Thank you for writing this. I too was a heavy user of the em-dash until ChatGPT came along. Though my solution has been to eschew the em-dash or at least replace with triple hyphens.
Great post. Love the writing style that is at once both casual and erudite.
I must take issue with the central point however: the machines of LLMs are very different than the machines of CPUs. While it is true that Claude writes fewer memory errors than even expert C programmers (I’ve had to fully accept this only this week), the LLM is still subject to mistakes that the compiler will catch. And I dare say the category of error coding agents commit are eerily similar to those of human developers.
Suggestion: use an accelerometer data on mobile and use that to directly replace gravity. I expect to be able to tip the phone to drape the cloth, and shake the phone to get waves of motion.
I think the little tears were fine, but my expectation of the weight of the cloth wasn't so much that it would start to rip on its own after a certain point. It felt more like a wet dough at a certain point than cloth.
Awesome blog! Looking at the code I feel like there’s a kindred soul behind that keyboard, but there’s no About page afaict. Who beeth this mysterious writer?
Ofc a savings account has risk in real terms. But I assume GP was referring to risk in terms of losing principle in dollars.
There’s still some risk short of a global financial collapse where the FDIC rules are weakened, perhaps by making the $250k limit per individual for example, and then there being some bank failures. Or changing to only covering a certain % of deposits etc.
I believe there was an implication of the commenter I responded to that the risk of a savings account is somewhat similar to the risk of crypto. So, I asked said commenter to quantify or describe the risk. A comment simply with the text "A normal savings account does not have zero risk." is useless to a productive conversation.
When I walked across the crater as a kid, I remember there was an inner crater that I was told had filled up with lava back in the 80s and then drained down leaving a deep well. Does someone have a map of the historical eruption locations within the main summit crater?
Huge thanks to the mods and YC for creating this space. HN is legendary in its own time. Hoping @prodigycorp and the result of us can enjoy another 15 years of thoughtful hackish conversation and news.
The investment structures could use description in English.
Does investing in these instruments make the investor a co-owner of the business? (Like a member of an LLC)? Or is it a revenue sharing contract of some kind?
SMB investing often takes the form of debt. Do you support cash flow loans?
What’s the enforcement mechanism if the SMB raises funds and then doesn’t pay out? I know a guy who does cash flow loans for small businesses and being a real tough mofo (and having even rougher characters on staff) is part of the job.
Also I think people expect there to be an exchange for shares. I know these assets will be highly illiquid, but still you could permit buy/sell orders to be placed on the books to facilitate exiting.
Does anyone have a benchmark that clearly distinguishes the larger models? I would think that the high parameter count models would have capabilities distinct from the smaller ones, that would easily be read out. For example, Opus 4 has apparently memorized many books. If you ask it just right (to get around the infuriating copyright controls), it will complete a paragraph from The Wealth of Nations or Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in Ancient Greek. That cannot be possible on a smaller model that needs to compress more.
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