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by brotchie 7mo ago
For the tax thing. I had Claude write a CLI and a prompt for Gemini Flash 2.5 to do the structured extraction: i.e. .pdf -> JSON. The JSON schema was pretty flexible, and open to interpretation by Gemini, so it didn't produce 100% c
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by brotchie 7mo ago
Not enough time, too many projects. Useful projects I did over the weekend with Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 (just casually chatting with it). 2025 Taxes Dumped all pdfs of all my tax forms into a single folder, asked Claude the rename them nicely.
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Show HN: Agent from Scratch – Bootstrap an agent from a copy-paste, no framework(agentfromscratch.com)
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by brotchie 7mo ago
The way I solved this was that my open claw doesn't interact directly with any of my personal data (calendar, gmail, etc). I essentially have a separate process that syncs my gmail, with gmail body contents encrypted using a key my ope
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by brotchie 9mo ago
One trick that works well for personality stability / believability is to describe the qualities that the agent has, rather than what it should do and not do. e.g. Rather than: "Be friendly and helpful" or "You're a
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by brotchie 10mo ago
You'd think the go-to workflow for releasing redacted PDFs would be to draw black rectangles and then rasterize to image-only PDFs :shrug:
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by brotchie 10mo ago
Did a similar back-of-the-napkin and got 5x $ / MW of orbital vs. terrestrial. This article's analysis is ~3.4x. I do wonder, at what factor of orbital to terrestrial cost factor it becomes worthwhile. The greater the terrestrial
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by brotchie 1y ago
+100000 to A hybrid of Strong (the lifting app) and ChatGPT where the model has access to my workouts, can suggest improvements, and coach me. I mainly just want to be able to chat with the model knowing it has detailed context for each of
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by brotchie 1y ago
The question that really matters: is the net present value of each $1 investment in AI Capex > $1 (+ some spread for borrowing costs & risk). We'll be inference token constrained indefinitely: i.e. inference tokens supply will n
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by brotchie 1y ago
What’s the downside here? Lithium ion batteries have an energy density of 150-350 Wh/kg, so this is firmly at the bottom of that range. Naive, back of the napkin is 446 kWh / m^3. There’s a lot of content out there!
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by brotchie 1y ago
+1, spot on description of aphantasia.
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by brotchie 1y ago
When reading "picture an apple with three blue dots on it", I have an abstract concept of an apple and three dots. There's really no geometry there, without follow on questions, or some priming in the question. In my consciou
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by brotchie 1y ago
But the vast majority of my $500+ a month PG&E bill is for transmission, not generation.
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by brotchie 1y ago
100%, other than selling RSUs to diversify, every single other investment I have is now buy and hold. Even did a ~7 year career detour through quant finance "if I like Software Engineering and Mathematics so much, why don't I comb
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by brotchie 1y ago
Look at the induced demand due to Claude code. I mean, they wildly underestimated average token usage by users. There's high willingness to pay. There's literally not enough inference infra available. I was working on crypto durin
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by brotchie 1y ago
First AI thing that’s made me feel a bit of derealization… …and this is the worst the capabilities will ever be. Watching the video created a glimmer of doubt that perhaps my current reality is a future version of myself, or some other cons
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by brotchie 2y ago
Similar experience, I had a Cyrix PR200 which really underperformed the equivalent Intel CPU. Convinced my parent's to buy a new PC, they organized with a local computer store for me to go in and sit with the tech and actually build th
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by brotchie 2y ago
Thanks so much for putting so much effort into this, loved reading it: the diagrams and explanations are top-tier. Inspirational.
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by brotchie 2y ago
Have done both clinical Ketamine and Psilocybin therapy. Ketamine was very interesting. Proper completely dissociative "K-hole" experience. I feel like it helped with Anxiety, but I can't pinpoint "why" from an intr
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by brotchie 2y ago
Open question for LLMs, does creativity and new ideas come from a process or is it a laddered emergent capability. What I mean by this, is the process of coming up with novel ideas a single capability that has to be trained and reinforced.
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by brotchie 2y ago
If this is your kind of thing and you ever get a chance to see the musical artist Tipper alongside Fractaled Visions driving the visuals, you’re in for a treat. Most spot on visual depictions of psychedelic artifacts I’ve witnessed. Saw the
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by brotchie 2y ago
Nice, thanks for the reccomendations, the Mudi V2 looks great. Any limitations / bumps in the road, or it "just works"?
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by brotchie 2y ago
I feel like they're conflating "rave" with "clubbing." Friday, Saturday club attendance has been dropping across the world, and many electronic music focused club venues have shut down (at least in Australia and the
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by brotchie 2y ago
Pet theory is that our universe is run on some external computational substrate. A lot of the strangeness we see in quantum physics are side effects of how that computation is executed efficiently. The inability to reconcile quantum field t
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by brotchie 2y ago
Certain the end state is "one model to rule them all" hence the "transitional." Just that the pragmatic approach, today, given current LLM capabilities, is to minimize the surface area / state space that the LLM is
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by brotchie 2y ago
Have been building agents for past 2 years, my tl;dr is that: Agents are Interfaces, Not Implementations The current zeitgeist seems to think of agents as passthrough agents: e.g. a lite wrapper around a core that's almost 100% a LLM
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by brotchie 2y ago
+1, the second and third order effects aren't trivial. We're already seeing escape velocity in world modeling (see Google Veo2 and the latest Genesis LLM-based physics modeling framework). The hardware for humanoid robots is 95% o
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by brotchie 2y ago
Convinced that Apple has shot themselves in the foot / tied their hands behind their back / insert analogy here , re: privacy <> AI. Interesting to see how it plays out. Meta and Google have much more permissive privacy pol
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by brotchie 2y ago
Short term defense is learning about, and becoming an expert in, using LLMs in products. Longer term defense doesn't exist. If Software Engineering is otherwise completely automated by LLMs, we're in AGI territory, and likely recu
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by brotchie 2y ago
One sample point of one person's experience: Product's built based on brainstorming: NEVER worked. Product built around solution to actual problems I've experienced: Always worked, BUT may not have a large enough TAM. The bes

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