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"My point is not that JS is a simpler language; that's debatable. My point is that you can do things in JS without understanding the whole language. It's very hard to do non-trivial things in Rust without understanding the whole core."
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it's really much easier if you can understand how to center a div as they say if you can vertically center a div in HTML then you can probably learn assembly language I would say
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But again, too much detail. It would have had a much longer lifespan if I had just stopped and made it simpler.
24 June
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I don't understand why anybody would learn the CAP theorem when that theorem exists because it's just more complete. It's not that much more complicated. I think it's more simple to understand.
15 June
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In the past, I've used DataGrip from JetBrains to manage my databases. Now, I prefer to use TablePlus, as it is much simpler to use.
14 June
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Face-to-face interaction conveys understanding and empathy that text-based communication does not.Their words
In person, it's easier to grok where someone's coming from. It's simpler to see how they're feeling.
10 June
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Biology models are smaller than language models only because there is less data, not because biology is simpler.Their words
I think in a lot of ways the data is actually even more of a constraint and um because if you look at like the scale of these models compared to language models they're smaller but they're smaller because the amount of data is less
8 May
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I think that, you know, the model that we've put together collectively about the relationships between archaic and modern humans is sort of accreted over time. There was this, you know, idea that modern humans are distinct and that Neanderthals and Denisovans are like sisters of each other. And then over time we developed and detected additional mixture events like this modern human into Neanderthal and then this other ones I didn't even talk about like super divergent lineage going into Denisovans and like all this other stuff.
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19 August 2025
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I'm more agnostic about the best techniques, things like sparse autoencoders are a useful tool, but easy to waste effort using when a simpler method is sufficient or better - start by doing the obvious thing!
14 June 2025
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Very rarely do you transform into a simpler problem. So if they can pick up a sense of smell, then they could maybe start competing with a human level of mathematicians.
3 February 2025
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I think my personal definition of AGI is much simpler. I think language models are a form of AGI and all of this super powerful stuff is a next step that's great if we get these tools. But a language model has so much value in so many domains that it's a general intelligence to me.
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I think it's actually probably simpler than that. It's probably something related to computer use or robotics rather than science discovery.
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