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by nmfisher 2y ago
That's the conventional take, but (as far as I can tell), the TPU program was also started under Sundar, which would have been a bold investment at the time, and looks like absolute genius in retrospect. OpenAI might be well-capitalize
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Qwen 2.5 32B Coder is actually a viable locally-hosted alternative to Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It's not better , but if I couldn't access Claude for some reason, I would definitely use it.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Yeah, Blender have been getting serious about enforcing their trademark recently. BlenderMarket have said that Blender asked them to rename, and they’ve been around for years, contribute to Blender fund, etc. This will need to do the same.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Also FYI for anyone else, I can't actually see the gemini-2.0-flash-exp list in the model directory for Vertex AI in GCP Console, but passing in google/gemini-2.0-flash-exp to the vertexai Python SDK does actually work. (you'
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Did anyone think Facebook would fall over because their engineering sucked? It’s the product itself that’s garbage, not the infrastructure or the code.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I was born in 1984, and I feel incredibly lucky that I grew up at the tail end of BBS's and the start of the dialup era. Things were changing blindingly fast, but it was still small/niche enough that you still had a strong sense o
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by nmfisher 2y ago
That’s only because they were first. Here, Anthropic is first. If everyone starts using MCP today, any alternative OpenAI comes out with in a few months time probably won’t be able to dislodge it.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Agree, concise mode is much better for code. I don’t need you to restate the request or summarize what you did. Just give me the damn code.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I jumped on Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads during earlier exodi. They all waned for various reasons (Mastodon was slow and unreliable, Threads was basically an Instagram feed of nothingness, and Bluesky was dead at the time). This wave does
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by nmfisher 2y ago
(Non-American, so take my view with a pinch of salt). Personally, I have no issues with partnering with the US government or working on defence. I'm not a hardcore pacifist and I recognize the necessity of the military - at least, in t
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I can't use mouse either, macos/Chrome. Otherwise, cool!
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by nmfisher 2y ago
As someone who has slowly been writing Dart/Flutter bindings for Filament[0] over the last couple of years, I agree the internal 3D engine was a bit of a strange choice of priorities. [0] https://github.com/nmfisher&#x2
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Can't they just float them in the sea? Or does the salt water corrode the panels?
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by nmfisher 2y ago
It's very much alive, too - LG just sponsored a hackathon to develop games for the new webOS store (including a Flutter-specific stream) with some legitimately good prizes (I think first prize was $100k, second was $80k).
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by nmfisher 2y ago
If I genuinely thought I was close to AGI, I’d focus all my efforts on that, then ask it to build my revenue generators. That’s probably what Ilya is doing. (FWIW I don’t think we’re close to AGI).
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I don't know, Dubai is...bigger, but I'd say it's vastly more mediocre city than Rome. To your original point, making things easier to make probably does exert downward pressure on quality in the aesthetic/artistic sense
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by nmfisher 2y ago
> It'd be like the ancient Romans speculating that cars will make us less fit and therefore cities will be less impressive because we can't lift as much. That isn't at all how it played out Isn’t this exactly how it played
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Is there any way this can be used to evaluate code at runtime (e.g in a Flutter app)?
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I've found Gemini Pro to be the most reliable for function calling.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Did his uncle work at Nintendo?
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I'm amazed by people who can simply just..decide to sleep with some crisis hanging over their head. I really wish it was a skill I had, because I'm well aware of how badly I perform when I haven't had enough sleep. I inevitab
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by nmfisher 2y ago
The phone and post company definitively do not just look the other way. They all have procedures in place to cooperate with law enforcement requests.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I see quite a few SWE jobs here in Singapore in finance, mostly realtime C++ order management. If the advertised salaries are real, they're very well-paid (300-700k USD, plus bonus).
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Australia does this too.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Interesting thread, because last week I was tinkering with an idea I had built out ( AI assistant for browser-based UI development), and I was worried that there was no point because Figma will inevitably do the same, and they'd dwarf
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by nmfisher 2y ago
This definitely wasn't true when I was researching during university (~2005). That was obviously a long time ago, so it's very plausible that things have changed. However, I'd want to see some very well-vetted data to believe
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I wonder if a "mixture of models" is going to become more common for real-world use cases (i.e. where latency & dollar budgets are real constraints). Chain together a huge model for reasoning, a small model for function callin
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Zuckerberg built (one of) the machines that created this environment. No amount of PR campaigns and whitewashing should let us forget that.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
What do you think could fix this? Access to genuinely permanent storage?
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Yes, you're probably right. I believe (?) the intention is also to publish Impeller as a standalone rendering engine (i.e. independent of Flutter). Will be interesting to see if there's a use case there too.

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