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Genuine question, but why does it matter? It seems to me the vast majority of the benefit comes in the weights. Then you can self host, quantize, finetune, ablate, etc. What does h…

Well "climate change" as understood today wasn't really talked about much in the 90s, as I remember it. Some broad, apocalyptic concern about creeping temperatures and knock on eff…

Oh, no! What a tragedy. I loooved them way back in the day when you used to be able to get them at Taco Bell. The inventor of the Choco Taco went to tour the factory one time while…

Heh, my wife was the maintenance supervisor for the Missouri Unilever plant that makes Talenti (well, not Unilever anymore). The same plant also makes Breyer's, Magnum bars, Choco …

I still think Google is the only one who has a shot of coming out of this on top. Open AI and Anthropic's whole existence is predicated on some sort of moat, which I don't really s…

Oh, wow! This is a lot clearer to me. I've long had a soft spot in my heart about Sandstorm. Here's a comment[0] I made 11 years ago about what Sandstorm was, to me: > I'm a web de…

That just means you can't call Africans one "race" because they hold all the genetic diversity on the planet. But it doesn't mean there's not some meaningful genetic grouping of po…

With Claude it's actually not that hard. I set up a system for a startup where devs used a full dev environment and non-devs could use the Claude web UI to open rougher PRs, and on…

Interesting. Every time I've ever vouched a comment, it came alive. (Though the last one I vouched ended up dead again after enough people flagged it, oops. I hope that doesn't mea…

I don't know why but I really struggled to internalize what the question was asking. Here's my take on a rewrite that's clearer: Mary is 24, which is twice as old as Ann was some t…

> How did you actually make that deduction? Think of it on a number line. Mary is 24 now, Ann was 12 then. There's a point somewhere between the two, representing Mary's age at tha…

Huh, which model? I didn't pick up any of the tells. It seemed normal enough to me. (I vouched it, oops.)

Interesting. I wonder where the "sweet spot" on the delay is. I've given up online news and twitter and all that entirely, and just read my print Economist, which comes weekly. Tha…

Similarly, what is considered health insurance is not really insurance but a convoluted way to pay for healthcare. I think there's a place for what you're calling disaster insuranc…

I'm not sure Anthropic even cares about "releasing" the next version. The rust one has been in use in Claude Code for more than a month now, used by millions of people, and that's …

Sprites are clearly the future. Are there plans to give it a web UI? I haven't minded ssh'ing in, but I've wanted to share this with my wife who would use a sprite on her iPad. Bas…

I've played around with a few sprites and it's a very interesting concept. You ssh in and then it feels very much like a local development environment, except the dev server you st…

Wow, I can't believe Neal Stephenson of all people writes exclusively by hand. His books are tomes . I totally buy that this is the case for him. I wonder how much is just what he'…

This is an interesting article. I don't really work with low level enough languages for this to matter (unless - does this ever show up in Javascript somehow?). I guess I don't und…

Sounds like you could use some time in a group that bans discussion of politics.

Surely this is a bug in the harness and not in the model (where it's called "alignment"), right? I mean, an LLM is just a pile of weights. All this happened because OpenAI had a li…

> sell people to others for a profit in essence .... restraining order If you have to make your point by exaggerated comparisons to slavery or analogies to safety concerns and scar…

You must never have faced a situation where you can't believe your eyes. It takes a certain level of - dare I say it - intelligence and maturity to consider that it's more likely y…

This reply makes no sense in this context, though. Sure, it exploded in popularity based on whatever random tech choices were made. But now, when apparently they're deciding there'…

To me, it seems one of the killer use cases for Elixir (/Erlang) is its distributed cluster capability. Does anyone have experience with that or case reports to share? I've used El…