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   by vessenes 10mo ago

   BTW, I completely agree with this. VC economics create misalignment with founders as a matter of economics -- sometimes that's good, sometimes it's bad, but it's incredibly important for a founder to understand. I usually tel
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   by vessenes 10mo ago

   I dislike the linked site. A lot. But counterpoint: Zermelo-Frankel with or without Axiom of Choice is a fair mathematical analogue to distinguishing laws and facts, in my opinion. Put another way, decidability is a large area of mathematic
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   by vessenes 10mo ago

   Oooh, I hate this. "The Earth is a sphere" -> nope "Water freezes at 32F" -> depends "Apes and Humans share a common ancestor" -> not a fact, although an extremely likely theory. The site's defini
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   by vessenes 10mo ago

   All points well taken for sure. I especially like 'too small to trigger anyone' as an appealing defensive strategy. But I'm not sure you're too small to matter, even now. Hopefully that's received as good news :) As
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   by vessenes 10mo ago

   This seems unlikely to be illegal unless you're representing them improperly.
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   by vessenes 10mo ago

   Interesting read. The paper calls this a “roadmap” and says 3d HBM is still figuring out what it can be, and what it will look like - seems right. Hyperscalers are dealing with a pretty complex Pareto envelope that includes power (total), p
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   by vessenes 10mo ago

   Congratulations on the success - you’re rightly proud, and that amount of cashflow brings real stability to owners and employees. I’m a former VC, and a former CMS company founder (late 1990s for the CMS side, competing with Genuity for ins
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   by vessenes 11mo ago

   I love this! Thanks for making it. Quick suggestion - adding simulators for checking all spend paths would add comfort. A lot of comfort. I understand you're doing static analysis on construction, which is great; more safety would be a
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   by vessenes 11mo ago

   Thanks - yeah, I'm capable of assessing for my own use cases. I guess I was trying to muse out-loud about whether there's a useful benchmark to be made or published out of these assessments. There are a number of architectures whe
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Hey! Love the Gemma series. Question that came to mind reading the announcement post - the proposal there is that you can use this as a local backbone and have it treat a larger model as a 'tool call' when more reasoning is needed
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    I've built a number of MCP servers, including an MCP wrapper. I'd generally recommend you skip it unless you know you need it. Conversely, I'd generally recommend you write up a couple skills ASAP to get a feel for them. It w
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Couple quick points from the read - cool, btw! It's not trivial that Simon poked the LLM to get something up and running and working ASAP - that's always been a good engineering behavior in my opinion - building on a working core
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    This is actually pretty cool, with some solid engineering - general idea is to tap the wind when you can, use an embedded quadcopter to steer and lift when you can't. They claim tumbleweed has a porosity gradient from top to bottom whi
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Given Mac bandwidth, you'll generally want to load the whole thing in RAM. You get speed benefits based on smaller-size active experts, since the Mac compute is slow compared to Nvidia hardware. This should be relatively snappy on a Ma
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Jusssst had this conversation two nights ago with a smart drunk friend. To his credit when I asked "what's heat?" and he said "molecules moving fast" and I said "how many molecules are there in space to bump ag
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    I can’t get this to work on iOS at all - question - coin or yarrow choice - then what? No links seem to be hot/working. A little tutorial would be great. Fun project!
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    It’s a good positive signal, but not a good negative one. It would be convincing if it said “I’m qwen-2025-12-whatever”. I agree it’s not dispositive if it refuses or claims to be llama 3 say. Generally most models I talk to do not hallucin
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    This is a low quality, extremely low quality comment. What in particular did you find confusing?
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Ooh, I like Public Sans! I hadn't seen it before.
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    If you read the article, Calibri usage was instituted during the Biden administration. So, there's probably a diversity of government styles that get involved with typefaces.
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    And the remaster! https://mbleigh.dev/posts/broccoli-man-remastered/
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Thanks - yes - I did. The blog post suggests clicking the 'voice' icon on the bottom right - that's what I did.
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    This is really awesome, actually! It looks great, very diverse, and clearly is scalable to extremely large maps. Props for testing the generation out on Minecraft - where terrain generation really matters.
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    I'm not convinced its end-to-end multimodal - in that case, you'll have a speech synthesis section and this will be some of the result. You could test by having it sing or do some accents, or have it talk back to you in an accent
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Interesting - when I asked the omni model at qwen.com what version it was, I got a testy "I don't have a version" and then was told my chat was blocked for inappropriate content. A second try asking for knowledge cutoff got m
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Thanks for open sourcing this. I'm skeptical of the value of this benchmark, and I'm curious for your thoughts - self play / reinforcement tasks can be useful in a variety of arenas, but I'm not a priori convinced they a
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Rmapi calls to sync. My use case is updating an annual calendar pdf which is inked on tablet but shows calendar updates day to day, so I run it on a cron
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    I used Tailscale on my remarkable tablet for a while; synchronizing documents over ssh is a lot easier with a static IP. It's fairly hard to get stuff to start on boot on the RM, or at least it was at the time, so I eventually moved of
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    https://modelenginenews.org/techniques/minid.html Mentions that this engine needs a spring start and 50% ether and it runs up to 40k rpm(!) seems like it’s finicky, which makes sense given its size
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    by vessenes 11mo ago

    Sahara desert average air humidity is .. I think 25%? As far as I know most air trap type humidity stuff works in the desert, just not as quickly as in, say, the jungle.