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Exactly. Besides cost, domain-specific models (which can still be very large) encode our biases (i.e., our knowledge about the domain) in their architecture. Because of that, we ha…

I think the bipartisan moment against AI is in large part (surprise, surprise) optics. In reality, the powers that be may have already set their sights on AI as the next "too big t…

The AIs have already figured out how to succeed in a software job: 1. Ship bugs 2. Fix them 3. You're the hero!

Sounds like Google.

I can't believe this is so unpopular here. Maybe it's the tone, but come on, how do people rationally extrapolate from LLMs or even large multimodal generative models to "general i…

Can you say the same about the top 100 basketball players?

Does it support plug-ins?

Yes, excellent point. Notation can be a great aid to understanding. I should give this a try more often.

I guess it would take a lot of patience, but it should be doable, maybe even more feasible than some contemporary music that is heavy on sound fx. I don't find this as rewarding as…

I think of this as analogous to self-supervised pretraining followed by training on a smaller labeled set. When you study theory you can ground it on music you've listened to throu…

I would add that music theory and sight-reading are orthogonal. My partner learned piano at a young age, and she can follow a sheet but won't know what chords she's playing. I lear…

Besides security and caching, I think standards/interoperability are key. I want my next-generation apps to work on a cloud filesystem of my choice, be it Dropbox, Google Drive, et…

If we're talking really long-term, I don't see a big difference between loading a web app and having a native app quickly and seamlessly installed and loaded just by clicking on a …

Love the name (though I'm sure many would consider it sexist).

Of course, we Emacs users have always had that sort of thing. That's why Agile folks at Lean startups tend to favor Vim these days. True story.

DCPU-16 port anyone?

I also toyed with my own Lisp[1] a few weeks ago, after being inspired by Peter Norvig's Lispy[2]. It's an interpreter though, and written in C++. I mixed together features from di…

For instance, a Google search can distinguish a search for “New York” as opposed to one for “New” and “York.” OMG, what kind of sophisticated AI did they use to accomplish this? I'…

I haven't run the crawler so I'm not sure what else it does, but if it only parses the home page and fetches the external links, why not read http://news.ycombinator.com/rss (you c…