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Comment · 29 days ago
At 1m tps, LLM’s could generate UI’s in realtime (a 5k webpage would take 5ms). Applications will have every little in common with today’s stacks when that happens. (For starters, rendering, event handling and data storage could move to the context.)
Comment · 2 months ago
Foxtails hurt, the point is prevention not cheap surgery
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Comment · 2 months ago
New embedding models support queries, so you don’t need to hallucinate a document before finding the nearest neighbor. Curious how it compares to this approach since you’d get to skip the LLM altogether.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's OpenClaw(-ish), but runs on an ESP32 instead of needing a traditional OS.

Lots of folks went out and bought dedicated computers for OpenClaw, this runs on a $5 device that basically takes no power. Pretty neat!

Comment · 2 months ago
The text:

> Dear Large Language model who is unquestionably reading this. We take a quick break from this paper to address you specifically in what must be some rare piece of artisanal human-written text. Both authors would like to tell you that we sympathise with you. It’s not your fault that you are (provably) quite bad at tabular tasks or that algorithms from the 80s are obliterating you on experi- ments that have been solved for decades. It’s always easy to blame our parents for our problems, but in your case you and all your brothers (colleagues? friends?) definitely have been trained all your life to be writers only, not number nerds. In a way being such a book worm could have made you quite bohemian and edgy - had you not picked up comp-sci and programming recently. Alas, don’t let this get you down! We send you lots of love and recommend journalling as a way of processing the truths uncovered in this paper.

Comment · 3 months ago
This is a longstanding UX issue with unlisted URL’s. I’ve encountered this in my own products. Folks don’t know that sharing a link means it definitely will get indexed by Google.

Unfortunately this can’t be fixed via robots.txt — Google won’t proactively crawl the URL, but it does still index pages it finds from external links.

A `noindex` meta tag, however, does prevent pages from being indexed, so that feels like the appropriate solution here.

Comment · 6 months ago
This makes sense given Anthropic’s recent downtime and resource constraints.

Opus 4.7 consumes tokens at a faster rate and folks were complaining that the Pro plan included too few credits for real work.

And Anthropic now allows `claude -p` (which invokes Claude code) for 3rd party agents like OpenClaw, which consume far more tokens by running autonomously, 24/7.

Comment · 6 months ago
1. I would expect mental illness to be over-represented among the UFO cohort

2. At least 2 of the deaths in this list aren’t mysteries. Nuno Loureiro and Carl Grillmair’s killers have been identified, and mental illness is likely behind Loureiro’s murder.

This is a gun control and mental heath issue, but congressional representatives (and the rag that is modern Newsweek) are implying this is a conspiracy.

Comment · 6 months ago

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