smahs

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by smahs 2mo ago
There was a time when local apps written in binary compiled languages were notably faster to run, but notoriously difficult to write and scale across platforms. Both of these have improved but the JS/CSS run times used for local web ap
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by smahs 3mo ago
The above comment, to which you responded, wrote about CEOs who responded to mass hysteria, not those who automated anything.
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by smahs 6mo ago
Not wrong, perhaps a little weird. HTML is a first class citizen in the commonmark (spec)[ https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#html-blocks ].
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by smahs 6mo ago
In an agentic loop, the model can keep calling multiple tools for each specialized artifact (like how claude webapp renders HTML/SVG artifacts within a single turn). Models are already trained for this (tested this approach with qwen 3
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by smahs 6mo ago
There is nothing wrong with big money backing, often is necessary for long term bets, but rug pulling is a serious threat. VC funded open source has become a pattern/playbook.
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by smahs 7mo ago
27B dense model is probably the best in the 3.5 lot, not absolutely but for perf:size. Its also pretty good at prose, which is a rarity for a Qwen.
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by smahs 11mo ago
The author doesn't explain (or is ignorant about) why this happens. These are special tokens that the model is trained on, and are part of its vocab. For example, here are the <think> and </think> tokens defined in the
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by smahs 1y ago
I only did it once some 15 years back (in a happy memory) using LFS. It took about a week to get to a functional system with basic necessities. A code finetuned model can write a functional chat UI with all common features and a decent UX i
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by smahs 1y ago
Still O(n).
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by smahs 1y ago
Thanks for noticing this, and yes I have also noticed what you're pointing out, but workable for many use cases. I use this workflow for making images for marketing or web (so images are more artistic than photo realistic generations t
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by smahs 1y ago
Gemma 3 4B (QAT quant): Yes, Paul Newman was indeed known to have struggled with alcohol throughout his life. While he maintained a public image of a charming, clean-cut star, he privately battled alcoholism for many years. He sought treatm
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by smahs 1y ago
^^ I have vague memories of Clippy, but I remember it as obnoxious, often consuming the precious screen real estate on the low res monitors of the day, without offering anything valuable. But tooltips on the web with CSS and libraries like
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by smahs 1y ago
No it won't (most likely). VTracer (which the authors compare with) is fast, runs in browser via wasm, consumes way less resources and can even convert natural images very decently. But the model seems cool for the usecase of prompt to
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by smahs 2y ago
On the contrary, I have found reasoning models (DS R1 mostly) to be very good at complex positioning and transition problems. They can't "visualize" anything, so can't design well unless you explain them well (which is t
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by smahs 2y ago
And geometry, which is high school level for the most part IMO but combined with cascading in the third (z) dimension. Introduce 'relative' with its own coordinate system and then do transforms in it (to be fair, its only complex
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by smahs 2y ago
Leaving the distortions from inflated and unrealistic expectations (case in point: people expecting evolution of AGI somehow have not yet well defined what AGI is), I also think that in the mid-long run the current state of LLMs will bloom
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by smahs 2y ago
But that's the story of every entrepreneur. Whether you're the smartest builder or sales person, nobody goes big in a single attempt, you keep improving. An attempt doesn't necessarily mean changing businesses, but improvisin
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by smahs 2y ago
I first found Seal which uses arai2 under the hood. After getting used to Seal, I had to start using yt-dlp with aria2 on linux as well. The only nitpick is that you can't get multiple parallel downloads with Seal.
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by smahs 2y ago
This sentiment is pretty common I guess. Outside of a niche, the massive scale for which a vast majority of the data tech was designed doesn't exist and KISS wins outright. Though I guess that's evolution, we want to test the limi
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by smahs 3y ago
I think I get your perspective (but also you should really understand that your arguments are just going unidirectional instead of building a healthy dialog), but it made me wonder what really went wrong (or changed, depending on your persp
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by smahs 3y ago
Since when is left == religious fundamentalism?
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by smahs 3y ago
This is surely a gross oversimplification of what's happening. If you see layoffs.fyi, there are a lot of rows with more than 5% fired or where the numbers are in several hundreds to thousands. While some companies are known to regular
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by smahs 4y ago
+1. I have vague memories of my time at a Japanese automation vendor out of the uni. I had quit out of frustration that the software was super buggy, there was no one to help except just a couple of people in Japan who knew the software but
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by smahs 7y ago
+1 I recent saw a couple of cases of small companies who chose to depend on Stripe for managing their payment data to save cost on initial development. As a result, their operations staff struggled between Stripe's admin panel and thei