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Kyle Maxwell

@kmx

Previously @twittereng, websolr.com, bonsai.io, Houseparty, etc

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Comment · 1 month ago
Eh, I've been mountain biking seriously for 15 years, and there's kids in their teens running circles around me because their free time, risk tolerance, and brain development just means they win.

At some point 10+ years of adult development will get you pretty good at something, but being competitive beyond say a high-school varsity level with a late start is very difficult.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think Sam is an exec at the company.

Presumably it took more than one attempt, or there's some humanpower in the budget.

Comment · 2 months ago
Is this sort of re-inventing Graph RAG from another angle, or does it feel novel?
Comment · 2 months ago
What policy would you use?
Comment · 4 months ago
Firecracker doesn't reclaim RAM well, so they put this limit in to make sure you don't suffer from the eventual memory bloat problems.
Comment · 4 months ago
A2A solves the problem of independently developed agents talking to each other. The bigger problem is "how do i trust your agent works?", which would be solved by having a believable system of Agent Evals, so I could test that your Agent actually does what it says on the box. Otherwise an Agent Directory and automatic dispatch of agents is close to useless.
Comment · 4 months ago
The ratio of proofreading to grandiosity is impressive.
Comment · 4 months ago
Performance enhancements are what allow you to train a bigger model.
Comment · 6 months ago
Plenty of everyone doing it wrong, but the most WTF of all the WTFs is the backup storage.

Put your backups in S3 *versioned* storage on a different AWS account from your primary, and set some reasonable JSON lifecycle rule:

     "NoncurrentVersionExpiration": {
        "NoncurrentDays": 30,
        "NewerNoncurrentVersions": 3
     }
That way when someone screws up and your AWS account gets owned, or your databases get deleted by an agent, it doesn't have enough access to delete your backups, and by default, even if you have backups that you want to intentionally delete, you have 30 days to change your mind.
Comment · 6 months ago
Sure, but you then can't access the computronium, because communication is so bad.

Also, I wonder if good old-fashioned computing is interesting at all to a civilization that's had access to advanced AI and quantum computing for a while.

Like we haven't really figured out how to get an ML model to run on a quantum computer, or how to build a quantum-native computer (i.e. surface of a black hole, or some other way that doesn't rely on our current sense of quantum error correction), but I don't know of any physical laws that preclude it.

I'd bet if aliens invaded our galaxy, they'd go for the super black holes in the center, or some other resource beyond our use and understanding, not this random water planet on the edge.

Comment · 7 months ago
I mean you can use sqlite as an index and then rebuild all of Lucene on top of it. It's non-trivial to build search quality on top of actual search libraries too.

O'Reilly's "Relevant Search" isn't the worst here, but you'll be porting/writing a bit yourself.

Comment · 8 months ago
I enjoy Japanese joinery, but for some reason the housing market doesn't.
Comment · 9 months ago
hey, they have 9 8's
Comment · 9 months ago
Does anyone know how much the cost-per-token is trending down year-over-year for models of similar quality? Seems like whether this idea works really depends on that curve.

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