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by boc 16d ago
Small reminder that the US government rug-pulled Fable, not Dario. Lots of the safety guards that users find annoying/objectionable were the results of negotiations to get the model back online after the US government forced them to ta
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by boc 27d ago
I set my env up so I can see the exact context used in CC CLI, and then once I get over about 40% ctx used I have it handoff to a new, fresh session. Nothing good comes from running above, say 60% of your context window. Coincidently, I usu
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by boc 1mo ago
That assumes they release their models publicly. The future is leaning towards these labs air gapping their best stuff (Model 2, etc) and using it internally to snipe their competitors and charge insane amounts for monitored use in consulti
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by boc 1mo ago
> More importantly, what's the point of building monster-scale data centers on unprecedented amounts of debt when a more than good enough model runs on a GPU from a couple years ago? Probably because the future "monster" m
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by boc 1mo ago
Ducklake supports postgres for the catalog, so you get the postgres concurrency benefits + duckdb engine to read the parquet files in the bucket.
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by boc 1mo ago
It's not 2025 anymore my friend.
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by boc 1mo ago
Chinese open weight models are great for this turn, but American private models generate orders of magnitude more cashflow. This cashflow = investment in training future models. It's unclear how Chinese open weight companies are going
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by boc 1mo ago
Kansas genuinely has a ton of paved and gravel roads all across the state. It's like a gigantic grid. Oddly high amount of street-view coverage too on google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/EyBFj9BNQa8nhUcE6 The Kansas l
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by boc 1mo ago
One under-discussed topic is whether Americans hate data centers in their neighborhoods, or whether they actually just hate gas turbine generators running 24/7 in their neighborhoods.
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by boc 1mo ago
You could argue that cheaper/safer local rideshare would boost traffic to local bars and restaurants in denser areas though. If you want to keep the $ local, just add an AV tax that goes to the city.
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by boc 2mo ago
> Here (NL) contactless payments works with every debit card, physical or stored Apple Google/Pay, in every store That's how it works in the US as well. You might be conflating Apple Pay with Apple Wallet, which stores your cre
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by boc 2mo ago
cmux + Claude Code / Codex with a custom agents.md file. With cmux your agents can access the browser, spawn full shells, and you aren't locked-in to a specific vendor. It's really powerful but you need to update your instruc
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by boc 2mo ago
Seems really good so far using it in Claude Code CLI - it gave me a new flag when I asked a question: "I don't have a reliable way to read that number, so I'd be guessing if I gave you one — and this is exactly the kind of qu
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by boc 2mo ago
Interested in how the critics of approaches like this defend an agentic session (with Fable, for example) that stops and runs a multi-hour ML training session. It's a script, so the actual LLM convo goes stale, but then when the result
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by boc 2mo ago
The fun part about this is that we can see who is right in about a year. If the leading labs continue making progress at hardening their models against distillation, and then they start pulling away again, we see who is right. If China is a
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by boc 2mo ago
You're making the point even stronger for US companies to just block EU traffic entirely. If you have no EU customers, the mere act of letting EU visitors on your site might cause an EU country to "make an example" of you for
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by boc 2mo ago
> US companies models constantly distill each other as Musk was forced to admit under oath > This whole narrative has just been a massive cope. So wait, US AI companies all use distillation because... it's not effective and it&#x
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by boc 2mo ago
Or option three is they are drafting hard off the frontier US models via distillation.
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by boc 2mo ago
American recycling in a lot of major cities is single-stream - aka you put all recycling together and a central plant sorts it for you. More efficient, more accurate, and it encourages more people to recycle since it's extremely easy.
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by boc 2mo ago
Missed this whole discussion today because I was here in California, doing a ton of productive work, using Fable. I think you guys are working yourself into a lather about this topic while other people are quietly getting a ton of shit done
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by boc 3mo ago
So you're arguing it's the Yogi Berra "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded" of business models?
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by boc 3mo ago
That's not how economies work. It's not a fixed pie that everyone shares.
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by boc 3mo ago
> Anthropic has little to no chance of producing a competitive business model in the long term. Extraordinary thing to say about the fastest growing company in the history of capitalism. They will soon have access to public markets, esse
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by boc 3mo ago
That's true for domestic labor and manufacturing, like shipbuilding, but the bleeding edge chips only come from one place and the US labs get the best while Chinese labs do not (unless they smuggle them). China gets creative, sure, but
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by boc 3mo ago
> You cannot build a business critical function on top of American SOTA frontier model. Yes 1000%, please, all my European competition please don't use mythos whatever you do it's total USA trash and the Chinese models work bet
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by boc 3mo ago
The ~72 hours I had access to Fable were by far the most productive I've had in months. Re-wrote massive parts of my codebase and caught a ton of bugs and logic issues that had silently slipped through before. I went over my subscripti
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by boc 3mo ago
Have you tried Opus on fast mode?
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by boc 3mo ago
Appreciate my 2UZ-FE more every year.
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by boc 3mo ago
The IRA and the CHIPS Act were the "last major thing" the Dems did, and both were far better policy for tech than anything out of this current administration.
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by boc 3mo ago
> Anthropic's fear-mongering I mean it's fear-mongering until it isn't. I think people have become a bit too comfortable with dismissing the dangers of misaligned AI as simply "marketing hype".

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