honr

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by honr 8d ago
- That should nowadays be very obvious. You start any substantial work by doing research. LLMs are [perhaps surprisingly to some] good at that. They are also pretty good at doing the plumbing. That is a godsent in the hands of a good r
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by honr 14d ago
I have never had a problem with kiwi skins (except when the kiwi is unripe; a natural mat with acids and possibly oxalate. NOPE). But are you claiming you eat the whole fruit, or you throw out the tiny thorn?
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by honr 15d ago
I don't get your point. The planet will not realistically run out of either. The water price goes up, then soler + desal becomes more cost effective, then people get to use the material that covers 75% of the planet's surface a
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by honr 15d ago
My personal opinions (not necessarily reflecting my company's): 1. Free-form capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with AI. In other words, competent AI brings a free-form (low regulation) capitalistic environment to total collaps
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by honr 22d ago
Like taalas.com (very recently acquired by AMD), or cerebras.ai (whole wafer is a chip)? As you said, I also think that is one of the main direction many companies (and academia) is moving to.
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by honr 22d ago
To me, the legal concerns seem blown out of proportion. If you use open weight models (of dubious origin) to generate code, you can still verify them with code review and tests and other methods, used to verify human output, right? That i
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by honr 23d ago
That would only be a minor marker. A major marker would be whatever the Chinese equivalent(s) of Amazon are (Alibaba? etc.) going that route successfully. From academic / industrial conference presentations it appears Chinese service
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by honr 25d ago
Haha, darn it, you threw me into a rabbit hole. I hooked M-x doctor to an LLM, and the funniest thing happened. The little piece of sh*t kept pretending to be emacs's own eliza / doctor. It took like 5-6 turns to convince it th
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by honr 29d ago
This year, the migration projects I have worked on were some of the most fun. Migrations have changed from the death-by-1000-cuts that they were, to the which-AI-method-to-best-ensure-100%-fidelity. So, I don't believe the "very
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by honr 29d ago
Compute In Memory has been most of what electronics research (more accurately, the parts I am interacting with) talking about this year. There are a few trends and I am curious to see which ones survive in the market. RAM designers are ho
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by honr 29d ago
I haven't been directly involved with any large company CEOs, but the CEOs of smaller companies I have worked with have frequently been constantly dealing with responsibilities from many decisions they took (or didn't block). Som
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by honr 29d ago
True, I have seen that happen many times. When I want short answers, I always clarify that (e.g., give me short technical answer without pleasantries). I'm often okay if the answer is longer but not hiding the real answer; a couple of
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by honr 29d ago
I often compose prompts from various sources (my "AGENTS.md", "CURRENT_TASK", "CURRENT_PHASE", ...). Last year I was composing in markdown and that got very tedious very quickly. I tried various text and text
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by honr 29d ago
I am still not getting the point or we are talking past each other. When I am providing information for humans, I CAN go with semantic HTML (that 9kB Markdown becoming maybe 10KB semantic HTML). I can also go with "framework" lay
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by honr 1mo ago
I found HTML itself works [slightly] better with some LLMs (that I happen to frequent). So, when scraping, I parse the resulting html, simplify it, and produce simpler html contents (closer to semantics of what I guessed the real content w
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by honr 1mo ago
We are comparing different things. I am comparing expressing information in semantic HTML or in Markdown. HTML doesn't bloat it much, and it is easier to work with (programmatically in python, ts, go, java, etc.; including parsing and
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by honr 1mo ago
I am not sure if that is the main value add. I have repeatedly heard that taking responsibility and being on the hook for the decisions (even if AI hands you the decision and all the research and homework that went into it) is the most imp
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by honr 1mo ago
Aah, I thought we are talking about prompting or providing information to AI agents in either html or md form, and comparing the two. Assuming that is what we are talking about, HTML is easier to work with than Markdown, unless you are writ
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by honr 1mo ago
No, it's just that I wasn't very clear. HTML I can view in any browser / webview / etc. Good markdown viewers are fewer / more special, or end up translating md to html for display. And by composing, I didn't
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by honr 1mo ago
Is that even true? I most often use HTML. HTML is about 5%-20% more tokens than a similar Markdown. As a rule of thumb, the number of tags/structural tokens doubles, when going from markdown to html, while the rest don't change
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by honr 1mo ago
Accurate short answers / text are always harder than long answers, for human or AI. I know several authors and editors who write a lot longer at first, then spend a multiple of the initial time compressing it via a back and forth proc
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by honr 1mo ago
If that is confusing to you, you are probably not ready for politics :-) Politicians act with hypocrisy or twisted plans (where the most straightforward conclusion is not necessarily the truth) all the time. Random example from yesterday:
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by honr 1mo ago
This has been one of the billion(s) dollar questions of 2026. There have been a few approaches emerging throughout the year (heuristics to hard-divide work, using better languages with dependable contracts, task management protocols, and o
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by honr 1mo ago
I mildly disagree. You still have to validate what the browser gives you. The user could have edited the "strong contract" using browser dev tools. So, let the user type, then validate in javascript if you want instant feedback
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by honr 1mo ago
The theory is trivial for anyone with a Number Theory background. That's not the point. Picking a good and interesting problem and going all the way to an elegant optimal solution, AND presenting it well, is all that counts. Without
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by honr 2mo ago
...didn't have the vocabulary... That is exactly the key or the sign there. Even with a couple of decades of engineering expertise, when I try to do / research something that I don't know enough about, I find myself in the e
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by honr 2mo ago
They have been on a path to nuclear weapons in two weeks... for 30 years. What's new? Jokes aside, nukes are not that much of a deterrence these days. The moment you use them you get destroyed yourself. On the other hand, armies of
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by honr 2mo ago
A nuclear Iran would eventually lead to a nuclear middle east, including all the ISIS and Al Qaeda types, which would be extremely dangerous for the whole world. Better not to have any nukes in the whole region. The good thing is that bot
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by honr 2mo ago
Interesting... ...and what does the very same prophecy say about the kind of people who accelerate the arrival of the muslims' messiah? Does it say, I don't know... they are good people? Surely it doesn't say those people a
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by honr 2mo ago
Thankfully this is no longer strictly true. So, I think the quote needs a slight adjustment, "Type systems and $THING are just ...", but $THING is not very well defined yet. Between "linters", and other relatively fa

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