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MrsPeaches

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Co-founder at Open Energy Labs

https://openenergylabs.co/

Feel free to drop me an email: samson [at] openenergylabs.co

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MrsPeaches··on Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative
I had similar costs. With caching it went down to 20-40 cents.

Well worth it, if you are using this regularly.

MrsPeaches··on Where is London's most central sheep?
> But you can't go in and have a look, they don't take walk-ins, only pre-booked groups and very occasional public events, the last of which was cancelled.

This has a very Douglas Adam’s feel.

MrsPeaches··on Where is London's most central sheep?
Anything that is south of the River Thames is considered "South" (prounounced "Souf" in MLE [1]), no matter the actual distance.

E.g. Waterloo Station would be considered South London but is actually at the same latitude as Buckingham Palace!

Hence why a Londoner would never describe Vauxhall as "Central".

Londoners would generally discount any part of this map south of the river from "Central London":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_London#/media/File:Ope...

MrsPeaches··on Where is London's most central sheep?
The River Thames, confusing Londoners sense of space since times immemorial.
MrsPeaches··on Take the pedals off the bike
Training wheels aim to maximise the utility of the bicycle (i.e. gears and pnumatic tyres) for a person of certain age, at the cost of learning how to actually ride a bike.

I feel there are lots of parallels in e.g. Maths education in the more generalised form:

In education, skills that allow you to utilise technology are prioritised and these are often directly opposed to skills needed for mastery.

MrsPeaches··on Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)
Question:

Isn’t it fundamentally impossible to model a highly entropic system using deterministic methods?

My point is that animal brains are entropic and “designed” to model entropic systems, where as computers are deterministic and actively have to have problems reframed as deterministic so that they can solve them.

All of the issues mentioned in the article boil down to the fundamental problem of trying to get deterministic systems to function in highly entropic environments.

LLMs are working with language, which has some entropy but is fundamentally a low entropy system, and has orders of magnitude less entropy than most peoples’ back garden!

As the saying goes, to someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

MrsPeaches··on 28h Days: year 1 update
All in the original post: https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/

This was just the 1 year update.

Idea is that you go to be when you feel tired.

MrsPeaches··on Republishing my Simpsons fan site, twenty years later
Love the “Match-Ups” page:

https://gardnermcintyre.com/simpsonszip/view.php?page=matchu...

MrsPeaches··on Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic
This is the direction I am building my personal LLM based scripts. I don’t really know any python but Claude has written python scripts that e.g. write a document iteratively using LLMs. Next step will be to use voice and autogpt to do things that I would rather dictate to someone. E.g. find email from x => write reply => edit => send

Much more directed/almost micro managing but it’s still quicker than me clicking around (in theory).

Edit: I’m interested to explore how much better voice is as an input (vs writing as an input)

To me, reading outputs is much more effective than listening to outputs.

MrsPeaches··on YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design
How many words in the art of electronics? Could you give that as context and see if might help?
MrsPeaches··on Notes on Guyana
Real estate.

I know people in Guyana doing real estate who may have opportunities. Email in my profile if you are interested.

MrsPeaches··on Why the First Pet Cemetery Was Revolutionary
Unfortunately the Wikipedia article has multiple issues.

Found this article which claims 7500BC.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/10-oldes...

MrsPeaches··on ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms
As you say it’s a well trodden path:

American industry was built on IP theft[1]

British empire was built on IP theft [2]

Byzantine empire was built on IP theft [3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater

[2] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-british-tea...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_silk

MrsPeaches··on Britain agrees Chagos Island sovereignty deal with Mauritius
What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
MrsPeaches··on Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
Link to BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o
MrsPeaches··on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned for $7.5B
Wow, didn't realise India had that many people!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India

MrsPeaches··on DJI announces an electric mountain bike drive system
3kW I assume?
MrsPeaches··on Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics
Biggest issue is surely speed?

Computers are measured in MHz and GHz. How do you even get close to that using mechanical means?

Speed is also a core value proposition (to use contemporary parlance) of computers I.e computers can carry out calculations at a rate of MHz/Ghz. If you want to talk in any meaningful sense of “computation”, and the usefulness thereof, speed of computation is a key metric.

I reckon cooling would be an even bigger concern than it is currently.

MrsPeaches··on Bessemer Venture Partners' Anti-Portfolio
Ebay:

“Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve GOT to be kidding,” thought David Cowan. “No-brainer pass.”

MrsPeaches··on Decade of the Battery
Electronics in these systems are a low % of the BoM cost though, so wouldn’t expect it to make such a big difference.
MrsPeaches··on Decade of the Battery
Maybe regulatory overhead due to the legacy of Li-ion cells i.e. their explosive failure mode?

My understanding is that LFP is a fair bit safer so maybe regulators haven’t caught up?

MrsPeaches··on Extracting concepts from GPT-4
If I can speak in aphorisms,

Creation is downhill, analysis is uphill.

Profound ideas often seem simple once understood.

MrsPeaches··on Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture
A list + links would be much appreciated!
MrsPeaches··on What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers
Chris Ferrie also writes great books about science for babies.

https://www.csferrie.com/books

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-Babies-Baby-Univers...

MrsPeaches··on Which Electric Cars Have Bidirectional Charging (V2L, V2G, V2H)
Very interesting!

> I have a time of use contract with hourly pricing

How did you get this?

MrsPeaches··on Hot take on OpenAI’s new GPT-4o
The same furniture store had an AR app 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu7iOtCR0xA

They seem pretty tech savy! Wouldn't be surprised if they had some things to say about AI.

P.S. it's funny to see that same Corperate style from the 90s updated to 2020s.

MrsPeaches··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
From the FAQ:

"Why doesn’t Gemini know what I said earlier in a conversation?

Gemini’s ability to hold context is purposefully limited for now. As Gemini continues to learn, its ability to hold context during longer conversations will improve."

MrsPeaches··on The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit
Google ≠ the internet.

This reads more like a rant against Google’s search product.

Yes, Google might go under due to AI (Clayton says, thank you and goodbye) but that doesn’t mean the internet as a whole is doomed.

To be frank, the internet is already awash with dogshit. It’s doing pretty well so far.

MrsPeaches··on Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
Some fun archaic ones on German[1]

Interesting to see the use of “Er” as a put down.

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Höflichkeitsform

MrsPeaches··on Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
Also informal in English (c.f. The use of thou in the Lord’s Prayer)
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