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>he said that the AI made up entire user profiles. "No one in this database of 4,000 people existed," he said.
It looks like there's about 800 million acres of farmland in the US and we're losing about 2 million acres per year to the land being repurposed. Despite that, crop production has more than tripled in the past 70 years due to technological advances.
That said, economic effects, loss of farmland, and climate change have contributed to slower growth and higher variability of crop yields recently.
In the past decade there's been a modest 0.8% annual increase in crop production despite losing about 2 million acres per year.
- heavily pre-treat soil with organic matter (simulating forest floor)
- plant a mix of native plants that will make up canopy, tree, sub-tree, and shrub layers
- densely planting plants (3-5 saplings / m^2)
- heavy mulching after planting (weed suppression, moisture control, nutrients)
This encourages rapid growth into a biodiverse dense forest much faster than standard planting techniques.
The climate regulations are still quite weak. Without a proper carbon tax, a US company can externalize the costs of carbon emissions and get rich by maximizing their own emissions.
As far as productivity, it's hard for me to quantify, but most of these projects would not be feasible for me to pursue with my limited free time without the force multiplier of AI.
rust + wasm simulation of organisms in an ecosystem, with evolving neural networks and genes. super fun to build and watch.
>which AI you are using?
using chatgpt/claude/gemini with a custom tool i built similar to aider / claude code, except it's very interactive, like chatting with the AI as it suggests changes that I approve/decline.
>No sign so far of AI's usefulness slowing down as the complexity increases?
The AI is not perfect, there are some cases where it is unable so solve a challenging issue and i must help it solve the issue. this usually happens for big sweeping changes that touch all over the codebase. It introduces bugs, but it can also debug them easily, especially with the increased compile-time checking in rust. runtime bugs are harder, because i have to tell the ai the behavior i observe. iterating on UI design is clumsy and it's often faster for me to just iterate by making changes myself instead.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/can-you-give-me-an-apples-t...
I plan to share it on Github, but waiting for my employer's internal review process to let me open source it as my own project, since they can legally claim all IP developed by me while employed there.
Unimportantly, I wonder how the copyright date is 2023 when MCP didn't exist until 2024.
- Open Source: The architecture of the model is available, so you can bring your own data and compute to train a similar model.
- Open Weights: The trained model itself is available for you to use. You can download it and run it on your own hardware without needing to train anything from scratch.
- Open Data: You get access to the data that was used to train the model. With this, you can completely reproduce the training process, which is super helpful if you want to fine-tune the model or see exactly how it was trained.
There are some other nuances around hyperparams, training methodology, etc. but that's basically the 3 main categories.