mds2 (Michael Sch-sko)

@Aleums if the GPUs are still available, I want to use them to write/run visuals.

@js you plan on scripting vi to produce the visuals for the rave? Or was I not clear about whether I wanted to "vibe code" the visuals vs whether I wanted to run shader programs on the GPUs. Cause those ML GPUs are *beasts* compared to what I used to use as a graphics programmer.

@nash No, but I did once burn out a high end GPU without doing any ML : just shader driven visual effects.

@aeva yeah, typically what I end up doing when I go that route is that I go into something vision related and end up specializing in classical techniques that are applied downstream of the ML magic (sometimes this involves meshes, sometimes image processing, once I got to do some tracking/controls adjacent stuff). Which was fun work back before the AI coding agents got good enough that it no longer made sense to ignore them. Honestly it's probably still fun, I also made the mistake of taking on a project that puts me inside the ML bits because I wanted to learn more about the ML bits. And *that* has turned into a few hard lessons about how knowing one set of things really well doesn't translate into knowing other things really well, especially if I don't already have decades of experience in the other things. Also also, the roles I land in these domains aren't nearly as lucrative as the ones my spouse reads about in the news and wants me to get. But yeah, the coding agents feel like they're too helpful to not use, but also too dangerous to use heavily, and I haven't settled on a middle ground that works for me. If you think that the right middle ground is "don't use them at all", I'm open to hearing you out.

@aeva Also the get-rich-quick scheme you describe would be my plan for if the AI true believers were right, Or even kind of mostly-right. I've been operating under the assumption that they were mostly wrong, and that historical progress in AI has been a series of breakthrough -> S-curve of progress -> stagnation -> repeat, and that human intelligence often surprises us with how difficult it is to replicate. *But* my own mental models would not have predicted that AI coding agents would even get to where they are now, so now I'm trying to figure out how much I need to adjust them.

@MLE_online@social.afront.org I would take this class. Hell I'd sign my kids up for it too

@aeva yeah, this worries me. I've got fear of falling behind on the one hand and fear of skill atrophy on the other, plus I don't know where the machines will be in another (1 year, 5 years, whatever)

@Aleums (sad face)

@spiralganglion@merveilles.town stuff like this is one of the reasons why I love mastodon. Thank you

@timnitGebru @ntnsndr is there a video of the talk?

@qdot@buttplug.engineer Have you built an interface for this device using the Rust programming language yet?

@palvaro@discuss.systems you own a tree? That's impressive given California real estate

@palvaro@discuss.systems sounds about right. How's life otherwise?

@bitboxer@mastodon.social oooh