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solid_fuel

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About solid_fuel

25 years in industry, as staff engineer and CTO. Experienced across fields from safety critical embedded systems to distributed machine learning pipelines. Cross-disciplinarian, rabid learner, expert on system design and architecture.

Not impressed with the LLM hype or whatever latest crypto token you're hockin'

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49251709

    > The singularity is approaching. There have been apocalyptic preachers foretelling the end times for my entire life. Interesting to see how the language has changed, even as the p…

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    Comment #49251691

    > to the detriment of the whole club of stochastic parrot folk What an interesting and pointless way to refer to “experts who understand what an LLM actually is ”

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    Comment #49202693

    You don't think it's relevant to discuss what has been done with the resources from breaking these regulations? I think it's very relevant to the article. If this was about buildin…

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    Comment #49201750

    Many such cases

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    Comment #49201593

    Interesting, you encounter a fact you don’t like and just quit reading all together. What a curious way to engage with the world.

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    Comment #49194009

    I was hardly a heavy twitter user before acquisition but I recall generally being able to read threads and reply chains without logging in. I’m not sure exactly when that changed, …

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    Comment #49193992

    > None of those let a random person Hawk Tuah their way to reaching millions. Uh neither did "X"... She originally went viral on Tik Tok [0], and then built a following on Youtube …

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    Comment #49191323

    The web experience has improved? You can’t even view a thread any more without being logged in or using a 3rd party site. They’ve actively made the web experience unusable for most…

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    Comment #49160441

    That's always an open question. Fascism does frequently collapse into other authoritarian regimes, too. But fascism itself will always fail. It is a movement motivated by the petty…

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    Comment #49160418

    > What definition of fascism are you using? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism > Is China fascist? What a strange and completely irrelevant question.

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    Comment #49159846

    They’re not thinking . They like the cuts, and DOGE, and musk, and the feel of that boot coming down on the neck. So they’re making post hoc rationalizations for everything. It’s c…

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    Comment #49159695

    Fascism always collapses, the question is only how much will remain by the time that occurs.

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    Comment #49152029

    Well yes, I would say that furthers my point though. Cats, dogs, flies, toads... they all display an embodied behavior and internal motivation that LLMs completely lack. Cats and d…

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    Comment #49152006

    The above from `esikich` is just a classic response from LLM maximalists. I point out that LLMs and actual brains - like found in nature - are vastly different in architecture and …

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    Comment #49147896

    A strawman? Don’t be ridiculous. Hallucination remains an unsolved problem, and LLMs do not have any meaningful ability to recognize when a conversation has steered outside the tra…

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    Comment #49140829

    Good call. There’s no need to devote time to reading what nobody took the time to write.

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    Comment #49131809

    No, the other comments pointing out that LLMs do not have senses and because of that they do not "experience" an apple at all are correct. When given a sequence of tokens e.g. "an …

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    Comment #49131598

    > Imagine a calculator program that computes billions of two number multiplications accurately by looking up prior examples but fails on simple multiplications often as it doesn’t …

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    Comment #49092314

    > Why are you resistant to adding a sentence to the article that notes that Claude Code uses the rewrite? It's not your article, bud. They have already addressed your concerns, and…

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    Comment #49092304

    > If you install bun you're still getting the zig version. > I don't see major reasons to doubt the rust rework, especially as so much capital and token investment is being thrown …

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    Comment #49092283

    Eating a mountain one teaspoon of sand at a time is impressive too, but I don't see why it means I should respect the act.

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    Comment #49092266

    Professional app development requires an understanding of security.

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    Comment #49092088

    His actions were certainly motivated by both his racism and contempt for people from poor countries. Frankly he should spend the rest of his life in a small cell somewhere.

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    Comment #49091660

    > not when the proposed solution is some kind of global authoritarian communism Please make an effort to engage more substantially with reality, especially on this forum.

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    Comment #49077819

    They declared bankruptcy on the original code base so hard that they decided to chuck it all in the trash. I wouldn't hold my breath expecting support for their existing users.