alex-moon

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by alex-moon 6d ago
Benchmaxxing is the word you're reaching for here (though code golf is a perfect name for the symptom). At work I use Codex CLI with GPT 5.4 - it hits a sweet spot: capable enough that it'll do the right thing most of the time, bu
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The smallest edge AI device for local LLMs(tiiny.ai)
22 points by alex-moon 9d ago|18 comments
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by alex-moon 10d ago
"Rocket, coriander, cumin? Somehow I doubt the Babylonians had Mexican herbs and spices." Turns out I was wrong about where these come from! All three are native to the Mediterranean/Middle East and would certainly have been
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by alex-moon 15d ago
Oh right, yeah I agree. It's the kind of thing I can imagine the harness downloading in the background anyway (or instructing the user to do) at some point so I can see the sense in just skipping that bit. Kind of comforting they just
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by alex-moon 15d ago
Yes, that's what I mean - maybe that didn't come across cos I said "bloats". I work for a business that builds web apps for corporates - LibreOffice is bundled in most of the repos of ours that I've seen, a bit like
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by alex-moon 15d ago
Someone may need to explain to me what is wrong with this sorry. Is it because it bloats the app with functionality that some users will never use? I feel like that is fairly usual for productivity/business apps generally.
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by alex-moon 1mo ago
> A signal only carries information if it is expensive to fake. The male peacock’s mesmerizing tail of evil eyes works precisely because a sickly peacock cannot grow one. This is by far the most important insight in this write-up and I w
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by alex-moon 1mo ago
A real hacker doesn't hack the software system...
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by alex-moon 1mo ago
At the place where I was taught this lesson, it was "getting Hasselhoffed" - in short, you find photos of David Hasselhoff in Baywatch (wearing as little as possible, you see? Speedos were very much in in the 80s), and you set it
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by alex-moon 1mo ago
This is great but it would be useful to have some indication of cardinal directions - it is not clear to me which way I am facing.
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by alex-moon 1mo ago
I am struck by the resemblance between this logic and the logic behind drinking. I remember back in my 20s one of the devs would come over at the end of the day and go, "Coming to the pub?" The standard answer was, of course, &quo
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by alex-moon 2mo ago
"Machine learning architecture is second nature to us AI researchers, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for gradient descent and ReLU." "And softmax of course."
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by alex-moon 2mo ago
Hello Daniel! Do you have a landing page/portal for all these games so I can go through them one by one of a morning (a bit like the NYT games)?
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by alex-moon 2mo ago
What an excellent example of designing for the medium instead of trying to make the medium do something it's not good at! Your whole approach shows a real love, like a delicate respectfulness, that I think characterises early games and
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by alex-moon 2mo ago
I started building something like this myself (codename HFG - "Heroku for Groq") anticipating what we are indeed now seeing in ChatGPT viz. enshittification. The intention was to aim it at consumers and non-technical users who wan
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by alex-moon 2mo ago
Not only do I think you're right, I think put this way it seems obvious - I am almost heaving a sigh of relief having a better historical comparison than "the dot com bubble".
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by alex-moon 2mo ago
Brave on Android, same error.
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by alex-moon 2mo ago
Every point of friction, every struggle documented in minute detail, on a long and bumpy path to some kind of result. The stakes are zero, the whole project an act of pure expression. It is like a kind of oasis in a desert of articles about
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by alex-moon 2mo ago
Here in the UK there is an ongoing debate happening more or less behind the scenes around the language that should be used for families of patients nearing end of life. The standard question is: Should we "do everything possible"
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by alex-moon 3mo ago
"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before age eighteen." Attributed to Einstein 1948. I realise this is the Internet, and it's not for me to convince you of anything. But you&#x27
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by alex-moon 3mo ago
Genuinely curious: what makes you think the moral panic around trans people is structurally different to the moral panic around gay people decades ago? All the arguments you've made here are more or less identical to arguments made to
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by alex-moon 3mo ago
This is what neutral language sounds like. It sounds to me like you'd prefer to pretend these people don't exist. I'd like to remind you that male homosexuality was illegal in UK as recently as 1967. Section 28 was in force u
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by alex-moon 4mo ago
Enjoy? No, but a lot of reading and writing is very functional, for communication purposes for business etc. (documentation is a good example). In these cases the important thing is that it's accurate.
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by alex-moon 5mo ago
I absolutely love post-Roman, pre-Norman British writing because it's so rare it gives the era a sense of mystery. This is of course the time when King Arthur is supposed to have lived. In the absence of contemporary records, the impul
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by alex-moon 5mo ago
As someone who has had to do some grub editing on the computer in an AirBnB because peripherals were all messed up on the guest account (no internet, no sound, you could only see a tiny part of the screen, I honestly don't know how the
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by alex-moon 6mo ago
> All things in tech are seasonal. I think this is maybe the most important point in this entire thing. It's not just tech. Things change. The funny thing is things change now faster than ever before, yet we still have that tendency
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by alex-moon 6mo ago
I think this is a really important distinction to make. The OP seems to be making a fallacious equivocation on the word "parameter" - specifically, any individual "parameter" in a large ML model has no unit of measuremen
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by alex-moon 7mo ago
I'm not convinced for one reason above all: short-circuit evaluation is available to use in most any programming language I've ever used, including Python and C. That said, I have seen this idiom in a lot of bash scripts. I'v
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by alex-moon 7mo ago
As someone who's big into UK Bass who finds new music mainly through a mix of Spotify, Beatport and Reddit, I found this recommender quite good actually! It seems to respond better to descriptions of the kind of music than to "Fin
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by alex-moon 7mo ago
So I came to Babylon 5 late in life, when my partner's mother revealed she had the entire box set on DVD. My partner had recently introduced me to The Expanse, which, like many, I consider the greatest sci fi TV show of all time - she

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