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bradfox2··on Sergey Brin Confronted Gavin Newsom
Income vs wealth tax. These aren't comparable.
bradfox2··on Show HN: Postgres extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search
Thank you!! Goodbye manticore if this works.
bradfox2··on Agent-to-agent pair programming
Multi turn review of code written by cc reviewed by codex works pretty well. Been one of the only ways to be able to deliver larger scoped features without constant bugs. I've seen them do 10-15 rounds of fix and review until complete.

Also implemented this as a gh action, works well for sentry to gh to auto triage to fix pr.

bradfox2··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
This is as designed to gatekeep these customers. Those in control of the checklists stand to benefit.
bradfox2··on Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]
Maybe you have not received an alert but, yes it does, and it's annoying as all hell. Dirt, sun, etc all pop an alert about degraded performance.
bradfox2··on California's Venture Capital Diversity Reporting Requirements Take Effect
I answered this already for one of our investors - marked the single "decline to disclose" box and sent it back.
bradfox2··on Why Cline doesn't index your codebase
Copilot
bradfox2··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
It's wikipedia in the 00s all over again being preached by roughly the same age and social demographic.
bradfox2··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
No, it lets good engineers parallelize work. I can be adding a route to the backend while Cline with Sonnet 3.7 adds a button to the frontend. Boilerplate work that would take 20-30 minutes is handled by a coding agent. With Claude writing some of the backend routes with supervision, you've got a very efficient workflow. I do something like this daily in a 80k loc codebase.
bradfox2··on Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
The research posted demonstrates the opposite of that within the scope of sequence lengths they studied. The model has future tokens strongly represented well in advance.
bradfox2··on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
This is what we do today. Have you tried it against Gemini 2.0?
bradfox2··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
This is, justifiably, very similar to nuclear reactor operators. Pay needs to reflect the working conditions to attract more people (it does for reactor operators).
bradfox2··on Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
Great release Daniel. Applaud the consistency you have shown.

Can you release slightly bigger quant versions? Would enjoy something that runs well on 8x32 v100 and 8x80 A100.

bradfox2··on ChatGPT Pro
The cyber security gatekeepers care very little about that kind of stuff. They care only about what does not get them in trouble, and AI in many enterprises is still viewed as a cyber threat.
bradfox2··on Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD
Hey! We're building this. It's a workflow driven automated documentation system for engineers based on your document templates. We started in energy and have expanded into engineering services. Would love your feedback.

fast-draft.ai

Please, please send me an email or dm if you are interested.

bradfox2··on Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
I didn't say average, and the highs are higher for many days. It sounds like you've never been in extreme heat, there's a huge difference between 89F and 110+F. More people are moving here than are leaving.
bradfox2··on Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
There are already different classes of licensing in the US for larger industrial vehicles.
bradfox2··on Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
And where I live it's 110F+ for three months of the year. No one sane is biking or walking anywhere as it's too dangerous. Not everyone lives in some temperate small European city.
bradfox2··on Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)
Having done this for domain specific engineering paperwork that looks similar to cause analysis, it does work well at param sizes << 70B.

lora does not work though, you need full parameter training if the knowledge isnt already present in pre training set.

bradfox2··on People are shooting down Walmart delivery drones
If it was an airplane it wouldn't be at 75ft agl, he probably wouldn't have shot at it, and if he did, the charges would have been significantly more severe. The drone was 75ft high. Pretty easy to see what it is clearly.
bradfox2··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
From a enterprise software vendor perspective, cyber checklists feel like a form of regulatory capture. Someone looking to sell something gets a standard or best practice created, added to the checklists, and everyone is forced to comply, regardless of the context.

Any exception made to this checklist is reviewed by third parties that couldn't care less, bean counters, or those technically incapable of understanding the nuance, leaving only the large providers able to compete on the playing field they manufactured.

bradfox2··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
This is the way it's done in the nuclear industry across the US for power and enrichment facilities. Operational/secure section of the plant is airgapped with hardware data diodes to let info out to engineers. Updates and data are sneaker netted in.
bradfox2··on Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs
What defines the boundaries of internal vs external? Certainly nothing about llm weights or ops should.
bradfox2··on Tmux is worse-is-better
Is there anything better than tmux for this purpose? I need persistence but hate the key bindings and general interface.
bradfox2··on Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
I'd look at generators in unregulated markets and suppliers of generation equipment.
bradfox2··on Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
I work at the intersection of power and AI. Buy utility stock. The bottleneck for AI expansion will not be installed GPUs, but the electricity they need to run. We are in an energy crisis and not many realize it yet. Virgina, Texas, Arizona and soon to be Ohio and Georgia are out of generation capacity and the data centers are like locusts.
bradfox2··on Llama3 implemented from scratch
I feel like this ignores the complexity of the distributed training frameworks. The challenge is in making it fast at scale.
bradfox2··on Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare
Galactica training paper from FAIR investigated citation hallucination quite thoroughly, if you havent seen it, probably worth a look. Trained in hashes of citations were much more reliable than a natural language representation.
bradfox2··on Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare
Very cool. My company is building a very similar tool for nuclear engineering and power applications that face similar adoption challenges for LLMs. We're also incorporating the idea of 'many-to-many' document claim validation and verification. The ux allowing high speed human verification of LLM resolved claims is what were finding most important.

Deepmind published something similar recently for claim validation and hallucination management and got excellent results.

bradfox2··on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
Is it implemented?
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