NortySpock

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by NortySpock 9d ago
"You only have 10 seconds to make a first impression" Glad you were able to restore the commit history. With all the lack of authority of a random software developer on the Internet (but feel free to check my post history), I see
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by NortySpock 9d ago
Perhaps the takeaway is "beware overly long prompts" and "make sure the system prompt is relevant to the field of work your user prompt is about". I definitely have looked at Zed editor's default prompt and thought
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by NortySpock 12d ago
A Critique of the CAP theorem by Martin Kleppmann. https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05393 Basically naive CAP theorem assumes "no latency (delay) allowed", in which case, yeah, sure, the quorum must agree or you ar
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by NortySpock 26d ago
" diagnosis during childhood so if you're 30 or 40 you might have no chance " Huh? You don't have to be tested as-a-child, you don't have to call up your fourth grade teacher. You can self report your subjective exp
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by NortySpock 1mo ago
Risk management. Nvidia has a market cap of $5T USD today, and a decent chunk of that is due to LLM speculation. Does Nvidia want their stock price to be at risk of being tanked by a download service being in the news? No, they want to make
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by NortySpock 1mo ago
I love good programming languages, if that counts for anything, and I think there's a huge amount of room and value in "using an LLM to translate one programming language to another". I also think your instincts are on a usef
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
I've been jealous of the work antithesis is doing and support you in spirit; the world needs deterministic, tested software. If you want a challenging open source deterministic game to test, may I suggest Beyond All Reason, powered by
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208635
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
Yeah, been fighting variants of this problem as a data engineer where the upstream database would only let you see the current state of the table and did not provide you a changelog / cdc So you have to (a) repeatedly query incremental
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AMD buys Taalas, chip startup that hardwires AI models into its silicon(cnbc.com)
3 points by NortySpock 2mo ago|1 comments
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
My understanding is that Taalas burned a Large Language Model as analog silicon, leading to something that ran (roughly) 10x faster for 10x less power ...at the cost of it being burned in forever. Non-programmable.
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
Agree, copy-paste feels like it works 80% of the time, which is maddening when 1 in 5 copy paste attempts fail. (mostly from zed to something else) Why?? At least Excel has the courtesy to telling you "Hey the copy-paste buffer said it
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
> In a compute-constrained world where model demand is growing faster than capacity I don't buy it. There have been recent weeks where some of the mid-level models (Hy3, Laguna M.1) are free (true for parts of June and July, see H
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
Why settle for sampling when you can have the whole dataset? The spiral pattern is an excellent example. "Sure it looks like this when you zoom out, but when you zoom in, you can see the finer structure of the points..."
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
Gleam ? Elixir's exhaustive pattern matching and gradual type checking is also on my radar. I guess I don't know what you mean by effects typing.
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
Signatories appear to group into (a) sellers of hardware (Nvidia, IBM) and those who rent hardware out to others (Amazon, Microsoft) They want open models because they don't have to license it to run it on their hardware, so they can o
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro#providers Look through the provider list for a company you are willing to do business with?
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
Data is heavy. I would say "it's risky and requires a lot of labor to migrate without corruption, loss of data" and also minimizing downtime. Sure anyone can run pg_backup, but can you do it across 90 databases? Can you do it
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
Dunno, I have not used either of those. (Had been using zed and ollama, and ollama had plenty of odd defaults that needed fixing) Glancing through the docs, I would be digging down in the config of both Android studio and lm studio for eith
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by NortySpock 2mo ago
If the local model is served via ollama, there's a default timeout of 10 minutes , which can be adjusted either per-call , or (as I did) in the systemd service environment variables https://docs.ollama.com/faq#how-do-i-
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
It's difficult to make money if you have to spend all the money on defense lawyers. Once Trump dies of natural causes I assume some intrepid journalists will go through the mountain of evidence and dig out some exciting snippets of wha
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
Similar interest here, possibly including if qwen 3.6, Gemma4 or DiffusionGemma (with the largest quants that will fit in a single card) will offer, say, 50 tokens-per-second (fast enough for interactive human-in-the-loop code research, p
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
Have you seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892015 and yoloai? https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai Seems like both projects are following very similar approaches.
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
"integrated graphics processor, using system memory" had its name dragged through the mud for decades. So we had to rebadge it to "unified memory". Curious if we'll ever see some old integrated graphics processor &q
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
I find it to be a useful tool for summarizing things, creating examples, and as a tutor for explaining a topic using analogies. Plus it can generate and iterate on code snippets. Like, I personally find python pandas documentation unusable
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
You can work in the technology department of a non-tech company. I am enjoying being a part of an employee-owned company so far.
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
Ok, and? You can live with that if there are more important things to deal with. I've stared at ugly LLM code, that I had just had generated, and worked well enough for my purposes. (generally, some quick recursion into a nested pytho
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
I have been looking at this sandbox tool, but haven't quite figured out how I want to deploy it, and anyways I haven't found an agent I like yet. https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
I play with my brother and an old friend of mine. I'm getting close to forty. There's no "leagues", it's just lobbies you join, and you gain or loose OS (Elo) per battle. Party up with your friends, find a lobby tha
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by NortySpock 3mo ago
Speaking as an occasional contributor: there's a roadmap towards that, but there's a few components that need to finish baking before we release on Steam. e.g. the current lobby protocol isn't capable of handling Steam levels

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