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fitzn

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About fitzn

VP, AI and Architecture at SmartBear (smartbear.com)

Co-Founder at Reflect S20 (https://reflect.run)

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    What extension do you use in vscode to connect it to local llama.cpp? Or do you auth with github copilot and then point to localhost? Or something else?

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    The problem with IPv6 jokes is that very few people are making them.

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    Non-Linear Compression! We had a tiny idea back in the day in this space but never got too far with it ( https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage12/workshop-prog... ). I am pum…

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    Yep - agreed. Thanks!

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    Just making sure I understand the "one round trip" point. If the client has chained 3 calls together, that still requires 3 messages sent from the client to the server. Correct? Th…

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    Reflect tests mobile apps by converting plain text instructions into appium commands at runtime using AI. Your tests are just the text steps. https://reflect.run/mobile-testing/ di…

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    It would have been cool to read stories about a few more examples of slingshots, as the author calls them.

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    > The best engineers make more than your entire payroll. They have opinions on tech debt and timelines. They have remote jobs, if they want them. They don’t go “oh, well, this is y…

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    I read it quickly, but I think all of the attack scenarios rely on there also being an MCP Server that advertises the tool for reading from the local hard disk. That seems like a b…

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    They won in 3.6 secs, but second place took 3.73 (or 3.74 if being consistent with the winning time). So, did second place also optimize the PoW or were they presumably on an FPGA …

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    Regarding Internet connectivity regardless of the orbit or location, something like YC co Bifrost Orbital ( https://bifrostorbital.com/ ), might be an option.

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    This article resonated with me and puts into words some of the feelings I had towards the end of my PhD. This part: > An interesting case in software engineering is dismissal for l…

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    Thank you very much for writing this up. Good, thought-provoking ideas here.

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    Doctors, lawyers, teachers and other licensed professionals do continuing education every two or three years. Software engineers are not licensed professionals, so there is no lega…

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    Cool stuff. I'm probably missing this, but where in the code are you ensuring that all feature vectors have the same number of dimensions (i.e., length)? From what I can tell, for …

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    What open source model are you using when you hit groq? I just benchmarked some perf for some of my larger context window queries last week and groq's API took 1.6 seconds versus 1…

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    Fun read. It has some similar ideas to https://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/det/ but that was actually focused on multicore processing and the communication across cores. Congrats on the…

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