lsb

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classicist, computer scientist, founder of PoetaExMachina and NoDictionaries, biker around San Francisco

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Comment · 27 days ago
There’s other slop projects to run of Qwen, like ds4, would be interesting to see a comparison
Comment · 1 month ago
The context window is limited to 64k or 128k. If you’re using this with a coding agent, there’s going to be a lot of compactions. I found that I had a subagent whose compacted context plus prompts and such was over the window and it errored out in opencode.
Comment · 2 months ago
As we have more powerful AI plus agents that can run on your phone, keeping everything as a pile of markdown plus some compute on top makes a lot of sense
Comment · 2 months ago
This is glitch art for text, I love it
Comment · 2 months ago
If this much JSON could fit in a microcontroller’s memory (7.5MB in text), and it’s a performance issue, maybe it’s worth upgrading the JSON parser?
Comment · 2 months ago
The page has comparisons with Qwen 3.6 27b and I’d love to see comparisons with Qwen 3.8 27b, the newer one is much more capable!
Comment · 2 months ago
Google is making private AI practical with Gemma4 something that you can run without an Internet connection.

All of the proofs of privacy rely on us getting the math right. All of the privacy from unplugging your internet cable is there by default.

Comment · 2 months ago
Fixed!
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Homer is the Homer of America, unless you believe in fencing off universal properties of mankind into exclusive tribal ownership.

(cf Saul Bellow asking “who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus”, and Ralph Wiley in the Atlantic saying that Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus.)

Comment · 5 months ago
Happy to answer any questions :)
Comment · 6 months ago
Self Hosted object storage looks neat!

For this project, where you have 120GB of customer data, and thirty requests a second for ~8k objects (0.25MB/s object reads), you’d seem to be able to 100x the throughput vertically scaling on one machine with a file system and an SSD and never thinking about object storage. Would love to see why the complexity

Comment · 7 months ago
The real world success they report reminds me of Simon Willison’s Red Green TDD: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...

> Instead of taking a stab in the dark, Leanstral rolled up its sleeves. It successfully built test code to recreate the failing environment and diagnosed the underlying issue with definitional equality. The model correctly identified that because def creates a rigid definition requiring explicit unfolding, it was actively blocking the rw tactic from seeing the underlying structure it needed to match.

Comment · 8 months ago

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