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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Does anyone know what was used to render these code blocks in the article? The mouseover tooltip is extremely cool. I've never seen anything like it before. EDIT: I dug through the codebase and determined that it's using Shiki and
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
> now you're left with the bajillion other "grey market" models that won't give a damn about that. Exactly. When the barrier to entry for training a okay-ish AI model (not SOTA, obviously) is only a few thousand compu
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
This is very interesting. So it's an MCP server that connects to what is effectively a sandboxed MCP "hub". This is a clever middle ground between using dozens of context-munching MCP servers and just giving the agent access
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Absolutely stunning and ingenious visualization, but disappointing data. In 2014 there were 2.2 million repos, while in 2025 there are closer to 500 million. The repo was last updated seven years ago, so I assume that this project has been
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Mission accomplished for Simon: > Truth be told, I’m playing the long game here. All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle. My dastardly multi-year plan is to trick multiple
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I highly doubt that any human could manually write a pelican SVG in a single shot like LLMs do. With a lot of guessing and checking of coordinate positions in the web browser, maybe they could do it. I imagine that you could theoretically a
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Which model did you use in the example result? It looks fantastic.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I agree that the "will [person] say [word]" markets are stupid. "Will Brian Armstrong say the word 'Bitcoin' in the Q4 earnings call" is a stupid market because nobody a actually cares whether or not he actuall
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
By 'fair', I mean 'all parties have access to the same information'. The stock market is supposed to give everyone the same information. Trading with privileged information (insider trading), is illegal. Publicly traded
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
And? Insider trading is bad because it's unfair, and the stock market is supposed to be fair. Prediction markets are not fair . If you are looking for a fair market, prediction markets are not that. Insider trading is accepted and enc
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
> If you are using it because you think it's Open Source I suggest you stop. I did not know that. Thank you very much for the correction. I guess I have some keys to revoke now.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
> The ability to add context via a local apps integration into OS level resources is big Good point. I can see why integrated support for local filesystem tools would be useful, even though I prefer manually uploading specific files to a
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Depending on your definition of "learn", you can also use something akin to ChatGPT's Memory feature. When you teach it something, just have it take notes on how to do that thing and include its notes in the system prompt for
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Genuinely curious here: why is the desktop app so important? I completely understand the appeal of having local and offline applications, but the ChatGPT desktop app doesn't work without an internet connection anyways. Is it just the c
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
The point of prediction markets isn't to be fair. They are not the stock market. The point of prediction markets is to predict. They provide a monetary incentive for people who are good at predicting stuff. Whether that's due to l
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Interesting that they include non-Gemini models. Both Claude and GPT oss are both on Google Cloud, so I assume that Antigravity is using GC as the provider and not making API calls to Anthropic or OpenAI.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Does Google's team not proofread this stuff? Or maybe is this an early draft that wasn't meant to be released?
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
> TPUs are specifically designed to handle the massive computations involved in training LLMs and can speed up training considerably compared to CPUs. That seems like a low bar. Who's training frontier LLMs on CPUs? Surely they mean
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Is there a term for this kind of psychologically-targeted UX design? For example, having a faster-spinning progress wheel makes users feel like the task is completed faster even if the elapsed time is the same.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
You could easily cause great damage to your Cloudflare setup, but CF has measures to prevent random customers deleting stuff from taking down the entire service globally. Unless you have admin access to the entire CF system, you can'
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
A Ringworld reference in the wild?
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
But tonal information can be parsed without lexical understanding and vice versa. Somebody cursing in French can still be interpreted as anger even if you don't understand French, and written profanity can still be interpreted as anger
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Is it really that big of a task? More so than maintaining custom spellcheck dictionaries in every supported language? Even if they only implemented OS spellcheck compatibility on MacOS and Windows and just used the existing custom spellchec
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
> Or they can steal vertical tabs from Vivaldi. Firefox already has vertical tabs and they work great. > Or they can steal the profile switching from Vivaldi. I'm pretty sure that Firefox has profile switching in some capacity, a
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I don't think they meant "quit your job", just "be on the lookout for another". If your current job is unstable because nobody there knows what they're doing, it's good to have a fallback.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
But you can still stream video on normal Android devices, no? My Motorola phone supports Disney+. Why did studios object to streaming on Fire tablets unless it had kernel DRM but they're fine with streaming on easily-rootable phones?
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
> I can imagine a whole scene popping up where everyone cheats to the max, creating whole new game modes. That would be very interesting. I also bet that people would start developing bots that play the game better than a human could and
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
What if the minification is inseparable from the transpiler? Like what if it converts the SCSS into some weird graph representation, applies the transpilation features (variables, mixins, etc) on that graph representation, then converts the
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Would it still count as a transpiler if it minifies the code at the end? For example, most SCSS workflows I've worked with converert SCSS source code into minified CSS, which is pretty difficult for a human to read. But I think that SC
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Doesn't it make sense to use words that mean what you're using them to mean? By your logic I could use the term "apple" to describe apples, oranges, limes, and all other fruit because they all behave in much the same way

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