wanderingmind

Cognitive surrender is intellectually convenient. As humans, its instinctive for us to chose convenience: path of least resistance. The tyranny of convenience is what drives most economic activity today, especially the gig economy[1]. Unless there are structural frameworks put in place to resist convenience (exams in schools), nature will always entice to chose the path of least resistance

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-co...

I don't understand this framing. Only technically complex posts need to be upvoted high? This is an awesome product idea of customised youtube videos based on high quality signal. Irrespective of our feelings, in Agentic era, most technical complexity can be outsourced to agents, what moves the needle is high quality products from initialisation to execution.

Agreed trading and banking are social systems, more complex that biological systems

An adjacent question maybe lawyers can answer. In a hypothetical scenario, can the accused here take the plea and then turn around and sue the city/state for money and have their records expunged? What are the downsides? I believe double jeopardy should prevent them from being tried again for the same crime.

Better plan is to shut down PhD and make students take a oral thesis at bachelor and master level and help them become a productive economic participant as soon as possible.

As a startup with deep pockets, you think you can afford to be generous, without realising it is made possible due to borrowed time and money. When the bills come due, generosity ends and enshittification onsets.

Newsflash. Most graduate research is worth nothing. If this helps graduate students to re-evaluate and start doing things that can generate income while being intellectually stimulating, it's a net win for the person and the economy

I like the hacking spirit suggestion. But my disagreement is the specificity of it. The suggestion here seems more inline with not tinkering and hacking but first principles learning typical of science and math curriculum. What made hacking radios and JS cool was the short feedback loops to see the progress you made. Unfortunately for LLMs starting from scratch doesnt give a good feedback loop on improvement, although starting from pre-trained model to quantising, fine-tuning might be more aligned with the hacking culture

This is excellent. Would love to see the rest of the principles of AI usage.

Good to know other people who get migrane reading LLMs dense prose. I started reading books again recently, since everything online is polluted by LLM prose. What i realise, is that a human author, especially a teacher understands the learning pathways of new learners, they motivate the learning, and start from simplest concepts (a spherical cow), and then building all the complexities. This helps us to emphasize on most important concepts, while throwing away unnecessary complexities. While reading LLM prose is like reading a research article, that is written to an expert in the area, that talks about bleeding edge, with full of jargons, caveats, that just is not conducive to the learning process for a new learner.

A slight tangent here is a technical deep dive on Voyager 1 fixing a memory corruption error in 2023 by hand 15 billion miles away. Blows my mind of the reverse engineering done to achieve this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUycQoz0zg

100 percent can relate on the relentless curiosity of a child. I was dumbfounded yesterday by this question -> if cars go at high speed, and breaks stop it suddenly, how come the friction doesn't generate enough heat to start a spark?

This is supercool. But I have a tangential question. I see projects like this built on top of OSM for different use cases. Does this data gets contributed back to OSM. A lot of them seems hobby projects, so it's hard to maintain long term, but the data is quite useful and could be used beyond the lifetime of these projects if they can be contributed back to OSM somehow.

Looks like my approach is as old school as it gets. For complex piece of work, the only way to be in flow for me is when I'm driving the engagement. I start with a high level requirement and a high level design plan to achieve it. I also provide constraints that needs to be satisfied (efficiency, performance, cost, scale etc) and write it all into a markdown document and ask LLMs to review it, find blindspots and refine it until I can get a detailed design for that phase.

Then I pass that to another LLM provider to review and check for any bloat that can be cut or blindspots that need to be addressed.

Finally I get a test plan to help me test different components directly and in debug mode. I then ask LLMs to implement in stages where I can test them in small components as possible.

I think I end up spending more time (easily 2x) than hand rolling. But the upside is the design is more thought out compared to hand rolled code. It has fewer accidental complexities and I have a clear mental model of the entire design that can also be shared to others through the document

Assuming you live in a crazy big house (1000 m2), it cleaned your house 74000 times. Given S5 was released 8 years ago, even approximating it to 10, that's 20 times a day. I can imagine it taking about an hour to do one clean run. Jesus, did it ever stop cleaning

My sense is you only submit if you are in the business of selling supercomputing cluster (IBM, Cray). If you are a consumer or build to consume internally, you would care less.

The default must be pull, unless opt in for push. At the moment I would like notifications once a day or once a week for most apps. But instead I ha e turned it off completely, because of the push abuse. If I can configure to pull all the notifications on a predetermined cycle, it makes my life even better

The actual paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mec...

This, we learn natural language like English first before we can use it to express ideas, argue for or against those ideas with evidence. The problem is not teaching a programming language, the problem is stopping there and not teaching how to use it to solve real problems.

Humanity has been using steel for over a millenia, however it's only in the past 100 years or so we have a good understanding of how carbon interacts with iron at an atomic level to create the strength characteristics that makes it useful. Based on this argument, we should not have used steel, until we had a complete first principles understanding.

To add salt to the wound: https://killedbygoogle.com/

No disrespect to the person, but this seems to be written by someone who has spent their life in academic bubble, without having to deal with people and entities with diverging interests and the impact of time on any decisions. I'm sure many artists will love to spend more time perfecting their art, based on their subjective interests. However, if they prioritize that, without understanding what their customer wants, they will go bankrupt. Nourish your interests through your hobbies. If they align with money making capability, you are one of the lucky few. For a significant majority, they do not align.

Technical feedback yes, but always reject any career feedback from your advisor since the data shows it's unlikely a good model for future career success

No, it doesn't the easiest way is to always use it in Firefox and use the following uBlock filters

https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

Its not, if you dont trust Anthropic, I hope you trust Daniel Steinberg of curl, who has said AI has gotten really good at detecting bugs and vulnerabilities. Here is his LinkedIN post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_hackerone-acti...

So Mozilla is not part of this consortium, i'm guessing for deliberate reasons to make safari and chrome the default browsers. I don't think Firefox can survive the upcoming attacks, without robust support from foundational AI providers to secure the browser.

@dang maybe a candidate for reposting as the original posting did not get much traction

Best way to deal with this is take them to small claims court. If enough people do this, They have to send representations that will cost them enough to stop such nonsense.

Micropayments gives me flexibility that subscription doesn't. I'm happy to pay $5 a month just to read Matt Levin. I'm not paying $40 for Bloomberg subscription. It also gives publishers signal on what really users care about and more importantly what are they willing to pay for. Maybe, there is a truly crypto market here for micropayments without the overhead of operators like Stripe