http://www.ccru.net

I doubt it's currently maintained, but these esoteric sites are fun

To me these projects would be so fun to work on, but this domain seems so far out of a tradition SWE track. Are the researchers just cobbling the code together themselves? Cross department collaboration within the university? I'd love to have a hand in things like this.

I'm out of the loop on training LLMs, but to me it's just pure data input. Are they choosing to include more code rather than, say fiction books?

I'm a recent CS grad and have zero experience in anything physical or on the engineering side but I think I would enjoy it. I'm a bit intimidated by it, is there a path you'd recommend taking in learning?

I'm being slightly fanatical, but if our priorities were not car-centric in the 50's, do you think we would have spent more, or less money over the last 70 years on the transportation economy?

This says nothing about self driving cars

> So I'm not used to simply pretending this person I'm sharing a space with doesn't exist. Instead, I need to navigate the fuzzy line between courtesy and service.

I don't mean to be harsh, but, get over it? We live in a service economy. Do you feel the same way about the barista taking your coffee order?

> Waymos have none of this shit. They're clean, show up when they say they will, I can play my own music, adjust the air conditioning, and have obnoxious conversations with my friends. They drive safely, and, as a cherry on top, they're cool as hell.

I don't like the assumption you're making that Waymos are the only solution to ubers, taxis or driving yourself. Well designed and well working public transportation (Which is doable and exists in the world) is far cheaper and far more predictable than any form of car-based transportation.

Not only that, but you're not responding to my actual argument. The annoying part of driving is not the act of driving, it's the time spent in your commute.

Now to start a tangent, what's the easier problem to solve: FSD, or a robust public transport system? Moving rooms have always been around in the form of trains, busses, streetcars etc...

https://www.uber.com/us/en/ride/uberx-share/

Convergent Evolution happening in realtime- it's almost as if community pooled forms of transportation are the most efficient...

What you're suggesting is akin to me saying you can't build a house, then you go and hire someone to build a house. _You_ didn't build the house.

I could see the increased productivity of using Cursor indirectly generating a lot more value per engineer, but... I wouldn't put my money on it being worth it overall, and neither should investors chasing the Nvidia returns bag.

This means there's two avenues:

1. Get a team of researchers to improve the quality of the models themselves to provide a _better_ chat interface

2. Get a lot of engineers to work LLMs into a useful product besides a chat interface.

I don't think that either of these options are going to pan out. For (1), the consumer market has been saturated. Laymen are already impressed enough by inference quality, there's little ground to be gained here besides a super AGI terminator Jarvis.

I think there's something to be had with agentic interfaces now and in the future, but they would need to have the same punching power to the public that GPT3 did when it came out to justify the billions in expenditure, which I don't think it will.

I think these companies might be able to break even if they can automate enough jobs, but... I'm not so sure.

Even then, these companies aren't doing research into LLMs, they're just wrapping the endpoints and creating some abstractions.

https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat/blob/main/code/s...

My favorite line:

"You ARE this charming, witty, wise girlfriend. Don't explain how you're talking or thinking; just be that person."

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Markdown is not, because it's compiled into HTML.

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