<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sgt101</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sgt101</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:07:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sgt101" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sgt101 in "How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see what you mean, but then an authentication step?</p>
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<p>I mean - do you have the macid's of McKinsey's corporate devices?</p>
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<p>wot?</p>
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<p>Why was there a public endpoint?<p>Surely this should all have been behind the firewall and accessible only from a corporate device associated mac address?</p>
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<p>It's the world builder, odd that it comes second but if it had come first then most people would have been put off! I liked that the main character was the least super empowered of any of the characters though.</p>
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<p>It never occurred to me to see if there was a film!<p>Mind you even more amazing I was on youtube yesterday and a short film showing the first chapter of the brand new book (published really recently) that I was reading popped up.<p>Now I see that there is not only that film (in the DUST series) but also a miniseries someone has made...<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=antimemetics+division" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=antimemetics+di...</a></p>
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<p>The novels Blindsight & Echopraxis by Peter Watts have a nice vampire sub-plot... basically his world has vampires which have been revived from the fossil record. They are posited to have gone extinct in recent times, but before then were human's key predator, keeping our populations strongly in check and then having to hibernate for decades to allow the breeding to provide new meat!<p>He's super interested in brain disorders and spins a good story about the trade offs of a terrible reaction to right angles in exchange for savant like powers of perception.</p>
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<p>zactly - this is scifi stories from the 1950's being replayed, the shocking thing is that there's so much open mouthed "oh wowing" going on. People who are surprised by this need to read a few novels.</p>
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<p>He was a clever king, but no one good could be king of England for more than about 18mths in those days.<p>I think that the parent probably meant Henry VIII.</p>
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<p>How to know if one should fine tune/pretrain or RL / reasoning train given some data set?</p>
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<p>"Waymo passenger flees after remote operator drives on Phoenix light rail tracks"<p>There, fixed it.</p>
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<p>Interesting - ages ago I used SML to look at the relationships between Shakespears plays.<p><a href="https://medium.com/gft-engineering/using-text-embeddings-and-approximate-nearest-neighbour-search-to-explore-shakespeares-plays-29e6bde05a16" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/gft-engineering/using-text-embeddings-and...</a><p>Validation is a problem here - you find relationships, but so what? Is it right.... I can't say. It is interesting though.</p>
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<p>Colin Ritman is so Demis Hassabis.</p>
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<p>There's a loop between adoption of a technology and adaptation of a technology. For some domains that loop is fast, the adaptations prove to be easy and the feedback from adopters is easy to get. For other domains it's slow, especially towards the end of the process of going from something interesting to something useful. A good example of a slow loop is self driving, it's hard to get feedback about self driving in safety critical real world situations... another example is medicine.<p>The other issue is that the value is more or less <i>all</i> in the LLMs (at the minute). For example, I built a data engineering toolkit using LLMs, it created synthetic data from examples, it created ingestion pipelines given different source filed and a target, it created data test rules. I liked my little toolkit and some people were impressed, but the value was all in the models that underpinned it. The crust of clever bits that added value was thin, very thin. Ok, we used the llms to generate some python that then created the synthetic data and testing rules to reduce costs, we had three or four "agents" that worked together to create the pipelines. We decorated target code with open provenance code to create provanance... But just by saying these things or letting you use the toolkit and you seeing what it made - that's enough for any half competent person to relicate it (with AI assistance) in an afternoon, or maybe a couple of afternoons. Maybe.<p>So, to create a viable company is going to take significant effort (if you can think of a value add) because the value add still has to be real.</p>
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<p>can you give a bit more information on 100's of qubits below threshold? I wasn't aware of 100's...</p>
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<p>I'm seeing a lot of AI projects being picked up and run by people without any AI or CS knowledge, or even any technical background. They "stick it into the LLM and it works"...<p>Maybe these will crash and burn, but can folks identify the characteristics of an AI project that mean that it needs an expert running it and some smart engineers doing it?</p>
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<p>What would SOA be?</p>
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<p>Good for you George E Collins.</p>
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<p>I think that's a rather conspiratorial way of framing it.<p>I think it's more about someone trying to do the most good that was possible at that time.<p>I doubt he cares much about prizes or money at this point.</p>
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<p>Has that site been /slashdotted by HN? It's really buggy for me.</p>
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