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This goes one of two ways. Either the LLM public capability is not sufficient to positively contribute, or it is. If it is not sufficient to positively contribute, open source proj…

/loop message ping every 4 minutes keeps the cache warm while the CC REPL is not active.

> The shorter "thinking" is, the less is the probability of it going astray As long as the error introduced by more steps is less than the compounding error of sub-optimal token sa…

I think over-thinking is only solved by thinking more, not less. This is only viable once some intelligence threshold is reached, which I think Anthropic has borderline achieved.

You cannot control the effort setting sub-agents use and you also cannot use /effort max as a default (outside of using an alias).

I was not aware the default effort had changed to medium until the quality of output nosedived. This cost me perhaps a day of work to rectify. I now ensure effort is set to max and…

You can take DiskANN using OPQ and Vamana and get near zero indexing time and better recall using TurboQuant ... Nice !

This is similar to what I do. I instruct an Architect mode with a set of rules related to phased implementation and detailed code artifacts output to a report.md file. After a coup…

SOTA LLMs are now quite good at typing out code that passes tests. If you are able to instruct the creation of sufficient tests and understand the code generated structurally, ther…

Indeed. The suggestion is that classical reality cannot exist without absolute values (an instantiation if you will), consciousness operates where those values have not been establ…

I want to measure the circumference of the Earth by looking out of my bedroom window without having to ask for anyones help. As much as I have tried, I cannot realise the circumfer…

Is it possible that LLMs could challenge Data Compression Information theory ? Reading this made me wonder how much can be inferred via understanding and thus removed from the mini…

I very much agree with the Author. "Do not reinvent the wheel" is unfortunate in that it muddles several things into one piece of subjective advice. The advice as I would give it i…

> The £12.50 charge is for old, polluting cars. It can apply to cars with a £0 VED that were built less than 10 years ago.

It is possible to include CPython in a CGO program - allowing Python to be executed from within the CGO process directly. This comes with some complexities - GIL and thread safety …

I had a reasonable experience with Diagrams previously. I have always been somewhat of a sucker for the theoretical potential for diagrams as code. As a Diagram is generated progra…

I would like to know if Open Source Projects can or should be considered Products.

I scrape power usage metrics from Tapo P110s and push them to Grafana Cloud using https://github.com/richardjennings/tapmon - although as other commenters have noted - using Wifi f…

I have learnt to withhold my natural tendency to care too much, or invest too much of myself personally into my work. When I invest too much personally, I am too exposed emotionall…

The line of reasoning seems valid, do what you do best; anyone who has had to deal with stored procedures in legacy systems will however disagree. Store procedures are to be avoide…

Agreed. Knowing the opportunity cost must weigh heavily. Bytes and Food. The new boots and cats.

Can I ask if you might consider leveraging your position to aid a charity ?

TOTP is a popular MFA mechanism that is composed from a shared secret and settings (often communicated by qr code). Utilities like LastPass can generate TOTP codes for you if you s…