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Was it this Geoffrey Hinton paper? It was in Scientific American in 1993.

Simulating Brain Damage:

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/sciam93.pdf


I don't think so. When I just asked an LLM though, the Hinton paper also came up. So it does look like a strong candidate.

If I am able to find it, I'll comment here.


either this is the world's biggest grift OR the 2nd greatest product of the 21st century... so far.


to the person who's cursor I chased around for more than a couple of minutes, I don't know why I did that and I apologize.


great suggestion. definitely going to implement


anyone know how much it costs to use the deployed version of gemma 3n? The docs indicate you can use the gemini api for deployed gemma 3n but the pricing page just shows "unavailable"


I'm in the middle of this right now.. Handover would be super helpful. Cool concept. Kind of reminds me of I Robot where you can ask specific queries to holograms


Slightly unrelated, but Eleven Labs (the AI voices company) has obtained the rights to Laurence Olivier's voice. How long until I can video chat with Laurence Olivier and ask him about which tasks my agents have completed today?


Wow, AI 'vibe coding' app? What a reductive statement on what Cursor is.


Seems about right to me

Are you sure you don't have a very inflated idea about what Cursor is?


I doubt it. Cursor is an IDE with an ai co-pilot deeply integrated into it. They've literally changed the paradigm of software development by making ai-assisted coding feasible. The vibe-coding mention is reductive imo.

Another way of looking at it: Maker of "pricey electronic typewriter", Apple hits $9B valuation (FT 1984)

pretty reductive


Are they different from Copilot though?

I mean I tried C# integration and Cursor does not even fix all compilation errors before reporting it has "completed the task". Feels like that's the most basic integration you can have beyond reviewing diffs.


That's a fair question and point. I'm not die-hard Cursor fan. Use what works best for you, but I'm just more so commenting that the vibe-coding part totally minimizes what the offering is.


This is like saying cars are for doing skids and speeding illegally, then telling the person who drives for a living if they “don’t have a very inflated idea about what a car is”.

Vibe coding is letting the AI take the wheel for every decision, not verifying output, progress above all. Of course it’s possible to use it in a more subtle collaborative capacity with heavy oversight.


Apologies if I'm missing something, but aren't you describing Cursor/Copilot/Windsurf?


you're not. looks like that's kind of it, but would the thing have the context of the whole project when I'm in a file/class/function? With copilot, in my case, it was so far mostly like a fancy autocomplete that has immediate vicinity in its memory where it would be vastly more useful if it had the context of the whole project / all files.


Cursor indexes the entire code use with embeddings. It works well in small single app projects


it is also the "right thing to do" IMHO.


the vscode extension cline also does this


hahaha I wish you almost didn't include the parenthesis. I've had some clients who would definitely email me that point #1.


No. They would fax it to you.


Definitely agree, but I'm surprised Perplexity wasn't mentioned in this post. It's currently Perplexity Vs. Google


Once chatGPT and Claude (through MCP) added web search functionality I completely dropped Perplexity. I assume I'm not unique in this regard. Feels like the writing is on the wall for Perplexity.


Could you explain more? Are the results better, or are there other features?


I assume he's just being over dramatic. I use Perplexity every day, multiple times per day, and it almost completely replaced Google for me in such areas as coding or technological research. Also, I never used nor planning to use ChatGPT or Claude (I use private open models instead - Mistral Nemo, Qwen, etc.). But I also feel like "I'm not unique in this regard", lol.


It's mostly a decision to manage the total amount I spend on LLM tools. Given unlimited money I suppose I'd still be subscribed to Perplexity because the UI is slightly better than Claude and chatGPT for web results. But Claude and chatGPT are plenty enough for my web use cases while allowing me full access to all of their models for non web search use cases.


Yeah, I keep using the $1/mo promotions for Perplexity but I only really use it because it can read the results to me which I use for practicing foreign languages, so there's that.


Why do you need perplexity when ChatGpt can do search now.


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