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But how would it know which weights to update? It has 3.5 and 3.8 weights memorized in its own weights and can somehow figure out which ones are responsible for different skills just in its own reasoning trace? (Since it didn’t use any external tools)?

That’s pretty crazy because, as I said in another comment, I just asked ChatGPT how many r’s are in blackberry and it said 3. I know it’s not Astra and the app doesn’t tell me which model it is, but I’m still very confused about how a model can edit neural net weights but not count letters in a reasoning trace.

Edit: Oh I misread, it didn’t use tool calls for the first part but it did have a custom harness for the part where it edited a models weights. Still impressive but not existentially confusing anymore.

I just asked ChatGPT how many r’s are in blackberry and it said 3. I’m so confused about the range of AI capabilities

Could you use Astra to create specialized models? Like if I want a model that just writes React, could Astra pull out the subnetworks that know how to write React code?

There are some other interesting dynamics in UX that aren't just cyclical trends:

- Natural language interfaces. You can now communicate with your computer with language, voice or text. There are some situations where this is an improvement, but others where it's not. It'll be interesting to see how interfaces are designed to combine the best of both worlds.

- Adaptive interfaces. The UI/UX of the last period of computing is largely a solved problem. There are standard UX solutions for most types of problems. It's also become significantly easier to build these interfaces, and LLMs are pretty good at writing basic declarative UIs. I think the bar will be raised such that users expect their interfaces to adapt to them, instead of a one-size-fits-all solution.

- Immersive interfaces. This might be similar to "dimensional" but more about the actual UX instead of just how 3D the buttons and icons are. I think using 3 dimensions is a natural solution for expressing higher information density. VR and AR will eventually catch on in some form.

Matz said he designed Ruby to optimize for developer happiness, it’s just a core principle of the language since it was created

Is this AGI?

I’ll know Apple is really in trouble when people stop complaining about each new product announcement

Maybe we’re all just in someone’s evolutionary chip designer

It’s weird in semiconductor physics too because the electrons flow uphill through voltage potentials

But why don’t they? Does anyone know what all these administrators do?

I’ve heard the theory that more regulation leads to more admin needs but I don’t think higher education has been increasingly regulated for decades.

If you just want React+Rails, the rails generator command comes with a bunch of options to set that up for you, including setting up and configuring: React/Vue/etc, a bundler like vite, typescript, tailwind.

It looks like inertia has additional features though.

Aren’t those examples deterministic? That’s the most interesting aspect of chaotic systems to me, they’re deterministic but still not predictable

I like SwiftUI, reactive frameworks just make sense to me for UIs. It also interfaces with UIKit in a pretty nice way so you don’t have to commit to one or the other. I’m a newer iOS dev though, I’ve heard many complaints from more experienced devs.