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by brookst 3mo ago
Because markets succeed or fail based on perceived fairness. It is in a prediction market’s best interest to not become the place where you go to get fleeced. Today they’re the Wild West and run like the early days of darknet markets, but i
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by brookst 3mo ago
Quality of life seems clear enough to assert: https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.j... https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-... Freedom is harder to q
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by brookst 3mo ago
They did. On any long running query with large context, tell Claude “give me a status report every 4 minutes to keep the cache warm”. It’s entirely happy to oblige and usually says “good idea, that will keep costs down”
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by brookst 3mo ago
So why is it 5 minutes at both peak and off peak hours? If they can guarantee 5 minutes at peak hours for everyone, why is it only 5 minutes at off peak? I don’t think your understanding works.
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by brookst 3mo ago
This has nothing to do with queueing. Cached input tokens cost 10% of uncached. So if you’re model runs for 45 minutes, generates 300k output tokens and asks you a question, it costs 10x more if you wait 5.01 minutes to answer. Sure, you
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by brookst 3mo ago
Not really. Plex was the jellyfin of the 2010’s. Pirate-centric (or at least agnostic), hobbyist focused, a bit hard to use and ugly but super valuable. Then they went corporate and yeah it’s weird and in decline.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Generalizations are embarrassing. Companies don’t have souls or minds. Some people in some large companies have absolutely cared about social good, art, and other things outside of financials.
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by brookst 3mo ago
The thing about screaming and waving your arms is it makes it hard for people to connect with the argument. A quick scan shows a lack of rigor that usually points towards zealotry rather than a reasoned position: you imply that models are
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by brookst 3mo ago
Agree, but there’s also an element of consumer irrationality. Lower price + lower quality means you can buy more of what you want now, even if it means that you’ll end up with net less of what you want in the long term. Most consumers, me i
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by brookst 3mo ago
Exactly this. Oh no, these airline seats are cramped and miserable and were backed in like sardines, what’s wrong with these airlines, but I’ll buy whatever ticket is the cheapest.
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by brookst 3mo ago
How? It’s a contract. Should I be allowed to pay a landscaper less if I agree to not do part of the work myself? I don’t understand the desire to tell totally anonymous third parties the terms under which they are allowed to deal with each
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by brookst 3mo ago
It’s also possible to bankrupt a company with excessive focus on the long term.
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by brookst 3mo ago
If you're tokenizing to run a tiny SLM for routing purposes, it can be way more than 0.1%. This is the "GPU driver optimizations don't matter because PC's sit idle at the desktop most of the time" mindset.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Actually I’ve found some flaws in the Torment Nexus and have a PR to improve it.
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by brookst 3mo ago
> well-documented big catalogs are possible; they're just rare They’re not that rare, it’s just that flat big catalogs don’t work well. The most common failure mode for MCP server design is mapping MCP tools to system APIs. This r
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by brookst 3mo ago
They don’t have goals any more than your phone had a goal.
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by brookst 3mo ago
> Clearly one can get from Theorem 3 to Theorem 2 by composing with the isomorphism {X \cong {\bf C}^3} and using the previously mentioned fact that local injectivity implies non-zero constant Jacobian. I mean, clearly , right? You and
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by brookst 3mo ago
Hmm. When I have Opus or Fable write build plans, then invariably invariably read code extensively, but it’s true they don’t make changes and run tests. I guess the way to formalize this would be to add a “make minimal change to confirm app
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by brookst 3mo ago
The more honest ones are “how it looks on you” and don’t promise fit that depends on so many measurements that aren’t even visible in pics. Sure, it’s idealized, but some people benefit from seeing color / neckline / etc on themse
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by brookst 3mo ago
How is that different than just having the frontier model write a build plan and store it, then have a cheaper model execute? That’s pretty normal practice. The build plan should be better than the context that generated it since it strips
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by brookst 3mo ago
I said “if” for email, which I at least have recovery codes stored with someone trusted. And that link is to recovery contacts , not codes. If you’re willing to trust one person you can get back into your Apple account after a disaster.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Phone number and email access, if you can regain access to them. It is definitely a good idea to plan in advance and set up a recovery contact: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102641
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by brookst 3mo ago
If it’s 50 years and gradual, there will be many places very close. The only “winner takes all” scenario is a sudden breakthrough when nobody else is close. Because it’s a gradient, not a binary.
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by brookst 3mo ago
If you use codex or Claude code or similar you can just have it ssh in.
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by brookst 3mo ago
I use a mikrotik at home, and I always get a review from Claude after making config changes. I actually used to be a network engineer (many decades and career reinventions ago), and I appreciate that Mikrotik exposes all of the layers and
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by brookst 3mo ago
I use dictation to drive Claude code frequently, and it’s never had a problem with stream of consciousness and retroactive correction. Maybe try just direct voice and see if you notice any difference versus pre-cleaning?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Ant has quota resets two or three times a month, at least for me.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Yes, they’re following the Microsoft strategy of “if you name everything Copilot, you can report high Copilot usage”
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by brookst 3mo ago
Good sci fi premise, but not at all how AGI will happen. It’s not going to be a singularity at one moment of time. It’s not going to be instant runaway self-improvement, no matter what doomers and fetishists say. It’s going to be gradual. W
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by brookst 3mo ago
Great write up! Why custom MIDI connectors of all things? What requirement couldn’t be met off the shelf?

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