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zamderax commented on François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCe... · Posted by u/sandslash

hackinthebochs · 2 months ago

Has Chollet ever talked about his change of heart regarding AGI? It wasn't that long ago when he was one of the loudest voices decrying even the concept of AGI, let alone us being on the path to creating it. Now he's an advocate and has his own prize dataset? Seems rather convenient to change your tune once hundreds of billions are being thrown at AGI (not that I would blame him).

zamderax · 2 months ago

People are allowed to evolve opinions. It seems to me he believes that a combination of transformer and program synthesis are key. The big unknown at the moment is how to do program search.

zamderax commented on Apple to Android and ESP32 P2P Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi Aware [video] youtube.com/watch?v=L0JQg... · Posted by u/zamderax

zamderax · 3 months ago

Historically Apple used Apple Wireless Direct Link. Now it can communicate with the more open Wi-Fi Aware which is enabled on most modern Android devices and even ESP32

Posted by u/zamderax 3 months ago

Apple to Android and ESP32 P2P Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi Aware [video]youtube.com/watch?v=L0JQg...

zamderax commented on LLMs are making me dumber vvvincent.me/llms-are-mak... · Posted by u/vincentcheng

jebarker · 3 months ago

"While CS undergrads are still required to take classes on assembly, most productive SWEs never interact with assembly. Moving up the ladder of abstraction has consistently been good."

Gotta disagree. Adding abstraction has yielded benefits but it certainly hasn't been consistently good. For example, see the modern web.

zamderax · 3 months ago

It’s been overall good. Being able to access a web app or website by entering a URL is impressive!

zamderax commented on Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B upstartsmedia.com/p/scoop... · Posted by u/ko_pivot

999900000999 · 4 months ago

Supabase just raised 200 million.

What’s with all these Postgres hosting services being worth so much now?

Someone at AWS probably thought about this, easy to provision serverless Postgres, and they just didn’t build it.

I’m still looking for something that can generate types and spit it out in a solid sdk.

It’s amazing this isn’t a solved problem. A long long time ago, I was apart of a team trying to sort this out. I’m tempted to hit up my old CEO and ask him what he thinks.

The company is long gone…

If anything we tried to do way too much with a fraction of the funding.

In a hypothetical almost movie like situation I wouldn’t hesitate to rejoin my old colleagues.

The issue then, as is today is applications need backends. But building backends is boring, tedious and difficult.

Maybe a NoSql DB that “understands” the Postgres API?

zamderax · 4 months ago

Supabase is particularly valuable for its users. Or right now “vibecoders”

zamderax commented on Clair Obscur Metacritic user score metacritic.com/game/clair... · Posted by u/tyleo

ReDeiPirati · 4 months ago

have you played Final Fantasy VII Rebirth?

zamderax · 4 months ago

FFVII Rebirth is perfection. Best battle system ever, great voice acting, great music.

zamderax commented on No Calls keygen.sh/blog/no-calls/... · Posted by u/ezekg

nu11ptr · 7 months ago

For #2, someone once said there are two pricing models (was it Joel Spolsky? Don't recall..):

$0 - $999 - direct sale/download, pricing on website

$50,000+ - full sales team, no pricing on website

And essentially not much in between... this has perhaps changed a bit with SaaS, but this is still semi true.

zamderax · 7 months ago

I don’t think this is true anymore. Firebase, auth0, AWS, figma and many more SaaS obliterated this dichotomy

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

peppertree · 9 months ago

Anthropic should double down on the strategy of being the better code generator. No I don't need an AI agent to call the restaurant for me. Win the developers over and the rest will follow.

zamderax · 9 months ago

No they should not do this. They are trying to create generalized artificial intelligence not a specific one. Let the cursor, zed, codeium or some smaller company focus on that.

zamderax commented on Show HN: Libretto – Simple recording and editing, an alternative to Descript libretto.fm... · Posted by u/michael_y

zamderax · 9 months ago

A marketing rule is that you cannot pick the same combination of colors as the incumbent product. Because looking at your website, I am thinking of DeScript all the time. So your website is now an ad for DeScript. This is why Pepsi cannot pick red and Xbox cannot pick Blue.

Congrats but please change the color if you want to compare yourself to DeScript.

Posted by u/zamderax 10 months ago

Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn about program synthesis

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