jvalencia

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by jvalencia 4mo ago
I've been writing my own, out of curiosity, with gemma4. I've been surprised how far I'm getting.
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by jvalencia 4mo ago
There's another problem here which is that there isn't enough content. I've on multiple occasions now thrown various news perspectives into AI and asked it to research what the actual facts of a contested issue were. In most
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by jvalencia 5mo ago
Multimodal models are trained knowing how to understand encoded images. It really is magic. Base64 image data is a binary-to-text encoding scheme that represents image bytes as a printable ASCII string, formatted as data:[<mediatype>]
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by jvalencia 5mo ago
These sound like security nightmares.
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by jvalencia 5mo ago
How does security and isolation work? If someone else's account is compromised, how do I know I won't be? If instant is compromised, how do I know I won't be?
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by jvalencia 6mo ago
When a political party controls the science, you end up with say, Trump pushing one set of results, and Biden pushing another. It then becomes either pick the science that agrees with your politics, or throw up your hands in frustration. Th
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by jvalencia 6mo ago
Every few days I would log on. I was only 10-14 years old. It spread by word of mouth, and I just happened to have access to my dad's computer that had a modem. I'd hop on and play tradewars or similar. There were forums, mostly a
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by jvalencia 7mo ago
Google for nonprofits is extremely generous. It's really not that bad in the end, and you only set it up once for a lot of benefit.
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by jvalencia 7mo ago
The trial and error was fueled by capitalism, trying to get the best product possible. If it goes into a codified state system, it's regulated, resulting in a lack of motivation to take risks to make it better.
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by jvalencia 7mo ago
-ish. I often keep md files around and after a successful task. I ask Codex to write the important bits down. Then, when I come around to a similar task in the future, I have it start at the md file. It's like context that grows and i
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by jvalencia 7mo ago
I think that's not wrong. Same principle, different sin... it looks like gambling, or the occult, or...
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by jvalencia 7mo ago
As a devout Baptist minister, this is likely about one of two things, avoiding the appearance of evil (gambling, 1 Thess 5:22 - Abstain from every form of evil), and giving up something for the sake of others (gambling addictions within the
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by jvalencia 8mo ago
Sure, but let's say you do EKS, you set it up once and then it's mostly done, including security, etc. You set up your own, then you upgrade every 6 months manually.... this is a cascading cost.
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by jvalencia 8mo ago
This takes time and effort, thus, lost opportunity cost. The thing that makes these providers worth it, is that it lets the business focus on their core competencies and just add-on as they scale without worrying about complexity. A busines
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by jvalencia 8mo ago
Missed a link?
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by jvalencia 8mo ago
I found this pretty interesting, but would love to either see external inputs (news feed), or perhaps give the models more space. It seems like they might start collaborating more fully if they only had more space.
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by jvalencia 8mo ago
I'm curious if running them at slightly lower voltage would fix it or if it's a software thing.
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by jvalencia 8mo ago
or (3) get a battery
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by jvalencia 11mo ago
My first thought was why would someone halt their socials? Too much holiday time? Then I realized this was social media :-P. Socials to me are precisely NOT social media. Is this a common language usage now?
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by jvalencia 11mo ago
Large software projects are an interesting use case because once you get large is precisely when the framework becomes valuable. A large enterprise project will need security, testing, auth, (AI now too). I'd hate to implement SAML wi
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by jvalencia 1y ago
We have format commits so that we have separate non-logic commits that don't have to be aggravated over if we find files are all off.
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by jvalencia 1y ago
California refineries are set to shut down and it has huge implications for the state: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/business/energy-environme...
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by jvalencia 1y ago
It's like the invention of the washing machine. People didn't stop doing chores, they just do it more efficiently. Coders won't stop being, they'll just do more, compete at higher levels. The losers are the ones who won&
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by jvalencia 1y ago
Well, and I think the future of LLMs is not just in the pure LLM, but the agentic ones. LLMs with deterministic tools to ferret out specifics. We're only starting here but the results will be far better than what we do today.
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by jvalencia 2y ago
As someone who's sat on both sides of the table, getting tickets done is incredibly valuable. I don't really think an engineer is worth their salt if they can't do this. However, there's a transition that needs to happe
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by jvalencia 2y ago
Late 80s early 90s. And yes I played all the games you mentioned when the games came out. I especially loved simlife, but it didn't age, at all.
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by jvalencia 2y ago
I did! And I enjoyed the mechanic, it was cute, incremental, and terribly fun.
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by jvalencia 2y ago
I concede this may be true. First time I played D&D, I bought the rulebook and pored over it until I knew the rules and details -- and had a blast. Now, being a DM, no one reads the rules.
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by jvalencia 2y ago
This is referencing a rule. I'm not sure I'm arguing against a clear reference, I like those. But I've certainly been at a table where we open the box, the host hasn't read the rules and frankly doesn't want to. I
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by jvalencia 2y ago
I recall my favorite part of opening up a new Nintendo game was poring over the manual. I didn't actually want it for instructions. It was the lore and the pictures and the dreams of what I could do with the game that made it fun. Now,

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