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Re:Claude 4 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:01PM (#44064074)
yea exactly
Re:Devin is now generally available on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @05:02PM (#42382070)
Based on this, what is the outlook for software dev generally, and junior and mid level devs?
Re:Zed AI on Thursday August 22, 2024 @12:35PM (#41321987)
Great. They also have other blog posts with product roadmap and research directions https://www.cursor.com/blog/problems-2024 you should look at, and an AI engineer conference talk which goes into their vision: https://youtu.be/6g28WpZbF1I?si=MkHgxMDMjxxOHtcZ
Re:Zed AI on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:28PM (#41314359)
Hey! I really see the power in Zed and the extensibility and simplicity. Great approach.

I posted this above, but want you to see it:

Two areas where I think Zed might fall behind: Cursor Tab is REALLY good and probably requires some finetuning/ML chops and some boutique training data.

For composer, there's going to be more use of "shadow workspace" https://www.cursor.com/blog/shadow-workspace to create an agentic feedback loop/ objective function for codegen, along with an ability to navigate the language server and look up definitions and just generally have full context like an engineer

Also, cursor has a model agnostic apply model, whereas you all are leaning on claude.

Any plans to address this from the core team or more of a community thing? I think some of this might be a heavy lift

I really like the shared context idea, and the transparency and building primitives for an ecosystem

Re:Zed AI on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:24PM (#41314331)
Two areas where I think Zed might fall behind: Cursor Tab is REALLY good and probably requires some finetuning/ML chops and some boutique training data.

For composer, there's going to be more use of "shadow workspace" https://www.cursor.com/blog/shadow-workspace to create an agentic feedback loop/ objective function for codegen along with an ability to navigate the language server and look up definitions and just generally have full context like an engineer. Are there plans for the same in zed?

Also, cursor has a model agnostic apply model, whereas you all are leaning on claude.

Re:Zed AI on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:12PM (#41314236)
I think Zed is starting with a more transparent elegant foundations and then they'll build in more optional magic from there. For example, they're working on automatic codebase RAG
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:20PM (#40423354)
Anyone know how the hardware compares to the latest mac laptops for running LLMs locally? (compute and vram, shared or otherwise)
I didn't realize they had that option. In general, I still find absurdity in what an NP can do vs an unmatched doctor. That's entirely incoherent.

Also, it's laudable what rads is doing, but didn't the AMA lobby for less residency spots?

You can't legally practice as a primary care physician without one year of internship, after which you get unrestricted licensed. If you're unmatched, no internship. Is that not correct?
Don't forget ten years of schooling to be bad at formal methods to step out of that decision tree:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9237793/ https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2014/11/12/doctors-dont-k... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016704/ https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/doctor-there-arhtml

And many more.

go to r/residency or other doctor forums if you want to see the most repugnant combination of dunning kruger and condescension

Why have residency spots shrunk per capita? Why do unmatched grads have to work at mcdonalds but NP's and PA's can practice with more latitude than some residents?

(serious questions)

Task Management for Tech Startup

We're a research heavy startup with a consumer facing product scaling up to a few employees.... I really want to keep tasks, ideas, research etc all in the same place and taskade looks like an idea solution for this, but it doesn't have great github integration. It feels wrong to have a stark separation between my issue tracker and task tracker, does that track?

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Good point
Sorry. I have a brilliant, extremely driven friend who did undergrad at an ivy. After getting covid, She had to drop out of her grad school program and her new life is a shell compared to what it used to be like. 2 years later, and there's a tiny fraction of improvement which she attributes to extreme rest. I forward her literature about emerging LC treatments and mechanisms of which her physicians are laughably ignorant.

It's a sad state of affairs.

Do you know the rate of long term sequalae for flu and how it compares to covid?
Re:Anti-AI Hype LLM Reading List on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:14PM (#37285221)
"nonsense"
Re: on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:34PM (#36911199)
But it's still not comparable to GPT 4, nor will it likely be for some time at least. And by the time we have GPT 4 class open source models, I'd imagine there'd be significant advancements in closed source models, such as inference time symbolic reasoning using MCTS, something google is working on for gemini...or just bigger/better architectures, data etc
Re:Structured Output from LLMs (Without Reprompting!) on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:38AM (#36754201)
What about LMQL?
Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @05:09PM (#35967793)
super bonkers!
Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:38PM (#35966701)
What do you think about Haystack vs LangChain?
Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:37PM (#35966684)
How does this compare with lmql?

Advice for new data scientist at mobile app startup

Hey,I just joined a friend's mobile app startup as their first data scientist, and I'm pretty new to the field- being new we know I won't do the best job, but I'm eager to learn.I want to get started as painlessly as possible.What are the best resources for orienting myself, understanding which metrics to focus on etcWhat should I use for the data stack? I want to lay good foundations without...

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Re:ChatGPT and Code Interpreter = Magic on Sunday March 26, 2023 @12:41PM (#35316464)
Very interesting. Can you please elaborate or give a TLDR on the linguistics angle here?

Does it have something to do with grounding or implicit knowledge/ connotations and context?

Re:Transformers Catalog: 60 Transformers in 36 pages on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:18PM (#34830715)
Is there any hope of understanding this with just calc and linalg knowledge?
Re:A Killed by Google RIP-off focusing on things AI is threatening on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:13PM (#34085795)
What about "data science" or applied machine learning? Or even ML research?
Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @10:57AM (#32251221)
Sounds like he's ultimately agnostic on the issue:

" But I’m agnostic about whether at the end of this programme of trying to account in physical terms for properties of experience, there will still be some residue of mystery left, something more to explain."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/21/neuroscienti...

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