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Simon I hope from this day hence, your bio always includes: "Simon Willison, among other things, is an advocate for the inclusion of pelican geometry in LLM training datasets."

I think because you don't know /which/ developer you're going to get. One interesting aspect of LLMs is that each one, weights frozen, can be thought of as a single developer whose…

These comments are so filled with cool projects and visualizations I’ll throw my own out there: Trying to generate non-slop, print-worthy recipe books for different diaspora commun…

This is how I write down recipes for myself! There’s got to be some cognitive archetype that works better with this style encoding.

Do you have any suspicion about what is different between the backends? That's an absolutely bonkers statistic: it would mean spurious differences in hosting container overwhelm th…

My guess it's just the emergent behavior that results when a company doesn't provide developers time to fix bugs. If their week is already booked full just trying to keep up with t…

You think like a person who’s debugged large systems failures before :). That feels very plausible.

Some outlets reporting T-Mobile and ATT as well. I assume state on state cyber attacks are commonplace but get minimized to avoid public fear.. perhaps this will be the first notab…

I build coding agents for a living, and I'm struggling to map this onto the set of things I do at work. In general, interoperability and user choice are really important for us to …

Third party apps can’t use the network though. Iirc there’s an async message queue with eventual delivery that each app gets, which it can use to send messages back and forth with …

Bravo -- this is fantastic. I've been waiting for this ever since reading some interview with Orson Scott Card ages ago. It turns out he thinks of his novels as radio theater, not …

Or vice versa - perhaps some subset of the "thought chains" of Cyc's inference system could be useful training data for LLMs.

An aspect of these self-improvement thought experiments that I’m willing to tentatively believe.. but want more resolution on, is the exact work involved in “improvement”. Eg today…

Are you comfortable sharing the video & lip-sync stack you use? I don't know anything about the space but am curious to check out what's possible these days.

This looks fantastic — congrats on the launch. As an armchair observer, the agents + browser space feels like it’s waiting for someone to make the open source framework that everyo…

There was an SF office of 18F -- IIRC it was in the building to the right of the Civic Center park as you looked at it from the Bart stop. They were great folks from every encounte…

Let's presume this gets developed to ShadCN/Tailwind level quality. In that world, what would be the tradeoffs between: - NextJs + Tailwind + ShadCN - NextJS + ?? + Shoelace I don'…

Have you ever managed a complex, dynamic, changing system and found that the optimal size based on current conditions was 20% less than it was at some prior time? I can think of al…

So GCS customers will trust their codegen product. (Engineers aren’t the buyer; corp suite is)

I think Taiwan is worth adding to the list of healthcare systems that folks study. I believe it may be similar to the Swiss system. Everyone has national health insurance, but you …

A Project Jengo grant for using Agents/LLMs to identify prior art could be a fantastic experiment..

This is still mostly true. Kids books also have bopomofo rubies, like the kana rubies in Japanese. And occasionally you'll see bopomofo as a typographic choice to represent a sound…