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by bhouston 2y ago
As fads go it sure is long term and widely adopted. Thus I don’t think it is fad in the normal sense of the word.
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Economic Decoupling and the Threat of Foreign LLMs(benhouston3d.com)
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by bhouston 2y ago
That is 100B of ideas for making a European competitor to US services that are soon to be tariffed.
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by bhouston 2y ago
I think we should expect the US to lose its reserve currency status if these tariffs continue and we should also expect its tax revenue to drop. The combination may make it more likely to see a US default on its debt as there will be less
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by bhouston 2y ago
Trump is a wildcard, but I could see the US defaulting on its debt, probably in some way that focuses the default burden on foreign countries holding US debt with some relief for domestic holders. I would definitely not be holding it over
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by bhouston 2y ago
Good point. It is a bit of a grey area. It is acting, then executing the code, and sensing the results, and then making changes. So in that sense it is an agent, but it is a little self-contained. In a way thinking is sort of agentic in
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by bhouston 2y ago
I am not sure we want to prevent AI crawlers but rather we want the crawlers to just not negatively affect the websites. We want AI automation everywhere and crawling is important.
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by bhouston 2y ago
"Does the AI system perform actions under its own identity?" I don't agree with this definition. I view an agent has having the ability to affect the world, and then sense how it affected the world and then choose to make add
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by bhouston 2y ago
I also ran into massive issues trying to use Mermaid when I tried to pair it up with Marp (markdown for presentations). I am not sure if it is Mermaid's fault or Marp's fault but it didn't work and tons of people want it to
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by bhouston 2y ago
Q: How open? Can it be used commercially? Is the training protocol going to be open? Or just the weights released like Llama models?
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by bhouston 2y ago
Yeah, it really is a lost decade.
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by bhouston 2y ago
> If you mean calculations in low precision, that's also already a decade old if not more. More like since the history of computing. 1990s era graphics cards made use of FP16 formats and before that people did fixed point math appr
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by bhouston 2y ago
> For the same cost* was left out of my post. Mac Mini M4 is cheaper than the Mac Mini m1 and has better base specs. And the MacBook Air M4 is cheaper than the MacBook Air M1 and also has better base specs.
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by bhouston 2y ago
M1 from November 2020 has 16 billion on a 5mn process node at 39W TDP. M4 from November 2024 has 28 billion on a 3mn process node at 22W TDP. And remember that 5mn process node is just the length in one direction (although it isn't 5mn
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by bhouston 2y ago
> It _feels_ like the pace of development has slowed in the last few years. If you stick with Intel you are artificially holding yourself back. NVIDIA is is optimizing for datacenter thus its stuff is not available to consumers except a
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by bhouston 2y ago
I look at these benchmarks and I completely disagree: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-mini-late-2020 https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-mini-2024-10c-cpu I am quite satisfied with the r
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by bhouston 2y ago
I have been reading Moore's Law is dead articles for the last 30 years. You sort of become immune to the "sky is falling" narrative after a while. Tech leaders love this narrative: 2005: Intel CEO https://hothardw
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by bhouston 2y ago
Great images from the project here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia
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by bhouston 2y ago
> The sooner the opponents of the current administration ...instead of going further left and screaming louder), the less damage Trump can inflict. My 2c. I think the left may see that being conciliatory and moving to the center isn&#x27
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by bhouston 2y ago
> Not to mention that the federal government of Canada would also have to be on board for a province to seperate. You may be right about the other aspects, but "annexation", which Trump has proposed, isn't a negotiated thi
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by bhouston 2y ago
> Canada isn’t some helpless third world with oil that they can exploit, Canada can and will retaliate Canada can retaliate in a trade war, but if it is real annexation/invasion, Canada cannot effectively fight back. It would be a
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by bhouston 2y ago
> Are you following events and making highly speculative judgements or can you see evidence this is the direction Trump is headed? Here is a recent New York Times major article titled: "How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to B
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by bhouston 2y ago
> This had already happened for a long while in the US, it just used slightly different means like protests, cancellation or boycotts, just the victims were from the other side. It sounds like this is viewed as revenge? The trend of usi
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by bhouston 2y ago
I look at Trump's popularity and it is still quite high. So while it may seem dark to some, generally it isn't bothering most Americans that much. Thus it is likely to continue and progress. What is next? - Maybe punish citizens
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by bhouston 2y ago
If Trump and his intellectual descendants stay in power, it is very likely they take Canada eventually, probably starting with Alberta. Fun fact, the leader of Alberta is hanging around Trump and others in his orbit a ton and having a gener
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by bhouston 2y ago
> Honestly surprised the VCs that dumped all the money into xAI are on board. I’m guessing he still must have controlling stake. Why would he give them a controlling stake? I suspect they don't have control.
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by bhouston 2y ago
Elon was uniquely rich is US history but his wealthy fluctuates wildly: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rockefeller-rich-elon-musks-w...
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by bhouston 2y ago
He has done this move before with Tesla buying Solar City. When you do a deal with yourself you can assign any value you want to assets, it isn’t a competitive process. In the previous case Solar City was dying but its acquisition by Tesl
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by bhouston 2y ago
Mycoder is open source and an independent project. The story of building mycoder from scratch is here: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-...
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by bhouston 2y ago
Thanks for the positive feedback! If you can share them please do! BTW I'm working on ideas to make code a secondary artifact right now, sort of v2 of mycoder.

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