It gave me serious vibes of the old internet homepages of highly eccentric people that became a part of the internet folklore, whether in a good way or a bad way.
The video is probably the least bizarre thing there, if that's what you are warning about.
What were you browsing where someone cutting off their own testicles is not as bizarre as other things? I didn't watch the video but atleast there was a warning.
100 years ago, people with mental illness were assumed to be "possessed by demons" and were either institutionalized against their will, lobotomized, or both. Or just left to die.
People are still institutionalized against their will others are left to die on the streets, but not all mental illness is particularly severe.
Psychoanalysis while mostly quackery is ~135 years old providing an example where talking was considered a viable therapy not just locking people up or tossing out lobotomies left and right to anyone slightly abnormal.
So sure, 100 years ago there was quackery just as today, but “possessed by demons” wasn’t considered mainstream back then any more than it is today.
I think a lot of people still grow out of that phase. Like wanting to be like the Joker or taking a 'am I a sociopath' test online and finding your new edgelord persona only to find it deeply cringeworthy later.
This really reminds me of the web as I remember it from the mid-to-late 90's; I feel like I'm just a click away from the old deoxy.org, if anyone remembers that. (Don't go there now; the domain appears to have been long-ago hijacked.)
I loved the deoxy site, it was one of my favorites :-)
Next to the site and writings of the esoteric Brother Blue, who was he?
It eventually caused me to go in a reality tunnel for a few years. It was a fascinating and puzzling experience similar as to what was described in Cosmic Trigger III by R.A. Wilson.
A 4-pack of Eneloops was my first ever online purchase in life. I bought them off eBay, scared shitless I'd get scammed or my data stolen (I was very young; the online shopping industry, too). But they happily arrived in my mailboz one day.
They were for a Konica Minolta camera and they lasted surprisingly long. I think I saved about 30-40% of the price of the camera itself in recharging Eneloops, instead of buying new AA batteries every now and then.
We heard the feedback that we should pick a lane between CI and AI agents. We're refocusing on CI.
We're making Dagger faster, simpler to adopt.
We're also building a complete CI stack that is native to Dagger. The end-to-end integration allows us to do very magical things that traditional CI products cannot match.
We're looking for beta testers! Email me at solomon@dagger.io
Dagger has been a godsend in helping me cope with the unending misery that is GitHub Actions. A big thanks to you and the whole team at Dagger for making this possible.
Thank you for the kind words! I'd love to show you a demo of the new features we're working on, and get your thoughts. Want to DM me on the Dagger discord server? Or email me at solomon@dagger.io
Exactly. The LLM primitives will remain - we were careful to never compromise the modular, lego-like design of the system. But now we have clarity on the primary use case.
Thanks for giving us another chance! Come say hi on our discord, if you ever want to ask questions or discuss your use case. We have a friendly group of CI nerds who love to help.
Yes, I am the co-founder of Docker and also of Dagger. The other two co-founders of Dagger, Sam Alba and Andrea Luzzardi, were early employees of Docker.
The companies themselves are not related beyond that.
The strength of analogy is one of the more powerful tools humans have. You take findings/experience from a totally different field and use it to escape the local maxima that other field is caught in.
It's a relatively common theme in sciences that someone comes out of nowhere and solves a long standing problem in a field because they don't have the specialized set of biases that keeps everyone else trapped.
IMHO, it's MUCH more common in sciences though, that someone that is expert-level in one field comes into another and thinks they CAN solve a long standing problem in that field quite easily, and then repeatedly falls into all the pitfalls / traps that others in that field learned long ago to avoid (aka Dunning-Kruger). You know, "chemistry is just applied physics", "biology is applied chemistry", etc.. Sure, it's true in one sense, but... No one calculates the wave function of an elephant, for example.
One of the benefits of generalism / learning multiple fields (IMHO, again) is that you realizes that special abilities / skills don't necessarily translate well from one field to another. For example, learning to play the violin is very different from, say, playing billiards, yet becoming good at either one involves learning subtle manipulations of basically similarly-shaped pieces of wood. By involvement in multiple fields, you learn to be careful NOT to bring your "everything is a nail" mentality with you from one field to the next.
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