salad-tycoon (u/salad-tycoon)

salad-tycoon commented on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying acko.net/blog/the-l-in-ll... · Posted by u/LorenDB

only code anyone will be touching in a museum in 800 years will be the good code. I hope they don't talk about what great craftsmen we all were because someone saw an original Fabrice Bellard at the Louvre.

Survivor bias plays a role in glorifying the past.

salad-tycoon · 8 days ago

Agreed, I think the good gained by wool mills is greater in that little Timmy is less likely to lose a leg to frostbite than the bad loss of my scarf not passing through a ring.

Long term though, I’ve always wondered if the Amish turn out to be the only survivors.

salad-tycoon commented on Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-na... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

observationist · 8 days ago

The power move would have been Cosmopolitan, or a package similar to it.

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan can be used to bundle up any gui package, and your code, and a team of professional software devs should be able to cope with it just fine. You end up with a native executable with a slightly bigger package to ship, since it's carrying executables for various platforms, but you'd effectively have the same code and behavior everywhere. A few extra megabytes, instead of whatever the hell electron is doing. They could also use Java, or even one of the electron type clones that attempt to be better, like Tauri.

The point isn't that electron is so awful. It's that the company with the purportedly best coding AI and one of the best overall AI models in the world chose to do the absolute tawdriest, cheapest, even laziest thing without any consideration of what the right thing to do might be, or what thing they could do that demonstrated their excellence and mastery of craft, or at a bare minimum, the advanced capabilities of the AI.

Cursor used claude to build a browser from scratch; it's not like their AI couldn't do it.

salad-tycoon · 8 days ago

I don’t code, so I’m well out of my league but this point of “premier coding AI company should showcase its capabilities by using their own model to build superior software” rings true to me, right? Especially as we start to discuss AI as more dangerous than nuclear weapons yet it can’t even do that?

Who’s got the rebuttal to this?

salad-tycoon commented on Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser? joincolossus.com/article/... · Posted by u/saucymew

hexo · 6 months ago

your example is complete nonsense as digging a hole is not creative in any way at all

salad-tycoon · 6 months ago

My 8 & 6 year old have spent 2 weeks digging a hole out in our little forest. It has been one of the most bonding & therapeutic things in them I’ve witnessed. They’ve developed stories, they go out and dig after school or when they are upset, etc.

Give a boy a shovel, step back & witness unbridled creativity.

salad-tycoon commented on MacBook Pro Insomnia manuel.bernhardt.io/posts... · Posted by u/speckx

jdiff · 7 months ago

The far more likely scenario is that you forgot. Just because it's useful in strained, rare scenarios to have a hole in your foot doesn't mean it's not a better design choice to add a safety to prevent a device from shooting itself in the foot.

salad-tycoon · 7 months ago

More ridiculous is that a dome light should be able to drain an entire car battery in the first place. I have 18650s powered handhelds that can do days.

salad-tycoon commented on Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic cnbc.com/2024/11/22/amazo... · Posted by u/swyx

rty32 · a year ago

A caveat -- FTC is currently looking into the deal between Microsoft and OpenAI.

salad-tycoon · a year ago

A lot could change in the future and what’s the worse they could do? A billiokn dollar fine? Bold, do it and ask for forgiveness later.

salad-tycoon commented on OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/lukebennett

intended · a year ago

Ok.

Well, I can see the direction you are going. I am unconvinced though - it hasn't thread the needle.

Reason being

1) They are doing both in cube farms in the PHP, RTO + replacement by GenAI.

2) In high tech, they are also trying achieve these contradictory goals. RTO + Increased GenAI capability to reduce manpower needs.

I can see a desire to reduce costs. I cant see how RTO to improve team work sits with using LLMs to do human work.

salad-tycoon · a year ago

That’s a lot of weight on RTO and why it’s being implementing. A company is fully able to have you RTO, maybe even move, and fire you next day/month/year and desiring increased teamwork is not mutually exclusive of preparing for lay offs. Plus, I imagine at these companies there are multiple hands all doing things for their own purpose and metrics without knowing what the other hand is doing.Mid level Jan’s Christmas bonus depends on responding to exit interviews measurements showing workers leaving due to lack of teamwork, Bobs bonus depends on quickly implementing the code.

salad-tycoon commented on Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/keithly

mywacaday · a year ago

My dentist back in the 80s didn't even wear gloves, he was an older man but I can't imagine gloves were not required then or even when he would have trained in the 40s or 50s.

salad-tycoon · a year ago

Non sterile gloves are more for the wearer not the patient anyways. Assuming effective handwashing.

salad-tycoon commented on NotebookLM is quite powerful and worth playing with twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bilsbie

salad-tycoon · a year ago

It goes beyond the concept of a notebook summary as it will add in lots of filter material. Humorous examples abound, typing a single ridiculous sentence into it seems that the podcast must fill in a certain amount of time. I’d rather it just do my notes and not veer off.

salad-tycoon commented on OpenAI to become for-profit company reuters.com/technology/ar... · Posted by u/jspann

nejkbnek · a year ago

Just FYI it's "yoke" when it's a burden, "yolk" when it's an egg

salad-tycoon · a year ago

Maybe, they do seem to have egg on their face.

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ecshafer · a year ago

Timeshares / Vacation Clubs (they are basically the same thing) are massive scams. They use tricky math, high pressure sales tactics, etc. to push people who can't afford it into taking out massive loans to pay into contracts they can basically never get out of.

I went to a vacation club presentation for a bunch of free stuff once, it wasn't worth it. But its crazy the things they push onto you. They make up numbers on how expensive vacations are to pressure people into thinking they have a deal. Then they try and sell a huge package ($50k+) and to push people into a 20%+ APR loan. Then if you do sign, they stick monthly fees on top of it in perpetuity.

Its a bad idea, but I could see how people that don't have a sharp eye and a mathematical maturity might fall for it.

salad-tycoon · a year ago

Went to one once, one of the kids pooped. It was a bad one. The sales team wanted to keep going even as they enveloped by an incredibly thick stinky pungent hazardous stench. Real focus, reminded me of the movie quote “ABC always be closing.” Was interesting to be on the receiving end, a lot to study and not just the offers of “amazing places” but more so in terms of presentation and tactics. Leave your pocket book at home but everyone should experience one. (Oh yeah, didn’t sign of course, the rental locations were all on air bnb but cheaper and with none of the extra fees that they would have charged forever. Ha. Woops.)