yunwal

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by yunwal 5d ago
> Take Software engineering for example, I can't believe there is a class of software engineers who wake up everyday and tell themselves, "today is the day I am going to automate the rest of my job". And here I thought thi
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by yunwal 5d ago
I think most people here get that this is the point? The point beyond this one is that an AI proof doesn’t prevent humans from working on the problem, it destroys the current economic incentive to work on the problem. Perhaps we should reth
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by yunwal 5d ago
What I’m hearing is “it’s ok when other people lose their jobs…”
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by yunwal 5d ago
It’s not going to be ubiquitous? There hasn’t been a single frontier model where generation n costs less than generation n-1 to run. So the reasonable thing is to assume that GPT-7 will cost even more than GPT-6, and more and more of the fr
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by yunwal 7d ago
> Why does the Vision Pro exist then? They are thinking that VR headsets will not be niche products in the future The apple watch was very niche when it came out as well, but their intention was absolutely to make a major product line
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by yunwal 7d ago
I would love it if I could use it as a second monitor when working in a coffee shop or library. Unfortunately universal control was pretty solid at launch and then just completely left to die
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by yunwal 7d ago
> None of that matters for a phone. Of course it does. They show the most basic example right on the page, which is that you can side-by-side full screen apps.
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by yunwal 7d ago
Anyone understand how cases will work for this?
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by yunwal 7d ago
> should be able to support a lot of niches Apple's whole thing is that they don't do niches. Support a select few versions of select few products very very well is the whole MO
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by yunwal 9d ago
> We’re getting something that isn’t totally crooked Is there a secret corner of LinkedIn that I’m not aware of that isn’t just the most shameless promotion of AI, crypto, and various other techno-babble BS you’ve ever seen?
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by yunwal 12d ago
Acceleration is not quadratic with respect to speed/velocity, and c is a speed/velocity.
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by yunwal 12d ago
> If I asked you the relative activation of the cones in your retina as I showed you some solid color image “I don’t know”
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by yunwal 14d ago
In New York City where disposable bag bans occurred I’m quite certain the average “reusable” bag gets used a single-digit number of times. Grocery stores charge 25c for a “reusable” bag in the case that you forgot to bring your own, and eve
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by yunwal 20d ago
> Bots and such have really ruined the value of customer reviews. This is not true. Bots and such have ruined the value of ratings aggregations. Individual reviews are still useful because you can always find some that you can tell are n
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by yunwal 29d ago
This is the most baffling comment I think I’ve ever read
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by yunwal 1mo ago
You can't cut entitlements without an equal tax cut. Which is potentially worth discussing but it's not going to help balance the budget.
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by yunwal 1mo ago
The greatest living mathematician uses it for Math https://siliconreckoner.substack.com/p/terence-tao-on-machin... To me it seems like people who are confident in their expertise generally find it useful, even if it&#x
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by yunwal 1mo ago
I think local models will not be “niche” in the future in the same way personal computers are not “niche” just because most computing happens in the cloud. They have entirely different uses
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by yunwal 1mo ago
Read: "I did not even attempt to read the article"
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by yunwal 1mo ago
ok i'm gonna be honest I still don't really understand what you're saying so I'm gonna bow out of this conversation
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by yunwal 1mo ago
Ok, did DOGE decrease those?
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by yunwal 1mo ago
I sort of look at it as putting a flag on the moon. Billboards are how tech companies claim ownership of SF and the tech sphere, any consumer influence is incidental.
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by yunwal 1mo ago
Budget cuts that don't touch military spending aren't real budget cuts.
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by yunwal 1mo ago
I hate billionaires! Ok, maybe a few of them are fine people who have too much money, but the vast majority of them are in their position because they were willing to siphon money from lower classes using unethical means. Of all of the comp
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by yunwal 1mo ago
I just asked Siri "Hey Siri, what's the weather in <nearby town with a generic name> tomorrow" and it gave me a town with the same name ~800 miles from me.
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by yunwal 1mo ago
> Nine of ten are either unimportant or not valid. Yet, I have to read them and rule them out You don't have to do this? Maybe someone is making you, but it's literally possible to just stop using LLMs for purposes where they f
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by yunwal 1mo ago
At what point is the correct response to just stop paying federal taxes?
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by yunwal 1mo ago
Are you saying something being reliable is not a big deal? I'm sort of confused
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by yunwal 1mo ago
It's literally a point about revenue. The point is, it's very easy to record a lot of revenue when you (and your investors) don't care about your margins
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by yunwal 1mo ago
I enjoy the process of solving problems with LLMs. I understand it's chaotic (what many people call non-deterministic), and that doesn't appeal to some people, but solving problems with statistics is problem solving just the sam

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