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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:24PM (#50343177)
This is remarkable and something I would have never though of doing regardless of how much it makes sense!

I think we are pre-conditioned (at least this generation) to put artificial blocks to what the AI can achieve, I think new generations won't have this issue.

Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:55AM (#50339729)
The intro to that post is so bad: "PostHog's original data warehouse had a single goal: delay the moment a company needs to hire their first data engineer."

It is not to serve high quality and timely data to make good decisions, is to avoid hiring a specific role, lol. So bad.

Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:52AM (#50339692)
Feels off that only 5 months ago the company just migrated to DuckDB only to now move to something else.

Who did the growth estimation of the data? This looks like an example of bad planning.

The key is to use llms to create CNN models
oops! This is totally unexpected coming from Meta.
Haha, I was thinking the same, I think we will see the most random devices being able to host models in the near future. An army for the techno core.
Should be both the entity providing the platform where the inference is running + the entity giving the prompts/instructions.
Re:Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:31AM (#49874015)
It looks like a lot like how data bases query optimizers work, with the exception that in the paper there is also a learning/memory component that conditions the evaluation of the answer provided by the first model.
What are good options to run local models nowadays? Something good for coding and personal assistant kind of things
This sound very interesting, do you have any resource I could look at? Me and my son did a very rudimentary (compared to yours) setup to play Paranoia, but this is at another level.
Re:OpenAI Presence on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @12:50PM (#49009717)
it has been for ~2 years already, it is like voice mode and you can talk for up to 30 mins with it IIRC
Re:Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:14PM (#48740916)
Fun/interesting to see how opensource models surpassed Anthropic's
Re:Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:03AM (#48274840)
I had the same visceral reaction lol, so ugly.
Tokenmaxxing makes no sense, it is akin to write extremely inefficient SQL / Spark Jobs, full of cartesian joins, ultra skewed datasets, etc, just for the sake of using as much compute / memory / IO as possible.

This always happens when the metric becomes the goal, companies should nurture and foster an environment where AI is used in the most efficient way possible, first asking "do we really need an agent for this" and if so, what kind of agent is needed, what model, reasoning level, etc.

They should also promote projects that aim at saving tokens, increasing cache hits, codifying the information in ways such they use as less context as possible (graphs of knowledge are pretty good for this!)

Re:Google changes its search box on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:17PM (#48198901)
what a weird surface to put LLMs
Re:New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @11:57AM (#48195068)
Same! At first I was wary of using it because the UI looked less polished, but from the start the stability has been vastly superior and now the UI is much better too.

as a bonus, I have a old version Emby Theather (the windows form based one) that plays 4K with no issues on my computer unlike browsers that fail at that.

wouldn't move to local models in the future remove part of that risk for companies?
Re:GPT-5.4 on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:04AM (#47271885)
underrated comment, this is going to be the main differentiator going forward, the more powerful and versatile harness the more the models will be able to achieve and better/more advanced products will come out of it.
Re:Codex for Windows on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:59PM (#47251297)
* Parallel agents: Run multiple coding tasks at once so you can move faster across projects

* Isolated workspaces: Each task runs in its own worktree so changes stay organized and conflict-free

* Review changes: Inspect diffs and proposed edits before applying them to your codebase

* Stay in flow: Switch between tasks without losing context or progress

* Automate workflows: Reuse repeatable tasks with configurable skills

* Works with your tools: Open changes in your editor and integrate with your existing setup

* Track progress: Follow what each agent is doing in real time

* Windows sandboxing: Run agent mode inside an OS-level sandbox, with bounded permissions and explicit approval for escalation

* Ship faster: Move from idea to working code with less overhead

Re:Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:11PM (#47186418)
I am sad to know about this, Dan Simmons had a mind blowing amount of imagination and the ability to turn that into interesting and imaginative books that expanded my imagination when I read them.

I loved Hyperion cantos, Illium and then non sci-fi books like A Winter Haunting and Summer of night (which I read in the wrong order lol).

I am also happy to read that he was a great person overall and a great teacher. May he rest in peace.

Re:I’m joining OpenAI on Sunday February 15, 2026 @05:33PM (#47028399)
Welcome :D
Re:GPT-5.3-Codex on Thursday February 05, 2026 @02:17PM (#46903740)
The variety of tasks they can do and will be asked to do is too wide and dissimilar, it will be very hard to have a transversal measurement, at most we will have area specific consensus that model X or Y is better, it is like saying one person is the best coder at everything, that does not exist.
Re:GPT-5.3-Codex on Thursday February 05, 2026 @01:13PM (#46902726)
The thrill of competition
Re:Unrolling the Codex Agent Loop on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:23PM (#46738120)
Same here! I think it would be good if this could be made by default by the tooling. I've seen others using SQL for the same and even the proposal for a succinct way of representing this handoff data in the most compact way.

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