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Native dflash support on day 1 helps a lot! High quality speculative decoding speeds up a lot of agentic work.

I have at times mused that writing the internal state of pandoc to disk (yes 13th standard etc) would be the most interoperable file format

Wait it only applies in 14 states? Why do people act like it’s true of the entire country?

I don't quite understand the focus on the token cost of this rewrite. Obviously, we should examine if this rewrite is good, effective, good for the product etc., but the token cost…

This is a really neat use of the per-layer embedding trick. It's also worth noting that there viable TTS models that are ~20-30M param, so it might mean you can have a ESP32 with n…

Food inflation has been moderately high but egg prices were a mix of weird short term events and umm price fixing (look up the recent case). They are back to pre 2022 levels now! h…

Good to know!

A genuinely funny and good point!

It seems like such a tempting gap though. The sort of thing you’d think in 2015 would be an obvious capability of 2026 languages!

It’s not unreasonable to suggest that text editors need a nice atomic move (but personally I don’t see the need for it)

It distresses me that we don’t have a language that can do a best effort parallelization of arbitrary loop like code across SIMD, multiple threads, multiple cores and GPU with a sm…

I mean you’d probably just generate random low descriptive length f(x,y,z), check for a const determinant then poke for invertibility. Be fun to ask Fable to write a search program…

This is so unreasonable! As @__alpoge__ himself notes this is classic crank graveyard territory and yet the counter example is something a grad student in 1997 could have found w a…

The world needs more delightful websites that do one clever thing well like this. Turns out I need to read Percival Everett!

Pretty sure the labs subsidized the well known benchmarks w free tokens for evals

Codex legit does a great job of this with it's auto-review feature. Does a good job of understanding what permissions I'm implicitly giving with the request, and where it needs to …

Arn't goroutines the killer feature of go? Don't see how you'd get them with this approach.

We really need to band together to fund / sponsor targeted inducement prizes (a la Nobel laureate Michael Kremer) for open models. Every 6-12 months, give out $200K to the first mo…

Comically you can sign Tailnet lock from iOS, but it’s an insane workflow. You need to generate a QR code then scan it from the signing mobile device, which opens a secret menu opt…

This really should be in the blogpost. It’s both useful info and basic courtesy to be explicit about which underlying inferencing engine you are using

I’m skeptical that the problem they are trying to solve is truly unreasonable bandwidth demands. Sometimes it feels like what people want is to only serve websites and content to g…

I'm exploring the pi based options now and I like that Oh-my-pi actually adds new value over extensions (the advisor and stream interruption hooks are pretty clever). I just wish i…

You can change it to something a tiny bit nicer a few times!

This seems like a responsibly designed service, but I find it a little odd and baffling that we need such intermediaries for the average hobbyist / small project to reliably access…

At that point why not just use the .ts.net addresses Tailscale provides for free?