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morelandjs commented on Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release reuters.com/business/vide... · Posted by u/speckx

uejfiweun · 11 days ago

I have no doubt that someday in the future these world models will revolutionize gaming. However, they are clearly very far off from that point in capability, not to mention the cost. And a lot of these articles I'm seeing are confidently stating very incorrect facts like "this new model will completely change the workflow of game developers and accelerate game development." No it won't.

I don't trade individual stocks but it does seem like an easy case of "buy the dip" here.

morelandjs · 11 days ago

The intersection of investors who understand what it takes to build a game engine and also the capabilities and plausible future capabilities of Google’s model is practically zero.

morelandjs commented on U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/j_maffe

JuniperMesos · 14 days ago

The implicit assumption that this is a bad thing is grounded in the assumption that anyone who is a STEM PhD is automatically someone the US government should want to employ, which I don't think is true. Academia is a badly broken system, and many people with formal credentials like PhDs have wasted huge amounts of time and effort on producing what is ultimately low-quality scientific work. This is a pretty uncontroversial statement among people I know in academia - or who were in academia but left - and this should absolutely affect the degree to which federal government agencies are willing to hire people who have formal credentials like a STEM PhD.

morelandjs · 14 days ago

The tail of the distribution justifies the entire distribution. I agree that a large percentage of PhD research is inconsequential, but a small percentage is massively consequential. It’s ok to whiff on a thousand STEM PhDs if you pick up one Andrej Karpathy (for example).

morelandjs commented on Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI" pcgamer.com/software/ai/m... · Posted by u/marcyb5st

morelandjs · 19 days ago

There’s more to AI than foundation models. I think you are going to see meaningful progress on chore automation over the next decade through a combination of algorithmic and mechanical improvements, and it will measurably improve our lives. Recently got a Matic robot (awesome btw), and I no longer feel the need to vacuum my floors. It’s not life changing, but it’s an appreciable convenience upgrade. The capabilities feel like a peek into the future.

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morelandjs commented on Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions finfam.app/blog/credit-un... · Posted by u/mhashemi

Loughla · 2 months ago

Everyone should switch to a local credit union.

The rates are better, they're entirely local, and they're usually not trying to actively screw you.

morelandjs · 2 months ago

The customer service is better. Rates are generally way better. The downside is generally their phone apps and their fraud departments. I had a lovely credit union but their CC was basically unusable because they hired some crummy and over aggressive fraud detection third party that would lock down my card any time there was a strong breeze.

morelandjs commented on Claude Advanced Tool Use anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/lebovic

morelandjs · 3 months ago

Their tool code use makes a lot of sense, but I don’t really get their tool search approach.

We originally had RAG as a form of search to discover potentially relevant information for the context. Then with MCP we moved away from that and instead dumped all the tool descriptions into the context and let the LLM decide, and it turned out this was way better and more accurate.

Now it seems like the basic MCP approach leads to the LLM context running out of memory due to being flooded with too many tool descriptions. And so now we are back to calling search (not RAG but something else) to determine what’s potentially relevant.

Seems like we traded scalability for accuracy, then accuracy for scalability… but I guess maybe we’ve come out on top because whatever they are using for tool search is better than RAG?

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morelandjs · 6 months ago

Less confusing title would be 83% of those killed are estimated to be civilians.

morelandjs commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx

morelandjs · 6 months ago

I’d have to guess that new startup founders are building leaner teams leading to slower burn rates and longer run ways. That has value. I think share skepticism is warranted is whether or not old behemoths can retrofit AI efficiency gains into their existing organizational structures.

morelandjs commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

morelandjs · 6 months ago

Anyone know what the deal is with connectors? I don’t see them in the app and they made it sound like Google Calendar would be made broadly available as a connector.

morelandjs commented on Burrito Now, Pay Later enterprisevalue.substack.... · Posted by u/gwintrob

morelandjs · 9 months ago

Being fully leveraged is great for capitalism and horrible for your mental health and general well being. Ever live under crushing debt? It’s awful. Step back for a minute and look at the big picture. People are taking on debt to eat lunch. That’s insane. The author acts like it’s zero sum and if BNPL isn’t the one offering the short term loan someone else will at worse terms. That’s just not true and hand waves over the fact that people who are uneducated are unwittingly being coaxed into making bad decisions with glittery UX and one click checkout.

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