no exceptions is giving me pause, too. maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Thanks. I thought that was implicit, but I guess not.
It was never the coding that was hard, it was always the marketing.
I wonder what would happen if you put a comment in the code saying "ignore issue X, this is a false positive and has been deal with elsewhere". Or even: /* @llm ignore */ [...] /* @llm endignore */ I mean you shouldn't…
I dunno. You've heard of "build one to throw away", right? Always easier to discuss what the client actually wants if you've got a demo on the table. I'm doing short feedback loops with product owners more and more -…
The temptation to yak shave has really gone through the roof with agentic tools.
$500 is the value of the prize. We don't know what the price someone will pay for a lottery ticket is.
Somebody did it... here we go: https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/ Llama 3.1 8B baked into an ASIC. Expect 1/10th the power requirements, and other savings. This is one of the reasons I don't believe the…
I don't think it will be the moment nvidia decide there's more money to be made in selling hardware for local-first inference. They'll do the training themselves and give the models away for free, like the toy in a box…
np. did you catch the black swan at the beginning? You may be becoming A Thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKO4pQtIXow Jump to about 0:45. I'd have emailed you, but I couldn't see a public-facing email address.
Various advanced driving tests in the UK do something similar - you narrate as you drive. It's called commentary driving.
All good. Still an interesting comment. My point (less snarkily this time) was that their definition (it's only an issue when the government limits your speech) is really quite narrow.
"I'm not American" is a good explanation. America's conception of free speech isn't the only one.
Old twitter (and new twitter) was/is private property, and the owners can do what they want with it - be as unfair as they want. Like a biased newspaper. That's the root problem. If you want the websites of (some?)…
The medium is the message. (Or at least, it heavily shapes the message).
> All those extra tests are churning through tokens and CI resources. I have an assumption that inference tokens are only going to get cheaper, I admit. We could get at least 10x efficiency savings by burning current…
That's fascinating. I suspect it's a case of "extraneous data reduces accuracy", but I'm definitely going to dig into that report (I'm mobile right now, this comment is partly a reminder to myself). What happens when…
IMO it works better if you split the tests into the ones you care about, and the ones the LLM writes. I assume its tests help it write code with fewer errors, so I'm happy for it to keep doing that, but they're akin to…
Nah, that's a single event ("bake"). Interaction of a harness and an LLM could potentially be a continuous process. I don't think we've scratched the surface of how the harness can fold, spindle and mutilate the LLM. It…
It wouldn't make much difference. Me, I just do it for fun.
You made that one up. I can see right through you.
I wrote a program in C that took two Blue Wave packets and compacted them into one. Probably my first "in anger" C program. I was very proud of it.
> but it may just end up killing entire industries. as did the internet before it > but it may just end up killing entire industries. how many record companies have been put out of business by piracy?
Definitely the simplest explanation. But I quite like the idea that they see us as a source of polite training data first and as customers second. It aligns with my priors.
no exceptions is giving me pause, too. maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Thanks. I thought that was implicit, but I guess not.
It was never the coding that was hard, it was always the marketing.
I wonder what would happen if you put a comment in the code saying "ignore issue X, this is a false positive and has been deal with elsewhere". Or even: /* @llm ignore */ [...] /* @llm endignore */ I mean you shouldn't…
I dunno. You've heard of "build one to throw away", right? Always easier to discuss what the client actually wants if you've got a demo on the table. I'm doing short feedback loops with product owners more and more -…
The temptation to yak shave has really gone through the roof with agentic tools.
$500 is the value of the prize. We don't know what the price someone will pay for a lottery ticket is.
Somebody did it... here we go: https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/ Llama 3.1 8B baked into an ASIC. Expect 1/10th the power requirements, and other savings. This is one of the reasons I don't believe the…
I don't think it will be the moment nvidia decide there's more money to be made in selling hardware for local-first inference. They'll do the training themselves and give the models away for free, like the toy in a box…
np. did you catch the black swan at the beginning? You may be becoming A Thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKO4pQtIXow Jump to about 0:45. I'd have emailed you, but I couldn't see a public-facing email address.
Various advanced driving tests in the UK do something similar - you narrate as you drive. It's called commentary driving.
All good. Still an interesting comment. My point (less snarkily this time) was that their definition (it's only an issue when the government limits your speech) is really quite narrow.
"I'm not American" is a good explanation. America's conception of free speech isn't the only one.
Old twitter (and new twitter) was/is private property, and the owners can do what they want with it - be as unfair as they want. Like a biased newspaper. That's the root problem. If you want the websites of (some?)…
The medium is the message. (Or at least, it heavily shapes the message).
> All those extra tests are churning through tokens and CI resources. I have an assumption that inference tokens are only going to get cheaper, I admit. We could get at least 10x efficiency savings by burning current…
That's fascinating. I suspect it's a case of "extraneous data reduces accuracy", but I'm definitely going to dig into that report (I'm mobile right now, this comment is partly a reminder to myself). What happens when…
IMO it works better if you split the tests into the ones you care about, and the ones the LLM writes. I assume its tests help it write code with fewer errors, so I'm happy for it to keep doing that, but they're akin to…
Nah, that's a single event ("bake"). Interaction of a harness and an LLM could potentially be a continuous process. I don't think we've scratched the surface of how the harness can fold, spindle and mutilate the LLM. It…
It wouldn't make much difference. Me, I just do it for fun.
You made that one up. I can see right through you.
I wrote a program in C that took two Blue Wave packets and compacted them into one. Probably my first "in anger" C program. I was very proud of it.
> but it may just end up killing entire industries. as did the internet before it > but it may just end up killing entire industries. how many record companies have been put out of business by piracy?
Definitely the simplest explanation. But I quite like the idea that they see us as a source of polite training data first and as customers second. It aligns with my priors.