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I also attempted to do real-time audio visualizations with LED strips. What was unsatisfying is that the net effect always seemed to be: the thing would light up with heavy beats a…

Yes, exactly. Not only can you not run CLIs in Chat interfaces, the services that non devs use often don’t even have CLIs to begin with. Developers have a rich set of CLIs because …

Agreed. As engineers we build context every time we interact with the codebase. LLMs don't do that. A good senior engineer has a ton in their head after 6+ months in a codebase. Yo…

Another factor with the vibes being off (at least in the US): mass outsourcing of jobs thanks to remote work. You used to have to be a multinational company with global entities an…

I believe an important reason for why there are no LLM breakthroughs is that humans make progress in their thinking through experimentation, i.e. collecting targeted data, which re…

Data labeling has been moving to onshore / higher paid work. There's still a lot offshore, but for LLMs in particular and various specialized models, there's a massive trend toward…

This 1967 poem is often mentioned in the context of Solarpunk as having a similar vision https://allpoetry.com/All-Watched-Over-By-Machines-Of-Loving...

I do agree. But the thing I would add though is that at least when I was there (W2012 - we were in the same batch!) YC and PG in particular were vocal about principles they believe…

Maybe this is a dumb question but I thought valuations had fallen a bunch since mid 2022 and now lots of VC firms are struggling with companies (especially mid-to-late stage) who r…

I was part of the W12 batch of YC (which was a lot smaller, ~60 companies, back when Paul Graham was still leading YC). YC funds a lot of companies and has always had super high va…

It takes time to build a company to significant revenue. I'd be curious to rule that out as the primary explanation before reading too much else into this.

I've been curious what a version of this based on general relativity would be like and whether that would be interesting.

This is great. This is mentioned in the discussion topics section ("modeling randomness in gathering belongings"). But I wonder what the distribution of baggage-gathering time look…

Yeah it feels like there should be a legally enforceable ai.txt

I do think there will/should be a reckoning about the how training data is acquired and attributed. For example, LLMs could attempt to cite sources, or share ad revenue fractionall…

Second this. The 32x64 version is what I used to make this digital tide clock as a project with my nephew https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/UzFNawTTWq4h5h6YF9Im . It fetches tide …

The score for Dunkirk includes a piece by Hans Zimmer that adapts one of the Enigma Variations: https://open.spotify.com/track/5eeBoptaR9wfFe5csGjIMP?si=3b5... One of the most beau…

By the way, the best New York secret is "Fish Friday", when the Acme factory in Williamsburg sells its stuff directly to the public for pickup, including various experimental thing…

This guy has a great set of examples of rules in English that started as bastardizations, fabrications, arbitrary preferences of some particular writer, etc.: https://youtu.be/JTsl…