The laws changed for IPOs. It used to be when the total investors got over 500, including employees holding shares, that would trigger a company to need to go public. It was changed some time ago (not sure if JOBS act…
I think another element the cost of maintaining it, supporting it, marketing, etc. hasn't been commoditized like producing brand new software. Those things take time to do properly and there are lots of people churning…
Selling tokens is a similar approach to social media "engagement" loops of keeping people in their app. It works but the detractor for frontier labs is no ad revenue. I think you should read up on Xerox and PARC. A…
People running old versions and not applying patches rigorously is also normal. Its been normal for decades, nobody likes doing maintenance so it gets forgotten or ignored.
For like 95% of web applications, they probably could be ported to nearly any other web application tech stack with the tools we have now. We've been using HTTP GET|POST|PUT|DELETE for almost 30 years with HTML, CSS and…
You could say the same about any language or framework. I wonder how all the old PHP apps are going to fare today, I hear there's a major security issue.
It feels like another layer of "conceptual compression". I'm not sure who/when that phrase came around but in context of Rails is where I heard it and its things like ActiveRecord or really any ORM. You aren't writing…
If LLMs were brains, it would be someone with severe amnesia who you had to tell them what an arm and a leg were every time. Its stored vectors of words or partial words and computations of math that run to predict the…
I think its easier to state "bullshit jobs" but the reality is every single job has "bullshit tasks" and usually these are the easiest things to do. TPS reports and the like. BS Tasks are ripe for AI to do the drudgery…
An interesting difference between the AI boom and the dot com boom is that back then companies would IPO to raise capital and might have been forced to IPO when they were beyond 500 investors incl employees. These days…
I'm not a zero computers zen wood shop person. Just offering a perspective based on my experience. I've also built from others digital plans and my own and find that for my workflow, the higher fidelity doesn't add much…
You really need to build things to learn and progress. Woodworking for Mere Mortals youtube channel is a good place to start. Start with hand tools and build some very basic things, see what you like doing and progress…
Why ruin the fun of a hands-on project with computers? I'm also a hobbyist woodworker/DIYer and enjoy the drawing aspect, thinking through the space, the dimensions, etc. and drawing that out with pencil and paper. Its…
I struggled with upper level math, anything beyond calculus. Can someone explain what technology is being used for things like this - doing mathematical proofs? Is it LLMs? Some other GPU thing? Quantum? I have a hard…
Oh totally. This is a playbook for a Fortune X00 company. Layoff your staff and create a "services" SLA contract with a third party company to deliver IT services. Just the legal team to get thru all the docs alone…
1. Risk - you throw an SLA on services and can point fingers when shit hits the fan 2. Circular agreements - you get them to sell your goods/services in the region of their home country 3. These count as "Services" on…
One could describe similar issues with video/youtube content. Everyone is engineering it for the algorithm but the thing humans want to know up front should be in the first 30 seconds.
I plan to use english, but not 1500's english. That might be a bad example ... replace english with nearly anything not related to prompting/coding. For example, I bet the models have "knowledge" of biology, chemistry,…
I still have this naive notion that we don't need LLMs for code generation and editing. Does a system need the knowledge of the full works of Shakespeare to be able to output Javascript? Maybe people smarter than me…
There was a run on Mac Mini's for people running OpenClaw earlier this year. I was doing some research earlier today on an idea and that came up as an option because it (and Apple's hardware for Macs) have shared RAM…
I think some of those tasks are part of the fun of a trip - doing the research on locations, events, restaurants, etc. You stumble through a bunch of things and little nuggets of that sit in your brain and then when…
Meta's active user base doesn't care about privacy. Most personal tasks take trivial amounts of time these days. Does a 5th grade teacher or an auto mechanic need a personal assistant? Do we need to be able to book a…
I think we're a few decades away, at least, from seeing a robot on something like a residential construction site. Sure they look good in a flat controlled environment, but humans have a hard time walking around a…
This topic is similar to jigs in woodworking - you can get all fancy and over-engineer it but in the end, does it improve the product/output? If a fancy jig and a gross looking home-made jig both produce a 90 degree…
Some of these stories are similar in nature to people escaping <insert cult-like religion> once they realize whats actually going on. Alignment to a company's mission is good but it shouldn't be followed like a…
The laws changed for IPOs. It used to be when the total investors got over 500, including employees holding shares, that would trigger a company to need to go public. It was changed some time ago (not sure if JOBS act…
I think another element the cost of maintaining it, supporting it, marketing, etc. hasn't been commoditized like producing brand new software. Those things take time to do properly and there are lots of people churning…
Selling tokens is a similar approach to social media "engagement" loops of keeping people in their app. It works but the detractor for frontier labs is no ad revenue. I think you should read up on Xerox and PARC. A…
People running old versions and not applying patches rigorously is also normal. Its been normal for decades, nobody likes doing maintenance so it gets forgotten or ignored.
For like 95% of web applications, they probably could be ported to nearly any other web application tech stack with the tools we have now. We've been using HTTP GET|POST|PUT|DELETE for almost 30 years with HTML, CSS and…
You could say the same about any language or framework. I wonder how all the old PHP apps are going to fare today, I hear there's a major security issue.
It feels like another layer of "conceptual compression". I'm not sure who/when that phrase came around but in context of Rails is where I heard it and its things like ActiveRecord or really any ORM. You aren't writing…
If LLMs were brains, it would be someone with severe amnesia who you had to tell them what an arm and a leg were every time. Its stored vectors of words or partial words and computations of math that run to predict the…
I think its easier to state "bullshit jobs" but the reality is every single job has "bullshit tasks" and usually these are the easiest things to do. TPS reports and the like. BS Tasks are ripe for AI to do the drudgery…
An interesting difference between the AI boom and the dot com boom is that back then companies would IPO to raise capital and might have been forced to IPO when they were beyond 500 investors incl employees. These days…
I'm not a zero computers zen wood shop person. Just offering a perspective based on my experience. I've also built from others digital plans and my own and find that for my workflow, the higher fidelity doesn't add much…
You really need to build things to learn and progress. Woodworking for Mere Mortals youtube channel is a good place to start. Start with hand tools and build some very basic things, see what you like doing and progress…
Why ruin the fun of a hands-on project with computers? I'm also a hobbyist woodworker/DIYer and enjoy the drawing aspect, thinking through the space, the dimensions, etc. and drawing that out with pencil and paper. Its…
I struggled with upper level math, anything beyond calculus. Can someone explain what technology is being used for things like this - doing mathematical proofs? Is it LLMs? Some other GPU thing? Quantum? I have a hard…
Oh totally. This is a playbook for a Fortune X00 company. Layoff your staff and create a "services" SLA contract with a third party company to deliver IT services. Just the legal team to get thru all the docs alone…
1. Risk - you throw an SLA on services and can point fingers when shit hits the fan 2. Circular agreements - you get them to sell your goods/services in the region of their home country 3. These count as "Services" on…
One could describe similar issues with video/youtube content. Everyone is engineering it for the algorithm but the thing humans want to know up front should be in the first 30 seconds.
I plan to use english, but not 1500's english. That might be a bad example ... replace english with nearly anything not related to prompting/coding. For example, I bet the models have "knowledge" of biology, chemistry,…
I still have this naive notion that we don't need LLMs for code generation and editing. Does a system need the knowledge of the full works of Shakespeare to be able to output Javascript? Maybe people smarter than me…
There was a run on Mac Mini's for people running OpenClaw earlier this year. I was doing some research earlier today on an idea and that came up as an option because it (and Apple's hardware for Macs) have shared RAM…
I think some of those tasks are part of the fun of a trip - doing the research on locations, events, restaurants, etc. You stumble through a bunch of things and little nuggets of that sit in your brain and then when…
Meta's active user base doesn't care about privacy. Most personal tasks take trivial amounts of time these days. Does a 5th grade teacher or an auto mechanic need a personal assistant? Do we need to be able to book a…
I think we're a few decades away, at least, from seeing a robot on something like a residential construction site. Sure they look good in a flat controlled environment, but humans have a hard time walking around a…
This topic is similar to jigs in woodworking - you can get all fancy and over-engineer it but in the end, does it improve the product/output? If a fancy jig and a gross looking home-made jig both produce a 90 degree…
Some of these stories are similar in nature to people escaping <insert cult-like religion> once they realize whats actually going on. Alignment to a company's mission is good but it shouldn't be followed like a…