Gamble McAdam
@ramblingambler.bsky.social
👨💻 Software engineering lead
💻 Technophile
🙄 Part-time misanthrope
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Full-time father
📚 Lifelong learner
🔮 Let’s predict the future by building it together!
💻 Technophile
🙄 Part-time misanthrope
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Full-time father
📚 Lifelong learner
🔮 Let’s predict the future by building it together!
Great insight. I am currently reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari and this fits with his idea that information is only an abstraction of truth and reality. We should never conflate the them or else misinformation or worse can work its way into our worldviews, sometimes insidiously so.
March 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Great insight. I am currently reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari and this fits with his idea that information is only an abstraction of truth and reality. We should never conflate the them or else misinformation or worse can work its way into our worldviews, sometimes insidiously so.
And as much as I’d love to solve some of our uniquely American problems legislatively, that is clearly not a current option right now (I envy the Canadian gov). So in the case I gave we either let families with struggling children wait for a year to get help or increase the throughput of clinicians.
February 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
And as much as I’d love to solve some of our uniquely American problems legislatively, that is clearly not a current option right now (I envy the Canadian gov). So in the case I gave we either let families with struggling children wait for a year to get help or increase the throughput of clinicians.
If your premise is how the current system governing the society in which AI is used is flawed I’ll agree with you more than not. My contention is that the utility of these tools is proportional to their threat to labor.
It can be either a real danger to workers or a useless toy, not both.
It can be either a real danger to workers or a useless toy, not both.
February 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If your premise is how the current system governing the society in which AI is used is flawed I’ll agree with you more than not. My contention is that the utility of these tools is proportional to their threat to labor.
It can be either a real danger to workers or a useless toy, not both.
It can be either a real danger to workers or a useless toy, not both.
I can’t blame your perspective. Much of the consumer oriented examples today are slop factories at best.
There are some beneficial uses in industries where there isn’t enough labor power to serve the market. Think of backlogged pediatric clinicians who spend 8 hrs/child to write payer assessments.
There are some beneficial uses in industries where there isn’t enough labor power to serve the market. Think of backlogged pediatric clinicians who spend 8 hrs/child to write payer assessments.
February 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I can’t blame your perspective. Much of the consumer oriented examples today are slop factories at best.
There are some beneficial uses in industries where there isn’t enough labor power to serve the market. Think of backlogged pediatric clinicians who spend 8 hrs/child to write payer assessments.
There are some beneficial uses in industries where there isn’t enough labor power to serve the market. Think of backlogged pediatric clinicians who spend 8 hrs/child to write payer assessments.
Are you saying you haven’t seen any growth in AIs capability and consequential adoption over the past decade to substantiate its potential?
I agree that AI is currently in a speculative techbro fueled hype bubble, but at its core I find it hard to believe it has no worthwhile applications.
I agree that AI is currently in a speculative techbro fueled hype bubble, but at its core I find it hard to believe it has no worthwhile applications.
February 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Are you saying you haven’t seen any growth in AIs capability and consequential adoption over the past decade to substantiate its potential?
I agree that AI is currently in a speculative techbro fueled hype bubble, but at its core I find it hard to believe it has no worthwhile applications.
I agree that AI is currently in a speculative techbro fueled hype bubble, but at its core I find it hard to believe it has no worthwhile applications.
While I don’t disagree with the last point. The fact that there is substance behind the appearance is exactly why it is so dangerous to labor. The sooner AI’s potential is understood and taken seriously, the sooner we will be able to properly combat its illegitimate use.
February 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
While I don’t disagree with the last point. The fact that there is substance behind the appearance is exactly why it is so dangerous to labor. The sooner AI’s potential is understood and taken seriously, the sooner we will be able to properly combat its illegitimate use.
Insightful takes like this make me very excited to read her most recent book. Well said @chiphuyen.bsky.social!
February 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Insightful takes like this make me very excited to read her most recent book. Well said @chiphuyen.bsky.social!
Thanks for being a true nerd and giving us a look into this world. I had never heard of Lean until you started dabbling in it and it’s opened up what I thought was possible with current programming languages, particularly in their syntax.
February 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thanks for being a true nerd and giving us a look into this world. I had never heard of Lean until you started dabbling in it and it’s opened up what I thought was possible with current programming languages, particularly in their syntax.
Didn’t you know that the more money it garners the more artificially intelligencer it is!?
February 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Didn’t you know that the more money it garners the more artificially intelligencer it is!?
A legendary approach. Everyone is trying to out-analyze each other on it’s global economic implications and you are over here like, “ blah blah blah… Let’s build this sucker out and see what we can actually do with it!”
A true blue collar engineer move if I have ever seen one, well done.
A true blue collar engineer move if I have ever seen one, well done.
January 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A legendary approach. Everyone is trying to out-analyze each other on it’s global economic implications and you are over here like, “ blah blah blah… Let’s build this sucker out and see what we can actually do with it!”
A true blue collar engineer move if I have ever seen one, well done.
A true blue collar engineer move if I have ever seen one, well done.
Congrats! That is an awesome lineup made even better with your inclusion.
January 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Congrats! That is an awesome lineup made even better with your inclusion.
AI is a delivery mechanism for information. It may not be good or bad in and of itself, but the environment it has been born into does seem to tip the scale in one of those directions more often than not.
January 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
AI is a delivery mechanism for information. It may not be good or bad in and of itself, but the environment it has been born into does seem to tip the scale in one of those directions more often than not.
Quick, start commenting on all their posts in contextless dissent to make it look like you are having an existential crisis
January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Quick, start commenting on all their posts in contextless dissent to make it look like you are having an existential crisis
This makes sense. Since information can be analyzed and synthesized so many different ways, finishing this list of concepts could help match these use cases to different formats of memory (a la summarization, vectorization, graphical representation etc.)
You are definitely onto something here
You are definitely onto something here
January 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This makes sense. Since information can be analyzed and synthesized so many different ways, finishing this list of concepts could help match these use cases to different formats of memory (a la summarization, vectorization, graphical representation etc.)
You are definitely onto something here
You are definitely onto something here
Are there different agentic memory types?
IME summarization memory condenses info into a smaller footprint of the same format; you can only do it so many times before it becomes too lossy. Conversely graph memory reformats the info as a way to shrink the footprint. Both have pros and cons.
IME summarization memory condenses info into a smaller footprint of the same format; you can only do it so many times before it becomes too lossy. Conversely graph memory reformats the info as a way to shrink the footprint. Both have pros and cons.
January 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Are there different agentic memory types?
IME summarization memory condenses info into a smaller footprint of the same format; you can only do it so many times before it becomes too lossy. Conversely graph memory reformats the info as a way to shrink the footprint. Both have pros and cons.
IME summarization memory condenses info into a smaller footprint of the same format; you can only do it so many times before it becomes too lossy. Conversely graph memory reformats the info as a way to shrink the footprint. Both have pros and cons.
By memory management do you mean prompt consistency, or are you referring to some sort of Retrieval Augmented Generation data store that lies outside the LLM?
January 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
By memory management do you mean prompt consistency, or are you referring to some sort of Retrieval Augmented Generation data store that lies outside the LLM?
Do like the cool kids are doing and get an LLM in there to check for unhinged content before posting, then add an interstitial if it crosses the derangement threshold. Something like, “You sure you want to post this, bud? It’s 3 am and you misspelled the word ‘toilet’.”
Just me? 👌😅
Just me? 👌😅
January 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Do like the cool kids are doing and get an LLM in there to check for unhinged content before posting, then add an interstitial if it crosses the derangement threshold. Something like, “You sure you want to post this, bud? It’s 3 am and you misspelled the word ‘toilet’.”
Just me? 👌😅
Just me? 👌😅
For a second there I thought you said you got kicked OUT of this study group. I was like, “damn, either they have a real high bar for participation, or this person goes way too hard when reading non-fiction.”
January 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
For a second there I thought you said you got kicked OUT of this study group. I was like, “damn, either they have a real high bar for participation, or this person goes way too hard when reading non-fiction.”
Terrible post? Don’t finis
January 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Terrible post? Don’t finis
Inferring that he thinks $7 for a latte is ridiculous, how does he think coffee drinks got that expensive?
Ah well, it probably has nothing to do with the thing he clearly knows nothing about 🤷♂️
Ah well, it probably has nothing to do with the thing he clearly knows nothing about 🤷♂️
January 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Inferring that he thinks $7 for a latte is ridiculous, how does he think coffee drinks got that expensive?
Ah well, it probably has nothing to do with the thing he clearly knows nothing about 🤷♂️
Ah well, it probably has nothing to do with the thing he clearly knows nothing about 🤷♂️
Broke: This is a Wonderwall joke.
Bespoke: This is an Woody Guthrie joke.
Bespoke: This is an Woody Guthrie joke.
January 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Broke: This is a Wonderwall joke.
Bespoke: This is an Woody Guthrie joke.
Bespoke: This is an Woody Guthrie joke.