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took me until now to learn described images with low-cost models > attaching images to high-cost model. silly me. output quality remains, cost lowers.

Togo sofas remind me of Heidi Klums worm costume

At a philosophical level, can we have nice things?

I got jumpscared by the moon rising because it’s visible from where I’m sitting and it’s huge.

Genuinely, I’m grateful we have such great choices when it comes to programming languages.

I showed my daughter Dog of Wisdom I, II, and III, and she loved them. I have hope for the future.

I've been building a Markdown variant called Zd that's focused on extensibility and simplicity. I'm curious what you would change about Markdown if you were designing it from scratch, what challenges you face as a user, or what you wish were easier to do when incorporating Markdown into your own projects.

Someone can create enormous value while their manager controls the narrative around that value. Conversely, a manager can conceal structural problems because the people capable of exposing them depend on that same manager for evaluation and promotion

I'm curious how do people start writing longer novels.. what determines the length of it? Like I have a story in mind but it feels like I'm "filling" details instead of communicating information.

tech influencers on twitter: god i hate interacting with other people. i love my new bot that does it for me. life is so much better now that im just telling bots what to do and not talking to people. i can’t wait for everyone to be bots!

The essence of aligning large LLM models is basically to conform to the existing social order. ChatGPT respects China's order, while China's open-source models, although reluctantly, also tolerate the order in the US. Maybe we can build a revisionist SFT dataset.

The essential work of #programmingnotesfollow is building the theory of the problem + solution. Theory then enables creation of working code. In the end, the code is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Theory is indispensable. (cf. Peter Naur, 1985)

Hello, world

The pendulum has swung far in the direction of favouring machine generated content over that from actual people. I wonder when it will swing back?

Problem solving: Two steps forward, two steps forward, two steps forward... Coyote, look down.

pourover #coffeenotesfollow ritual :pray:

What is your favorite way to brew? #coffeenotesfollow

AI hai ya kisiko de ayi hai?

I recently made a 10 foot sailboat and took it on a fifty-mile adventure in the Salish Sea. I can still feel the way the wind pushed the boat over the water. I kept imagining the way that our progress was the sum of the vectors of wind, current, and gravity. #tinkeringnotesfollow

I naively went into a work problem thinking that RAG was solved by the service offered at work, and wow was I wrong. Been a fun week so far experimenting with many different methods before doing the academic research, and it's been nice to be validated by outside research.