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blovescoffee··on How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality
This is going to go absolutely nowhere. There's really no market for these and the govt. would rather focus on something flashy like a new car instead of infrastructure or anything that could threaten Pemex (god forbid...)
blovescoffee··on How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality
There's no way the average taxi driver can spend $8500 usd which is probably between 1 - 2x what they earn in a year in Mazatlan on a new electric vehicle which lacks infrastructure there. The electric vehicle "taxi" drivers in Mexico tend to be the upscale uber drivers. If you chat with taxi drivers in Mexico (I did for a bit while brainstorming startup ideas) they're squeezed between many rocks-and-a-hard-place and I don't think a new electric vehicle that underperforms Chinese ones in most ways will capture any of that market.
blovescoffee··on How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality
As a left leaning guy, none of these actions are inherently not-left-leaning which seems to be your assertion. Left and right and middle can all capture institutions if left unchecked which is the case in Mexico.
blovescoffee··on Interview with Boris Cherny [video]
it's still more expensive and slower to run bigger models though. resource usage is not free
blovescoffee··on PartialString – A finite-difference time-domain physical modelling synthesiser
I’m super curious what that would sound like. Could you elaborate on the non linearity part?
blovescoffee··on ARC-AGI Leaderboard
There are private datasets, and 3rd party providers of these models. Fable doesn’t have a datapoint here because of its particular data retention policy. Even if you don’t trust AWS, do you think Opus on AWS is also sending the data to Anthropic? Do you have any evidence?
blovescoffee··on Fields Medals 2026
Is this supposed to imply that it's accessible?
blovescoffee··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
> LLMs are zombies

How do you know?

blovescoffee··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
I don't know of a single zero day found on a number of tokens that fits inside a subscription plan. I'd be happy to be wrong.
blovescoffee··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
1. it's not cheap to run glm-5.2 so not just anyone can do it 2. just because you haven't heard of attacks doesn't mean they haven't happened 3. this attack in the article was performed by a prerelease model which presumably benchmarks a bit above Sol which benchmarks above glm-5.2

We went from gpt 3 to models discovering and chaining their own zero days in a couple years. I'm not sure what else "takeoff" could possibly look like?

blovescoffee··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Huggingface literally reported the outage separately and did not know who caused it at first.
blovescoffee··on Incremental – A library for incremental computations
Roughly, you subscribe and listen to an observable. Incrementals are more like a cache across some DAG of computation + state that lets you optimize by only recomputing what needs to be recomputed.

There's a really good talk from Ron Minsky here: https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/seven-implementations-...

blovescoffee··on Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers
because you're looking up a result not solving for it
blovescoffee··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
They emailed current paying users of the api (or at least that’s how I got updated).
blovescoffee··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Excited for the deepseek release this week (or at least they announced they'd release this week). Hopefully they also push even closer to SOTA.
blovescoffee··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
"Current GPT/Claude/Gemini" is not a meaningful statement about perf. There's many different models from each of those providers and there's a considerable gap between the best of anthropic and open ai compared to gemini.

Benchmarks have GLM 5.2 somewhere underneath Sol and Fable and closer to now last-gen openai and anthropic models.

blovescoffee··on Show HN: Taetype – a complete font engine for Rust and WASM
Some photos in the readme would be really great here.
blovescoffee··on I love LLMs, I hate hype
> I'd rather use

Is different than

> quite literally unusable

blovescoffee··on A love letter to flashcards
I used a lot of Anki for spanish on top of classes. I'd say (anecdotally) it can bump you up a half to full letter in the A-C system depending on where you start. I learned far more living in Mexico though. You really need to talk to real humans to learn another language. If you don't, you can have a decent rating in A-C system but not actually converse that well.
blovescoffee··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
Why would you bet against it being solved by LLMs? Isn't this very post proof that LLMs in an agentic harness are capable of doing real math? If you just keep cranking away at the tokens I don't see a principled argument against that leading to more solutions to unsolved math, even the hardest problems.
blovescoffee··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
I work on a site with millions of users and we use bun...
blovescoffee··on Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]
I guess I would read this as “copper” as a primary requirement / necessity and some other metal as a secondary requirement. Are you just being pedantic?
blovescoffee··on GPT-5.6
Similar to running arch Linux. Many people do need to. But many people just like tinkering. Tinkering can lead to positive outcomes but it’s usually not “doing work”.
blovescoffee··on GPT-5.6
Pi is so “unbloated” that it’s extra effort to use. You can decide how much work to put into it. I get the trade off. But this is a big jump from CC. I’d recommend some middle ground like opencode.
blovescoffee··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
Companies like Mercor sell data from human experts
blovescoffee··on All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
I suppose it depends on what you count as an ingredient, even still it's greater than 7 thousand. I'm not sure what you mean by it's "your specialization" so I'm happy to hear what you could elaborate on, but I'm a bit stumped. Almost any given state in southern Mexico or any of the tropical latin American countries has thousands of ingredients from native herbs, leafy greens, chiles, spices, bugs, sea life, mammals, snakes and lizards, birds, ferments, mushrooms and fungus, tree barks, seeds, milks, any number of vegetables and fruits. Even an animal has non "meat" ingredients like blood, rennet and bile, bone marrow, do you count brains and intestines and offal here? I can't imagine where you're getting this less than 7 thousand number nor your confidence about it to be honest.
blovescoffee··on How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?
The timelines you’re quoting are too short but “ai is just git clone and sed” is not a good faith argument in 2026.
blovescoffee··on All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
There are only a “few thousand ingredients” seems like orders of magnitude off
blovescoffee··on Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)
Only bc we’re on a nerd site, miso doesn’t involve lacto fermentation in any significant way. And I guess you can pickle cherries in any number of ways that aren’t lacto fermentation.
blovescoffee··on Michael Rabin has died
Wikipedia has demonstrably been ravaged by anti-semitism. Feel free to ignore any of the notes here about Israel / anti-Israeli sentiment which I understand is not clear cut. There's demonstrably antisemitic coalitions editing wikipedia en-masse.

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-i...

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