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mhog_hn commented on Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble rollingout.com/2025/12/05... · Posted by u/zerosizedweasle

jbverschoor · 10 days ago

In the meantime, people who are actually working with it only become more bullish, and see a world where most people are first willing, and later basically required to pay 20-200 per month

mhog_hn · 10 days ago

Imagine throwing orders of magnitude more of compute at things - we may have things like a monte carlo tree search for LLM outputs using an LLMJudge that prunes the tree.

mhog_hn commented on All it takes is for one to work out alearningaday.blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/herbertl

mhog_hn · 16 days ago

On the one hand it is a wholesome article. On the other hand - so much wasted potential of people squeezing out the last bits when competing. Nash equilibria can suck

mhog_hn commented on Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013) cs.stanford.edu/people/ka... · Posted by u/peterkshultz

mhog_hn · 2 months ago

Title could also be “How to train biological neural networks” - Andrej Karpathy

mhog_hn commented on Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo github.com/msuzen/isingLe... · Posted by u/northlondoner

Qem · 3 months ago

I wonder how close R was to also take over the scientific computing/machine learning space, instead of Python's numpy/scipy ecosystem.

mhog_hn · 3 months ago

One general purpose web framework away

mhog_hn commented on More women than expected are genetically men (2016) novonordiskfonden.dk/en/n... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin

pseudosavant · 5 months ago

Very interesting. Relates to conversations I've had recently regarding trans people in sports. Turns out that conversation isn't simple, because gender is way more complex than the binary M/F options society has tried to act like it is.

Between reasons like in this article, or being born intersex, etc, there are definitely people with female chromosomes who have competed in men's sports, or people with female sex organs and male chromosomes that have competed in female sports. I don't know what the "fairness" answer is, but these are real people.

mhog_hn · 5 months ago

I hope the best for them and the people they compete against. Thanks for sharing.

mhog_hn commented on The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production utkarshkanwat.com/writing... · Posted by u/Dachande663

johnisgood · 5 months ago

I have no idea what agents are for, could be my own ignorance.

That said, I have been using LLMs for a while now with great benefit. I did not notice anything missing, and I am not sure what agents bring to the table. Do you know?

mhog_hn · 5 months ago

An agent is an LLM + a tool call loop - it is quite a step up in terms of value in my experience

mhog_hn commented on How and where will agents ship software? instantdb.com/essays/agen... · Posted by u/stopachka

air7 · 5 months ago

but who will buy the advertised products? and with what money?

mhog_hn · 5 months ago

Agents with their agent money - get ready for new legal structures and a bifurcation of the economy: agentic and human.

Who knows…

mhog_hn commented on Reflections on OpenAI calv.info/openai-reflecti... · Posted by u/calvinfo

samultio · 5 months ago

Kind of sounds like a traditional public company is a constitutional monarchy, not always the best but at least there's a balance of interests. While a private company could either be an autocracy or oligarchy where sucking up and playing tribal politics is the only way to survive.

mhog_hn · 5 months ago

Anyone tried setting up a modestly sized tech company where employees are randomly placed into various seniority roles at the start of each year? Of course considering capabilities and some business continuity concerns…

Could work with a bunch of similarly skilled people in a narrow niche

mhog_hn commented on East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming nature.com/articles/s4324... · Posted by u/defrost

mrexroad · 5 months ago

And a Q is an omnipotent being/continuum because in the 80’s it actually was cool to have a letter for a name.

mhog_hn · 5 months ago

Man, something something Data now being reality something something LLMs

mhog_hn commented on Are we the baddies? geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/AndrewSwift

mhog_hn · 5 months ago

What meta structure allows us to get rid of rent seeking behavior?

I don’t have an answer - is there scientific research on this?

Taxation? Loopholes will be found.

Lawfare against it? Lobbying will win.

I am amazed by capitalism, but at the same time it is a ruthless machine - and in democratic countries it is highly unlikely that a single political party can force the machine into a new direction. Perhaps that is a very nice feature, at the cost of also having to tolerate rent seeking, but it sure as hell sucks to see these downsides.

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