hermit

making zines, thinking, reading, trying to remember how to be a human. software sometimes, unfortunately.

most of my good posts are followers-only. feel free to request to follow, although i am often behind on the queue, and am trying to mostly have mutual follows at this point.

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2025-06-27

@redmp i often think about how the fundamental problems with LLMs are completely unsolved and i have not seen a single serious proposal to solve them (or even acknowledgement from anyone working on them that these problems exist), and this is a perfect example for that.

there is a actual true answer to "what is the set of options that exist in the current version of cargo", but trying to answer that with a statistical model trained on a bunch of random text is just fundamentally foolhardy.

i really don't understand why the industry is just bashing their heads into the wall with bigger and bigger clusters of "GPUs" (really ML ASICs but people call them GPUs for historical reasons i guess) instead of like. trying to apply the parts of transformer models that work so well with language to actual human-validated knowledge graph types of things.

2025-06-27

@triz their hiring process was carefully optimized to ensure that they would never hire a single normal person

Striving for optimality early on—debating pros and cons of various design decisions in intricate detail—would have doomed PayPal. When systems problems finally caught up to them, their communication was so good that they were able to fix them reasonably quickly. They kept hiring people from Illinois and Stanford. They focused on their network. And things worked out. But only because of a lack of diversity.

PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job. No PayPal people would ever have used the world “hoops.” Probably no one even knew how to play “hoops.” Basketball would be bad enough. But “hoops?” That guy clearly wouldn’t have fit in. He’d have had to explain to the team why he was going to go play hoops on a Thursday night. And no one would have understood him.

PayPal also had a hard time hiring women. An outsider might think that the PayPal guys bought into the stereotype that women don’t do CS. But that’s not true at all. The truth is that PayPal had trouble hiring women because PayPal was just a bunch of nerds! They never talked to women. So how were they supposed to interact with and hire them?
2025-06-25
2025-06-24

@pixouls

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2025-06-24

@pixouls thanks!

also btw your display name right now is really excellent :)

2025-06-23

@pixouls thanks for the list! and good luck with things, i hope it goes as well as it can

2025-06-23

@pixouls let me know if you find anything good about this, i know quite a few people this kind of thing would be helpful for

2025-06-23
2025-06-22

@joeycastillo sweet! will check it out. is the long term plan to merge this back into the other repo, to replace the other repo, or for both to coexist?

2025-06-22

@danielfp that makes sense! perhaps i'll take a crack at building one of the smaller ones in the meantime to get some practice — it looks like that design is fairly stable?

2025-06-22

@danielfp is this at a point where it would be useful to have people trying to replicate some of it? i have the tools needed to build something like this and would be interested in doing that if it would be helpful to you to see how replicable some of this is.

hermit boosted:
2025-06-22

:bing: type of learning where you don't have to make any mistakes

2025-06-22

@joeycastillo is the code for second movement published yet? i want to start working on a lil firmware before my sensor watch pro gets here :)

2025-06-21

if you needed to explain haskell to non-programmers with a "haskell is the _______ of programming languages" metaphor, what would the blank be?

2025-06-18

i think they could market lotion for men as "skin sauce"

2025-06-17

hmmm, started looking at this and it seems like maybe all SD cards support this? github.com/BertoldVdb/sdtool curious if anyone has used this or knows more about how this works and if it's implemented ubiquitously or not

2025-06-17

is there anywhere you can buy SD cards or microSD cards that allow you to permanently (by blowing a fuse or altering firmware or whatever) set them to read-only?

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2025-06-14

:bing: type of learning where you don't have to make any mistakes

2025-06-10
2025-06-10

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