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By chapter four you have a minimal working codebase in python. Later chapters add out features like tool calling, planning, and reflection.
I’m writing my own harness to learn. And I’m writing it in zig.
But, I’ll absolutely add maki.sh to my reading list. So, that’s a win.
At home, I mostly use openrouter.
A few bucks will realistically last you forever. I also bought a DGX Spark at launch. I've learned a ton. but it's not usually my daily driver. I do run overnight tasks on it, like "read this book and write up notes on each chapter..."
In retrospect, given the dirt cheap prices of apis and or renting hardware, buying hardware for inference was likely a mistake (but not enough of a mistake to sell it now).
And I’m slowly writing my own. But it’s garbage at the moment.
The author’s discussion of their personal use case starts on the seventh sentence in TFA. And frankly, it sounds like a pretty solid use case:
“Being able to run things locally and mess around with RL, quantisation and fine-tuning on a laptop would be sick. I already publish my own GGUF quants on Hugging Face, with over 160,000 downloads in the past month.”
3.8k is less than the preorder cost of the DGX Spark over a year ago (Oct 14th, 2025).
I don't see how we can discuss this demo without acknowledging that fact as well.
[1]: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-burn...
I guess what I'm saying is performance is fine... but what I really want to see is performance/dollar.
Thank goodness.
And if they do that accurately, there's no stopping someone from mapping the guard rails.
Clearly that outcome is more uncomfortable than what we have now, which is enough people seem to be okay with vague billing.
There is no author attribution to this webpage?
I feel strongly that I can't take a community challenge seriously if the author can't bother with an author attribution.
I am engaging in this from a "Logic 101" perspective. I saw a false premise used in an argument and I only wanted to point that out.
I have no actual position on cars brands or apple computers or any of that.
For example, sales for the first half of 2026 vs first half of 2025 in Australia show:
Toyota is down 20% BYD is up 68%
"possessing, discharging, or igniting explosives or explosive material, including binary explosive targets is banned on BLM land in nevada under Federal Land Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and 43 CFR 9212.0-6."
The phone number to report illegal activity on BLM land is: 1-800-637-9152.
As a resident of Nevada - HELL NO. That's BLM land. Not an amateure weapons test site.
If "some rich person" wants to get involved in crowdsourcing weapons research, please do that on private land... so everyone will know exactly who to sue should things go sideways.
With effort, the effect can persist. But you have to be willing to make changes.
Time will hit the breaks, hard.
Between $18k-40k to run a benchmark.
I was digging through the store when I found a full pallet of computer punch cards. As a computer science undergrad, I thought, “ how cool, I want a bunch to use as bookmarks, or whatever”.
I went to haggle with Ed, and he outright refused to sell me any. He said he wouldn’t break up the pallet. I had to buy all or none…