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by mtkd 2y ago
The problem is acute with APIs that move fast and deprecate (Shopify and some of the Google ones)
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by mtkd 2y ago
Sonnet + Tailwind is something of a force multiplier though -- backend engineers now have a fast/reliable way of making frontend changes that are understandable and without relying on someone else -- you can even give 4o a whiteboard d
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by mtkd 2y ago
Given what is potentially at stake if you're not the first nation to achieve ASI, it's a little late to start imposing any restrictions or adding distractions Similarly, whoever gains the most training and fine-tuning data from wh
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by mtkd 2y ago
Details on how DS used GRPO for RL rewards https://medium.com/@sahin.samia/the-math-behind-deepseek-a-d...
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by mtkd 2y ago
One of the reasons Rails happened in the way it did was due to many non-coders embracing it early and questioning why programming for web had to be done the way it was ... you would meet people at early Ruby events with background in arts a
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by mtkd 2y ago
Wait until some surprise new silicon suddenly appears
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by mtkd 2y ago
Ollama calling the distilled models deepseek-r1:7b etc. doesn't help
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by mtkd 2y ago
79.8% on AIME 2024, 97.3% on MATH-500 It's a downloadable open weight model -- you can fine tune if there is a specific response you think should be different
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by mtkd 2y ago
The counternarrative is that it is a very accomplished piece of work that most in the sector were not expecting -- it's open source with API available at fraction of comparable service cost It has upended a lot of theory around how muc
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by mtkd 2y ago
This seems to be getting lost in the noise in the stampede for infrastructure funding Deepseek v3 at $5.5M on compute and now r1 a few weeks later hitting o1 benchmark scores with a fraction of the engineers etc. involved ... and open sourc
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by mtkd 2y ago
The company has just over 100 employees, built V3 with $5.5M of compute and is quietly releasing tangible product without any hyperbolic PR in advance They were fairly unknown until 26th Dec in west
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by mtkd 2y ago
And many vendors will send "restart your service today for $x" for months afterwards so data not deleted Some SaaS ecommerce platforms and email marketing services will likely give a restarted domain entire customer databases ...
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by mtkd 2y ago
What Meta has been publishing on reasoning recently is very impressive -- I imagine they have internal product that is even further ahead Senior engineers can now get answers in seconds to questions it might have taken a junior a couple day
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by mtkd 2y ago
There was a Berman video on it earlier today that summarises it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-haWhgmUheA Detail starts about 7mins in
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by mtkd 2y ago
I've not looked properly but I think it's 4 x 80gb A100s
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by mtkd 2y ago
The consumer hardware channel just hasn't caught up yet -- we'll see a lot more desktop kit appear in 2025 on retail sites (there is a small site in UK selling Nvidia A100 workstations for £100K+ each on a Shopify store) Seem to r
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by mtkd 2y ago
Leeds UK: https://x.com/HodgsonLights
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by mtkd 2y ago
I had just hit this issue (3.4.0 showing as 3.4.0dev in rbenv) and am having a coffee before looking at what is going on -- thanks for posting
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by mtkd 2y ago
If app is repeatedly asking DB for same data and it's immutable for a period -- the persistance choice is wrong There is potentially a whole lot of memory/callstack overhead involved in a request like that even when memoised It li
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by mtkd 2y ago
With any Ruby code under load, it's important to have a proper understanding of what's happening in memory -- if adding memoisation is yielding significant gains, there's likely much more potential for optimisation Many in th
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by mtkd 2y ago
I was fortunate to get to a talk by Ross Taylor ex-Meta recently at the AI Engineer London meetup He's recorded the full talk here now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5l5OvJ01ws I had missed how much Meta have been d
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by mtkd 2y ago
SpaceX moved from Delaware to Texas earlier this year
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by mtkd 2y ago
Would poss be further useful to have a release date column, license type, whether EU restricted and also right-align / comma-delimit those numeric cells
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by mtkd 2y ago
It might be the Showstopper book or similar one, but I seem to remember Cutler's core team on NT was less than 10 devs
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by mtkd 2y ago
There are no downsides to keeping off-cloud physical backup sets of most critical data in a firesafe or two (and still needed for SOC 2 compliance I understand) > Aug 23: CloudNordic said: “The attackers succeeded in encrypting all serve
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by mtkd 2y ago
And that is potentially only going to worsen as: 1. more data gets walled-off as owners realise value 2. stackoverflow-type feedback loops cease to exist as few people ask a public question and get public answers ... they ask a model privat
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by mtkd 2y ago
This works if a project is doable with a small team of smart/experienced people -- if it isn't then the methodologies become important On any sufficiently complex piece of engineering -- using vendors to accelerate progress works
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by mtkd 2y ago
I hadn't needed to use a memory profiler once for 15+ years until using Heroku And haven't used one again since moving off ...
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by mtkd 2y ago
Moved everything Ruby to Fly.io a while back, can recommend A few annoyances (like CLI auto-updating and rebuilding Go etc. when want to deploy a fast fix) but overall very solid Also Render have been useful for running scripts The vertical
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by mtkd 2y ago
One service is not really enough -- you need a few to triangulate more often than not, especially when it comes to code using latest versions of public APIs Phind is useful as you can switch between them -- but only get a handful of o1 and

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