chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
chris berg
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chris berg
@chrisberg
professor @rmit, working with @agoric @shieldedlabs & many others, open market cyberneticist, full stack vibecoder, https://t.co/viKopzHELP
melbourne, australia เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2008
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
Coding with agents now feels like practicing magic - you chant prompts like spells and hope the right reality manifests
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
for me the odds that AI is a bubble declined significantly in the last 3 weeks and the odds that we’re actually quite under-built for the necessary levels of inference/usage went significantly up in that period
basically I think AI is going to become the home screen of a ludicrously high percentage of white collar workers in the next two years and parallel agents will be deployed in the battlefield of knowledge work at downright Soviet levels
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A lot of findings in this new paper, but one is the inevitable doom of traditional peer review:
1) AI creates a flood of papers, good & bad
2) Paper complexity, a screen and signal of quality for human work, is a signal of low quality for AI
There's no plan for what comes next.
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
If academics 20 years ago hadn’t joined the crusade against Google Books, then academics today would revere Google Books as a sacred academic resource
Guive Assadi@GuiveAssadi
Robert Darnton played a major role in stopping Google Books from freely distributing orphaned works. It's plausible that academic historians have had a net negative effect on historical knowledge over the past quarter century.
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i'm in the herald-sun with my @rmit colleague peyman khezr today on how the allan government's changes to auction rules are going to make buying a house even more frustrating for buyers rather than less
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
in 10th grade I asked my math teacher when matrix multiplication would ever be useful. joke’s on me! if the matrices stop multiplying the economy collapses
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
In @FinancialReview, @chrisberg and Senior Scholar @Julian_Morris explain how the Reserve Bank of Australia’s regulation of payment-system fees creates a competitive imbalance. 🔗 ⬇️
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
The RBA is why your credit card surcharge fees are so high by @chrisberg and Julian Morris afr.com/companies/fina…
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I'm in the afr with icle's julian morris on the rba's regulatory mess around payment system price controls afr.com/companies/fina…
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@HartWexford it's hard just to get on the ballot with an attitude like that
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@chrisberg Well thank god you’re not then. That would ruin everything
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i think if i was an elected official i'd focus first on not making things -more- expensive
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
Last Friday, @realdonaldtrump sent Bitcoin down over 6% in 30 minutes with a single post about China tariffs
Now we’ve got a $800K notional BTC trade ready if he backs off (and $400K short if he doubles down)
Want to join ours or set up your own?
Hipshot is live!
(1/7)
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
The 2023 one is more accurate to the emotional and spiritual experience of eating spaghetti. For a brief period we allowed our machines to dream and then forced them to stop.
Min Choi@minchoi
2.5 years of AI progress Modelscope (left) Grok Imagine 0.9 (right)
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need an agentic solution to preface all my emails with "sorry for the delayed response"
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
The agent builder that OpenAI released today was built end-to-end in under 6 weeks, with Codex writing 80% of the PRs.
If you feel the cadence of new releases accelerating, Codex is likely much of the reason why.
Steven Heidel@stevenheidel
it’s difficult to overstate how important Codex has been to our team’s ability to ship new products. for example: the drag and drop agent builder we launched today was built end to end in under 6 weeks, thanks to Codex writing 80% of the PRs
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it's amazing to watch codex autonomously realise that it has completely stuffed up a task, revert its own changes and try again
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this is very true and incredibly counterproductive for the university mission but we also scare the hell out of phd students about the ethics implications of talking to people
alz@alz_zyd_
Frequent convo between me and PhD students Me: "After 400 hours of data analysis on industry X, have you talked to anyone actually working in industry X" Student (S): "No" Me: "Why not?" Student: "Where would I find someone in industry X willing to talk to me"
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chris berg รีทวีตแล้ว
The jump from "agents are nowhere close to working" to "okay, narrow agents for research and coding work pretty well" to (very recently) "general purpose agents are actually useful for a range of tasks" has been quick enough (less than a year) so that most people have missed it.
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