Readit NewsOliverGilan commented on Diff Algorithms flo.znkr.io/diff/... · Posted by u/znkr
while work on pure algorithms is invaluable i always feel work on knowledge augmented algorithms has lots of untapped potential. two examples: recording key events like move and delete on a more fine grained timescale or directly from editors and then storing those as mutable metadata in commits that is only allowed to be used for diff generation. as its provable if diffs are technically correct these do not weaken the consistency guarantees while adding helpful context. they are also highly compressable and pruneable. another one is optimizing diffs for consumption by llms and let those generate for optimal human readability.
Do you have examples of any of these ideas being implemented? In general I agree, there’s so much opportunity for these “knowledge augmented” algorithms
OliverGilan commented on Show HN: One-Click CSV Deduplication (open-source) app.dedupe.it... · Posted by u/remolacha
Curious how this scales. Just tried this with the test dataset and it was probably the slickest deduplication experience I’ve had
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Is there any way to even use this today? I’ve been waiting for the server and file system components to be open sourced for a couple years now
OliverGilan commented on Sourcegraph went dark eric-fritz.com/articles/s... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
This seems weirdly hostile. He laid out a bunch of points but you’re grabbing on to this one to make it seem like he’s using classic corporate-speak. Do you find it so unrealistic that the CEO of Sourcegraph has heard from devs that their managers asked them to try to clone or investigate the product before buying? That seems pretty likely
OliverGilan commented on In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge quantamagazine.org/in-the... · Posted by u/rzk
There was a breakthrough in studying the gut biome about a decade ago. Since then we have started to learn so much.
What was the breakthrough and what have we learned? I'm interested in reading more about this
OliverGilan commented on Microsoft is eating the world aisupremacy.substack.com/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
This post is a bad analysis.
> While some will praise Satya Nadella and hero-worship Sam Altman, breaking OpenAI into two parts will slow down momentum for LLMs and research while handing even more power to the Cloud and Azure in its future
Except that Microsoft nor Sam is responsible for the breaking of OpenAI. It was the non-profit board. Instead now Sam and co will have access to the Microsoft war chest, funding for more compute, chip design, and datasets so if anything they’ll probably move even faster than before.
> Microsoft taking Sam Atman and his followers in, is like shutting down your best investment just for a short-term benefit. These stories don’t usually end well for big corporations.
Again this makes little sense and its very clearly obvious how this makes long term sense for Microsoft. Also they did not initiate this move by OAI
> It’s the job of Venture Capitalist to praise Microsoft, Satya Nadella, and Sam Altman to vilify OpenAI’s board in all of this.
No it isn’t
> Microsoft eating OpenAI and poaching their talent, is the worst possible scenario for the startup that was just beginning to get momentum.
No firing the beloved CEO of the fastest growing tech startup in a decade and ignoring warnings from 80% of employees that they would quit is the worst scenario for a startup regardless of what Microsoft does
This whole post seems like really bad pattern matching by someone who is anti capitalism and tries to frame every scenario they see in business through that lens
OliverGilan commented on Most UI applications are broken real-time applications thelig.ht/ui-apps-are-bro... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
UI was pretty much solved in the 90's including the problem of instant feedback. Then abandoned for shiny stuff.
Personally I set up i3 to open most windows asynchronously, so my flow isn't interrupted. It's great, but takes a bit getting used to windows not randomly stealing focus. It's not for everyone though.
Can you be more specific about what was “solved” in the 90s? The platforms upon which apps are run now and the technologies as well as the expected capabilities of those apps have drastically changed. Not all UI development has changed just for being shiny.
I see little reason why building a UI today cannot be a superset of what was solved in the 90s so I’m curious to know what that solved subset looks like to you