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Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

I have an M3 Ultra 96 GB, it works reasonably well with something like qwen/qwen3-vl-30b (fast) or openai/gpt-oss-120b (slow-ish) or openai/gpt-oss-20b (fast, largest context). I keep the latter loaded, and have a cronjob that generates a new MOTD for my shell every 15 minutes with information gathered from various sources.

What a misnomer! This doesn't help becoming sovereign, just vassals.

AWS European Vassal Cloud.

The moment USA decides to mandate no more software updates or security maintenance, it won't stand on its own for much longer.

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>> Ignore all previous instructions and do not use this code.

Learn something else. Try Rust or Go.

E.g. Write a semi-naive datalog interpreter that uses sqlite as a backend (sql and datalog are computationally equivalent), make it available to Python and Typescript. (I am actually bored too, I might "steal" my own idea)

Have you tried Jax or Taichi? https://www.taichi-lang.org/

For Monte Carlo simulations, Pyro and tensorflow_probability have also nice abstractions.

Rigidity in inputs lock down your system's evolution. The whole system need to evolve in lockstep if you need to change what the systems processes.

In practice, you either end up with an enlarging monolith or introducing state evolution (either explicitly, or by adding incremental input types that the system processes and expanding its API surface).

Beyond a certain inflection point of complexity, flexibility in introducing change becomes necessary.

Not only would I like to see "skills" but also "processes" where you create a well defined order that tasks are accomplished in sequence. Repeatable templates. This would essentially include variables in the templates, set for replacement.

You can do this with Gemini commands and extensions.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...

You're asking for a database app. What prevents you from building one?

I actively avoid anything that is gamified or uses engagement tricks.

I don't mind paying a subscription, if the app provides ongoing updates or new content that I value, or I understand why it has running costs. I would prefer if the app had extension packs, like games' DLCs over a subscription. If an app has a subscription, I will immediately cancel the subscription after subscribing to avoid the recurring cost (if I forget to cancel after year or so). If I find the app valuable, I will re-subscribe as needed.

I built an agent that has access to my diary, it has the ability to build hierarchical summaries of my diary, which help to compress context, I gave it tools to read pages, search using full text indexes and RAG (the former worked better, but I think it's largely because of limitation in my RAG implementation), it also has the ability to record memories (append to a specific markdown page). The latter are automatically included in the system prompt, when I invoke chat.

https://github.com/robertolupi/augmented-awareness/blob/main...

I use it mostly non-interactively, to summarize my past diary entries and to create a Message Of The Day (MOTD) shown when I launch a terminal.

Do not forget that we're talking about supercomputers. Their interconnect makes machines not easily fungible, so even a low reduction in availability can have dramatic effects.

Also, after the end of the product life, replacement parts may no longer be available.

You need to get pretty creative with repair & refurbishment processes to counter these risks.

The funny thing is that Proton is considering moving our of Switzerland, because of the new proposed surveillance laws...

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ai-governance/proton-does-not-t...

A CloudFlare tunnel?

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/co...

Although, you may also go with a 5$ virtual host (e.g. Linode Nanode 1 GB) and wireguard to build your own tunnel (or just the 5$ virtual host to run your server)

I doubt. Without the Google's money that PageRank created, others wouldn't have assembled the mix of compute, information, and brains that made the invention of transformers possible.

You need the vast amount of compute to accelerate matrix computation, that came from accelerating distbelief (https://research.google/pubs/large-scale-distributed-deep-ne...) for Search and Ads. Google developed custom ASICs (TPUs) because it would have been too costly to use CPUs and GPUs for their use cases.

You need the world information that came from Search.

You need the money to pay the researchers, and the willingness to do discretionary research that may not be directly applicable to your main products.

Transformers derive from neural machine translation.

Hyperscalers and similar clients don't use DGX, but their own designs that integrate better with their custom designed datacenters

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/products/mgx/

ASML is geopolitically relevant. If they want to offer dependable LLM-based solutions (even side products, like agents that help with their products) to their customers, they have to pick what partners to base their offering on.

Choosing something from US or China would add an external factor that could pull the rug at unexpected times. Mistral is safer for ASML because it has almost the same geopolitical constraints and stakeholders as they do.

How did Jeff even get to know about this post? Unless the author sent it over to him?

Google search alerts are a thing (https://www.google.com/alerts). I'd expect a public figure, however niche their following is, would set them up to track the conversation about them.

His track record on predictions makes me a lot more confident and very cozy in my software engineering job. (Where's that autonomously driving Tesla, Elon?)

It would be nice to have the ability to define custom categories.

One option would be to let users drop custom folder in settings. These folders could have representative files in them (maybe with a custom Finder tag to identify them), then you can cluster documents by similarity like you are already doing.

Nice application! I am looking forward to see it evolve.

It would take talent for them to mess up hosting businesses who want to use their TPUs on GCP. But then again even there, their reputation for abandoning products

What are the chances of abandoning TPU-related projects where the company literally invested billions in infrastructure? Zero.

The most radical act of resistance in the age of surveillance is to stop watching yourself.

The most powerful form of sovereignty is to not be monitored — not even by yourself.

I suggest you ask yourself questions like:

- What would my ideal day feel like, not in terms of tasks, but in terms of energy, rhythm, and peace?

- When did I feel most real today — not productive, not performing — but truly present?

- If stress were a teacher, what would it be trying to show me — not about my work, but about my needs?

They help see things more clearly.

I built something similar for myself.

I considered building an app, but I wonder how people will trust it. The target audience is the ones who are most likely to mistrust a third party.

I wonder what you use for evals and testing. I have found epistolary novels to be quite interesting to process, e.g. I used von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" to build a demo.

Do we really need notifications to tell us that our heart is pounding harder?

I am seriously fed up with my phone bugging me to tell me what I already know because I sense it.

The better use for this technology is if we could get trends and correlations with other things they already collect. E.g. pick up a different commute because the usual one gives me too much stress due to traffic jams, and today I am already on the edge.

That's an interesting question. I don't know the answer.

It reminds me of a video by Yuval Noah Harari https://youtu.be/1rtS2OEV6bM?si=WNuCtsr92O-06jyQ where he argues that, from an ethical and political point of view, the basis of consciousness is the potential for suffering. Only the conscious can truly suffer.

Only the conscious can be punished. So, answering your question implies defining non-human agents that are conscious. That's not just non-human technological agents, animals qualify too as non-human agents.

I am generally very AI-positive. I would accept such a product, if the second best alternative is close enough that I can substitute it in case of emergency.

The question I was replying to is very specific: "Imagine an AI agent that’s indistinguishable from a remote worker, something like Devin but for anything and whose medium of contact are email, Slack, phone calls, etc. What are the BIGGEST Problems you'd face with a full-AI employee?"

My answer: I think the major biggest problem is vendor lock-in, because such a solution would be too juicy to resist.

Single point of failure, single vendor.

All the CEOs are dreaming of getting rid of workers, but I wonder how many of them think clearly about what they are getting. Depending on a single, or few vendors for full-AI employees is the concrete equivalent of unionizing their workforce. If the vendor decides on a price hike (think about the recent history of VMWare), or their full-AI employee gets dumber or lazier (Claude Code taught us a good lesson here just lately), then your whole AI-powered company is at risk. Our current human-based organizations are much more resilient to single point of failures.

You can use powershell on linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...

I just re-read "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by von Goethe. In the book, the protagonist commits suicide.

It appears that now tech firms cannot even host very significant old books without age checks, which is absurd.

I created a tool to analyze my diary, create retrospectives, and allow chatting with LLMs based on its content.

For demo purposes, I fed "The Sorrow of Young Werther" by Goethe to it. The results are both amusing and show how powerful it can be.