Pete Horne

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True story I remembered in a conversation last night. When I was a kid in high school they had a careers room with information sheets and there was a trade section. I was looking at it and the careers counsellor said - don’t look at that- the Japanese will have a robot to do all those jobs. Now we are short of tradies. Sound familiar?

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I’ve had what I think is a different insight into the ai process. AI is such a misdirecting term. To me on a world of numbers it’s just (albeit clever) math objects. Llms were enabled by an invention of google called the transformer process. Then it’s just NNs of old but enabled by new hardware scale and fed by social media data and the breakdown of data access norms. The outcome is obviously transformative, but the process is engineering and science. It’s really helped my reengagement with the space.

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I agree - but that’s not the narrative. I was making a non controversial introduction:)

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I have this really uncomfortable pebble in my shoe that AI is like early TV where people thought there were little actors in the box. It feels a bit like how people respond to the Schrödinger equation which creates a mathematical object and then a whole edifice of quantum philosophy ends up being built on it. Or even Eigen vectors in my world where financial factors are put into a mathematical object that explains things that transcend normal brain capacity. But they are really just limited mathematical objects - there is no ghost in them.

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I’m having an old man moment… can’t find how to get my blue check.

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There is only one true religion 😇⚽️

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Health warning. Watching drumeo vids on YouTube at bedtime can cause binge watching that may interrupt healthy sleeping patterns.

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ngl turning the http protocol with web socket upgrade into a single threaded finite state machine turned out to be way more challenging than I thought.

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I’ve had an aha that maybe only makes sense to me; but llm programming of ai coders is a human language interface to human language computer languages. The whole intermediate step is a waste of time.

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Sending some light your way. I hope you feel better soon

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For the record; my answer is - go to bed and close your eyes :)

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I’m having so much fun after a year of grinding quietly on the keyboard. No talking. Just doing. And the doing is getting done.

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Perhaps the problem needs to be redefined? Yes, it’s a platform problem because if the platform doesn’t serve the user, including noobs, then the platform fails. “Social media” platform thinking is currently defined by ad sales and all the words including “engagement” really mean “able to monetise the user through ad clicks”. The real platform client is the advertiser. I don’t know the answer, but to me the question is a fundamental one - why am I building this platform and why will users, including new ones, love it? Who is the client? Just trying to help.

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Way back when Noah was a boy, there was a thing called CASE (computer aided software engineering) when it was thought that tools could help business domain experts build point-and-click computer systems. It’s call AI now, and it’s an improvement like the GUI editor, but I don’t see any reason to quit programming.

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I assume you’re being ironic.

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Mr Hugo really likes to talk to his own shadow. His favourite dog in the park.

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Mr Hugo showing he’s not just dressed as a gentleman.

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There are no bad dogs, only dogs that are in contact with bad humans. Find some good humans with a dog, and you’ll learn the truth about them.

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Mr Hugo not too sure about his new horse coat.

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