There’s a bit of a middle ground where the user may say something like “tech articles from new site” which would require the agent to move around reading and aggregating information to return to the user. Is this the former or the latter?

I think the dividing line is more "happens in anticipation there might be a user session which wants the data" and "happens as the result of a user session which wants the data" than it is about how it was done. E.g. prefetching content after a page load is done as a result of the user session getting to the page, it just as going around to any sites it can find to cache it on the chance the user might need them.

When someone asks “are you a god?”, You say YES!

Is what these AI conversations sound like to me.

They can’t do super human performance like alpha go and the can’t think “system 2” that would be required for high stakes decisions.*

Room to grow.

*observations from the recent karpathy llm talk.

For a surprising general purpose local chat experience: OpenHermes 2.5 - Mistral 7B

You mean combine sort of related information from all over the internet into new statistically generated phrases that appear to answer the question, but still contain all kinds of hallucinations, fabrications, and wrong statements?

Then yes, they do.

Of course they will, they’ll answer whatever you ask. How do you know if what they’re saying is true?

It’s often two staged.

First drop hints in hopes the other party will catch on.

If that fails and you really want or still need it - you ask.

A surprising omission of Dream Theater.

The article is missing probably 90% of the bands that would be on a complete up to the minute list of "prog rock".

It is focused far more on the 70s/early 80s era, and only briefly discusses the descendants and branches from the genre of that era.

Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, too. "Deadwing" is one of their best work.

The author was juggling more material than they could handle.

It's all prog rock I think, no prog metal.

While true Dream Theatre is prog metal, it's also great evidence that prog rock was not an embarrassing dead end when you have amazing bands like Dream Theater, Animals as Leaders, Devin Townsend, and Between the Buried and Me as their new prog legacy.

I’ve been fortunate to see all of those bands, on the recent tour and years ago on a Prog Nation tour.

Animals I need to listen some more too, not something I can pick up on in a single pass. This isn’t uncommon. I think DT is actually really approachable, but even still it takes me several listens to find the groove of the album (in contrast to LTE which takes even more time). Animals is just flat a lot to absorb in one hit.

Townsend was super entertaining and has a remarkable voice. But much like Buried when I saw them years ago, I like the music but it’s hard for me to get past the dirty singing. Same with Opeth, at the same tour as Buried.

But yea, the Townsend set was really fun.

If we're going to talk prog metal, someone has to mention the greatest band in that genre of all time - Fates Warning - so I just did.

I would have thought that were the reason but Meshuggah comes up at the end.

Great post - thank you.

What directions can you head in AI Eng these days if you _dont_ want big tech?

This discussion feels very meta. In the sense that Twitter is the "bad" person, and we are the actors contributing our individual outrage induced take.

Why are we so compelled to participate?