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All but one of the voices sounds tinny. The timing and cadence was good though. Is this intended for anime autodubbing? There's only one voice (Rowan) that is remotely traditional …

While the AGPL is untested, what a derived work is is less so. It is entirely outside the bounds of the intentions of the authors of the AGPL for clients to be infected.

The article does make it clear, though the headline misleads.

Why would AGPL force you to open source your app? Unless you literally compile your app with pgrust by modifying the pgrust source code, you're safe. Clients aren't bound by the AG…

The floating point comparison bug is nightmare fuel. I could look at that for years and never spot the mistake.

It is a great analogy, as the vast majority of software tasks are CRUD or glue logic. At this point, relatively narrowly-defined tasks are a solved problem with frontier models. It…

They are going to have to come up with better portable noninvasive technology. Technically fMRI is noninvasive; it is just a bit inconvenient for everyday use.

Isn't most of math this way? Occasionally, we find a practical use for it, but that's usually not the point.

Electricity production isn't a free market in the vast majority of municipalities. Market systems only work when demand and supply are relatively unconstrained. In this case, suppl…

Also, there's no guarantee of progress. The writer can starve the reader forever.

Fable 5 on Max knocks it out of the park: https://imgur.com/a/usR8K7G Definitely has some creative flourishes. (I made no extra prompting. Just the above text. Single shot.)

Some teenagers saved up money for a car. I saved up money for a PowerMac 7100. It cost me $3k, with a solid student discount. I used it throughout college and beyond. I upgraded th…

There was another project posted a few days ago that was quite similar and someone asked the same thing to the author. They said they tried that first and they got a 10x speed boos…

It seems to have trouble remembering the whole context, even when its limit is only half full. Three times this weekend I've had to switch to Fable, where I literally ask "review t…

Suggested retail price for Filemaker when it was originally released in 1985 for Macintosh was $195. That's about $600 these days. It is about as expensive as it ever was.

Interestingly, Fable caught the gist and I didn't have to enumerate every Claudism. "Punchy" seemed to be the operative word. My new operating hypothesis is that Claude (Fable in p…

I was just thinking they need to mark each model per benchmark as "model released before the benchmark was released" and "model released after the benchmark was released".

I recently wrote a short paper with Fable, and, with some prodding, I was able to get some non-painful prose out of it. I just found my prompt: The writing style could really use s…

And it is likely going to happen a fourth time when SpaceX merges with Tesla. The first time was when Tesla bought Solar City.

I generally agree. Perhaps there's only a 5% chance that it would write better code or find a bug that it wouldn't have with a lesser model, but the economics of bugs is strong eno…

They've said for some time that Claude Code is 90% LLM generated code.

That consumer energy prices are going up is simply a matter of public policy. Municipalities have the power to keep rates flat, but they choose not to.

Putting it in 100m times is great perspective. This is essentially a healthy amateur athlete running at nearly full tilt for 4 minutes straight.

After MoE entered the mix, raw parameter count is less useful a measure.