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by chartered_stack 9d ago
I feel like the two companion pages - AI agents explained [0] and Agentic AI examples [1] - are kinda more telling than the Muse personal agent itself? I don't quite get why we have these two posts at all. A personal agent is more show
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by chartered_stack 2mo ago
This reminds of when I was in school and we had 3 categories of notebooks. 1. A "rough" notebook to jot down notes 2. A "classwork" notebook to present those notes properly to the teacher and get them corrected and 3. A
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by chartered_stack 3mo ago
One could say: vLLM isn't a worse Llama.cpp, it's a different tool
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AI Is a Scam, but Don't Let That Spoil Machine Learning(gardinerbryant.com)
4 points by chartered_stack 9mo ago|1 comments
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by chartered_stack 9mo ago
> Apple’s always done their best work when they’re the second mover. People say Apple does its best work as a “second mover,” but that misses the actual pattern: Apple builds great products when leadership is solving their own problems
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by chartered_stack 10mo ago
I understand the feeling. There is a huge asymmetry between individual contributors and huge profitable companies. But I think a frame shift that might help is that you're not actually donating your time to LMAX (or whoever). You'
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by chartered_stack 11mo ago
Like Alan Kay said about software: Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. The thing is this takes a lot of resources to get right. FOSS developers simply don't have the wherewithal - money, inclination or ta
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by chartered_stack 11mo ago
True the unpredictability sucks right now. We're in a transition stage where the models can understand intent but cannot constrain the output within some executable space reliably. The bridge would come from layering natural languages
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by chartered_stack 11mo ago
I think we're returning to CLIs mostly because typing remains one of the fastest ways we can communicate with our computers. The traditional limitation was that CLIs required users to know exactly what they wanted the computer to do. T
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by chartered_stack 11mo ago
Sure, plenty of incompetence out there, but nobody wakes up thinking they’re doing wrong. They overpromise, they play it safe. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. As Picard says, "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lo
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by chartered_stack 11mo ago
I think this piece makes a fair and important point about LLM hype and the need to treat it as a normal technology rather than a cult movement. The over-the-top marketing and constant “AI will change everything” drumbeat can definitely obsc
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by chartered_stack 11mo ago
What makes you think that it's only CEOs who look like they're part of a hive mind? It's got nothing to do with capitalism or it's "creepy agents". It's simply the human condition. It's literally comp
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
> Governments have no right or authority to stop us from being idiots if we want to be idiots. This sounds fine in theory but it ignores the fact that gambling today isn’t just about individuals making free choices in a vacuum. There’s a
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
Honestly, it would be great if it were "Gemma in Chrome" instead. A local model capable enough to do the things that this is designed to do? Yes please. Gemini in Chrome is a way to increase adoption. Gemma in Chrome is an innovat
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
There are really two separate issues here: A) It should be harder for non-technical users to accidentally install apps designed to harm them. B) It should also be possible for anyone to run whatever code they want on hardware they own. Both
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
I often come across tips/pointers/exhortations about how to write good design documents. I generally agree that it's an important step: not just for clarifying your own thinking, but also for communicating effectively with ot
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
> I hope these OSS CC clones converge at some point. Imo, the point of custom CLIs is that each model is trained to handle tool calls differently. In my experience, the tool call performance is wildly different (although they have starte
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
I'd argue it's not a choice of "let's open a campus in flyover country," but a reflection of how the industry has changed. The "older" companies were manufacturers. Even places like Mountain View and San J
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
I'm a convert on this topic. I went from wanting a small phone to being unable to wait to ditch mine. Like the OP, I switched from Android (Pixel 3a) to an iPhone SE 3 specifically for the smaller form factor. After using it for over a
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
The Thunderbird search bar really sucks. Advanced search with the actual functionality is hidden away behind some weird menu while the big honking bar at the top of each page does basic text search and offers nothing more.
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
Well is the loss of training data from customers using self-hosted Llama that big a deal for OpenAI or any of the big labs at this point? Maybe in late-2022/early-2023 during the early stages of RLHF'd mass models but not today I
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
That's a fair argument to make. My main point was that I like the auto-translation because information retrieval was so much better. But the intent behind the video of the uploader has to be maintained and respected.
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
That's a fair point. I use English while using any YT client so I didn't notice it as much. So I changed the language on my browser to German, went to a couple of American channels and now I get some of the outrage on this thread.
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
I actually appreciate the YouTube's auto-translate feature a lot because it allows me to search through videos in languages I don't know but still like to view videos and listen to videos in. For example, I listen to a lot of city
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
You're right that this isn't "launched to the public" and is just a developer beta. However, I meant it in a more "outside of Apple" kind of way. I guess that should have been clearer.
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by chartered_stack 1y ago
The main issue I feel is that Apple's internal threshold for what quality of software is acceptable to be launched to the public has dropped a lot in the years since the last major redesign. Yes, they iterate through versions and drop