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barumrho··on USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
Setting aside politics and personalities, are Palantir's products any good? At least on the surface, their products seem to have many competitors, so is the product quality actually driving their growth?
barumrho··on Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
Would you mind sharing some of your setup? Which model and which params do you tweak (e.g. temperature)?
barumrho··on Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
Is this true? Hardware costs have only gone up during this time. Are you referring to electricity cost to serve these models? (i.e. compute got more efficient?)
barumrho··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
Hooks are not checked in to the repo, so they used a zip archive.
barumrho··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
If everyone took your position, then frontier labs can keep raising their price.
barumrho··on Siri AI
This looks pretty promising to me. It will likely replace the need to set up OpenClaw for average personal users. The work of getting email, messages, and all the personal data on the phone as context seamlessly is not as straightforward as one might think.

I'm curious how the pricing will work. Would it be free up to some limit and then some subscription pricing? I can't imagine it can be free unlimited usage given the price of serving these models.

barumrho··on Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week
You mean you aren't bullish on volume of illegal transactions? /s
barumrho··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
well, you couldn't justify the cost if you still employed all 3.7B
barumrho··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
Is it too high or too low? Honestly cannot tell
barumrho··on Can we have the day off?
If we all 10x our productivity, then we also 10x the cost of taking a day off and theoretically progress is compounding, so it's even costlier...oh no.
barumrho··on Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
That's a bit of a stretch, but the number is bigger than I expected!
barumrho··on Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
Siri doesn't need to have conversations with you. ChatGPT can do that. But, it should be able to do actions you'd do on your phone.
barumrho··on The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models
Is there a reason why this has to be done at training time? Could the system prompt tell the model to convert the output to a different format?
barumrho··on SpaceX files to go public
Do the ETF managers have no discretion in determining when to buy? I was under the impression that they usually handle these changes to indices gradually even under normal circumstances.
barumrho··on Your phone is an entire computer
It would be cool if iPhone could double as a laptop by just adding a monitor and keyboard/mouse and switch over to macOS.
barumrho··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
100 tok/s sounds pretty good. What do you get with 70B? With 128GB, you need quantization to fit 70B model, right?

Wondering if local LLM (for coding) is a realistic option, otherwise I wouldn't have to max out the RAM.

barumrho··on 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
I'd say it's mainly to do with browser/iOS plugins not being responsive. I find myself often resorting to opening the app and copying and pasting the password or other info because autofill function doesn't work on different websites.

Otherwise minor UI things like categories on the sidebar which made it easy to navigate, but they got rid of it a while back.

Good luck with your project!

barumrho··on 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
Good to hear that is a viable option. I am mostly on Apple devices, but do need Linux and Windows support, so I don't think it will work for me.
barumrho··on 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
Anyone have suggestions for a good alternative?

I've been using 1Password (family version to share some subset within the family) for more than 10 years now, but I have to say the user experience has degraded quite a bit. Anyone have a better overall alternative? (Doesn't necessarily have to be cheaper.)

barumrho··on Ring owners are returning their cameras
While I agree that the return numbers are probably very low, you may be underestimating Reddit's impact in terms of product recommendation. I noticed that Reddit results are often pretty prominent on Google search when product reviews are searched for. Security camera market is pretty competitive and a single factor like this could easily sway people to choose alternatives.
barumrho··on The Codex App
Apple Music isn't native either.
barumrho··on Making niche solutions is the point
AI coding tools are providing non-programmers giving similar ability. Not production quality, but still useful to them everyday and they can tweak as they go.
barumrho··on The kind of company I want to be a part of
“이/가” is the Korean version of this. It depends on the sound of the word that precedes.

I still remember seeing it when I first started using Windows 95. As a kid, I was amused that it didn’t know which one to use. Really, I didn’t even know that I was making that choice (and couldn’t say what the rule was).

If anyone is interested about it, this page explains https://www.90daykorean.com/i-ga-grammar/

barumrho··on Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia
Then they are acting as a lender which can be problematic.
barumrho··on Doing Rails Wrong
What was the reason?
barumrho··on The collapse of the econ PhD job market
Math PhDs are usually paid stipend and pay no tuition, so each additional student is a cost to the school.
barumrho··on Fintech dystopia
This seems to misunderstand stablecoins since it is useless for investing/speculation as the value is just $1 if it's successful in its goal.
barumrho··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
LOL, that must be one of the biggest fuck ups in pharmaceutical industry.
barumrho··on Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
I agree with your point about English, but LLMs are not limited to English. You can show them formulas, images, code, etc.
barumrho··on VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
I get where you are coming from, but identity is the foundation of surveillance.
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