kylehotchkiss

35mm photography. Complete opposite of sterile/computational photography. The colors are muted and warm and make everybody happy.

The colors coming out of modern Sony/Canon/Nikon SLRs are technically perfect but people tend to prefer their memories with rose tinted glasses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The government will just nationalize them and use all the compute for poorly defined military tasks

I really really want cellular though, sick of the still flaky hotspot integration and just want to open my screen and be online.

I have one. It can run lots of smaller models really well. I’ve been loving Gemma4 especially. My needs more more large scale information extraction and not trying to replace Claude code locally though.

If anything the interesting models that can run in about 64gb of memory are increasing because most people can’t access more memory than that. I’m especially excited for clef and cleric as they continue to improve. Yeah, you don’t get 1mil token context length, but even frontier models can lose focus at that level

oops, I breathed on my camera and that flimsy screen just broke off

what machine makes 99.9999% pure helium? I would not enjoy being the guy who has to check that thing for leaks

Could these same questions have been solved if mathematicians had most of the GPU and memory in the world accessible to them via another interface?

There seems to be increasingly less of that these days

ugh now my toaster needs a 8t param model?? What is it doing, analyzing every grain of wheat used to manufacture my bread?

Remember when people thought crypto and NFTs were the new oil... lol. LLMs will have staying power, there's just a day where this seems like it's all going to run on our laptops. OpenAI's fear of that and tanking the RAM market was just a temporary setback.

Low quality tech company cuts corners seems pretty on point

My first thought when reading the headline... horizontal gene transfer?

Is this just fast and furious the video game?

Did you order one of the new studios?

An interesting aside to the dating app discussion - religious institutions discourage - implicitly or explicitly - dating within the community. I’m 34 (like literally able to start a family) and one of my pastors told me they prefer people didn’t because it’s “messy”. Statistics state that only 3-4% of couples meet at religious events now.

My guess is a liability concern because churches don’t want to be blamed if things go sideways or risk having to deal with people living together before marriage (statistically almost no Christians are abstinent anymore and the purity culture mentality hasn’t really left the scene)