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paulddraper

18,101 karma · joined November 13, 2013

Father of three.

CTO at Redo.

Co-founder of Rivet Health.

Formerly Lucid Software

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-draper/

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paulddraper··on Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
While it’s true Unicode pushes the boundaries of “plain text” having a consistent font face, font size, font weight, letter spacing, font color, text wrapping, etc is good.

I don’t want one title 16pt and another 28pt.

Or one Helvetica and the other Arial.

paulddraper··on Karpathy’s Pelican
Pelicans don't ride bicycles.

It's physically impossible.

The problem is to draw it in the least disturbing way possible.

paulddraper··on Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
Because the title appears next to a bunch of other titles.

It should be consistent, or else compromise browsing.

The content has no such situation.

paulddraper··on The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
Yeah, I was reading along but the date 2010 surprised me.

In reality, you could probably put any date in there and it would work.

paulddraper··on Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
This had nothing to do with Collatz and everything to do with a Lean bug.

The proof was not actually a proof at all, because it was unsound (despite Lean admitting the proof).

paulddraper··on Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?
Me too.

What does a reasoning program look like and why is matrix multiplication not that?

paulddraper··on JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master
Yes, more common is

  Manager     // interface

  ManagerImpl // class
paulddraper··on JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master
Yeah, Ruby code bases are generally harder to maintain than Java ones.
paulddraper··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
The current title says "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI."

This is wrong on almost every count.

1. The numbers are by milestone not month.

2. The latest milestone (or month) did not exceed the previous two years of milestones.

3. The only thing discussed are security bugs, not bugs in general.

What is true: the article is about Chrome.

paulddraper··on What it means for an API to be RESTful
> Despite its prominence, for over 20 years almost nobody has used this approach. Why is that?

There is one highly successful use of REST: the World Wide Web.

The Web/Web browsers are driven from hypermedia. (This is circular, as Fielding was looking at the web when making his dissertation.)

Granted, Web browsers stand alone as an application with extreme flexibility.

So REST is both highly common and very rare, depending on how you count.

paulddraper··on RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)
This is an awkward read, the result of trying to convey an idea while couched in other language.

That idea being that AI is less important than humans.

paulddraper··on The Difference Between a Button and a Link
> You’re suggesting aligning to an inherently and deliberately changeable presentation.

Yes, you have understood the proposal.

paulddraper··on Codex Security
So it drained $5?

Can’t speak to the results, but the cost isn’t high.

paulddraper··on The Difference Between a Button and a Link
Well, the idea here is “things that look like buttons do page navigation.”

And the proposal is that we should more closely align the presentation and function.

You are correct that if you don’t care about alignment, there is nothing wrong with the status quo.

paulddraper··on Worse on Purpose
Tools are (can be) cheap.

An electric drill from Harbor Freight costs as much as breakfast from Dennys.

You going to pass it on to your kids? No. But maybe you don’t need to.

paulddraper··on Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight
Just imagine how bad it would be if we hadn't.
paulddraper··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
Well said.
paulddraper··on Why Los Angeles Stopped Repaving Its Streets
> This sounds like some kind of corruption going on, where they're probably paying consultants stupid amounts of money

Guaranteed

paulddraper··on Kill The Cookie Banner
Eh, maybe.

It's easier to click a single button than hunt for how to create/access an account for the brand.

paulddraper··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
> Why do I need a system prompt at all?

That's like asking why you need employee onboarding.

You could have Stephen Freaking Hawking and he still wouldn't know what you specifically want.

> Why do I need another black box AIs to review the code of the black box AI why can’t these things get code right the first time.

That's like asking why you need code reviews.

Thinking about it from an antagonistic perspective is useful. You can combine it into all the "same system" if helpful.

> Why is the best “coding model” in the world still making up APIs that don’t exist and do seemingly random unreleased changes that it wasn’t prompted for.

Because....it still isn't perfect?

> Why do these models (supposedly) keep getting “better” (on benchmarks) but continue to degrade in output quality

That is disconnected from reality.

paulddraper··on Kill The Cookie Banner
Doesn't this lead to an all-or-nothing approach?

I don't want randomnewssite to track me. But a favorite online store...I do want help with recommendations.

paulddraper··on Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers
> mandating owners give consent for AI training or drop out of Google

Huh?

Search and AI are hand-in-hand.

They both rely on embeddings. (Unless you still do keyword-only search, but that's not as good.)

paulddraper··on Did they ghost you?
> “name, rank, and serial number”

That's what you give if captured as a prisoner of war.

paulddraper··on Did They Ghost You?
> purpose of the interview is to understand your capabilities and abilities

And the purpose of the reference is to understand your actual performance.

If you’re lazy or cruel to coworkers, they won’t want to hire you.

paulddraper··on Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales
Doing 1 request for every person on this planet every second?

What are these, TCP packets?

paulddraper··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
We’re talking past each other.

No one has claimed Chinese models violated copyright law.

Some have claimed they violated ToS, which is different.

paulddraper··on ANSI escape injection in MCP servers: Hidden from humans, visible to AI
> How is that any different from a developer reading a document and blindly copy-pasting into a terminal?

Your point is the people can be "hacked."

And you are correct. That's often called scamming or phishing.

The difference is that LLMs -- as of this point in time -- are more amenable to that attack than a smart human.

paulddraper··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Distillation does not violate copyright law.

It violates contractual terms of use.

paulddraper··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Correct. This seems to be poorly understood.

You can use an original work to write an encyclopedia (e.g. Wikipedia). That is fair use.

You cannot copy an original work and distribute it.

LLMs are an encyclopedia.

paulddraper··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4cxcsa

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