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by cmenge 16d ago
Claude reminds me of Terry Pratchett's "Auditors of Reality" and their awkward attempts at faking humans. A thing as simple as a smile can go _horribly_ wrong...
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by cmenge 25d ago
I was more confused by the application of Nakayama’s lemma in the following paragraph, but then it suddenly became clear to me.
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by cmenge 25d ago
There's an abstract on page 3. But it's quite ... abstract. By the end of the first sentence I'm pretty sure it would take me quite some time to understand what it's about (the first sentence of the abstract, not the who
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by cmenge 25d ago
Just cancelled my Claude subscription and used Ox Alpha Free through OpenCode (so that's one). In my view, from the testing I did since Thursday, it's better than Fable. I had just finished a rather large task that Fable completed
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by cmenge 1mo ago
I've previously built a startup in this exact space (tracking of rheumatoid illnesses). We had a good collaboration with Charité Berlin, but it didn't take off as a business. Happy to chat and learn what you're up to: hthh19x
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by cmenge 2mo ago
If you're a high-end executive, people would not approach you directly but try to find a connection to you (which also serve as references). For all other roles the first few messages are similar: this is <role X> with key challe
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by cmenge 2mo ago
I guess it's important who one hears this from. I just spoke to a fried who is a headhunter and who's been trying to automate his processes for a while (he likes to fiddle and certainly has skills, but he's not an engineer).
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by cmenge 2mo ago
Addictive! Made it to #16 but now got some serious PTSD about flying lol
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by cmenge 3mo ago
Similar. I gave it a really hard task, basically messy code in a complex domain that was bug-ridden from a mess previously created half manually and half by Opus. It cleaned things up beautifully, both the backend and the frontend. Maybe th
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by cmenge 5mo ago
Bit surprised about the amount of flak they're getting here. I found the article seemed clear, honest and definitely plausible. The deterioration was real and annoying, and shines a light on the problematic lack of transparency of what
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by cmenge 6mo ago
Read a super interesting paper by McEntire lately, “The Organizational Physics of Multi-Agent AI”. In short, he proved that even AI agents exhibit all the dysfunctions one would normally attribute to human shortcomings / politics &#x2F
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by cmenge 7mo ago
I've been mulling the same, but decided against (for now) Using Claude Code Max 20 so ROI would be maybe 2+ years. CC gives me unlimited coding in 4-6 windows in parallel. Unsure if any model would beat (or even match) that, both in te
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by cmenge 7mo ago
I re-visited my prompt manager and asked the question: what does it even do differently? I realized it's agents-as-a-service / as an API rather than an SDK. Now looking into making it a lot more usable and flexible, but the websit
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by cmenge 7mo ago
Whatever it is, if you have the Omega 13 you get a chance to correct it! Though that one might not help for slow-moving deterioration...
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by cmenge 8mo ago
> What if you treat that launch costs goal as just a marketing promise. Then it's roughly 10x-15x and still works. > Invest in reality, not in billionaire's fantasies. SpaceX has dramatically reduced payload cost already. Ho
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by cmenge 8mo ago
> Or you put the data centers at different points on earth? > Or you float them on the ocean circumnavigating the earth? What that does have to do with anything? If you want to solar-power them, you still are subject to terrestrial ef
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by cmenge 8mo ago
Over 10 years ago, the best satellites had 500W/kg [2]. Modern solar panels that are designed to be light are at 200g per sqm [1]. That's 5sqm per kg. One sqm generates ca. 500W. So we're at 2.5kW per kg. Some people claim 4.
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by cmenge 8mo ago
And it's not the same at all. 5x the solar panels on the ground means 5x the power output in the day, still 0 at night. So you'd need batteries. If you add in bad weather and winter, you may need battery capacity for days, weeks o
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by cmenge 8mo ago
I may be wrong, but here's how I got the idea: "liefert Huawei mit dem Cloud-Betriebssystem Huawei OpenStack Distribution" So it appears to be a Huawei _distribution_ from https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/de
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by cmenge 8mo ago
> So think about it for a second: if you can put together a Kubernetes cluster, what high-level service do you absolutely need to be able to put together a working service? Agreed that K8s helps a lot. But let's say I want managed R
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by cmenge 8mo ago
1. Europe doesn't have comparable offerings. The amount of money invested is below what a single hyperscaler spends per quarter. (StackIT might be on track to change that looking at the pure numbers) 2. European politicians still seem
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by cmenge 9mo ago
Happy New Year everyone! 2025 - Visited/lived in: Austria, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, UAE - Started (too many) side-projects - Managed to grow a number of projects / startups - Almost back to PRs:
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by cmenge 10mo ago
I have no opinion on the matter but wanted to thank you for teaching me "curmudgeonly".
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by cmenge 1y ago
Does importing a solar count against your countries co2 balance?
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by cmenge 1y ago
> If windmills are shut down around noon to make room for PV, the offset is zero. Very important point that is often ignored.
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by cmenge 1y ago
Germany isn't that big, but the difference between Freiburg and Hamburg is very significant in this case I believe
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by cmenge 1y ago
We're processing tenders for the construction industry - this comes with a 'free' bucket sort from the start, namely that people practically always operate only on a single tender. Still, that single tender can be on the orde
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by cmenge 1y ago
That's a good point, but I doubt that Sonnet adding a very contrived bug that crashes my app is some genius move that I fail to understand. Unless it's a MUCH bigger play where through some butterfly effect it wants me to fail at
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by cmenge 1y ago
I see your point. Let me clarify what I'm trying to say: - I consider LLMs a pro user tool, requiring some finesse / experience to get useful outputs - Using an LLM _directly_ for something very high-relevance (legal, taxes, healt
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by cmenge 1y ago
I kinda agree with both of you. It might be a required abstraction, but it's a leaky one. Long before LLMs, I would talk about classes / functions / modules like "it then does this, decides the epsilon is too low, chops

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