sheepscreek

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NOTE: I post a lot from my phone - so please excuse typos and other errors. Happy to discuss/clarify anything - just shoot me an email. ——-

Student for life. Live and breathe technology. Coding since '96. Almost everything interests me.

Special interests: AI, LLM, Econometrics, Sociology, Psychology, Programming languages.

Email: blahkapu ÅT gmail D0T com

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Comment · 11 hours ago
Integrated experience. You can connect to multiple machines and access terminals on them through spaces in the left nav. Agents across all spaces are listed in a dedicated section for quick access.

Each space is persistent contains persistent terminals like tmux, so disconnections do not affect them.

Comment · 2 days ago
We don’t know if the person did any such thing (bad mouth the company or its products).

However, in the scenario they did, then the company would have grounds to fire them.

Comment · 2 days ago
She approached to ask for permission. If they had any reservations, that was the time to discuss them. She did what was expected of an employee. The fact that they blessed her and then went back on their word seems wrong.

Not a lawyer but my intuition says there might be some legal grounds here favouring the wife.

My take is someone even higher up found out later and did not like it. Now it’s entirely possible the individuals who gave their blessings were supportive of the party the wife was standing for, and the ones above them weren’t? Still whoever blessed the campaign did so in their capacity as a senior officer of the company. A total shit show nevertheless.

To the original commenter: sorry this happened to your wife. Hope she’s able to find another job that treats her right. Also congrats on the baby, hoping parenthood makes up for all of this and more. Sending the best of wishes your way.

Comment · 3 days ago
Comment · 3 days ago
Hmm..they did come up with Bard.
Comment · 3 days ago
Anytime I see one I can’t shake off the feeling I got when I first saw Watchmen. I thought “this is so dystopian and bizarre; so out there”. Didn’t have this in my bingo card for the decade.
Comment · 3 days ago
Clearly, Google has already fired their marketing department and Gemini sucks at this job.

Maybe it thought the names are clear and intuitive (for an LLM perhaps).

Comment · 3 days ago

    Luna  = Moon
    Terra = Earth
    Sol   = Sun
    Astra = Galaxy
Comment · 4 days ago
The reliable layer that captures the data. That is what they bring to the table. For now.

Once AI can orchestrate and maintain a project with dozens of clients without slipping, they will be relegated to non-technical SMBs - many enterprises would just build their own shit. No contracts to sign. Full control. AI hosts and maintains. Great.

Then they might pivot to security (heck I would if I were in any SaaS business today).

Comment · 4 days ago
That explains a lot. They are anti “move fast and break things” which is great news for enterprises or anyone seeking stability but terrible for innovation.

I don’t condone the use of pirated content for training. But anything that was bought is above the board as far as I’m concerned. Can let the lawyers fight out the minutia and inevitable licensing specifics after the fact (book publishers are hawks).

Fun fact, did you know that every library in the world has an independent contract with every major book publisher?

In cases I am familiar with, they added a condition that a physical book can only be lent X times. After that, the library must purchase a new copy (even if the original copy is in pristine condition). Yeah, hawks.

Comment · 4 days ago
> Oh, and btw, fusion simulations of the kind you're talking are in exa-zettaflop territory

Haha, thanks for humouring me!

Comment · 4 days ago
> it's not going to scroll smoothly on a 120Hz display

It will be buttery smooth between the chops.

Comment · 4 days ago
If you're talking about things at the equivalent level of say, finding out if positrons maintain symmetry with electrons for their magnetic moment, then yeah - I hear you. Or if you wanted to research some unknown behaviour of hot plasma at 15 million C, you can't do that in a simulation.

..or can we?

Humour me for a moment. Maybe simulating to the degree that was necessary for cutting edge work was not possible earlier, when humans had to program each and every thing in the system that could affect the result. But with current gen petaflop-on-your-desk level compute + swarms of agents that can work tirelessly to account for every known thing to humanity, maybe the threshold has been pushed far enough to produce some more meaningful discovery work in simulation?

Comment · 4 days ago
I mean, you never know. If we could have simulation models with excellent fidelity, then AI could do all the research and iterations and come up with something very plausible. Cutting down physical world experimental iterations/prototyping.

So effectively, you would spend the first 1000 experiments inside a computer simulation and move to the physical world only when you had enough confidence.

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