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quicklywilliam

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About quicklywilliam

Hacker, maker, serial founder. My personal website is at slowlywilliam.com.

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    I think the big idea here is that you can get a lot more performance if you take an integrated approach. This specific model made to work with this specific inference engine made t…

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    Comment #48065118

    Picture the early days of the PC - local models are like that. While there are scattered groups of hobbyists who tinker endlessly to get a few lights blinking, almost everyone doin…

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    Comment #47935701

    Same question. Given the people involved I am inclined to take it seriously, given the money and hype involved I am somewhat less inclined. Their website doesn’t even have a hint o…

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    Comment #47896441

    Agreed, there is probably a theoretical world where we got enough money/compute together and had this explosion happen earlier. Or perhaps a world where it happened later. I think …

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    Comment #47895980

    This is a really cool list and repository of ideas. Seems like the focus of the work is on making knowledge legible to AI. I wonder if you (or others) have done a similar level thi…

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    Comment #47895621

    Curious if you looked at using SwiftDown ( https://github.com/qeude/SwiftDown ), MarkupEditor ( https://github.com/stevengharris/MarkupEditor ) or any other libraries for live/WYSI…

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    Comment #47879586

    There’s been a lot of discussion lately about Anthropic and others turning the screws on their subscription plans, skyrocketing costs for enterprise customers. This is driving more…

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    Comment #47876691

    I wrote a thing about why the current direction of AI tends to produce such terrible work — and what I think we could be doing with AI instead.

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    Comment #47812036

    The real question is who bought the other 5,742 of them

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    Comment #47811985

    Interesting read. I don't know if I quite buy the evidence, but it's definitely enough to warrant further investigation. It also matches up with my personal experience, which is th…

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    Comment #47808851

    Great idea and implementation! If you are hesitant to install this for any reason, you can accomplish the same thing with this one liner: sudo bioutil -ws -u 0; sleep 1; sudo biout…

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    Comment #47797356

    There's been a ton of debate about whether we are in an AI bubble, but I've read a lot less about what will happen when the bubble bursts. I took it for granted that this is a bubb…

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