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by redfloatplane 9mo ago
An interesting thought experiment - a fully local, off-grid, off-network LLM device. Solar or wind or what have you. I suppose the Mac Studio route is a good option here, I think Apple make the most energy efficient high-memory options. Bac
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by redfloatplane 9mo ago
Well, it’s very much appreciated. So much of the weird one-off experimentation seems to happen on sites like that, and otherwise I’d have to either lump it or eat the radioactivity. It’s an interesting thing that even though I do plenty of
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by redfloatplane 9mo ago
> Simon often finds ideas within walled-garden platforms (e.g., TikTok, Twitter) and simply brings them to the open web I find this is a surprisingly valuable thing. The AI space is moving fast, and a lot of the interesting, imaginative
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by redfloatplane 9mo ago
That camera analogy is very thought provoking! So far the only bright spot in this whole comment thread for me. Thanks for sharing that!
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by redfloatplane 9mo ago
Sort of related: About ten years ago there was a device called the Tessel by Technical Machine which you programmed with Javascript, npm, the whole nine yards. It was pretty clever - the javascript got transpiled to Lua VM bytecode and ran
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by redfloatplane 9mo ago
"Fun" fact: This is partially because Wolfram owned a patent on the "code notebook" invention. Once it expired, Jupyter was created.
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by redfloatplane 9mo ago
It's quite hard to know if the DAC is actually decent quality though. I've bought two from Amazon (admittedly at the low price point) and both of them have line noise - one of them even has a ground loop buzz, which surprised me,
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
Yes, I’m sure! I had mostly stopped using WL by the time ChatGPT came out and so my only experience of their integration is a lot of hallucinated syntax by GPT3. I’ve not been tempted to upgrade to the newer, more LLM-integrated versions ye
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
I'm a non-mathematician and I used it for lots of novel stuff - GIS, visualisations of all kinds, machine learning. The Wolfram Community staff picks is a great introduction into the varied things you can do: https://communi
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
I think it's an extreme example of not-invented-here syndrome. In many ways that leads to interesting novelties, and in others it leads to not having undo/redo until the 2010s.
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
That's exactly the same analogy I used to use, although I said "nuclear reactor included" - spaceship is better, it implies less danger and more expanded horizons!
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
Just before I stopped using Mathematica they came out with that headless kernel, and I had wondered if you could spin it up on a Kubernetes cluster or something. I do notice that they have an "Application Server" for Kubernetes, w
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
One of the more interesting things about WL is that Stephen Wolfram is really a genuine daily user of the software his company makes and he's the final say on what ships and in what form. They used to livestream his meetings reviewing
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
Man, I miss Wolfram Language. Once you've twisted your brain a little to grok its usage, it's such an incredibly high-value tool, especially for exploration and prototyping. I saw it more as a do-anything software tool for researc
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
It looks like they've now added a Sonnet cap which is the same as the previous cap: > Nov 24, 2025 update: > We've increased your limits and removed the Opus cap, so you can use Opus 4.5 > up to your overall limit. Son
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
On my Max plan, Opus 4.5 is now the default model! Until now I used Sonnet 4.5 exclusively and never used Opus, even for planning - I'm shocked that this is so cheap (for them) that it can be the default now. I'm curious what this
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by redfloatplane 10mo ago
Very interesting! The one killer issue that jumps to mind is anti-cheat. I switched away from gaming on Linux via Proton to gaming on Windows because Battlefield 6's anti-cheat won't work under Proton. Many games are like this, pa
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by redfloatplane 11mo ago
My apologies, it was the Scots Wikipedia, careless of me. Link for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia#Controversy
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by redfloatplane 11mo ago
Some cursory clicking about didn't reveal to me the actual corpus they used, only that it is several trillion tokens 'divided across the languages'. I'm curious mainly because Irish (among some other similarly endangered
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by redfloatplane 11mo ago
I have to wonder if the 'reward' of higher limits for setting the browser as the default is in conflict with the Digital Markets Act (although as I understand it, OpenAI isn't currently seen as a 'gatekeeper' under
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by redfloatplane 11mo ago
Oh well, I guess I will have to get my self-esteem from a different number on the internet!
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by redfloatplane 11mo ago
I mean, this post is an hour old and the other only 5 minutes. Who's duping who here :)
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by redfloatplane 11mo ago
Downloadable for MacOS here: https://chatgpt.com/atlas
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by redfloatplane 11mo ago
From the description: > Introducing our new browser, ChatGPT Atlas. > Sam Altman, Will Ellsworth, Adam Fry, Ben Goodger, Ryan O’Rouke, Justin Rushing, and Pranav Vishnu introduce ChatGPT Atlas — our new browser. Now available globally
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ChatGPT Atlas [video](youtube.com)
19 points by redfloatplane 11mo ago|10 comments
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by redfloatplane 1y ago
Wow, this is really an incredible bit of work! Very impressive stuff, I look forward to using it!
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by redfloatplane 1y ago
I'm not sure we diverge in this sense, I also think that's a good thing, if not the most amazing thing about modern programming! The democratisation of hyper-personal computing is incredible. Now anyone(-ish) can build exactly(-is
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by redfloatplane 1y ago
Very good point. I only thought about it in terms of the individual effort rather than the actual physical energy being used.
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by redfloatplane 1y ago
That's a very fair point in regards of the cost. I should have thought about that more. The analogy is very interesting, but I think perhaps I didn't do a good job of articulating my point - I feel I was trying to say that everyon
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by redfloatplane 1y ago
Yes, exactly. Unless you have a deep intention to maintain this library or somehow elevate it beyond the version anyone would get given a couple of minutes and Claude, what's even the point in publishing the code or submitting to HN?

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