Not much a fan of metaphor? I personally appreciated the way they described about getting (corralling? shepherding? herding? Lots of common animal husbandry expressions in English) all the relevant humans together.
Normies used to deal in binders full of pirated music and movies. Then for a time they got into portable hard drives, but gradually this culture of media ownership was lost to the streaming services. Now your average normie doesn't know what a file is, wouldn't know where to put or what to do with a media file and only thinks of "apps".
arXiv is great. It's just a problem that there's so much slop. What if arXiv offered a subscription service that people in different fields could use to just see a curated selection of the top papers in their field each month. Established researchers in each field could then review some of the preprints for putting into the curated monthly list.
> Forge enables enterprises to build models that internalize their domain knowledge. Organizations can train models on large volumes of internal documentation, codebases, structured data, and operational records. During training, the model learns the vocabulary, reasoning patterns, and constraints that define that environment.
I'm probably really out of date at this point, but my impression was that fine tuning never really worked that well for knowledge acquisition, and that don't variety of RAG is the way to go here. Fine tuning can affect the "voice", but not really the knowledge.
Er, then what is the "already trained" model? I thought pre-training was the gradient descent through the internet part of building foundational models.
No, that's not MCP. That's a pleasant idea that MCP has been shoehorned into trying to solve. But MCP the spec is far more complicated than it needs to be to support that story. Streamable HTTP transport makes it much more workable, and I imagine was designed by real people rather than the version prior to that, but it's still much more than it needs.
Ultimately, 90% of use cases would be solved by a dramatically simpler spec which was simply an API discovery mechanism, maybe an OpenAPI spec at a .well-known location, and a simple public-client based OAuth approach for authentication and authorization. The full-on DCR approach and stateful connections specified in the spec is dramatically harder to implement.
More than it needs? Buddy, HTTP is more than any web app needs. It has a lot of stuff in it because it's intended to solve a lot of problems. The fact that there is a bidirectional stateful mode for HTTP is horrifying, but it's there now, and it solves problems. MCP is here, it solves problems we have now, it's supported by industry. If there are pain points, we can fix them in the standard without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
> The fact that there is a bidirectional stateful mode for HTTP is horrifying,
Oh no, really? So why didn't the new vibe-coded hotness use WebSockets for bidirectional communication?
> MCP is here, it solves problems we have now,
Many other protocols save the exact same problem of client-server communication with well-defined ways of discovering available API calls.
> it's supported by industry.
It's supported by hype and people who have very little knowledge of what existis in the world.
Also, industry is notorious for supporting a lot of crazy and bad shit. Doesn't make it good.
> If there are pain points, we can fix them in the standard without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
You have already thrown out a lot of babies by deciding that the vibe-coded MCP protocol is the only true way to set up two-way communication between a server and a client, and refuse to even entertain the thought that it might not be a good protocol to begin with.
Yes, but IIRC it's different than the current "download the internet" large language model approach. More like learning to play video games or something.
Wyden has been special, as long as I can remember. I feel like a lot of us early tech people had something of a libertarian bent. I think to some extent I've grown out of it in my less idealistic older age, but the whole idea of freedom from the government, living your own life, not being spied on, still resonates with me, and Wyden has always been a champion of it to some extent. You used to have Ron Paul, and these days now Rand Paul and Thomas Massie sometimes waving that flag, too.
It was definitely swimming upstream in the post-9/11 days. I was hopeful for a while with Trump that we'd see more of a mainstream resurgence, but it's not looking like it to me anymore.
Anyway, I can only imagine what he's alluding to here...
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