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amohn9 commented on Eleven Music elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

I really hope we move on from these boil-the-ocean models. I want something more collaborative and even iterative.

I was having a conversation with a former bandmate. He was talking about a bunch of songs he is working on. He can play guitar, a bit of bass and can sing. That leaves drums. He wants a model where he can upload a demo and it either returns a stem for a drum track or just combines his demo with some drums.

Right now these models are more like slot machines than tools. If you have the money and the time/patience, perhaps you can do something with it. But I am looking forward to when we start getting collaborative, interactive and iterative models.

amohn9 · 22 days ago

Suno can already do that

amohn9 commented on OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August theverge.com/notepad-micr... · Posted by u/ghoulishly

MaxfordAndSons · a month ago

> Altman decided to let GPT-5 take a stab at a question he didn’t understand. “I put it in the model, this is GPT-5, and it answered it perfectly,” Altman said.

If he didn't understand the question how could he know the model answered it perfectly?

amohn9 · a month ago

This statement is definitely just marketing hype, but if we're being pedantic there are tons of questions that are hard to answer but have easy to verify solutions, e.g. all NP-complete problems.

amohn9 commented on Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/spwestwood

chongli · 2 months ago

I work in a mail room sending hard copy letters to customers. If I got my job right only 70% of the time then I’d be causing massive privacy breaches daily by sending the wrong personal information to the wrong customers.

Would you trust an AI that gets your banking transactions right only 70% of the time?

amohn9 · 2 months ago

No. I also wouldn’t use a hammer to cut a board in half - I’d grab a saw. Knowing how to pick the right tool is a fundamental part of being a good engineer. Sometimes 70% is unacceptable, sometimes it’s exceptional. LLMs are incredible technology, but also just another tool in the toolbox. Use them where they fit, not where they don’t.

amohn9 commented on Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/spwestwood

FranzFerdiNaN · 2 months ago

I don’t need a tool that’s right maybe 70% of the time (and that’s me being optimistic). It needs to be right all the time or at least tell you when it doesn’t know for sure, instead of just making up something. Comparing it to going out in the streets and asking random people random questions is not a good comparison.

amohn9 · 2 months ago

It might not fit your work, but there are tons of areas where “good enough” can still provide a lot of value. I’m sure you’d be thrilled with a tool that could correctly tell you if Apple’s stock was going up or down tomorrow 70% of the time.

amohn9 commented on Waymos crash less than human drivers understandingai.org/p/hum... · Posted by u/rbanffy

gambiting · 5 months ago

Tbf, like with many things in that country, I think it's fair to say Australians take this way too far. You're a grown adult who can drink alcohol, go fight for your country, get married etc etc....but god forbid that you drive after dark.

amohn9 · 5 months ago

While Australia does take things too far, I’m actually on their side here. Driving has been too normalized. You’re operating a 2 ton chunk of metal at 60+ mph inches away from other people. Australia has far fewer pedestrian deaths per capita than the US does, and enforcing a higher skill bar for more difficult situations must be part of that.

amohn9 commented on Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history lichess.org/@/Lichess/blo... · Posted by u/alexmolas

hilux · 8 months ago

Yes and no – the number of playable lines does not necessarily tell us how "obvious" those lines are to find for a human.

To give a trivial example, if I take your queen, then recapturing my queen is almost always the single playable move. But it's also a line that you will easily find!

Conversely, in a complex tactical position, (even) multiple saving moves could all be very tricky for a human to calculate.

amohn9 · 8 months ago

I wonder if there’s a combined metric that could be calculated. Depth of the line certainly would be impactful. A line that only works if you do 5 only moves is harder to find than a single move line. “Quiet” moves are probably harder to find than captures or direct attacks. Backwards moves are famously tricky to spot. Etc

amohn9 commented on Florida Is on Its Way to Banning – and Criminalizing – Alternative Meat foodandwine.com/florida-l... · Posted by u/Volundr

dudul · a year ago

I've never seen these called straight "alternative meat". I've read/heard "alternatives to meat", or "plant-based meat", or "meat substitutes", but "alternative meat" seems like an odd label for these.

amohn9 · a year ago

I’ve never seen this called “alternative meat”, only “lab-grown meat.”

amohn9 commented on Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers github.com/R-O-C-K-E-T/Fa... · Posted by u/polivier

thenipper · 2 years ago

I definitely knew people in the Wayfair logistics org that used the same kind of algos that we used at work with their Factorio games...

amohn9 · 2 years ago

Maybe instead of using our OR tools for Factorio, we should run our supply chain simulations in Factorio...

(Hi probable coworker)

amohn9 commented on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today? · Posted by u/nvln

amohn9 · 3 years ago

Whatever you know best and can set up quickly and easily. It's very easy as an engineer to focus too much on the tech and not enough on the product. Don't agonize over postgres or Dyanamo DB, Django or Spring, just use what you know to get it set up and focus on product, market, customers, sales, etc. Those will be the hard part.

amohn9 commented on Absurd Trolley Problems neal.fun/absurd-trolley-p... · Posted by u/sebg

Al-Khwarizmi · 3 years ago

Legally perhaps, but morally, I've never gotten why so many people think that the physical act of pulling or not pulling makes so much difference.

It's a binary decision with two outcomes, in my personal view it is irrelevant which of the outcomes is caused by physical action and which by inaction (at least, supposing that you have enough time to think about what to do - obviously, if you have to react in a split second, it's understandable to be biased towards inaction because you may need more time to make the right decision, but that's not the point of these problems in the way they are posed).

If you have enough time to think what to do, inaction is a conscious choice and if it does more harm than good, you are guilty of not choosing action.

amohn9 · 3 years ago

There's a version of the problem that tries to highlight this:

A runaway trolley is heading down the tracks toward five workers who will all be killed if the trolley proceeds on its present course. Next to you is a stranger who happens to be very large. The only way to save the lives of the five workers is to push this stranger onto the tracks where his large body will stop the trolley. The stranger will die if you do this, but the five workers will be saved.

Does the act of physically pushing a person onto the tracks make it different than pulling a lever?