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1 points·by manbitesdog·4 months ago·0 comments

Agentic Memory Bottlenecks

jcarlosroldan.com
4 points·by manbitesdog·5 months ago·1 comments

Alive internet theory

alivetheory.net
171 points·by manbitesdog·8 months ago·79 comments

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manbitesdog
·last month·discuss
Quoting the famous Science paper More Is Different [1]:

Knowing the laws of physics doesn't tell you how a brain, economy, or society works - because at every level of scale, genuinely new phenomena emerge that require their own science.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.177.4047.393
manbitesdog
·3 months ago·discuss
I cringe every time I see Claude trying to co-author a commit. The git history is expected to track accountability and ownership, not your Bill of Tools. Should I also co-author my PRs with my linter, intellisense and IDE?
manbitesdog
·3 months ago·discuss
That's very nice and I ended up with the same font I tend to use (Source Code Pro) vs the font I used before (Noto Sans Mono). Some features I'd love to see:

- An ELO-based version with many more variables, so that I can open the site from time to time and find more nice fonts

- Some global stats

- Not losing the leaderboard after reloading

- Spline Sans Mono
manbitesdog
·4 months ago·discuss
Maybe this is a bit US-centric, direct negative feedback is very common in many cultures, e.g. Dutch
manbitesdog
·4 months ago·discuss
...at least until we get real Test-Time Training (TTT) that encodes the state into model weights. If vast amounts of human knowledge can be compressed into ~400GB for frontier models, it's easy to imagine the same for our entire context
manbitesdog
·4 months ago·discuss
I also got the recommendation from here, happy to see I'm giving it back!
manbitesdog
·4 months ago·discuss
There is a fantastic book on this topic called "By Design : Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV" that cover the inception of modern brands. It's a very similar story to what happened to watches. The industrial revolution made quality clothing accesible for everyone, so the cloth appearance no longer was a clear indicative of status, so brands started placing their emblems on the outside of the fabric inside of the inside. At the time it was seen as gross, obvious and bad taste. Guess we had a century to normalize it.
manbitesdog
·4 months ago·discuss
Short FAQ on their Twitter: https://x.com/RevenueCat/status/2029232043838644407
manbitesdog
·5 months ago·discuss
Another big factor is that many areas of the US feature horizontal architecture instead of vertical ones (i.e. Los Angeles vs NY). A bus stop in those areas cover orders of magnitude less people given the same radius
manbitesdog
·5 months ago·discuss
Plus a long queue of yet-undiscovered architectural improvements
manbitesdog
·5 months ago·discuss
A cheap one from Aliexpress with only forward/backward keys
manbitesdog
·5 months ago·discuss
With such a high throughput because of sparsity, I'm particulary interested in distilling it into other architectures. I'd like to try a recurrent transformer when I have the time
manbitesdog
·6 months ago·discuss
Using an ebook and a bluetooh page turner solved it for me
manbitesdog
·6 months ago·discuss
And that Internet will still exist in 100 years
manbitesdog
·6 months ago·discuss
https://jcarlosroldan.com/
manbitesdog
·7 months ago·discuss
TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex
manbitesdog
·7 months ago·discuss
Sorry, I meant 10**50; HN formatting removed one asterisk
manbitesdog
·7 months ago·discuss
This position has been closed
manbitesdog
·7 months ago·discuss
Yes (ᵕ—ᴗ—)
manbitesdog
·7 months ago·discuss
To add to this, the low-level constraints also make this assumption noisy, no matter how smart the compiler is. On the CPython case, if you do `dis.dis('DAY = 24 * 60 * 60)` you will see that constant folding nicely converts it to `LOAD_CONST 86400`. However, if you try `dis.dis('ATOMS_IN_THE_WORLD = 10*50')` you will get LOAD_CONST 10, LOAD_CONST 50, BINARY_OP **.