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Current Project: https://procyonresearch.com

Previously: A founding engineer @ https://zerotier.com

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sockaddr··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
This is it.

It's because they need subscription money and interaction data and so keeping a version bump in the wings to stop the bleeding from your competitor's version bump is the logical thing to do. It has nothing to do with RSI.

sockaddr··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Yup. ChatGPT is going to be the new "Microsoft Word" of the corporate AI world
sockaddr··on Retinaa
Switzerland reinvents their passport. The design studio's website looks a bit broken when first loading but scrolling down presents a lot of really nice eye candy.
sockaddr··on Starbase, LA
And it would be nothing without Eberhard and Tarpenning
sockaddr··on Starbase, LA
Elon-types won't "dig us out" of our mess.

Removing parasitic elements in government spending and policy will. This starts with politics. We first need a healthy, educated, engaged, and safe population. All else follows. These are all things Elon actively works against. You aren't part of his future.

sockaddr··on Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Likewise.

I really love CC and have been using it exclusively for a year now but reading Claude's verbose and semantically-obfuscated writing style is wearing me out and I'm planning to move to another provider.

I hope they fix this. It's terrible.

sockaddr··on Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
Yes, but an alternative would be that if an organism is perfectly fit for its static environment (that hasn't changed in 5 million years) then there is no benefit to evolving novel features.

More likely a dynamic environment is most important for intelligence.

sockaddr··on FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums
Quit being naive. It is a legitimate security issue. Imagine telling someone 50 years ago we would have a new peer adversary and we’d allow them to sell us robots that roam our homes and offices with microphones and cameras. You’d seem crazy.

I know it’s inconvenient and on a 1-pass thought pattern it seems oppressive, but in the long term it is better to rip this bandaid off. Same with the routers. This is the ONLY thing I can agree with this admin on.

sockaddr··on Deriving the SVD (Single Value Decomposition) from scratch
No. Worse. You're wasting our time
sockaddr··on Deriving the SVD (Single Value Decomposition) from scratch
Yeah it's 100% bullshit. The biggest red flag here isn't the use of AI, it's the author thinking we're dumb enough not to be able to detect it easily. That itself is dumb and makes this whole article easy to disregard.
sockaddr··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
I read the same comment and thought it made sense too.
sockaddr··on Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
Sorry but I think you’re requirement that something only be “the art” if any arbitrary person can critique it is off. The frontier labs are working on the state of the art but it’s just art that you aren’t allowed to see. Unfortunately.
sockaddr··on "Career coaches" are fear-farming the Stanford AI hiring study [debunk]
This blog is AI generated garbage.
sockaddr··on I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station
I miss that as well but more than likely (at least in the US) that "curated" channel you use to listen to was probably owned by Clear Channel and probably the same exact content played in every other city where everyone else felt like it was for them as well.
sockaddr··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
In fact, duplicates with different approaches over time and different ways of being asked is REALLY good for LLMs
sockaddr··on The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't
Any company that uses that type of background image definitely churns out AI slop
sockaddr··on Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
I'm a huge AI advocate but even I can't get on board with this.

Feel free to fork the kernel and maintain your own vibe-coded disaster.

sockaddr··on I want to live like Costco people
I'm going to law school there next semester.
sockaddr··on Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools
So basically you've built a mechanism for a model to de-compress itself.
sockaddr··on Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers for Bus Mouse Support
To add to this, as long as the diff representing the removal of the driver is kept in the git history it would be trivial for someone in the far future to say to an AI agent:

"Please take this linux source and patch the Bus mouse driver back in but match the new driver interface".

With code preserved in git history it's never actually "removed". It's just, disconnected.

sockaddr··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Sorry but I think this should be left up to the user to decide how it works and how they want to burn their tokens. Also a countdown timer is better than all of these other options you mention.
sockaddr··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Yeah this is actually quite shocking. In my earlier uses of CC I might noodle on a problem for a while, come back and update the plan, go shower, think, give CC a new piece of advice, etc. Basically treating it like a coworker. And I thought that it was a static conversation (at least on the order of a day or so). An hour is absurd IMO and makes me want to rethink whether I want to keep my anthropic plan.
sockaddr··on An unsolicited guide to being a researcher [pdf]
> Also a lot of bullet points are bad

> Slides should have maybe a sentence of text at most

Proceeds to have slides with many bullet points and more than several sentences of text per.

I don't find issue with the slides as they are but if you're going to make arbitrary rules why not follow them yourself?

sockaddr··on Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
Your family is starving and your dog died of radiation poisoning from the fallout but at least your local LLM can browse this and recommend a good software stack for your automated booby traps.
sockaddr··on Montana passes Right to Compute act
I agree. This is language evolving. If someone from the 16th century could hear a modern well-educated person speak English today they would likely be horrified at how degenerate it would sound to them.

So I don't think current English is in some perfect state that should not change.

On god.

sockaddr··on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads
The thought process goes like this:

They're a customer already if they're opening the home screen and they probably already mounted it on their wall so fuck them. Show them ads. Also turn on the microphone in the background (what my Hisense tv does).

sockaddr··on The MacBook Neo
Your amazon links are broken. But I think you're missing the point of this thing. This isn't for people that really even care about performance. It's for people that want a laptop that works with their iPhone, does all the things their school needs them to do in a browser, and doesn't come with a complete dogsh*t OS, and isn't of dubious quality like an HP or a "NIAKUN", whatever that is.

Now the color options, that's a tragedy.

sockaddr··on MacBook Neo
Because it's a different operating system?
sockaddr··on MacBook Neo
> but the Neo may be proof that decades old macs could run Tahoe, and maybe as well or better than the Neo

The A18 Pro is going to out perform many "decades old" processors, which would you be referring to?

I wouldn't conflate "affordable" with "low-end" in terms of processing speed. Apple is able to get the price to this point because of decisions that the rest of the market did not make.

sockaddr··on A case for Go as the best language for AI agents
I'm answering the part of your question about why I post about something that I find works.

Are you this dense in real life or is this an act?

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