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bravura

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About bravura

gentleman scientist. machine learning and natural language processing.

Joseph Turian

lastname at gmail dot com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/turian

http://strictlydev.com/devs/turian

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49264841

    You just listed a bunch of 0 to 1 companies, not 1 to 10 companies. They weren’t quantitatively better than previous companies. They were qualitatively better.

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    Comment #49234161

    The important meta-conclusion that the article sadly misses is that the government will soon be using AI to regulate AI.

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    Comment #49232199

    I still have my remarkable 1 and love it. RM 2 didn’t have a backlight so there was no upgrade reason. I actually like that the RM 1 is plastic, it feels durable and light.

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    Comment #49175020

    Not all liaisons are French, but all the dangerous ones are.

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    Comment #49110635

    I’ve been curious for a while the cheapest way to create a small run of azulejo tiles with printed design and very strange (puzzle piece like) shapes

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    Comment #48705598

    Close contact between exceptional individuals is one of the main values of having a scene.

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    Comment #48679433

    "I like to write like a human, steering clear of jargon and B-school speak." https://om.co/about/ https://om.co/2020/07/30/write-like-a-human/

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    Comment #48501565

    Who taught you this? And why do you think this way?

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    Comment #48058586

    A computer?

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    Comment #47970164

    When you buy something in Germany and the EU, you typically can return it. That does not apply to custom buildouts, like this camear.

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    Comment #47836027

    It's a handful of useful features that together feel qualitatively different, like you're talking to a real person.

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    Comment #47498021

    Believe me, I came here expecting to dunk on AI-haters, not talk tomato talk.

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    Comment #47498008

    Yes. I didn't know or understand why I felt meh about run-of-the-mill raw tomatoes this until the Kenji article. "Using mealy, off-season tomatoes is the primary unforgivable sin, …

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    Comment #47497874

    Hot take: We mostly eat garbage tomatoes. "*A BLT is a tomato sandwich, seasoned with bacon.* It wasn't until I tasted my first great tomato, at the vine-ripe old age of 22, that I…

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    Comment #47403154

    Bog-standard LLM mapping is terrible and I recently added Google Maps to my personal agent to remediate this. I'd love to try Voygr for fun. Is there a skill defined that I could j…

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    Comment #47361264

    You and GGP both wrong in ironic ways. GGP says don't care about X because it's a social phenomenon, but frequently this position is a form of social identification. You say: X mig…

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    Comment #47250013

    For me, trying to fine-tune a model to write "best day" prose I would accept over 80% of the time. You are correct if we are talking about knowledge. However it is bad at hyper-idi…

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    Comment #47223095

    How opinionated is this? Could it be a CLI? Can it work with beads for tracking the state of everything? i.e. do I need to buy in to an entire worldview to adopt this, or can I use…

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    Comment #47106663

    My work partner set it up on telegram for himself and his wife and she uses it constantly. He was very surprised.

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    Comment #47099876

    There are a few qualitative product experiences that make claw agents unique. One is that it relentlessly strives thoroughly to complete tasks without asking you to micromanage it.…

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    Comment #46931215

    Beeper API

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    Comment #46922750

    "The point of MCP is bundling those exact things into a standardized plugin that’s easy for people to share with others." Like... a CLI/API? "MCP is useful because I can add one in…

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    Comment #46922728

    You're making the convenience argument, but I'm making the architecture argument. They're not the same thing. You say "a very simple API baked into the model's existing context is …

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    Comment #46922629

    The last time I looked at MCPs closely, they appeared to pollute context and just hang there consuming context constantly. Whereas a self-documenting API or CLI tool enabled progre…

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    Comment #46760544

    How do people think about the sort of access and permissions it needs? "Don't give it access to anything you wouldn't give a new contractor on day one." https://x.com/rahulsood/sta…