) https://formandreform.com&#x2F
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
$50,000 income, 4 year product lifespan? Obviously doesn’t apply to all engineers.
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
Who do you think writes those CAD and design tools that help “actual engineers” solve the same problems over and over?
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
I don’t think it’s at all unreasonable for an engineer using a device for 8+ hours every day to pay an additional, say, 0.5% of their income (assuming very conservatively $100,000 income after tax, $1,000 extra for a MacBook, 2 year product
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
LLMs are also often used in the search component of RAG, by generating embeddings that are then indexed and searched. (I don’t know if that’s how Bing AI works)
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
I think in both cases some amount of interpretation was required: - for Perl, OCR to a character set - for Piet, manual “convert[ion] into a clean image file using close colours from the Piet palette”
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by tlrobinson 2y ago
A couple other potentially desirable properties you could incorporate: - K-sortable: ensures good locality when used as an id in a database (e.x. https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid https://github.com/
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
(parent commenter is founder/CEO of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, I assume)
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2023/all2023/72/
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
Not sure why you obfuscated it but here's the code for anyone curious: function update() { if (!ticks) { player = { x: 40, vx: 1 }; enemy = { x: 100, eyeVx: 0 }; multiplier = 0; addDots();
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
Agreed, when Ruby became popular it was primarily competing against languages with verbose and rigid static type systems like Java. That is no longer the case, and the benefits of safety and developer experience provided by a good type syst
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
> Obviously Mini was using the encryption properly else it wouldn't have worked to begin with. Just want to point out this isn’t inherently true. For example an insecurely generated session key would work fine but not be secure. &gt
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
- Styles colocated with markup/logic (I consider this an advantage with a component library like React, others may not) - No global styles stomping on each other, styles scoped to a single module unless explicitly exported/importe
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
Another new library (I haven’t used yet) that supports pseudo selectors is called CSS Hooks: https://css-hooks.com/
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
Shopify has a styling library for React Native called Restyle: https://github.com/Shopify/restyle I like it a lot. It lets you define a theme with design tokens like spacing and colors, then enforces using only those v
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
If you implement a feature like this, please, make it optional and obvious when it’s enabled. It’s maddening when tools try to be too smart and don’t get it perfect (I have been guilty of this too)
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
I don’t understand how these two statements are both possible: > "Several passengers recalled that after takeoff the aircraft cabin seemed noisier and colder than they were used to," investigators wrote … > the plane had rem
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
There’s even packet radio BBSs aroun. I connected to KE6JJJ’s in SF a few years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/s/wNUaNbGH6S I think you can also still find pockets of similar communities among esot
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
> In my experience these models are very bad at [...] Given the progress across many AI applications in the past year I certainly wouldn't bet on this continuing to be true.
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
Ishkur's Guide V1 is classic internet lore. I'm looking forward to AI models that can describe, classify, and recommend music. Obviously there's Shazam and things like Cyanite ( https://cyanite.ai/ ) but hopefu
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
> We don't know what "intelligence" means, but we know it isn't matrix multiplication What makes you believe “intelligence” can’t emerge from lots of matrix multiplications? Unless you believe in some more mystical ex
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
The problem is also your fellow consumers, most of whom don’t actually care about the things us nerds care about.
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by tlrobinson 3y ago
“Unable”? How did this manifest?! > Given that it may very well be better to assume that anything untested doesn't work at all and to live within those restrictions. There are an infinite number of untested cases though. Figuring ou

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