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I’m spending a significant portion of my day waiting for agents to execute. What’s more interesting to me than time-to-first token or latency is the time it takes for the agent to …

PaaS like render.com explicitly support Docker. As a developer, I wager that any gains I get from Podman will be dwarfed by bugs that I’m encountering in the other software I use. …

You could try these techniques to get over the data sparsity. https://qlabs.sh/10x It’s really cool, I’d love to see it smart.

The other demos didn't work for me, so I made https://github.com/owenbrown/transcribe It's just a python script to test the streaming. Wow, Voxtral is amazing. It will be great whe…

It would be interesting if someone built a platform like Brex or Expensify, to manage spending within these programs. Something that balanced empowering participants and protecting…

A regular paper and pencil exam would be a better experience for the students.

+ would be a much better experience for the students.

I think the goals are super-intelligences, which I'm defining as organization composed of humans and AI agents, are knowable. I'd love feedback.

This will destroy a lot of trust and between Apple and me. When I buy Apple, I pay a premium price for a premium product. The ways ads work, is that the ad revenue shows up in the …

This will destroy a lot of trust and between Apple and me. When I buy Apple, I pay a premium price for a premium product. I would rather you simple charge me more for my product. T…

The article makes a serious math error early on. The author’s math considers how mines would be distributed if mines were distributed to the empty squares after reaching that board…

Every time I see a new language, I immediately check if it uses significant white space like Python. If it doesn’t, I sigh sadly and dismiss it.

It boggles my mind that any developer of a new language wouldn’t use Python’s significant use of white space. You’re able to fit more code on a screen, and it’s less visual noise. …

You mentioned wanting to use dual-monitors. MacBook Air only supports one external monitor. https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-13-and-15-m2/specs/

I wonder if they will converge on using Trax (Google Brain) or Tensor Flow / PyTorch. I use Trax is my NLP class, so I hope it gets more adoption.

I've always found it odd that cash-rich companies keep bank accounts, when they could purchase short-duration t-bills. There's now at least one business bank the will purchase t-bi…

This advice may make sense for some languages, but it certainly doesn’t make sense for Python. Python generally provides one and only one best way to do things. With one exception …