jackthetab

Thirteen minutes is an "exceedingly long video"?! Man, I thought I was jaded complaining about 20 minute videos! :-)

I want to know is what are the connected to? A laptop? A AS400? An old Cray they have lying around? I'd think doing the demo while walking would have been de riguer.

Anyway, tres cool!

Tres cool! Can you point me in the direction of how to do that? We're a small, bootstrapped company and could use a manager like that.

Since I'm interested in local, small-use [1] cases of AI, what about the byte code VMs is not AI-scale? And what is AI-scale?

[1] I'm looking at single-person/small office LLMs to do simple jobs: summarize these pdfs, structure this data, help drafting a document, that sort of thing, not a be-all end-all monster. Think of a bunch of highly intelligent Python scripts as opposed to Microsoft Office.

This is a question that I rarely see answered but would love to know as well.

Do you follow Steve Brunton's YT channel[1]? His physics stuff is mostly fluid dynamics but still pretty cool.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve

Which LLMs and plans are you guys using for all of these cool ideas?

ATM I use ChatGPT Plus for everything except coding inside my Jetbrains IDEs.

I'm starting to look around at other LLMs for non-coding purposes (brainstorming, docs, being a project manager, summarizing, learning new subjects, etc.).

So I hear. And we all know smart/rich people can never be duped or make a mistake outside their areas of expertise. /s

Cool. Do you have write-up of the technical details or a tutorial on how you did this? I'm not familiar with the tech you mentioned but it'd be interesting to see how it's done and so...easily? cheaply? by non-mega-organizations?

That one really is "too close to reality" as in, it's now a reality, at least on the battlefield, IIUC.

No, I get the "too close to reality" vibes. I actually like that.

LD&R ROCKED! At least the first season; I still watch it regularly (well, I did before Netflix EOLed my TV). Season 2 was forgettable. Season 3 kinda made up for Season 2.

> there are individuals out there who know a lot about many things, and those are probably the ones companies want to hire the most

No, they don't. They want specialists, as you point out.

If you also avoid movies and books of the same ilk for the same reasons, yeah, I can see that.

To me, they're just great SF stories (well, the first three(?) seasons before Netflix bought them and Americanized them): some poignant, some horror-ish, some uplifting.

I found the "unforeseen consequences" of technology fascinating, but that's just me.

You've missed out on a lot.

Just because I want/use an artisan knife or bake my own bread in my kitchen doesn't mean I want an artisan microwave or raise my own cows.

> one of the many pernicious effects government regulation has caused in the industry.

Honest question.

DAE interpret this as (implying) all government regulation (in this industry) has pernicious effects?

I just saw an interview with Penn wherein he stated that they have been thrown out of The Magic Castle, et. al for revealing tricks.

Given their popularity, I'm sure they've been allowed back in. :-)

Seconding Harley Benton and the Positive Grid. I bought an HB-35 B Stock (a return) and a Positive Grid Spark Go (I'm a bedroom player atm). With setup, the whole thing set me back 350 USD.

I tend to start a note with frontmatter in Obsidian, drop into vim to do the writing, then back into Obsidian to clean things up. Wish there were a cleaner way to do it, but it works for me.

Agreed.

This is where I bounce (out of this discussion).

Not surprised at all. Then again, ten yo me hadn't been introduced to the concept of propaganda yet even though it was all around me in retrospect.

WARNING: Old man about to say "Back in my day..."

As a child, we were taught that "America is better than the USSR because $REASONS." One reason given was we didn't need identification to travel around the country (this included flying). And when I saw "taught" I mean "this was taught to us in a public school."

Back in my day (There it is!), you would see newspaper want-ads like "Vegas bachelor party canceled. Two airline tickets avail this weekend. $200 OBO." You'd meet the guy, buy the tickets and get on the flight. ID was more for proving you were old enough to fly alone than anything. Tickets were not made out to the buyer, they were just assigned seating. Airlines were losing money and they knew it but couldn't figure out a way to stop it cheaply enough.

Metal detector screenings started in the 70's because back then airplane hijacking was a thing.

Then, 9/11. Metal detector screenings became mandatory. The airlines got the government to do the identity checks (TSA) and tighten the security the airlines did/could/would not pay for. State IDs (driver's licenses, for example) were sufficient. No more want-ads for a Vegas bachelor parties! The buyer might get a refund, might not, and the airline got to resell the seat either way. And we still take our shoes off to get on a plane decades later.

Fast forward to today, you (will) need a federal ID to travel on airplanes domestically, either a REAL ID or a passport. Sure, it's not hard to get, and there are ways around it if you forget or lose yours. Besides, what's the harm, right?

And every step along the way, it was a perfectly cromulent thing to do.

Now excuse me, I need to change the onion on my belt. That's still the fashion, right?

Know of any online examples of the same?

Back when I did consulting, I started locally and eventually went nationally. I even had my state in the company name and emblazoned on my web page; didn't stop Big Names from across the country from hiring me.

And that's too much friction for my tastes.

Thanks, though, and good luck. Imma' keep lookin'.

:s/VSCode/Jetbrains/

In the past, my knee-jerk reaction would have been "Yes, exactly!" Then I heard patio11's podcast on debanking[1]. It gave me some interesting views into fraud and compliance and $STUFF. Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/debanking-pat...

I think my (and other) Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms would disagree with you.

I buy shares in the farm per my needs. The CSA takes my money and buys seeds, fertilizer, etc. I get discounted (100% :-) products from them throughout the growing season. They also sell their goods at farmers' markets, do deliveries, etc. My CSA has been growing for years. They're a part of a larger co-op org that spans the NE US, IIUC.

So yes, the "beautiful vision" can be, and is, implemented. Even in tech; I'm sure you've heard of neighbors getting together and building their own local networks because the local ISP won't service them.

I wouldn't call them "obvious" reasons but I recently discovered that in Google Sheets under FF I couldn't duplicate a tab or copy a tab to a new sheet. I had to fire up Chrome to do that.

Oddly enough, Chrome had somehow lost my settings since the previous time I started it a few months earlier, as if it were a new install. :-?

I've not noticed any problems under YT Premium so far.

I found the tutorials on this YT channel[1] helpful in learning "what I'm missing". This playlist[2] in particular.

I need to learn how to sell myself as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@CodingtheFuture-jg1he [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMXP2wwC5Ss&list=PLk7JCUQLwR...