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New comment by gersh in "A Research Preview of Codex"

gersh — Sat, 17 May 2025 03:57:16 +0000

Yeah, but can they out-perform LLMs at soft skills? LLMs are really good sucking up, and telling people what they want to hear.

New comment by gersh in "AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think"

gersh — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:08:59 +0000

It seems like the traditional way to develop good judgement is by getting experience with hands-on coding. If that is all automated, how will people get the experience to have good judgement? Will fewer people get the experiences necessary to have good judgement?

New comment by gersh in "Microsoft announces purchase of 315k tonnes of CO2 removal"

gersh — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:55:12 +0000

So long as they have coal power plants, and need the electricity unless it get prohibitively expensive, they will just mine more coal. The way to reduce emissions is to replace high-emission infrastructure.

New comment by gersh in "Microsoft announces purchase of 315k tonnes of CO2 removal"

gersh — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 03:45:37 +0000

There are about 37 billion tons of CO2 emissions per year. If you could get the price down to $100/ton, you can get the world net zero for $3.7t/year. US GDP is 25 trillion/year. World GPD is about 96.5 trillion. So, it would cost about 3.8% of world GDP per year. World global military is about $2.2t/year, so it would be higher than global military expenditure, but somewhat theoretically possible. If you substantially reduced emissions, it might be feasible to use carbon capture for the rest.

New comment by gersh in "More than 50,000 startups in the U.S. are at risk of high capital shortage"

gersh — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 03:12:38 +0000

The article provides no historical context. Startups are risky and fail all the time. Are more startups than normal failing? How many startups can cut back and survive without more funding?

New comment by gersh in "Earning the privilege to work on unoriginal problems"

gersh — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 23:34:16 +0000

Once you've found product-market fit, what prevents a competitor with better tooling from copying you and out-competing?

New comment by gersh in "AI Report #4: AutoGPT And Open-source lags behind Part 2"

gersh — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 16:33:09 +0000

I've used GPT4, and never got it really do anything useful.

New comment by gersh in "How to build AI products people want"

gersh — Mon, 29 May 2023 15:06:31 +0000

Self-driving cars haven't really failed. It looks like Cruise and Waymo are about to get permissions to operate 24/7 in SF.

I think the greater issue is that it is difficult to assess time-to-market. You to asses both what is useful, and how long it might take to build. Some things are just gonna need a lot R&D to work. AI-hype makes people underestimate how difficult it is to actually get things to work.

New comment by gersh in "Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond review-and-approval"

gersh — Fri, 05 May 2023 23:27:32 +0000

Do we just need better regulators? We could increase pay and hire larger regulatory staffs to move faster. It seems to work for Singapore.

New comment by gersh in "We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics"

gersh — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 06:20:32 +0000

It looks like it'll be competition for phony experts and politicians. I think it is easier to improve AI algorithms than deal human with human liars.

New comment by gersh in "More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships"

gersh — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:12:38 +0000

Are modern colleges actually succeeding: 1) Exposing people to depth of thought 2) Teach people how to think

Maybe, at one time they did, and maybe some schools still do, but it doesn't seem like most modern colleges are really doing this very well.

New comment by gersh in "A study on the extent of global air pollution"

gersh — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:47:31 +0000

Where has the least polluted air? Is there a map?

New comment by gersh in "Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America"

gersh — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:19:55 +0000

Could we get the US Army Corps of Engineers to manage transit projects?

New comment by gersh in "Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America"

gersh — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:13:57 +0000

We have the army corps of engineers, which maintains a lot of the dams. We could expand from there.

New comment by gersh in "Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT"

gersh — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:11:27 +0000

Is the trained model available to download anywhere?

New comment by gersh in "We will see a completely new type of computer, says AI pioneer Geoff Hinton"

gersh — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 04:32:09 +0000

While a mortal computer could work for some stuff, how are you going to train it? It seems like each computer would need to be trained on a large training set, which is going to be slow. If the computers are the same, then it seems like it is going to make it a lot faster to upload a trained model.

New comment by gersh in "2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021"

gersh — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 04:06:43 +0000

Those things may require government investment, but if there is going to be a lot of investment in those things then it becomes worth it to figure out how to do those things more efficiently. Startups can innovate on the technology for upgrading the grid, or methods of financing it.

New comment by gersh in "2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021"

gersh — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 04:05:21 +0000

If there are going to big investments in nuclear, then it'd make sense to invest in R&D to improve nuclear power. The same goes for any other renewable energy technology.

New comment by gersh in "DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion"

gersh — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:41:13 +0000

Is code available?

New comment by gersh in "GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes Learned from Images"

gersh — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:44:41 +0000

That would be the same as curating social media feeds.