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What we're actually seeing is a repositioning of the goal post. Recursive Self Improvement is meant to mean that the LLM gains self-consciousness and understands how to improve itself. In AI circles it is about to mean that the LLM can reuse some memory to override what training it originally had. Memory overrides is not the same thing.

In human terms we can consciously train our brain to be more effective at a task or learn new material that we can apply right away. The training we do can stay with us forever if done correctly. RSI is about to be repackaged as cramming for an exam the night before rather than affecting the model itself.

Anyone believing this is being tricked into piling money into one of many AI startups that don't have a moat. They all claim they're getting close to this and the high valuations depend on that belief no matter how silly it is.

AI companies have intense competition and the only way forward to differentiate themselves will be pricing. RSI is the promise made to allow the founders to cash out some value before it all comes crashing down.

AI companies are providing a lot of value to others but they aren't any good at capturing that value themselves.

I've found myself reaching for HTMX or Hotwire/TurboStream lately and it had nothing to do with vibe coding.

I find that HTML first web frameworks make way more sense, works out the gate, allows for caching of key parts easily and forces me to think in simpler terms when it comes to implementations. The end result is usually an easier to use app for my end users. The amount of complexity you can add to a UI should be limited but a lot of folks just go crazy with SPA.

It's funny I don't live in the USA and my own neighbour sold his Tesla after the Nazi salute. The brand worldwide is suffering and sales are dropping everywhere, not just in the USA.

I remember Steve Jobs saying something about how silly it would be.

The HTTP layer is very much Axum. The Loco documentation doesn't explain Axum for that reason but really it takes a day or two to familiarize yourself with it.

I have an and absolutely love it. Rails dev for 20+ years. The conventions are drop-in replacements for a Rails app. Aside from using different commands in a day-to-day it's pretty much the same thing but so much more performant.

One Rails app used ~700MB of RAM at peak (live speed dating events with emails and heavy Hotwire/Turbo Streams use). I converted it to Loco with HTMX and the app now uses about 60MB at peak and benchmarks show 30x the traffic possible on the same hardware.

What more my CI/CD pipeline runs about 5 times faster including my entire test suite (TDD with hundreds of tests and BDD setup with about 60 scenarios running headless chrome). On a day to day while doing development my unit tests feel nearly instant.

Also Rust isn't as pretty on the eyes as Ruby but me downgrading my VPS server from 4GB to 2GB is something I benefit from when I'm away from my computer.

If you're a Rails developer nowadays I don't see the benefit of the framework anymore.

Josh is right. ActiveRecord, MVC, Front Controller(router + ActionDispatch), Template View(ERB) as well as a lot of what works under the hood in ActiveRecord comes from that book.

Though when I mean conventions I also mean where files are placed, how tables and fields are named, how migrations work and how DRY is part of the framework through and through.

A Loco app doesn't require fiddling with the database at all to replace its Rails counterpart. Hence why this naming of project confused me.

Loco is a Rust framework that adopted all Ruby on Rails conventions and they're applied through and through. The naming of this project confused me.

This has been less and less true for a while now. The jump from 5-6 and forward have been pretty smooth for big projects I maintained. From 2-5 was quite painful... especially from 2 to 3.

Rails developer for 20+ years.

I converted 3 of 4 apps running on a 4GB VPS to Loco (short for Locomotive: a Rust framework using the Rails conventions).

I am really happy with the switch.

Heaviest app went from 700MB of RAM usage at peak to 60MB and can handle 30x traffic before it hits an I/O wall.

I save 20$ a month because I downgraded my VPS to 2GB and am now able to fit new projects that sat underplayed on my personal machine because I couldn't fathom paying for a larger VPS. I could easily run 4x the amount of projects on half the system I used before.

As a Rails developer for 20 years this is a bittersweet moment. Rails was truly wonderful in its heyday and I could run circles around larger teams and do in a day what could take months for them. This advantage was eroded as people opted for Javascript frontends and then accelerated with graphql.

The advantages were then nullified with LLMs taking over code generation. With RAM prices tripling in 18 months I think the web framework that is hungriest just won't make any financial sense over other systems. The only reason I stayed with Rails was because of the conventions and my love for Ruby. I'm sad to being reading Rust instead of Ruby now but it's a drop in the bucket of my considerations.

What kind of machine does one need to run this model? What's the usual setup someone would have for running this?

Wow those are some nice applications! Thanks for sharing this!

You're right that some are way too acidic and astringent. Usually the kind that you'd age for longer and have more complexity would make poor juice but excellent wines.

There are plenty of varieties of grapes that do well as juice and wine. It's just the type of wine that you'd age very little because it would lose the acidity and temperament too quickly if aged.

What's wrong with mentioning it?

I find it ironic that I am attempting to read an article that says what it says while 80% of the screen is ads and asking me to register to their notifications.

As stated by another comment Elon Musk's mother posted an AI-edited photo marked as such. It got edited right away to remove that label.

There are ample reasons to believe that Elon Musk is running his mother's account and that the photos weren't even real putting in question that he even had a birthday party.

If you ask Grok about what this means it will always take Elon's defence. It will vehemently deny that Elon would be capable or willing participant of such a thing even if you point out that he faked being a world class gamer, buying accounts that had done all the work and showing none of the skills when live-streaming.

Ask it to be critical of the birthday photos and see where that gets you.

Some of their arguments are more than just naive ones.

They argue that LLMs are stealing our culture to feed it back to us. Can we really argue that they didn't make use of everything we wrote and said online to train their data?

The different names have different meanings and help make decisions on which to use.

Omni means you can use multiple types of input and have multiple types of outputs like audio, video, images and text. Flash means that it is built for speed and smaller than the more complete ones.

I have no recollection of ever hearing about this problem before. It doesn't sound like it had an army of people attempting it but cool nonetheless that we found the solution.

And because driving is slower and less convenient than public transit there. Seriously in Berlin, Paris or London I would prefer the public transit options in nearly all of my trips.

Diesel increased in price because truck drivers couldn't afford not to drive their truck. The cartel as well as the distributors are extracting all the value they can at every step. That is why diesel has increased so much.

I can't help but feel that every 1% improvement over a benchmark from new releases of flagship LLMs isn't really that impressive anymore. To some extent it feels like LLM improvements is slowing down significantly despite increasing resources being spent on them.

The people promising AGI just 6 months ago are now more and more quiet about the possibility and rightfully so. LLMs alone are most likely not the path to AGI.

I get excited about this but that's because I want this... not because I need it.

What I actually need might be less of an iPhone and more of a nano than a duo. Something small and portable that doesn't make me spend every spare second on the phone.

It has become easier and easier to upgrade Rails over time. 2 of my apps were running 2 versions back and the most difficult thing was finding the time to update it. There was one gem that was deprecated but the replacement was 10 lines of code. Overall I'd say that Rails is such a robust choice nowadays.

I would not buy a Tesla because the owner of the company does Nazi salutes but I feel like this is more or less like someone forgetting their ex is on their Spotify family account.

This reminds me so much of the Raglan hero archetype rank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank–Raglan_hero_archetype

So many stories, many people believe are true and build whole religions around, are really just repeated stories with many details changed to fit the local culture and traditions.

It's crazy so many of the world's politics and problems stem from what might actually just be the same story said in a different way... or even of a fan fiction on top of existing fiction.

If that's the boundary then I must have been a really neglectful and abusive parent.

Your framing is ridiculous. Canada sends raw materials to the USA and purchases it back once transformed. If anyone has been bleeding it is Canada.