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A list of systems that implement this or related ideas: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/notes/related-systems/rela... This list is also part of my own contender in this race: htt…

My favorite would be llm runtime.

Isn't there a better word than harness? I understand the metaphor of leading and constraining a raw power - but I don't like it.

I don't know - we are discussing techniques - like having information in files, or in a semantic database, or in a relational database - as if there was one way that could dominate…

Files work as long as you can find them. This means search and/or indexes - at some scale they start breaking. The question is: how big your agent operated knowledge base needs to …

The problem with all these new fields is that the first code that gets popular is from people who are good at marketing not those who are good at programming.

The strength of science used to be that it was anti-authoritative - experiments not institutions used to be the ultimate source of truth.

""" If 10-year Treasury notes yield 5%, for example, and you want at least a 3% equity risk premium, then you’ll only invest in a stock if you think you can get an 8% annualized re…

The number one scenario - inflation starts, Feds raises rates, debt service costs raise => debt grows even more and at some point people realize that it cannot be paid back without…

My brain dump on this: after USD become decoupled with gold it became a kind of measure of total USA production capacity (capital) - that is mostly equities and real estate. The Fe…

An honest question - what is the problem with inconsistency in using lambda calculus as a programming language and not as foundation of mathematics? """The lambda calculus was intr…

I wish there was a 'Modern Python' tutorial that would walk me through all the new python stuff like this or the type declarations or the new libs, etc.

The "magnifying" part of this is probably just a red herring - in the article itself there is nothing about the magnifying effect.

My point was that to informative about a product you need to know the person you are advertising to. First of all because you need to choose the product that he might be interested…

Unfortunately if they don't know anything about you - then they will not be able to deliver anything informative.

The problem is that what is addictive to someone is harmless for someone other. You cannot ban everything that makes someone addicted. When you have a market niche - then sooner or…

Instead of banning unsafe languages how about allowing for tort liability for software? There is a big difference in law between software and other engineering like building bridge…