marcyb5st

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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
And especially terrible for the communities that have to live with gas turbines or other local power generators as neighbors. Noise and air pollution constantly [1]. But fuck them, they are poor people so we don't care about them &#x2F
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
Well put. I belong to the latter group as I feed small, granular tasks that I describe thoroughly to the LLM. I tried, however, to just give it a bigger scope task. Even best models produce sloppy code. While the single functions/class
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
It is not just the big cities. You go downtown even in small towns and the roads tend to be so narrow that a big SUV becomes a liability more than a vehicle. Without mentioning that I'm not even sure parking stalls fit big US cars leng
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
True, but they also took huge debts to build AI DCs and not sure if the DB part of the company can cushion such a fall. According to [1] their IaaS line of business brings 4.8B USD/quarter (so say 20B/year), but they have ~120B of
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
For sure there is a bit of selection bias with hackernews users. Not saying we are all geniuses, but I strongly believe we are, at least, more educated than your average Joe
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
I think native speakers of Latin derived languages have an advantage given the proposed words in my run. The list was overly biased that way. In fact, many of the advance and grandmaster levels words are basically that. Latin derived words.
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
I think he was referring to hydro with all the mountains it is actually prime real estate for dams.
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
I think we (as in Switzerland) are preparing for a future in which there is not much snow melt/precipitations to fuel hydro production year round. In fact, if the AMOC weakens/stops then there will be a drastic drop in precipitati
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
And kill the savings of what remains of the middle class. Probably they will do it though, as it is a slow thing and is not felt by the average Joe like a tax hike or loss of benefits. So the policians won't trigger an outrage by doing
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
As an European, yeah, we probably are doing really good with basic science, but what about innovation when it comes to productivity? Why there is no AI lab (apart from Mistral) in EU? Why there is no European model (and hasn't been pro
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
I don't see that happening. The US debt will hinder any big expense that could keep it in any game long term. Take AI for instance. The US grid is struggling to keep up with demand, while Chinese one has a lot of headway [1]. Usually,
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
Yeah, big lol on the Recursive Self-Improvement. I mean, firstly you get to have an "Agent" actually capable of really long horizon tasks without getting stuck in tools loops and having its context rot. Secondly, each trial (ie a
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by marcyb5st 3mo ago
Would be very hard to demonstrate that they did that. If all employees move to some country with a slow legal justice system and strong labor laws, they also recreate the training data because that can be transferred, they can train another
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
For personal use I already did a few months back. Dario is more competent than Sam, but even shadier (IMHO). Anyway, switched to Openrouter through forgecode (or pi/opencode, the jury is still out on this one). It will take a while, bu
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
I am getting familiar with Rust and so I have been playing around with Quoth ( https://github.com/sam0x17/quoth ) for now. It is very basic and I am no DSL expert, but my idea was to build a graph from those complex docu
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
Anecdotal, but here's my experience. For personal stuff I use forgecode with openrouter. Firstly, forgecode is a much better harness than Cloude code (IMHO). Anyway, regarding the models, my experience is that there is not much differe
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
Yeah I agree. As the saying goes: trust is built in drops and lost in buckets. A lot of time needs to pass while the US behaves as a proper ally if they want to go back to the status quo. At least IMHO as this is how I feel as an EU citizen
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European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low(ecfr.eu)
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
I believe that county specific studies seem to support your thesis. For instance, countries that eat less processed food (eg Italy) and have stricter rules about pesticides didn't see an increase in stuff like colorectal cancer [1]. So
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
Yeah, it is crazy to me. Yesterday I did the math how much it would take to fully replace "just" 1M SWEs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382414 . It turns out you need 380GW of constant power (or 80%+ of U
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
I think you are assuming cost per task will become cheaper and that there is unlimited energy supply. While tokens costs are going down, the number of token burned is going up and up. Case in point Sam Altman is complaining about their top
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
I am pretty familiar with a 500k LOC codebase. If for every feature request/bug the agent has to go through a lot of it, spend a gazillion thinking tokens for understanding what it needs to do, plan, and then execute (assuming it gets
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
Not in anyway related with the surreal folks. I think it is not so clear cut. I mean, the multi-model nature it is pretty neat. Yes, you can use pgvector on PostgreSQL, but here you also have native graph support. If you want to have both y
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
I think that most of western Europe is fucked in that sense. Previous generations piled up a ton of debt and so now there is no breathing room for subsidize affordable housing, parenting benefits, ... . Add to that that you need 2 salaries
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by marcyb5st 4mo ago
In some countries (like Switzerland) you don't have any capital gain tax __unless_ you are a professional investor. What makes you a professional investor? One of the things that can elevate you to that status is the amount of trades y
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by marcyb5st 5mo ago
Fully agree. We really should punish companies that blatantly push this kind of mercenarism. I mean, every VP and CxO join a company, he/she takes super short-sighted decisions that push some random metric a bit up, and then they leave
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by marcyb5st 5mo ago
My pleasure!
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by marcyb5st 5mo ago
Pretty cool project! Congrats. QQ: does it support programmatic cell access/modifications? Eg `cell file.cell --write A2 "42"` or `cell file.cell --read "=SUM(A1:A10)"`? Couldn't surmise that from the glimpse I
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by marcyb5st 5mo ago
You will, but many many many others won't do it, probably. I mean, in some parts of the world 200$ is already a big chunk of their monthly income and a price hike will definitely push them away, which is bad for the upcoming (potential
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by marcyb5st 5mo ago
Apart from Anthropic nobody knows how much the average user costs them. However the consensus is "much more than that". If they have to raise prices to stop hemorrhaging money, would you be willing to pay 1000 bucks a month for a

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