gilgoomesh

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by gilgoomesh 13d ago
It is common for the agent tools, MCP tool, skills, project context and system prompt to take between 5k and 25k tokens. This depends heavily on your agent and tool setup. But that's before the prompt. Then after the prompt, every to
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by gilgoomesh 13d ago
Easy. I just need... 50 times more speed. Better download some more RAM.
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by gilgoomesh 28d ago
Destroying currency is crime in Australia, so no, this has never been a thing, here.
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by gilgoomesh 1mo ago
Yeah, I must have misread the press release last week as I thought it would be released at the same time.
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by gilgoomesh 2mo ago
It's been 2.5 months since Qwen 3.7-Max. Unless you mean since the preview of this 3.8-Max model.
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by gilgoomesh 2mo ago
> lack of European competitors There's Mistral. Although they've been surprisingly quiet for the last 6 months.
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by gilgoomesh 2mo ago
In one of the most infamous stories of the era, Half-Life was officially ported to Mac OS back in the year 2000 by Logicware/MacPlay but got shut down by Valve at the last minute. I've watched interviews with Rebecca Heineman (one
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by gilgoomesh 2mo ago
...not going anywhere.
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by gilgoomesh 2mo ago
Goldbach's Conjecture is very accessible.
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by gilgoomesh 4mo ago
I'm disappointed only that the chain of thought needed to be rewritten. Need to train these LLMs to natively communicate in LaTeX research paper format.
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by gilgoomesh 5mo ago
> It’s not hacking, I wasn’t breaking anything That's a very narrow read of the word "hacking". We're literally on a website called "Hacker News". We're not all trying to break things.
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by gilgoomesh 5mo ago
> Why use splines or polynomials or haphazardly chosen basis functions if you can just fit (gradient descent) your data or wave functions to the proper computational EML tree? Same reason all boolean logic isn't performed with combi
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by gilgoomesh 5mo ago
I think you can look at Star Trek as a fairly grounded example of where current LLMs could go: the ship's computer is not autonomous in any way but it does accept fairly vague instructions and you can apparently vibe-code the holodeck.
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by gilgoomesh 7mo ago
For 20-ish% of Alzheimer's patients, the Shingles vaccine may be a treatment. This has been suspected for a few years now but has received recent confirmation studies. https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/news/2025-11-18&
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by gilgoomesh 7mo ago
It seems to be back, now.
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by gilgoomesh 8mo ago
I read that but it doesn't define handmade. It gripes about large frameworks and rewriting in different languages but doesn't say what handmade is or how it addresses anything.
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by gilgoomesh 8mo ago
Do they define "Handmade"? I couldn't find a definition.
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by gilgoomesh 8mo ago
You got Liquid Metal? I'm stuck with Liquid Glass :-(
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by gilgoomesh 8mo ago
That 3B model is a local model that eventually got built into macOS 26. Gemini 3 Pro is a frontier model (cloud). They're very different things.
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by gilgoomesh 9mo ago
Network operations are "asynchrony". Together with parallelism, they are both kinds of concurrency and Swift concurrency handles both. Swift's "async let" is parallelism. As are Task groups.
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by gilgoomesh 10mo ago
> Charlie Brown may have been as popular as any character in all of literature Was he? Maybe this is true inside the US but from outside the US, I've always viewed the character as a peculiarly American artefact – something I was aw
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by gilgoomesh 11mo ago
Mac sales are up 12%, year over year. It's Apple's fastest growing hardware category. They're just going to be lower next month (year over year), due to the release cycles being different.
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by gilgoomesh 11mo ago
> Even many games that support native linux run better under wine. The same is often true on macOS, too – running games through CrossOver is often better than the native port. The reality is that there simply aren't enough professio
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by gilgoomesh 1y ago
Of course. And these are CPU vector instructions, so the saying "The wider the SIMD, the narrower the audience" applies. But ultimately with a benchmark like Geekbench, you're trusting them to pick a weighting. Geekbench 6 is
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by gilgoomesh 1y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Any app compiled using LLVM 17 (2023) can use SME directly and any app that uses Apple's Accelerate framework automatically takes advantage of SME since iOS 18/macOS 15 last year.
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by gilgoomesh 1y ago
They've supported the Steam Deck for a couple years now. Here's a review of Steam Deck performance from early 2024: https://steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/baldurs-gate-3/ I'm assuming this is just an
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by gilgoomesh 1y ago
That entire banner is pure copyright infringement.
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by gilgoomesh 1y ago
Swift can also 2-way operate with C++. Its coverage of the C++ language is incomplete but I suspect it might outpace Carbon.
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by gilgoomesh 1y ago
If you read through the thread on that top story, it wasn't a hallucination. There was really a leaf in the shot.
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by gilgoomesh 1y ago
ChatGPT, do you know where the General left his keys?

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