egeozcan

I'll never forget the day I bought (made my parents buy) Age of Empires 2 and its blue box.

More like, "back when software came in physical media".

Putting the CD in the drive, the installation starts, and that wow effect starting the game, the hard disk clicking like crazy.

Latency had to improve because of the increased CPU speeds, but it didn't, causing a regression that's easy to perceive.

Ram is getting better, faster etc. except for the latency. I guess we still cannot bend the rules of physics.

It's funny how my 3950X, which I still find to be an absolute monster for anything I throw at it, isn't even in the benchmarks anymore. Hard to believe it's 7 years old.

Are you trying to imply that UX is something we only measure on software? That'd be incorrect.

I was talking about the hardware. Software sucks, paid little helper this, paid little helper that...

To be fair, the whole thread is about tolerating Apple because how good the hardware is :)

I will never buy/use DELL again. Even if the company completely reinvents itself, stops selling computers and just rebrands toasters, these combination of letters make me distrust anything they are physically printed on.

I'm not exaggerating, I had so many horrible experiences.

I have to agree, unfortunately. Macbooks have their issues, and give me violent tendencies like any piece of hardware every now and then, but when it comes to UX and reliability, they are far, far ahead of anything I tried, and I tried a lot of hardware.

No they can handle it, but they need too much time. If you pause the game when the LLM thinks, it works. Wrong tool for the job in its current state.

That's Red Alert 2 and Age of Empires 2 for me, and I really long for those times I could gather with friends in an internet cafe and be able to steal their hamburger in the real world when they made me mad in game.

Make the OpenAI models develop AI-scripts to play the game instead (like the good old AI-scripts, not AI as in LLMs). They are amazing at that.

I didn't know about Sync. TIL someone had the guts to start a company named "Sync" in 2011.

All posters I saw used to look like these sub-10-dollar stuff before AI took over: https://graphicriver.net/posters-graphics?sort=trending#cont...

They were/are not great. While I agree that spending extra 10 minutes improves the results, AI stuff are also not amazing. I think there's nothing surprising about this.

Is there anything that LLMs (or any software for that matter) could imaginably and theoretically do but do humans qualitatively cannot do?

I don't really know what I'm talking about but I imagined the difference was always quantitative (in a nutshell: they need less time).

That wasn't what I was going for but, why not?

In the future, because of bad things we did to the atmosphere and stuff, miscarriages are the common ending of a pregnancy, instead of being the exception. One evil company finds a way to accelerate the process by using 10 women, lowering the chances of miscarriage simply by reducing the time in womb.

I thought, something like a medication helping the women develop the baby in 30 days, but seriously damages the host in a couple of days, so the fetus gets transferred from host to host. Some die, but the evil rich don't care. Your idea could also work though.

I realize that this is totally the wrong corner of the internet to post this but I guess today I'll just go with it.

Sorry for being so detached from the discussion and your actual point but if someone had made a dystopian sci-fi novel with the tagline following your sentence with "...or can they?", and made it all cheesy, I'd read it in one sitting.

It's nothing more than a "hello world" project in comparison to what you shipped. Photopea is crazy good! Anyway, thanks!

> Nobody knows how the LLM does it

From a completely technical perspective, we have a rough idea how the LLMs work, and improving a system requires measuring outcomes and you don't necessarily need to understand the mechanism.

EXPLAIN ANALYZE against data that's similar in size to prod checks a query written by an LLM as good as anything we can write... but, yes, you're right, we still didn't solve the halting problem - neither the LLMs.

I didn't argue that it'd make sense, I just said that it could be reasonably fixable when problems occur and verifyable that the fix works. Even if shipping and RLing an LLM were easy tasks in terms of software distribution (they are not) we'd still hit the skill mismatch, as I said in my previous comment.

I just find the "all llms are non dererministic and therefore unreliable" narrative a bit backwards. All software that has more than 0 users needs to deal with non-determinism anyway :)

> fixable and verifiable

By people with a specific skill set. LLMs generation can also be fixed and verified by people with a certain skill set, and non-deterministic computing doesn't automatically mean unpredictable. When people say that the LLMs are a black box, it means unpredictability in unknown situations.

You do structured output, input validation, output validation, lower temperature, limit decisions, RL, etc. to increase predictability to near certainty. It's just statistics after all. Or you can as well generate the code to do the job.

It's just that the required skill set is a different one to do those things, and unusual in the context of DB administration.

I created a much more basic version of photopea (https://egeozcan.github.io/ketchup/) because I didn't even know it existed. This is very cool and fast!

The bad traits are from other, bad humans. We, the good humans, can obviously select the best traits that a good human should have, to give the agents.

From my experience, in an agent team (or a swarm or whatever), one going off the rails poisons the rest. I saw even a subagent going for a lazy cheat and being able to convince the orchestrator to change the plan.

Also eating skins turns kiwis from a fruit you have to spend time to preprocess (halve + grab spoon) to an immediate snack.

This may sound insignificant to many but for the extremely lazy like me, this is the difference between going to waste and being consumed for many fruits.

I use a Turkish site from Sevan Nişanyan: https://www.nisanyansozluk.com/kelime/tarife

Also gives the same information. BTW the dude is a legend, I had lessons from him in university, he could speak like 12 languages or something.

I've read that the word is borrowed from Arabic, meaning notification, and I think at first it was price notifications and then people started using it to mean that the prices were bound to some schedule or condition.

For example in Turkish, "tarife" means only that: Conditional / Schedule-based pricing, and according to Sevan Nişanyan (a language researcher), Turkish borrowed it from Italian, where it was being used similarly. Import tariffs are a completely different word.

It apparently came to English through Italian -> Spanish -> French.

So I'm not a native English speaker but as far as I understand, import tariffs are just one kind of tariff.

ps. I just f'ing love Etymology.

Harnessing it? On one side people like DHH arguing ADHD is just "boys being boys", and at the other side there are people who obviously watched too many "ADHD is my superpower" reels on Instagram.

No, great, I'm not offended or anything (why would I be), and I wish I could relate back, it's just a weird feeling, that's all.

As a person who has ADHD, it feels weird when people who obviously do not have it, claim to have it, while there's very little I wouldn't do to "get rid of it" (in quotes because it makes me, me but it's very hard to be me).