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Oh. Nice. I'd add the Zones of Thought series by Verner Vinge. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep

(needs a tag to be 2017)

From a different robot (Boston Dynamics' new Atlas) - the system moves at a "reasonable" speed. But watch at 1m20s in this video[1]. You can see it bump and then move VERY quickly …

> what were you thinking then before your aha moment? :D My naive view was that there was some sort of “normalization” or “pattern matching” that was happening. Like - you can look…

This doesn’t capture work that’s happened in the last year or so. For example some former colleagues timeseries foundation model (Granite TS) which was doing pretty well when we we…

> About "people still thinking LLMs are quite useless", I still believe that the problem is that most people are exposed to ChatGPT 4o that at this point for my use case (programmi…

https://c4model.com/ is very useful for this. :-) I've told it before, but when we were doing some clean sheet work a while ago I decided to use the C4 model and drew out the oblig…

Relationships and sequences. But if you want to talk about REAL complex systems talk to a microprocessor logic owner or architect trying to shoot a bug. A while ago we found a bug …

> compression mostly makes imperfections go away The ultimate compression is to reduce the video clip to a latent space vector representation to be rendered on device. :) Just give…

Eh. A better analogy - the output would decide that there needs to be conduit between floors for chilled water, hot water, sewage, dutifully make several 4” pipes, and then from fl…

I am fascinated by how complex JIRA is. We evaluated it in 2008. It seemed fine enough. Looking at it 16 years later, and… what is this nonsense? It’s so customizable that it’s loa…

Semi-related story with some insider baseball: There are quite a few memorable words you can spell using 32 or 64 bits—like BA5EBA11. This is the story of me -not- choosing one of …

Even highly precise and expensive timers will drift. Lesson learned: we built a 42-node several petabyte storage cluster. Worked fine as we were starting small, and got bigger, and…

>If they want to salvage Alexa, they need to forget shopping and start doubling down on the smart home and assistant experience. Agree. Go look at the Alexa Skills for any random c…

The Peter Drucker compliment is pretty amazing. As an aside for anyone who’s technical and wants to understand how most corporations work, read “Effective Executive.” It’s from the…

A counter example: I like making hasselback potatoes for special dinners. It’s incredibly tedious to peel, slice, and stack 4 pounds of potatoes. I dumped in my recipe and notes, s…

> Numbers like these really don't bode well for the long-term prospects of open source models, I doubt the current strategy of waiting expectantly for a corporation to spoonfeed us…

> I don't see the gotcha, that's how it is supposed to work. It's just their purpose The issue here is that docker evolved rather rapidly and in a “let a thousand flowers bloom” so…

I use 1Password to manage passkeys. It’s pretty nice. They sync across my devices, I can erase one if I need to, and generally with the exception of something odd with Firefox and …

> According to everyone that has ever told me how to do powerpoint presentations, they need an intro slide that tells the audience what they are about to be told in the presentatio…

You might want to read Edward Tufte's Beautiful Evidence.[1] He discusses stuff like what you brought up about readability and distracting from the message / point of the data. If …

> Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. Yup. I got the chance to…

Oh absolutely. It's pretty amazing tbh. I wonder how many people were turned away from positions because they didn't have "SLQ" experience?

Semi-related - I continue to be amused by the number of people that blindly-copy things without understanding what's what. I've seen / heard people refer to LLMs for Vision, which …