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Comment · 10 months ago
TLDR; monopolism or quasi monopolism is holding back innovation at a country scale notable enough to begin changing the two century long GDP trend of 2%?
Comment · 1 year ago
This article mentions Cerebras, I tried it out and was 1) disappointed and 2) they started a subscription but gave me no way of cancelling, their billing page is broken :/
Comment · 1 year ago
Brutal
Comment · 1 year ago
We need more of this
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the "math" on reliability-over-steps will end up differently than described here in the long term because getting new factual input from the real world should improve the reliability of the end state, and we have all observed agentic systems at this point producing that behavior at least sometimes (e.g., a test failure prompts claude code to refactor correctly).

Whether or not one term in this equation currently compounds faster is a good question, or under what circumstances, etc., but presenting agentic abilities as always flawed thinking resulting in impossible long term task execution isn't right. Humans are flawed and require long, drawn out multi task thinking to get correct answers, and interacting with and getting feedback from the world outside the mind during a task execution process typically raises the chance of the correct answer being spit out in the end.

I'd agree that the agentic math isn't great at the moment, but if it's possible to reduce hallucinations or raise the strength and frequency effect of real world feedback on the model, you could see this playing out differently perhaps quite soon. There's at least a couple of examples of "we're already there".

Comment · 1 year ago
I would ask them what their ideal setup is and then compare feasibility. There's probably a lot of indirections/hoops you could jump through but if your security concerns are being driven by your customers you should probably ask them. If it is the case that you need to access their unencrypted data then at one point or another you're going to have to do it, the question is which possible way would your customers feel happiest about? On-premises contract, storing encrypted + customer-specific decrypt keys with a managed auth service, etc etc
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s not just a protocol buffer for concepts though (weak wharf Sapir, lakoff’s ubiquitous metaphors). Language itself is also a concept layer and plasticity and concept development is bidirectional. But (I’m not very versed in the language here re ‘latent space’) I would imagine the forward pass through layers converges towards near-token-matches before output, so you have very similar reason to token/language reasoning even in latent/conceptual reasoning? Like the neurons that nearly only respond to a single token for ex.
Comment · 1 year ago
Metal desks!
Comment · 1 year ago
The presentation of data was nice (slides with a constant format) and the measured amount of labeling was great
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think engineers (especially non-managers) talk or write nearly enough about personality dynamics at the workplace.
Comment · 2 years ago
Definitely burying the lede that Tealok is building an alternative to docker compose. Interesting

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