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by petercooper 3mo ago
I read this when it came out as a long time Ballard fan. It fleshed out a little more about his life I didn’t know, but becomes a weird read for the final third where the focus is on the co-author dying and the author switches to his wife,
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by petercooper 3mo ago
This has long been one of my favorite papers, if only for the opening example. When I walked through it, it was an eye opener to a different level of thinking about code, one that assembly and democoders are probably working in every day.
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by petercooper 3mo ago
Cache writes/reads are the majority of the picture for agentic development. When you see these people saying a coding run "used 200 million tokens" or whatever, most of that is cache reads, so it should be the headline price
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by petercooper 3mo ago
Probably easier to think of it more as a fast, native-backed library for a JS runtime like Node to build Markdown processors/pipelines or even just do parsing. (Though it does have a WASM build for browser/edge use.)
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by petercooper 3mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it were more accurate based on the errors I've seen. I always eyeball the books and was confused when a £15k building popped up on our asset sheet. It turns out a "workshop" had been categorise
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by petercooper 3mo ago
Back in 1999, the UK had its first total solar eclipse for several decades and VH1 played the music video (though, not this one ;-)) on loop for an hour while it was happening.
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by petercooper 3mo ago
I was intrigued, because even a broad location given for an IP address is "geolocation data", but the law says "precise geolocation data" which limits it to device-reported data, I assume.
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Upcoming access restrictions to public API endpoints and UI views(github.blog)
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by petercooper 3mo ago
(I'm naive in this area, but..) I wonder if the various "proof of age" laws coming into play will clash with the GDPR in insidious ways. Like requiring identity providers to hold definitive "proof" of why they made
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by petercooper 3mo ago
I'm pro-AI, but when I can't even give Claude a photo of my fingers clearly on four different piano keys and get an accurate result of which keys I'm pressing, I'm bearish on its visual analyses. (With that said, I imagi
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GitHub Copilot – 5 years ago today (2021)(github.blog)
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by petercooper 3mo ago
They could treat the extreme spec machines separately from the prosumer ones, like they did with the Xserve. Let business customers spec up to 768GB (say) who are prepared for a $20-25k price tag, while keeping them away from the stores and
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by petercooper 3mo ago
(I know this is not how business works, but..) I worked out if they ate a $200 per Mac bump themselves, their reserves would run out in 58 years at current sales rates :-D More realistically, though, I'm surprised they didn't ea
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by petercooper 4mo ago
Nothing mentioned about the use of AI by elementary school teachers who may well be using it to generate sub-par worksheets or to rapidly, and potentially inaccurately, mark work. Every special event flyer I get from my kids' school
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by petercooper 4mo ago
The next step of course will be to get people using that ungodly cheap AI on Chinese servers. Step one of this was perhaps DeepSeek's incredibly low cache hit pricing ($0.0036/M) which no-one else seems to be able to match.
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by petercooper 4mo ago
Not quite what you suggested, but I did some experiments several months ago "enhancing" the samples in tracker music with some models, and they sounded terrible. There really is something about the sound of tracker files that&#x27
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by petercooper 4mo ago
I was coming here to recommend https://chiptune.app/ too - it's great, and super fast to boot.
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by petercooper 4mo ago
If you're just having fun with it, there are a whole bunch of other things that produce interesting options, like asking it to theme according to a movie (think Clockwork Orange , Backrooms , anything with a strong aesthetic), or thr
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by petercooper 4mo ago
As a few people have asked for screenshots, I spun it up. Here's a video of the basic gameplay: https://peterc.org/misc/fpscob.mp4 .. it's clunky, but it does play.
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by petercooper 4mo ago
Yeah, the patched llama.cpp. The reason is I saw that using the Q4 quant on vLLM is discouraged and the int8 won't fit on my 3090 Ti, but I could certainly give it a go. I also skipped Transformers as it needs to download the full weig
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by petercooper 4mo ago
I'm not getting anywhere near the speeds advertised on my 3090 Ti, alas, but it's fun watching it "fill out" its answers. I did Simon's "SVG pelican on a bicycle" test on it and the result was quite minima
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by petercooper 4mo ago
That final paragraph is not good (where an LLM has enumerated the ways it has improved the article).
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by petercooper 4mo ago
Stuttering John used to do this back on Howard Stern by asking celebrities questions that were far out of the expected gamut at red carpet events. This was all for shock/comedy value, but "who are you and what makes you famous&quo
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by petercooper 4mo ago
I'm not the OP and I imagine all cases are different, but my dad was a software developer who had early cognitive decline in his 60s (he died of vascular dementia recently) and he used to talk about it a lot. He said it was like his to
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by petercooper 4mo ago
Its image processing is terrible. I ran several tests against it against Qwen 3.5 0.8b (yes, 7% the size) and Qwen beat it every time with Gemma often getting things entirely wrong. I even gave it a plain image saying "This is a test&q
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by petercooper 4mo ago
"It’s not just smarter; it’s leaner"
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by petercooper 4mo ago
Can't speak for browser demos, but I just got the ternary model working on my M5 generating images. The 1 bit didn't work, as it has a known bug with XCode 24.5 and I wasn't in the mood for installing 24.4 alongside. Here&#x2
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by petercooper 4mo ago
This year seems to be turning a bit of a corner. Of the top box office movies so far this year there's Michael, Project Hail Mary, Hoppers, Wuthering Heights, GOAT.. with Obsession and Backrooms rapidly rising. Last year it was basical
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by petercooper 5mo ago
There are some older studies that showed nicotine (not via smoking, which makes sleep apnea worse) had a positive effect on sleep apnea as well due to the stimulation increasing muscular activity in the airways. Obviously lots of downsides
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by petercooper 5mo ago
I'm only an ardent viewer of crash investigation stuff, not a pro, but it seems to be a good way to show specifics of warning noises, engine sounds, unusual cabin noises (if relevant) and sometimes even structural failures happening ov

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