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by ericd 7d ago
> No ones shown there's any real ROI in a more virulent intermediary that has even less reason to view ads. Good riddance? Very happy to have my agent totally ignore the ads trying to hijack my attention.
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by ericd 8d ago
It seems that a pretty clear first step is that thinking traces are required, along with sourcing all evidence, so that things can be easily double checked. Anthropic/OpenAI have business reasons for not sharing those, but it also prob
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by ericd 8d ago
That’s awesome! I especially like RECAP as a method for freeing things from PACER. Seems like you all are already doing a lot of what I’ve been aiming for with mine. Are there useful ways to contribute, or have you all gotten it to a pretty
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by ericd 8d ago
OK, I just bundled it into a torrent, available here: https://law.agentlookups.ai/downloads/ If you decide to give it a download, let me know if you have any issues with it/suggestions for improvement.
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by ericd 8d ago
Yeah, going to the courts and municipal code seems like it's going to be a heavy lift. Many of them seem to hang off of municode, though, so maybe it's not a huge number of unique crawlers.
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by ericd 8d ago
Cool, thanks for the pointer!
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by ericd 8d ago
Right now it's just a bunch of crawlers for the individual states. If there's interest, I could periodically stand up snapshot torrents or something. That something you'd be interested in? Alternatively, if someone else knows
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by ericd 8d ago
Yeah, it should be freely available, you have to be able to know the rules you're supposed to obey in order to obey them well. I've been making a free API for US law search, you can point whatever model you want at it: https:&#x2
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by ericd 11d ago
If it powers a heat pump water heater, it's pretty efficient, and much less plumbing involved.
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by ericd 11d ago
Our house is all-electric. We have a 60 panel, 24 kw array that would probably cover all of our needs if it weren't shaded in the afternoon, and we have a real winter here, so the heat pump runs hard, and we use a substantial amount of
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by ericd 11d ago
Nice, have a github repo? This is something I've thought about trying to build, seems like the future.
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by ericd 12d ago
This is my read, too.
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by ericd 13d ago
Ah good catch on the total tokens, was going off vague memory there, and I thought people had gotten qwen 3.8 27b up to similar decode speeds as ds v4 flash. >One data point that seems relevant to me is that the previous gen qwen Qwen3.6
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by ericd 13d ago
Thanks! That's very helpful as a way to discuss. First off, I'd include Qwen flash-next and GLM 5.3 to show some of the other strong open weight models, and they predictably dominate it, but they're much larger. But, it shows
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by ericd 13d ago
Ah sorry, I should've continued, the bigger recent models are commensurately smarter. If you really want to make the point, then you'd need to show 27b being smarter than similar vintage bigger models. And in that case, there&#x27
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by ericd 13d ago
Gpt-oss—120b is like 1000 years old in AI years, whereas Qwen 3.8 27b is pretty young. What you’re seeing is that parameters aren’t apples to apples, and at a given parameter level, the new models are much, much better than the ones from a
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by ericd 14d ago
Yeah, it's really tough, there's so much potential good, and so much potential bad. My intuition says that decentralized will probably be better, the other way seems to concentrate power while also not really keeping it out of the
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by ericd 15d ago
Really? You’ve spent the time to learn every member of the EU government that supported them? And you think that’s a good use of everyone’s time? I guarantee you that the average US citizen hasn’t bothered to do that with even their members
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by ericd 15d ago
No, I don't blame China or India for continuing to do business with Russia, it seems completely rational for them to do so. They're powerful enough to ignore the structures the US has built to try to exert leverage internationally
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by ericd 15d ago
To be clear, I don't think they're doing it because they want all the money, I think they truly believe that this is existentially threatening, and are trying to regulate their open source competition away because they think that&
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by ericd 15d ago
Geopolitics is way too complicated for such black and white thinking. Do you know who amongst the governments of those countries decided to back this Syrian president? I certainly don't. What percentage of the (huge) populations that y
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by ericd 15d ago
But also, the US makes more oil than it uses. With some nuance around how the refineries are set up vs type of crude produced.
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by ericd 15d ago
It's not naivete/goodness, this is totally aligned with their playbook of trying to get AI to be heavily regulated.
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by ericd 19d ago
Presumably you can install your own and have the electrician to the final connection to the grid/your house? Solar panels are much, much cheaper than you seem to think.
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by ericd 19d ago
Really? That's more expensive than I would've guessed. The US has substantial tariffs, and you can get a pallet of panels for $0.20-$0.30/watt. You can also pay a lot more, but I'm not sure why you would.
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by ericd 20d ago
$1000 panel? I’m pretty sure 600 watt panels are coming in at <$100 on the global market. Prices have come down a lot in the past decade.
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by ericd 20d ago
My understanding is that it’s the thin film variant that’s “famously poisonous”, the Cadmium Telluride ones. But that’s not the type that almost any field full of solar is made up of.
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by ericd 22d ago
Yeah, I'm guessing this isn't unique, but I remember the first time I used ChatJimmy, I missed the fact that it had responded because I was still hitting the enter key, and getting ready to see tokens stream in, but they were alre
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by ericd 22d ago
Yeah, it'd be a lot easier to maintain flow, less need to work on more than one session at once, etc. And then tool calls would be the limiting factor, especially network access. I hope AMD keeps the project moving forward post acquisi
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by ericd 22d ago
Sure, Google could be their agent, or ChatGPT, or Claude, or whatever local model the person is running. The big guys might all have the results cached so they don't have to rerun the crawl. Whatever their choice of agent, it seems pre

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