Zigurd

5 ms·

91.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Some numbers have a lot of squish to them. Gemini can't be called a failure. But Copilot is a flop and yet Microsoft can probably show you similar numbers to what Gemini has.
92.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
After looking at Nvidia's orderbook, it's a reasonable conclusion that nothing bad will happen for at least another year. In which case Ed Zitron is off by at least a year. But there are enough signs of trouble that could happen s
93.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
What you were describing our products at the top or near the top of their S curve. That only works if a product has achieved a mature market that's big enough to sustain further product development. Apple might take a percentage point
94.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Location: Boston, Taos, Norcal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Android, Flutter, LiteRT, Gemma, AppFunctions Résumé/CV: zigurd.com Email: zigurd@zigurd.com
95.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
What I don't see in the comments: "I had a specific problem I couldn't solve with the previous version of this LLM. But the improvements in this version unlocked the solution for me." What I do see in the comments: subje
96.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
That hasn't been true since SZ was a fishing village where the government was planning infrastructure to enable early stage development into a manufacturing site near HK. Now it looks a lot like Silicon Valley except the buildings are
97.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
It is likely these were imported partially assembled. The finished Ojai vehicles are probably assembled by Magna in Arizona. Depending on how much financial fudge Zeekr and Waymo think they can get away with, the amount that subject to tari
98.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
First let's acknowledge that this could very easily be a misconfiguration issue. But, I'd be a lot more inclined to that idea if it wasn't for how they failed: they started a defrost cycle that turned the freezers into heater
99.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Another really weird take. While George HW Bush was hardly a great president, he did manage to not fumble the liberation of Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. I think he's underappreciated.
100.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
That's an odd take. The thing that's going to make China think twice would be good relations with Europe, and a joint willingness to isolate China if it comes to that. I don't know any politicians on the left or center who ar
101.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
No special provisions for rad hardening needed?
102.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
The Iran war demonstrates a lack of understanding of the basic arithmetic of hard power. Iran is 3X to 5X Iraq, depending on what dimension of an invasion plan you're thinking of. Failure to gather at least 3X the resources applied to
103.
Poll: What will a better LLM do for me?
2 points by Zigurd 1mo ago|0 comments
104.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
No, but I use coding agents so my problem is mostly solved but I welcome all incremental gains.
105.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Yes, I have a specific problem, which I have described in a comment, the solution for which is gated on better LLMs.
106.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
No, I use LLMs for research and ad hoc problem-solving, so improvements are better but I'm not working on a specific unsolved problem that a better LLM would solve.
107.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Other, please describe.
108.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Whoosh
109.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
What no Hugo Boss option for traditionalists?
110.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
I think this is the best and most realistic reply so far: the ability to do this is close enough, and things like AI music are hints that there is a business model for this. Maybe I'm just jaded about CGI effects in movies currently, b
111.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Intel didn't just surf some natural wave of demand for higher power personal computers. Intel found new needs for powerful PCs, especially in gaming, and they put a lot of marketing and industry relations dollars behind PC gaming. In o
112.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
This reply is particularly interesting to me because most of my experience with actually using LLMs to get work done is with coding agents. But I only have a fairly narrow set of experiences: two pretty large solo Flutter projects. I am cur
113.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Is anyone here working on a problem for which current generation LLMs are inadequate, but that could possibly be solved by the next release of a first tier LLM? Or is it like bicycles? Unless your problem is named Tadej, you don't need
114.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Lately I've been developing in Dart/Flutter. I use Android Studio but I know developers who use Antigravity and like it. For the past three or four months it's performed very well, even the cheaper Gemini models. No serious c
115.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Both Google and Apple have MCP-like interface frameworks for agents that developers can enable so their apps are not dependent on touch or vioce or keyboard or pointing device or D-pad interactions. This is the correct way to do it because
116.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
It's a real face palm how LinkedIn squandered the opportunity to be a relatively benign social media product. School kids would have zero interest in it except for that guy who wears a bowtie to high school. And yet they have made it s
117.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
Of course we can do something. Take money out of politics and you will get legislation that actually reflects the will of the people. Make buying politicians harder. There are lots of ways to do that.
118.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
About that P in your acronym...
119.
by Zigurd 1mo ago
We already have the tools. The problem is that the corrupt oligarchs have the money that is considered equivalent to speech. Start with fixing that problem and other problems become solvable.
120.
by Zigurd 2mo ago
I recently had some relevant experience: for a couple of months now I've been experimenting with on device models to summarize feeds in a Bluesky client I am developing. The feature extracts topic areas, categorizes posts, and creates

More ›