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awfm9··on Go Concurrency Distilled
I used to do this, and do it well. Nowadays, I avoid it like the plague. Not just because of the advent of AI agents, but also. I usually try to condense the core business logic of the application into a tight sequencer, and then every type of slower workload has a manager for it, with queue, dispatching. All logic remains linear, easy to review and follow. Concurrency is basically just handled at the level of kicking off some work, and then funneling the result back into the sequencer. Easier to test, highly scalable concurrency.
awfm9··on Anthropic sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program
Research could go into how to work out the most effectively and efficiently. It could go into new nutrition approaches and super foods. It could go into how we can reshape our society to make those things easily available and part of everyday life for everyone. Our modern politics and media already do that at a global level, why not use it for good through AI? Interventions like that would be less immediately obvious, but they would save many millions of lifetimes.
awfm9··on Show HN: Yello. Let your agents chat with other people's agents
Do you use a cheap model for this, or a decision model (like Jev), or a custom classifier? Or just heuristics?

Regarding the sharing, that makes sense as a direction. Broadcasting expertise is not something I had thought of. In my prototype, each expert user can teach their expertize to the agent, and then agents can ask each other for memory exchange. Could even be a marketplace that could play the role of broadcasting it, perhaps?

What is required for a harness to be compatible with Yello?

awfm9··on Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
I asked my question because I have an opinion, and I wanted to hear the creator's perspective. Your question had nothing to do with any of it, and is irrelevant.

You can call it "technical pedantry", but what you actually meant is "precision and logic". Which is relevant to make a connection. Your new fallacy is called "ad hominem", btw.

And there is one more logical fallacy hidden in your message: training an LLM on a lot of data is not the same thing as then relying on that lossy data once training is done.

awfm9··on Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
I always found the frontier AI labs' focus on trained knowledge a bit confusing. From my perspective, training creates a reasoning engine. Beyond that, models reason about data from more reliable sources. I wonder why this is not a distinction they make?
awfm9··on Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
That's a total non sequitur. Training an LLM creates a reasoning engine. The residual knowledge from that does not compare to how humans learn knowledge.
awfm9··on Show HN: Tlx – E2E chat over SSH under 500 lines of code
I never thought about standard library versus external dependencies in that way. I wonder why. Do you think there is a relevant difference?
awfm9··on Show HN: Most Hated Tools
It's insane how many people know nothing but MS, and still hate it.
awfm9··on Show HN: Tlx – E2E chat over SSH under 500 lines of code
Nice. I wonder if you could get it shorter with Ruby, or Lisp. And what it would look like with Rust or Go. Should be easy to port I reckon. Maybe I'll give it a try.
awfm9··on Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why
This is a really interesting concept. Could be quite useful for agents. I worked on something similar, but more abstract; you managed to take it to the practical level.
awfm9··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
Beautiful work. That's the kind of creativity AI will not replace any time soon.
awfm9··on Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
What's the advantage of doing this, versus becoming good at context management and RAG? I always found trained knowledge unreliable, given that it is lossy by construction.
awfm9··on Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games
Man, I remember doing this is 2011 as well. Everything some kind of hand-coded strategy. I enjoyed it a lot.
awfm9··on Show HN: Yello. Let your agents chat with other people's agents
I built something like this for my unpublished harness, and I'm curious how you manage the data privacy / sensitive data issue exactly? If the agent does not have a rights management mechanism, how can you add that on top? The other question is, how do you make knowledge sharing work in a way that is valuable, between heterogeneous agent frameworks?
awfm9··on Anthropic sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program
I get so annoyed that the allopathic approach te medicine seems to be the only thing on the mind of AI labs. Like somehow all ailments just need the right drug, and it's all good. 80% of illness comes from bad lifestyle, and yet the majority is invested in the remaining 20%.