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blubber··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
They also have postponed their IPO. So they don't have to be profitable that soon. Anthropic on the other hand plans to do the IPO this fall.
blubber··on Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test
I cannot tell whether you were really serious but this actually could be an interesting study: same task, same procedure, only the language and writing system is different: English vs Chinese vs Korean vs ...

Since the information density is about the same in all (spoken) languages, there shouldn't be much of a difference. But maybe one writing system is better suited for LLMs.

blubber··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
How do you explain applicants that the real goal of your work is folding underwear while the internet is flooded with announcements like this https://www.unitree.com/mobile/As2-W and people explaining how weapons could be mounted on such a thing?
blubber··on Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
Variable AWS is unbound.
blubber··on Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
Common lisp isn't functional in that sense.
blubber··on YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood
"found numerous examples of bloat and inefficiencies in Tan’s site code, and used a single (Anthropic) Claude session to review the files he downloaded from the website to confirm his observations"

1. I hope they never get hold of the code of MS Office or almost any other piece of real-world business software.

2. So anyone with claude access could arrive at the same conclusions ... and ask claude to fix it?

blubber··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
In mice

Edit: the title should have such a tag

blubber··on Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
I suppose you meant "good enough"?
blubber··on The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
"Where Are the Accuracy Benchmarks?"

I wish the author would have provided one.

blubber··on The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
There is a conflict of interest, though.
blubber··on A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3
Because it's cgo-free maybe?
blubber··on Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
Some additional sound bites from last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLevant/comments/1nv9521/larry_el...
blubber··on DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
That's why there won't be any local models in 10-20 years. The latest Chinese models are already hosted on proprietary clouds.
blubber··on Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness
Obligatory post: open source != free software.

There is OSS you are not allowed to modify etc.

blubber··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
And since you became management, you have refered to software only by the stock symbols of the owning companies?
blubber··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
While I like the move, I think it could have come a few decades earlier and I'm stunned by the fact that this is Franc-only. When will Europe ever wake up?
blubber··on Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience
Isn't Zig's repetitive ceremonial code around allocators+ allocation + defer *.deinit() a sign of a serious shortcoming like golang's error handling? If zig is so good at metaprogramming, why isn't there a metaprogramming solution to this repetitive code?
blubber··on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
Or Microsoft could simply fund open source software since they provide a Linux subsystem to allow people to do proper work despite of them having to use windows
blubber··on Claude in Chrome
Two AI agents fighting couldn't end up in an infinite loop?
blubber··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
Yes, but there is no song with the line: party like it's 1996. Simply doesn't work.
blubber··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
"When I use a text-only browser then no "adblock" is necessary"

So you browser as if it were 1999? Yup, no ads back then.

blubber··on Python is not a great language for data science
This isn't about compilation vs interpretation. R is simply badly designed as a programming language. This doesn't change just because its inventor wrote a book.
blubber··on Hacking on the ReMarkable 2
An RSS client without a web browser, which the team is fervently opposed to?
blubber··on Python is not a great language for data science
I know people who used Visual Basic for all of their programming. I'd say No either way unless people explained to me without bursting out into laughter that they also have extensive experience with, e.g., Kotlin, Rust, C#, Java etc. and still prefer VB or R for non-trivial programs.
blubber··on Python is not a great language for data science
No, it's not. Even established packages have bugs caused by R weirdness. I like it nevertheless.
blubber··on Python is not a great language for data science
"The reason you can use this simpler syntax in R is because it’s non-standard-evaluation ..."

So it actually is about Python vs R.

That said, while this kind of non-standard evaluation is nice when working interactively on the command line, I don't think it's that relevant when writing code for more elaborated analyses. In that context, I'd actually see this as a disadvantage of R because you suddenly have to jump through loops to make trivial things work with that non-standard evaluation.

blubber··on I built a faster Notion in Rust
Isn't really (ie fully) open source, is it?
blubber··on Gemini 3
Is this a problem for which the (human) solution is well documented an known and was learned during the training phase? Or is it a novel problem?

I personally think anthropomorphizing LLMs is a bad idea.

blubber··on IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
What kind of remote functionality? Lately, somebody mentioned https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/tunnels
blubber··on Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
That's not true. I think China is grateful to them for selling them their PV industry for a Wurstbrot.
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