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I talk to a lot of non-tech friends and sometimes ask about AI. Most of them still use ChatGPT like it is a better Google. Most don't know it can work well with documents, PDFs, Slides, Sheets, or do advanced analytics, etc.

Much less do they know the thing can build software and maintain it, manage complex tasks daily, automate things, etc.

Then there's a handful that do follow closely AI developments and agents and who have started using them.

A friend of mine this weekend who is an award winning photographer and who has been selling photography courses online forever has told me he's used Muse to: 1) Automate chopping up his long form videos, add captions, and post them as Reels to Instagram. Several of these have gotten over a million views. 2) Automate handling DM reachouts, converting them into sales. He's up to several tens of thousands of dollars in sales from AI direct message conversions that he would otherwise not have been able to convert (too many DMs to handle, he'd have to hire/train sales people to basically just do DMs full time at scale otherwise and it would make no economical sense) 3) Automate all his customer service for handling any issues, refunds, support, etc.

And I personally think he's still just scratching the surface of what he could do.

I feel we are really at the beginning of a new era. When the internet started most people were just using it for e-mail and news, maybe a newsletter chain here and there and some early forums. Social Media didn't appear for well over a decade, popular Web 2.0 apps like Google Maps, GMail, YouTube, Netflix, etc didn't appear for a long time.

Mainstream hasn't even really begun to adopt AI.

We're gonna need a comparison chart in number of almond milk lattes and/or golf courses. Otherwise what are we even talking about?

The clear mark of someone who's never owned a business and had to find customers to sell their product.

Where are the regulations for PornHub and similar harmful websites?

China is the biggest problem. US Carbon emissions are going down, China's are exploding.

Getting 10 million people to do anything is really, really hard. Getting 10 million people to spend hours scanning a book (which takes a really long time with a home scanner) sounds impossible :(

Don't be a meat proxy.

The ruling did not say that. This has been widely misreported. The books are destroyed because it's much easier and faster to cut off the spine and use a sheet fed scanner. Non destructive scanners are much slower.

Which book is that exactly? I'm finding lots of calculus book for "Stewart's Calculus" :(

Honestly it's hard to beat how good 3Blue1Brown is at this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvTyaaNkzM&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

If you like these sort of AI generated explainers this one is pretty good too: https://www.longformexplainers.com/llm-pretraining

I'm not sure how I feel about this wave of US protectionism, but if it continues for long it is becoming a massive opportunity for anyone who can start a manufacturing company.

Do not use the development http server in a production setting. Use gunicorn or some equivalent.

I had the same issue with incredibly low throughput on beefy machines and it's because the dev server implementation is single threaded and does not do concurrency at all.

Switch to gunicorn.

This is about the compiler, not the runtime.

Pre-training data is pre-tokenized ahead of time before being used to not waste any GPU compute.

A massive speedup like this is a nice efficiency savings on some of these data pipelines for sure.

The word you're looking for is nuclear. Everywhere.

One of the claims it asks LLMs to grade is "Artificial intelligence will cause widespread job loss among software engineers."

Yea man this benchmark is really really bad.

This has been a non issue when using proper routing libraries that push history entries on the stack properly and render routes from the top of the component tree down.

You hate BAD react SPAs that break the fundamentals of how the web works. Good ones take care to not do that.

React fundamentally doesn't cause this issue either. You can use a different framework than react or even vanilla JS and still produce the same bugs.

I love Claude but I hate waiting a minute or two for any inference to start. I hope they can get their xAI capacity online ASAP and that it helps!

Alternate title: "I did not understand the current limitations of AI and assumed it could do large software design and it generated spaghetti slop"

Yea, that's why engineers are still very important for now (until models can do this type of longer term designs and stick to them).

This whole thing has just been a huge PR stunt the whole time. Even the original leak of the blog post was just more fuel to the hype.

This is such copium for AI haters. I stopped working almost any single line of code at the beginning of this year and I've shipped 3 production projects that would have taken months or years to build by hand in a matter of days.

Except none of them are open source so they don't show up in this article's metrics.

But it's fine. Keep your head in the sand. It doesn't change the once in a lifetime shift we are currently experiencing.

Yes. During COVID so many opinions were censored, including the medical opinion of actual Medical doctors and experts, if it did not fit the "accepted narrative".

Now we certainly see some excesses with companies like Palantir and others ramping up government surveillance.

Each side ramps up the encroachment on privacy and civil liberties without realizing the next time the other side comes into power they will gladly use and abuse everything the previous administration put in place during their rule.

With my kids we did Le Robot from hugging face over the Christmas break, it was a fun project to put together the kit and get the follower arm to follow the leader. You can also train ML models with it etc https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/en/so101

"Well you're all f***, good luck. I'll take my millions and go live on my micro farm"

Its top 100 or so subreddits are moderated by the same ~10 or so individuals who impose their ideological views on the subs and delete posts or ban anyone who dares challenge them.

A great example of how community moderation inevitably slides a platform to one side or the other of the political spectrum.

I honestly don't think mods on reddit should be allowed to moderate more than 1 or 2 of these top sub-reddits, this would at least force some semblance of diversity of thought on the platform.

Bud Light's stock performance last year would like to have a word with you.