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the first rule of database management is to not host or manage your database unless you are willing to pay someone to do it full time

the main difference between openclaw and the traditional approach to promoting LLMs is that it can run asynchronously and prompt you, the human, when something happens

I built clawr.ing so my agent can call me on the phone for urgent things like emails I’m waiting for or issues in production for any of my products

Hey guys! Glad to finally be able to share what I've been working on over the past few weeks. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have and to take your feedback on clawr.ing!

I built a way for my agent to call me on a real phone: https://clawr.ing

I thought it would be cool to have it reach me proactively when something I care about happens instead of having to look for a notification or ask it directly

The result is pretty surreal, being out for a workout or groceries or something and getting a call about a stock price or an important email feels like I was suddenly transported into the future

It took quite a bit of effort to set up though, there’s a lot of complexity to routing calls in a cost efficient manner and generating realistic human like speech

I’m happy with the result though, you can reply back and the agent can run any tool call while it’s on the call with you, and if it takes a bit of time as in for a web search or so it will put you on hold and you will hear hold music for a few moments

they don't have to as there's no ingestion of the therapeutic agent

organic systems seek points of equilibrium, with veering too much off in any axis being detrimental

To be fair, so did a lobotomy. I believe close attention should be paid to any unintended outcomes of a therapy that the patient themselves would no longer be able to identify due to the nature of the treatment itself.

this is another interesting comment on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41977430

but crucially, it assumes that variations in submissions and voting activity are strongly correlated, which I imagine is not necessarily the case

fluid pressure pushes particles outwards

AI safety people worrying that basketball players don't have a perfectly balanced ethnical representation while mega corporations are trying to establish a monopoly on intelligence

https://wip.co/

exception handling in GO makes it unusable IMO

Being forced to think about every possible failure state is a sure way to spend a lot of time on not creating value for the end user

Learn golang

Having to "if err != nil" every single function call is a big put off - imagine having to "try catch" everything in a language like C#!

A Boltzmann brain requires a similar underlying reality except with no evolution traceability for the brain's origin.

Not requiring a world around the brain does not make it more likely, but less, as the probability of brains given that worlds exist multiplied by the probability of worlds is still much higher than the probability of brains regardless of the existence of worlds

Not to mention the odds of dreaming up an entire existence out of the blue, with no base reality for training data

The next step seems to be applying past advances in reinforcement learning with modern transformer based models

Playing chess & go is also search in a large tree of moves leading to particular game states

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Just a few days ago added a "notes" page to my personal website on the same vein

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caffeine’s quarter life is about double its half life

1/2 = 2 * 1/4

Isn't that by definition?

storing binary files like that in Git isn't as space efficient as using a plain text format

Why? Because git stores deltas?

At a first glance I'd expect a binary file to be radically more compact than the plain text equivalent.

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The secret is to build stuff and people commenting on hacker news tend to not be focused on building

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The thing I try to keep in mind most when dealing with these kinds of blog posts is that something that must be helpful to a majority of its audience will inevitably lose a lot of the value it can provide to each individual.

They definitely have an incentive to publish results people will care about, as any other researcher that is part of an academic environment.