MichaelNolan

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by MichaelNolan 5d ago
How does parallelism come into play for this conversation? Async/await is a concurrency construct. And Java’s virtual threads are also a concurrency construct. Neither of them have anything to do with parallelism. Or am I misunderstand
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by MichaelNolan 5d ago
I was bit disappointed how few metrics the article mentioned. There are tons of code quality metrics that have been thought of over the last 40 years. We don’t have a good idea which ones are worth enforcing though. And we don’t know if the
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by MichaelNolan 10d ago
Seems like a case for https://longbets.org/ You and the other poster just need to find some agreeable benchmark so you can decide who won.
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by MichaelNolan 19d ago
As a joke. Back when 2 came out, they promised there would never be a version 3. I.e., no breaking changes. Then they realized they did need to make a breaking change, so the only way to be true to their promise was to skip version 3.
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by MichaelNolan 25d ago
If you’re looking for their LLM page it’s https://www.mythic.ai/enterprise-llm I wish they would have done what Taalas did with chatjimmy.ai and just directly host a model for us to view, rather than just claiming it’s 50x
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by MichaelNolan 27d ago
100x seems like an underestimate. Even with no model improvements, we should see that sort of reduction. Looking at TSMC’s margins, Nvidia’s margins, and OAI/Anth (alleged) margins on inference, there is a room for a 100x reduction. R
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by MichaelNolan 1mo ago
I suspect it depends a lot on the llm/harness being used. But when I use Opus/cc or sol/codex, at the end of the turn everything compiles, passes tests, and passes lint. I never even look at code that can't compile. Mayb
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by MichaelNolan 1mo ago
Ive been amazed at how well LLMs are at writing Gleam[1] and Lustre[2]. Compared to a mainstream language, there is basically zero gleam code in the training data. I have no evidence to back this up, but I suspect that languages that are go
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by MichaelNolan 1mo ago
I’m assuming the data for Europe is largely correct, but a lot of the per country data doesn’t pass the smell test to me. Afghanistan (35 days), Libya (45), Yemen (46), etc. what percentage of workers there are getting that many paid days o
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by MichaelNolan 2mo ago
I would highly recommend https://diysolarforum.com/ and Will Prowse on YouTube. Thats how I made my solar/battery system. And it passed city inspection.
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by MichaelNolan 2mo ago
If 3.8 max goes open weight, what are the odds they retroactively open weight the earlier releases?
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by MichaelNolan 2mo ago
$28m actually seems worse. If I wake to a $100b bill, that’s obviously a mistake. If I wake up to a bill in the millions then my first thought would be “oh no what did I do wrong, this will ruin my life”
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by MichaelNolan 3mo ago
The current taalas chip is for a 3.1B param model. I’m hope so much that they can get that up to the 30B range. Just imagine Gemma 4 or Qwen 3.6 at 17k tps.
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by MichaelNolan 3mo ago
I believe they got rid of the smaller battery. Before the tax credit was removed, they were sourcing a more expensive battery. After the credit was removed the switched to a cheaper battery. The cheaper battery would not have qualified for
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by MichaelNolan 3mo ago
I was browsing Amazon and I found one “author” with over 100 published in the last 12 months. And they weren’t cheap either. Most were $50 or more for the paperback version. It really put a sour taste in my mouth. At that volume (2 books pe
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by MichaelNolan 3mo ago
> Under this commercial agreement, Meta will provide funding to support the deployment of the Natrium plants, with delivery of initial units as early as 2032 The wording there implies some upfront money from Meta, and that this isn’t jus
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by MichaelNolan 3mo ago
> Unlike our interventions for cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, and distillation attempts, these safeguards will not be visible to the user. Fable 5 will not fall back to a different model. Instead, the safeguards will limit effecti
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by MichaelNolan 3mo ago
For sure not everyone can self host (though I suspect most tech and tech adjacent companies can). But all the existing “safe/trusted” cloud providers will offer cheaper models. The choice won’t just be GitHub vs OpenRouter. It will be
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by MichaelNolan 3mo ago
> but most of them will just pay 10 or 20 times or more for AI than they used to pay until now. At my work, after the GitHub price hike, we all got the option of 1. Keep using Github, but with the same total spend as before. i.e, use 1&#
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by MichaelNolan 3mo ago
I just did an install to add solar and batteries to my shed to power lights and an AC. It was pretty easy. Hardest part was flattening the ground since I did a ground mount system. 5kw panels and 5kwh of batteries. $1000 for the panels, and
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by MichaelNolan 4mo ago
The best part of a quiz everyday is that in addition to the testing effect, you can easily fit in the spacing effect and interleaving effect. It’s a rock solid combo, that is well studied. We have pretty strong evidence that it works for al
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by MichaelNolan 4mo ago
Apparently there is a way to solve this without brute forcing all the combinations. It has to do with looking at how many even an odd numbers there are, and taking into account the goal number is odd. And then thinking through the combinati
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by MichaelNolan 4mo ago
Hmm, they misspelled Gleam. In seriousness, Go is a good choice. Or at least it’s not a bad choice, I’d definitely pick go over many other languages. If go had a better type system, it would be damn near perfect.
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by MichaelNolan 4mo ago
I’m trying to use my phone less and less. Ideally I’d like to even switch a dumb phone. But tactics like this will make that nearly impossible if every website starts requiring a QR code scan on a authorized smartphone.
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by MichaelNolan 5mo ago
List is missing OpenAI’s Sora.
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by MichaelNolan 5mo ago
> 95% of Uber engineers now use AI tools monthly with 70% of committed code originating from AI. Well, that’s to be expected when using AI tools becomes relevant in your performance evaluation.
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by MichaelNolan 5mo ago
I tried zed sometime ago, and the limiting factor was devcontainer support. It looks like they’ve made some progress there https://zed.dev/docs/dev-containers
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by MichaelNolan 5mo ago
I’ve never worked with SmallTalk professionally, so I could be mistaken. I know you can write/compile SmallTalk source code. But my understanding is that this wasn’t the way it’s intended to be used. I am under the impression that the
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by MichaelNolan 5mo ago
I’ve very slowly been trying to do the “99 problems” list in each of these languages groups. It’s been a fun experience seeing the differences. Though I think I would need a larger, less algorithmic, project to really see each group’s stren
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by MichaelNolan 5mo ago
> Fiberhood coop sells a 16kWh battery for $1800 Is that available in the US? Can you share a link? That’s an amazing deal. I’ve been recommending server rack batteries (5kwh for $750) to people but if there is something better I’d love

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