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Yup, it's fantastically useful.

Maybe even more useful than Opus when I have all the constraints to an issue. There is less "knowledge" in the model (I get by with 48GB of RAM allocated to an 8b quant), so it has fewer things to hallucinate about.

I've been getting to know its limits pretty well over the last few weeks and would say it's an excellent code search/replacement/generation* engine.

It's got the "in-context script generation" flow down as well, so it will easily help automate tasks that you describe with text and perhaps example commands, or tools, or skills* that you provide.

*Think of it + Pi as an NLP abstraction layer over grep, or a shell, rather than a jack of all trades + world knowledge all-in-one.

FTA:

...pretentious as ZAMM may be, I really can't stop thinking about it now that we have to contend with the Maw.

What is the Maw? The Maw is the gaping pit of nihilism that has opened up in the middle of the tech industry. The Maw is the explicit or implicit subject of roughly 63% of blog posts now shared on link aggregators like Hacker News, the subject that nobody can resist writing about, even authors who typically write about SAT solvers or microservices. The Maw is the looming threat that has prompted such an outpouring of cris de couer in the blogosphere, which some might view as—though I hope events don't go this way—just the death braying of a highly literate professional class.

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Quality is related to caring because once you care, once you are interested, you have a vantage point from which to make Quality judgments. These Quality judgments (e.g. "Is this good code?") are based in part on the romantic mode of understanding...

This resonates with me. I keep telling my team: engineering is finding the right problem, determining the constraints, and guessing a solution. Maaaybe the LLM contains a good enough guess, if you're lucky.

The other two aspects are unbounded search problems, and so by definition irreducible.

Good luck automating yourself out of a job, but be careful, you might become an engineer.

Hearing ability overall doesn't decrease with age per se. Hearing aids are common, but not in the 30 plus population. Our hearing does evolve in the ultra high frequency range, at 12kHz and above, but I'd argue that's not a very useful part of our range anyway, unlike the octaves our human voice ranges in. I'd say hearing and especially listening gets better with age, so investing in better acoustics is always a great experience.

Or if you’re very Apple. They didn’t start out as that organization per se, but there’s lots of things to be said about how they’re committing to being at least carbon neutral to the planet over the whole lifecycle of their products. They set 2030 as that goal, but I believe they’ll get there much earlier than that. Google just went from one extreme to the other, and it’s seen by many as driven by a focus on Ads. Edit: the FOSS Community with Linus at its helm could be seen as an organization that’s focused on making the software world a better place.

Having had formal education at a Java college, where you had to have at least one Class definition to run your code, discovering this course was a revelation.

To learn from the people that invented their own programming language AND chip to go with it. For free, as long as you had internet access, is something I'm eternally thankful for.

This video series is a national treasure. It changed my life, and so many others, without a doubt, for the uncountable better.

(THANK YOU)

Here's the problem with this argument. The author writes:

"The True North Of A Corporation: Creating Customers"

An argument that is only based on the idea that there can be infinites amounts of apps. Airbnb's, Uber's, Lyft's, Craigslist's. But phones do run out of memory.

So facebook takes over, and consolidates all of America's cross platform communication apps.

Please give fb Portals to the police for use as dashcam. Don't sell my life to whomever happened upon some bitcoin/libra.