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by antirez 8mo ago
Things are a bit more complicated. Actually Redis the company (Redis Labs, and previously Garantia Data) offered since the start to hire me, but I was at VMWare, later at Pivotal, and just didn't care, wanted to stay actually "sup
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by antirez 8mo ago
The search for speed is vain. Often Claude Code Opus 4.6, on hard enough problems, can do the impression of acting fast without really making progresses because of lack of focus on what matters. Then you spin the much slower GPT 5.3-Codex a
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by antirez 8mo ago
Hi! This model is great, but it is too big for local inference, Whisper medium (the "base" IMHO is not usable for most things, and "large" is too large) is a better deal for many environments, even if the transcription
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by antirez 8mo ago
A few things to note: 1. In the real world, for a similar task, there are little reasons for: A) not giving the compiler access to all the papers about optimizations, ISAs PDFs, MIT-licensed compilers of all the kinds. It will perform much
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by antirez 8mo ago
Yep, slow QA, things that also make the real difference in quality.
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by antirez 8mo ago
1. Make long pauses: 1h of work, stop for 30 minutes or more. The productivity gain should leave you more time to rest. Alternatively work just 50% of time, 2h the morning, 2h the evening, instead of 8 hours. Yet trying to deliver more than
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by antirez 8mo ago
That is, I believe, one the points of AI and Open Source many contacts. Something like TCC, with a good coding agent and a developer that cares about the project, and knows enough about it, can turn into a project that can be maintained wit
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by antirez 8mo ago
Yes, but the downvotes came later too, I edited it with the same exact content but without the asshole that is in me. Still downvotes received.
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by antirez 8mo ago
All the time here in HN, I'm proud of it -- happy to have opinions not necessarily aligned with what users want to listen to. Also: never trust the establishment without thinking! ;D
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by antirez 8mo ago
The point of Redis is data structures and algorithmic complexity of operations. If you use Redis well, you can't replace it with PostgreSQL. But I bet you can't replace memcached either for serious use cases.
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Voxtral.c Voxtral Realtime 4B model inference as a C library(github.com)
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by antirez 8mo ago
Besides, the fact an LLM may recall parts of certain documents, like I can recall incipits of certain novels, does not mean that when you ask LLM of doing other kind of work, that is not recalling stuff, the LLM will mix such things verba
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by antirez 8mo ago
The LLM does not contain a verbatim copy of whatever it saw during the pre-training stage, it may remember certain over-represented parts, otherwise it has a knowledge about a lot of things but such knowledge, while about a huge amount of t
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by antirez 8mo ago
It's incredible in the first place that companies want people use those kind of terrible and useless software, and that people accept using it.
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by antirez 8mo ago
Totally useless indeed.
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by antirez 8mo ago
Disappointing how this lacks a clear reference implementation, if not mixed at almost yet unreleased VLLM (nightly version) stuff. I'm ok with Open Weights being a form of OSS in the case of models, because frankly I don't believe
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by antirez 8mo ago
I wish I had a Google Keyboard that could easily run on Whisper Medium. This is already great. But unfortunately would be too much inference cost, incredibly slow. The problem with Whisper is not the inference quality: medium and large are
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by antirez 8mo ago
I agree with the fundamental idea that attention must be O(N^2), with the exception of recent DeepSeek sparse attention approach (DSA), that does not escape N^2 but attempts to lower constant times so much that N^2 is more acceptable, by
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by antirez 8mo ago
Different representations at the same bitrate may have features that make one a lot more resilient to errors. This thing about Italian, you fill find in any benchmark of vastly different AI transcribing models. You can find similar result
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by antirez 8mo ago
Italian represents, I believe, the most phonetically advanced human language. It has the right compromise among information density, understandability, and ability to speech much faster to compensate the redundancy. It's like if it had
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by antirez 8mo ago
That's not true. For instance in the field of video pipelines ffmpeg is the standard, and was started by an European (French) person. Runs on Linux of course, that ..., and so forth. Do you really believe in Europe there is no the tech
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Tgterm – Control Claude Code from Telegram on macOS (< 1000 lines of C code)(github.com)
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by antirez 8mo ago
I would bet the popularity is due to coding agents. For the first time you can continue the work without typing much but just inspecting the output and provading further guidance with relatively short messages.
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by antirez 8mo ago
Appreciated :)
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by antirez 8mo ago
To really understand how complicated is this matter, put into the mix that before AI in Europe there was no shortage of knowledge to have all our cloud services (to the point that a decent part of key infrastructure software is developed
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by antirez 8mo ago
Thanks, sharing a lot on X / BlueSky + YouTube but once the C course on YouTube will be finished, I'll start a new course on programming in this way. I need a couple more lessons to declare the C course closed (later I'll res
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by antirez 8mo ago
Now many will downvote you because this is an algorithm and not some code. But the reality is that programming is in large part built looking at somebody else code / techniques, internalizing them, and reproducing them again with chang
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by antirez 8mo ago
Exactly that. And all the books about, for instance, operating systems, totally based on the work of others: their ideas where collected and documented, the exact algorithms, and so forth. All the human culture worked this way. Moreover the
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by antirez 8mo ago
You will say I programmed it, there is no longer for this distinction. But then you can add that you used automatic programming in the process. But shortly there will be no need to refer to this term similarly to how today you don't sp
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by antirez 8mo ago
> So when there is a bug / outage / error, due to "automatic programming" you are first in line and ready to accept accountability when it all goes wrong in production? Absolutely yes. Automatic programming does not m

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