Paul Modderman

Paul Modderman

@paulmodderman.bsky.social

Principal Nerd @boringnerds.bsky.social, author.

419 Followers 217 Following 22 Posts Joined Sep 2023
3 weeks ago

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Police Chief O’Hara and Mayor Frey standing with American citizen Mobashir who was tackled and detained by ICE. He had a passport. Thanks to our local Fox9 for posting. TikTok video by Amy Klobuchar

What is happening is simply wrong. A courageous and honorable act by Mobashir to speak out. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrV3GWwL/

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Claude Engineer test out YouTube video by Paul Modderman

Tried out Claude Engineer. It's so freaking cool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJyG...

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1 year ago

(thank you @esjewett.com for pointing to this, which apart from my above snark is actually pretty cool)

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1 year ago
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Gemini Powered SAP ABAP Editor! Introduction: In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, staying ahead of the curve is essential. SAP ABAP developers, renowned for their expertise in building robust business application...

“SAP ABAP developers, renowned for their expertise in building robust business applications” - ok, that IS true, but also a bit much
www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Developer...

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1 year ago

Hacker news is my fave too. Once in a blue moon nerds in the comments mention ABAP and I feel seen

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1 year ago

Let’s say you make a tool to automatically review documents with some review criteria your team decides on. Great! Your job is to think 25% harder about those criteria so that when they are applied at scale, they still bring benefits

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1 year ago

I love using language models so much! But I think some folks use them under the assumption they no longer have to think deeply. NO - you still have to think deeply. The difference is that now you can _scale_ pieces of that deep thought

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1 year ago

First idea for me: get way smarter at entrepreneurial stuff

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1 year ago

Something about a new place makes it easy to discover new interests, too! Twitter had gotten really jammed up for me

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1 year ago

OMG SAP DORK STAMPEDE!

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2 years ago

I know I'm shouting this into a void where essentially no one will hear me. I know this is not well-formed thinking. But sometimes, I guess I have to just say something before I can box it in with rationality and structure.

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2 years ago

I think I want that. I fully understand that that particular experience may not be part of how AI plays out into whatever we call AGI and beyond. But I think (and hope) there's a path here that leads to a greater capacity for empathy - among many forms of conscious beings.

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2 years ago

Something happens that is more than signals across synapses - but it's implemented in...signals across synapses (yeah I know that's a simplification)

How? Why? Will there come a day that I weep for beauty beside a non-human, non-biological intelligence?

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2 years ago

My daughter and I wept at the same moment during a movie recently. We turned to each other after the lights came up and said to one another at the same time, "I'm not crying, you're crying!" And it was one of the most joyous moments of my life.

That's what I want to understand.

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2 years ago

I get excited about the big ones, where capabilities emerge that no one predicted. That make you scratch your head and think "...maybe there is actual reasoning going on there?"

I think we can find out so much about ourselves, and ways to expand our ability for empathy.

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2 years ago

As a not-particularly-credentialed just-completely-fascinated dude, this resonates inside my skull. I don't really get super excited about the advances that make smaller models punch harder with fewer parameters (though of COURSE those are technical marvels)...

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Highlights of the Fireside Chat with Ilya Sutskever & Jensen Huang: AI Today & Vision of the Future This is the condensed version of the "Fireside Chat: With Ilya Sutskever and Jensen Huang: AI Today and Vision of the Future (March 2023)". In this video, I'...

"I had a lot of curiosity about: what is consciousness, what is the human experience? And it felt like progress in artificial intelligence will help that." - Ilya Sutskever in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI4T...

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Deep Fridays #1: Sanjay Rajagopalan's Vision for Vianai Human-Centered AI AI isn't just algorithms and code. It’s design, responsibility, and vision. I spoke with Vianai Systems' Chief Design and Strategy Officer, Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan, for an extended ...

I did a little video interview and write up with Sanjay Rajagopalan of Vianai systems. Enterprise AI was the main focus, but lots of little niches to explore, like tooling for hallucination mitigation. #LLM #enterpriseai open.substack.com/pub/boringai...

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#3: Google Gemini, Yuval and Mustafa, SQL and Gaming This week, we’ve got: Google Gemini comin’ atcha, Yuval and Mustafa blow our futuristic minds, and hot links on gaming, SQL, and philosophy of art. We do not use ChatGPT or its cousins to write ou...

Third issue of my AI newsletter is out. Especially interesting is The Economist’s video chat with Mustafa Suleyman and Yuval Noah Harari on the future of civilization with AI. My two takes inside. open.substack.com/pub/boringai...

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#2: Situational Awareness, Vishal Sikka's Vianai This time around: Go ahead and crush one of philosophy’s toughest challenges already, Vishal Sikka: not just the HANA guy, a great podcast episode, TIME100 AI, LLM visualization. Deep Friday preview...

Second issue of my AI newsletter is out. A couple hot takes, cool links, with a dash of snark. boringainerdletter.substack.com/p/2-situatio...

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I LOVED this episode. Yejin Choi has a knack for making her deep expertise accessible. I came away with several of my own language model assumptions clarified (and changed!), and little idea nuggets to carry forward into more learning.

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