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The Illustrated Evo 2

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2 points·by jwilber·10 maanden geleden·0 comments

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jwilber
·25 dagen geleden·discuss
I don’t think mapping tooling to ability makes sense here, particularly when the “advanced” tools here just abstract more away, though I agree that Cursor is terrible. So many useless windows.
jwilber
·vorige maand·discuss
It was almost impossible to unsubscribe a few years ago. Seems like not much has changed.
jwilber
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Well, the average grade at Princeton is an A. Not sure how much this will change anything.
jwilber
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
You can paste this exact response under your other post, as well. Emotionally compelling, scientifically weak. Worth nothing.

But also, what you wrote is just wrong. There are plenty of measurable, significant, ood effects in the last few decades on the climate and its impact.

Here’s one study onglacier retreat over the last 20 years.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL09...

And here’s a paper on the effects of the mechanism:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02282-5

I’m sure you’ll read them earnestly.
jwilber
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Author clearly doesn’t know the field well at all. First few paraphrases reveal this. Opening sentence: I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped.

Everyone is allowed to have an opinion, but that doesn’t mean they’re all worth listening to. Unfortunately, right now, all of those opinions are about ai.
jwilber
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
That’s just playing semantics. Nobody is talking about, “objective facts” or need define them here. If the step time is measured in days, and your model takes years to train, then it will never get trained to completion on consumer hardware (the entire point).
jwilber
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Ah yeah, well I didn’t know it was that high!

But I’m responding to the rescue mission comment, which, since Vietnam, have overwhelmingly employed helicopters (Huey’s then, Black Hawks today). But machinery aside, the larger point is that air operations will likely go worse here than they did in Vietnam, unfortunately for both sides.
jwilber
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
…against the viet cong, where the biggest risk was the pilot getting pierced from small arms fire (in addition to the helo going down from pilot error). Quite different from the anti-air weapons modern day Iran possesses.
jwilber
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
No shame rewarded as expected in the post-cluely world of contemporary VC.
jwilber
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Fair point, I just think that example is better off running on a cron job than using compute from llm inference, (though that will become negligible over time, anyways).
jwilber
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I see this critique about autoresearch online often, but I think it’s misplaced.

Here’s a use case that may illuminate the difference, from my own work at Nvidia. Im currently training some large sparse autoencoders, and there are issues with dead latents. Several solutions exit to help here, such as auxk, which I can certainly include and tune the relevant params as you describe. However, I have several other ideas that are much different, each of which requires editing core code (full evaluation changes, initialization strategies, architecture changes, etc.), including changes to parallelism strategies in the multi-rank environment I’m using. Moreover, based on my ideas and other existing literature, Claude can try a number of new ideas, each potentially involving more code changes.

This automated run-and-discover process is far beyond what’s possible with hyperparam search.
jwilber
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I agree with the sentiment that there are use cases for web scraping where an agent is preferable to a cron job, but I think your particular example can certainly be achieved with a cron job and a basic parser script. Just have Claude write it.
jwilber
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
That has, unfortunately, been business as usual in Iran for the last few months.

But these are all additional points in support of what is already said.
jwilber
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
You really don’t see how the situation is materially different? The bombed oil fields, hotels, dead American soldiers - all business as usual?
jwilber
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Looks great, if I remember correctly the author mentioned that the spring color palette + fruit examples are a bit tongue-in-cheek.
jwilber
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Or empathetic, especially when they throw money away à la $70M parties:

“General and administrative expenses increased by $68.1m ... The increase was primarily driven by … an in-person company event held in Q3 2025”
jwilber
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Some choice Jack Dorsey quotes:

From New Yorker profile: “His goal… is… by making information freer, he hopes to make the world fairer, kinder, and nicer.”

Where he also writes, “I definitely feel the most fundamental issue is economic equality.”

But hey, the stock is up 25%!
jwilber
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Will never not complain about languages not giving code examples. It’s like writing a charting/UI/style library and showing no examples. Just what?
jwilber
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
The Venezuelan people?
jwilber
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
You must be fortunate to have a lived experience where the answer isn’t immediately (and obviously) financial security.

Also: plenty of meaning outside of running a SaaS. Hell, undergraduate research assistants probably contribute more to societal at large.