Very interesting topic, but a strange choice of source. I'd recommend these instead: Coller foundation press release: https://www.jeremycollerfoundation.org/news-and-insights/pre... The actual publication in Science:…
A point mutation is very unlikely to produce “the next Einstein”, it’ll just produce someone with one slightly different protein in their gut.
> For example, in the old days, the internet was scarce, so people had the sense that their online self and their real-life self were the same. I’d argue the opposite. On the old internet we all used nicknames, and…
I don’t think the analogy was the issue. What does it mean for a system to be so transparent that it’s obvious when it’s compromised?
I’m at a large Fortune 500 company. On a recent call, a mandate came from the CEO himself - “we have to use more agentic AI”. And I found it really funny, because for what? Use it for what? It’s a tool. Imagine a guy…
Lawyers run the US, I don’t think anything that reduces the country’s dependence on them has any chance of widespread adoption.
What I’m seeing in that link is that the organization pays 16 people a total of $3.6 million.
> There’s almost always a better alternative for those who value having something better. That alternative comes with a $60/year subscription these days, though.
Similarly, I sometimes daydream about those ancient law systems that were so simple that they could be engraved on a stone pillar and placed in a public area. Could you imagine a legal system that can be read and…
Isn’t this just something that any IDE has built-in these days? Maybe I’m missing something, but how is this fundamentally different from the built-in git timeline view from something like VSCode or Jetbrains?
This might be an unkind reading, but to me this just sounds like an attempt to reinvent the very same kind of mysticism that it mentions in the first paragraph. “No need to study the world around you and wonder about…
> How would a touchscreen MacBook improve on something? It won’t, but there’s now an entire generation of users who get confused and angry if any kind of display doesn’t react when you poke it with your finger.
That’s not OCD, it’s just paying attention to detail.
It’s not that much higher, actually. I just looked at some unskilled production line job offers, and looks like they start at 15-18€ per hour. Scale that to full time, and it’s less than 30k€/year - and of course…
True, but muscle memory and a couple keyboard shortcuts (or heck, even using the mouse to select and drag the block) is always going to be faster then describing the changes you want and reviewing the output, at least…
Of course it’s important to remember that the ability of an LLM to answer an obscure riddle like that has nothing to do with its reasoning abilities, but rather depends on whether the answer was included in its training…
Have you been using the same foldable phone for those 5 years? It’s the price, but it’s also a question of durability.
That really hits home. I spent a couple weeks in primary school sketching my own blueprints for great inventions. Nothing that could've ever worked (I didn't know what a transistor actually was, but my machine certainly…
I think you’re confusing mastery with marketability. “Other people want to hear it” is at best adjacent to someone’s skill at composing or playing music. There’s plenty of mediocre musicians who became world-famous, and…
> Would you ever be tempted to make such a claim (that everyone is close to the same in ability and effort is the main determiner of success) about athletes? Well yes, absolutely. People don’t do quadruple axels on the…
That’s exactly what we do at the Fortune 500 company where I work, and it’s surreal. In my first year I didn’t know any better, so I tried to set myself some actual objectives (learn to use XYZ, improve test coverage by…
I’m not denying this has been the case for some people. I myself have switched to pretty much exclusively wearing trousers from my favourite tiny brand that cuts and sews them <100km from where I live, and I’m…
Just like the tide of fast fashion caused people to seek out local-sewn clothes made from high-quality materials, right? Right? Quality isn’t a differentiator if the market is saturated with indistinguishable garbage.…
> How well do LLMs handle handwriting recognition? Pretty well for neat modern handwriting, but much worse for cursive or messier writing. They also really struggle if the text is at an angle. I have some recent…
The thing is that taking an interest in baking a cake doesn’t actually feed anyone. If you’re not going to spend your time baking (i.e. actually get involved in politics, to drop the metaphor), then what’s the point?
Very interesting topic, but a strange choice of source. I'd recommend these instead: Coller foundation press release: https://www.jeremycollerfoundation.org/news-and-insights/pre... The actual publication in Science:…
A point mutation is very unlikely to produce “the next Einstein”, it’ll just produce someone with one slightly different protein in their gut.
> For example, in the old days, the internet was scarce, so people had the sense that their online self and their real-life self were the same. I’d argue the opposite. On the old internet we all used nicknames, and…
I don’t think the analogy was the issue. What does it mean for a system to be so transparent that it’s obvious when it’s compromised?
I’m at a large Fortune 500 company. On a recent call, a mandate came from the CEO himself - “we have to use more agentic AI”. And I found it really funny, because for what? Use it for what? It’s a tool. Imagine a guy…
Lawyers run the US, I don’t think anything that reduces the country’s dependence on them has any chance of widespread adoption.
What I’m seeing in that link is that the organization pays 16 people a total of $3.6 million.
> There’s almost always a better alternative for those who value having something better. That alternative comes with a $60/year subscription these days, though.
Similarly, I sometimes daydream about those ancient law systems that were so simple that they could be engraved on a stone pillar and placed in a public area. Could you imagine a legal system that can be read and…
Isn’t this just something that any IDE has built-in these days? Maybe I’m missing something, but how is this fundamentally different from the built-in git timeline view from something like VSCode or Jetbrains?
This might be an unkind reading, but to me this just sounds like an attempt to reinvent the very same kind of mysticism that it mentions in the first paragraph. “No need to study the world around you and wonder about…
> How would a touchscreen MacBook improve on something? It won’t, but there’s now an entire generation of users who get confused and angry if any kind of display doesn’t react when you poke it with your finger.
That’s not OCD, it’s just paying attention to detail.
It’s not that much higher, actually. I just looked at some unskilled production line job offers, and looks like they start at 15-18€ per hour. Scale that to full time, and it’s less than 30k€/year - and of course…
True, but muscle memory and a couple keyboard shortcuts (or heck, even using the mouse to select and drag the block) is always going to be faster then describing the changes you want and reviewing the output, at least…
Of course it’s important to remember that the ability of an LLM to answer an obscure riddle like that has nothing to do with its reasoning abilities, but rather depends on whether the answer was included in its training…
Have you been using the same foldable phone for those 5 years? It’s the price, but it’s also a question of durability.
That really hits home. I spent a couple weeks in primary school sketching my own blueprints for great inventions. Nothing that could've ever worked (I didn't know what a transistor actually was, but my machine certainly…
I think you’re confusing mastery with marketability. “Other people want to hear it” is at best adjacent to someone’s skill at composing or playing music. There’s plenty of mediocre musicians who became world-famous, and…
> Would you ever be tempted to make such a claim (that everyone is close to the same in ability and effort is the main determiner of success) about athletes? Well yes, absolutely. People don’t do quadruple axels on the…
That’s exactly what we do at the Fortune 500 company where I work, and it’s surreal. In my first year I didn’t know any better, so I tried to set myself some actual objectives (learn to use XYZ, improve test coverage by…
I’m not denying this has been the case for some people. I myself have switched to pretty much exclusively wearing trousers from my favourite tiny brand that cuts and sews them <100km from where I live, and I’m…
Just like the tide of fast fashion caused people to seek out local-sewn clothes made from high-quality materials, right? Right? Quality isn’t a differentiator if the market is saturated with indistinguishable garbage.…
> How well do LLMs handle handwriting recognition? Pretty well for neat modern handwriting, but much worse for cursive or messier writing. They also really struggle if the text is at an angle. I have some recent…
The thing is that taking an interest in baking a cake doesn’t actually feed anyone. If you’re not going to spend your time baking (i.e. actually get involved in politics, to drop the metaphor), then what’s the point?