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This reminds of when I was in school and we had 3 categories of notebooks. 1. A "rough" notebook to jot down notes 2. A "classwork" notebook to present those notes properly to the …

One could say: vLLM isn't a worse Llama.cpp, it's a different tool

> Apple’s always done their best work when they’re the second mover. People say Apple does its best work as a “second mover,” but that misses the actual pattern: Apple builds great…

I understand the feeling. There is a huge asymmetry between individual contributors and huge profitable companies. But I think a frame shift that might help is that you're not actu…

Like Alan Kay said about software: Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. The thing is this takes a lot of resources to get right. FOSS developers simpl…

True the unpredictability sucks right now. We're in a transition stage where the models can understand intent but cannot constrain the output within some executable space reliably.…

I think we're returning to CLIs mostly because typing remains one of the fastest ways we can communicate with our computers. The traditional limitation was that CLIs required users…

Sure, plenty of incompetence out there, but nobody wakes up thinking they’re doing wrong. They overpromise, they play it safe. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. As Picard s…

I think this piece makes a fair and important point about LLM hype and the need to treat it as a normal technology rather than a cult movement. The over-the-top marketing and const…

What makes you think that it's only CEOs who look like they're part of a hive mind? It's got nothing to do with capitalism or it's "creepy agents". It's simply the human condition.…

> Governments have no right or authority to stop us from being idiots if we want to be idiots. This sounds fine in theory but it ignores the fact that gambling today isn’t just abo…

Honestly, it would be great if it were "Gemma in Chrome" instead. A local model capable enough to do the things that this is designed to do? Yes please. Gemini in Chrome is a way t…

There are really two separate issues here: A) It should be harder for non-technical users to accidentally install apps designed to harm them. B) It should also be possible for anyo…

I often come across tips/pointers/exhortations about how to write good design documents. I generally agree that it's an important step: not just for clarifying your own thinking, b…

> I hope these OSS CC clones converge at some point. Imo, the point of custom CLIs is that each model is trained to handle tool calls differently. In my experience, the tool call p…

I'd argue it's not a choice of "let's open a campus in flyover country," but a reflection of how the industry has changed. The "older" companies were manufacturers. Even places lik…

I'm a convert on this topic. I went from wanting a small phone to being unable to wait to ditch mine. Like the OP, I switched from Android (Pixel 3a) to an iPhone SE 3 specifically…

The Thunderbird search bar really sucks. Advanced search with the actual functionality is hidden away behind some weird menu while the big honking bar at the top of each page does …

Well is the loss of training data from customers using self-hosted Llama that big a deal for OpenAI or any of the big labs at this point? Maybe in late-2022/early-2023 during the e…

That's a fair argument to make. My main point was that I like the auto-translation because information retrieval was so much better. But the intent behind the video of the uploader…

That's a fair point. I use English while using any YT client so I didn't notice it as much. So I changed the language on my browser to German, went to a couple of American channels…

I actually appreciate the YouTube's auto-translate feature a lot because it allows me to search through videos in languages I don't know but still like to view videos and listen to…

You're right that this isn't "launched to the public" and is just a developer beta. However, I meant it in a more "outside of Apple" kind of way. I guess that should have been clea…

The main issue I feel is that Apple's internal threshold for what quality of software is acceptable to be launched to the public has dropped a lot in the years since the last major…