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The more you roast the beans, the less terroir you taste, so you can use cheaper and less uniform beans. In Starbucks case this has become a brand identity, so it has persisted pas…

I mean I think I read their spec sheet that it was 2.5kw on the asic but closer to 25kw with GPUs, for the same number of tokens (different latencies of course), but there's no way…

They can't due to power density, I believe - they have to be run in a sandwiched waterblock with massive cooling, as far as I can tell. That's the biggest thing that baked weights …

Pipeline the burn into silicon, lower the latency as much as you can, for the 10-100x operation cost it's worth it. Imagine if frontier models cost $5/mtok and the 2nd or 3rd tier …

Yeah Mcdonalds is, at this point, acceptably C-grade coffee. You have to go to something like a cafe bustelo in distilled water to get the full contrast. Really, I get it, even bad…

Here's an obligatory Tom Scott + James Hoffmann episode: I don't like coffee. Can James Hoffmann change that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-iNAyu-ejo

Pickling a cucumber sure has a lot of resemblance - a great cucumber is good fresh and great pickled, but a bad pickling brine can ruin even a great cucumber.

Since this is HN, here's the maximum technology option: https://combustion.inc/ They have a thermometer with multiple sensors in it that finds the core temperature of the food you'…

I thought that too, honestly, before I had truly great coffee. I honestly didn't like coffee at all, and then a coworker brought in some coffee he'd roasted and prepared himself an…

Coffee is a good metaphor here too, because bad technique can ruin a good steak just as surely as good coffee. "knows how to use a meat thermometer and reverse sear" describes like…

Normally I would completely agree with you, but default claude design makes people close tabs before they read a word. A `text/plain` markdown file would be better.

Agreed, I think AI is the bees knees but I already spend 6+ hours a day thinking about it, more is unhelpful. I wish for something with the quality of discourse of HN but without b…

Interesting technology but your landing page screams "I put no work into this design", probably want to rebrand away from generic claude design orange-on-brown. A useful adjunct to…

Which problems are not amenable to that approach?

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> Suppose LLM solved all math problems. So what? It’s not like diplomacy and war will end. These are two vastly different statements, and the the war and diplomacy end is almost tr…

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ah you're right, it was just subtle, mea culpa

Off topic, but stretching is absolutely useless for ... stretching. And vital for retaining and enhancing usable range of motion (not static stretching, still, but dynamic stretchi…

Ben if you're going to blog about things with relative timestamps you need to provide a base timestamp, and I would also appreciate that for when you update the post. "3 months ago…

At least for me, I have a couple dozen years of DB experience but robot, given performance metrics, can get really close to optimal on a tactical level (single query or pattern of …

Even worse than that, it's not the LLM, it's the operator. Mimicking your own style given a corpus is the lowest possible bar - you can also select among the great writers (technic…

UX does have this, and it has for many years. You might remember Bootstrap way back in the day, and everything looking like bootstrap. These days it seems like everything is based …

Not even close :) It's really, really good at making natural-sounding prose if you demand it, set clear guidelines (ideally a script it can run with grading, but...), Fable in part…

The best satire works at more than one level, I think