mchusma

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by mchusma 5mo ago
The poor have dramatically more children than the rich on average, you don't need to be rich to have kids. Kids don't need to have rich parents to have a good live/upbringing.
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I have long wondered why these companies have only one model? Why not many models, letting the user choose? Why not let users tune what they want to see? It seems like a better user experience and safer from this type of (IMO valid) concern
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by mchusma 5mo ago
highly irritating. HIPAA was originally designed to be a "portability" standard (meaning easier to share). It has done the opposite. Health data is important to developing a cure, and privacy is unimportant to many people. The wor
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I actually do think token maxing is good, but they should have limited it per user. I find it reallly hard to get people to max out the Claude $100 plan, let alone the $200 plan. I understand the enterprise plans are different and more expe
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by mchusma 5mo ago
Everything I read seems to suggest that RAM capacity is going to grow at 20-25% a year, which just doesn't seem good enough. Even in consumer use cases, phones and laptops would benefit greatly by double the amount of RAM. And then obv
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I don’t see any specific mention of Conductor, is this confirmed?
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I just left the google I/O feeling less confident about google's execution here. - Gemini 3.5 flash is strange. Old cutoff, basically better than 3.1 pro at soem things worse at others, sometimes cheaper, sometimes more expensive
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I've looked like a dozen places, I don't see anything. :(
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I have thought about this and I think overall, this was a disappointing release from Google. I'm not sure the sentiment, but this feels like a miss. What they did do in the keynote was spend a lot of time talking about their distributi
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by mchusma 5mo ago
Never mind, after looking at more benchmarks, seems closer to sonnet level intelligence at slightly lower cost. Speed is great for latency sensitive applications, but if this was 1/2 the cost it would have been priced to win. If this i
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by mchusma 5mo ago
Okay, it's kind of somewhere between haiku and sonnet level pricing, at somewhere between sonnet and opus level performance. Its a great option. I was hoping to see opus class intelligence at haiku level pricing out of google, and this
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I think the original DeepSeek moment seemed important. And yes, the more recent model is good, but there are multiple. This commodification trend spans many different companies, including Kimi 2.5/2.6 and GLM5.1, and even Google itself
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by mchusma 5mo ago
Retatrutide is incredible in a mind altering way. I know 4 people on it, including myself. And all just love the way it makes you feel. You just don’t want to eat as much and you want to eat healthier. As far as I can tell, that is it. Whil
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I get this desire and commend the author, but I just want self driving cars and so I think we are just stuck with this.
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I think this may be in fact a response to Starlink. Dead zones create opportunity for satellite direct to consumer plays, bypassing the big three. By teaming up around these fringe cases, you reduce that a bit.
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AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon to eliminate coverage dead zones(theverge.com)
1 points by mchusma 5mo ago|1 comments
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by mchusma 5mo ago
It's funny that DocuSign was included here — small businesses really have no business using DocuSign. It's an enterprise product, it's expensive, and there are 20+ cheaper options out there. eSignatures are probably in the to
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I can't speak to their open source, but I really enjoy Bambu 3d printer and it works great for me and my 9 year old son.
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by mchusma 5mo ago
What I will say is that this is probably the first model after gemini live to do some of these things. It feels similar to gemini live, which I don't think is what they were going for exactly, but IMO it is still impressive as I don&#x
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by mchusma 5mo ago
This paragraph is really odd: “As oppressive as it was, communism contributed by breaking down old social barriers and opening higher education to factory and farmworkers who had no chance before. A post-Communist boom in higher education m
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by mchusma 5mo ago
My father used to say "Nonprofit doesn't mean that nobody can make a profit". Seems applicable here.
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I’ve looked at these auth providers many times over the years and I just don’t get the value. It takes me a couple of minutes to set up auth. Why would I want a dependency? It doesn’t help me with the hardest part which is configuring Googl
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I actually like the combined SpaceX / xAI as a hardware focused compute provider/infrastructure play.
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I do think that if LLMs are the equivalent of more employees, then you'd expect people to do more managerial work and less individual contribution. Certainly, that's what I see in my day-to-day.
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by mchusma 5mo ago
If you were to believe a lot of metrics Gemma 31B it’s much better than flash lite. It seems like I should be able to pay Google to use it and that should be at least a secretary, called action how I can do that but it’s missing from both t
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by mchusma 5mo ago
Part of the issue is Google complex web of products. There’s vertex Gemini Google AI studio Google edge. But I literally had trouble finding how to use this in my existing paid Gemini API account.
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by mchusma 5mo ago
I find it puzzling Google doesn’t actively promote its own cloud for inference of Gemma 4. Open source is great, love it. But shouldn’t Google want me to be able to use and pay for it through Gemini and vertex?
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by mchusma 6mo ago
Yes let’s go make deafness optional for adults and eradicate childhood deafness. Zero moral ambiguity.
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by mchusma 6mo ago
Google owned 14ish percent of Anthropic before this investment, so presumably this could bring it up to as much as 25%?
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by mchusma 6mo ago
I work with a lot of full-time devs, and it is very hard to go beyond the $200 max plan. If you use API credits, and I think the enterprise plan kind of forces you to do this, you can definitely incur this much, particularly if you're

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