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Qwen 3.8 3 days ago

I agree, I'm on ios now and that's not because it's "better", it's because of everyone else that has an iphone

I find Philips Sonicare toothbrushes break after about a year, long before the battery gives up. Which i guess is another reason not having integrated batteries would be nice. But then they might not make as much money whenever I buy a new one so they probably wouldn't do that

I don't run one of these sites that has these issues so I'm really not aware of this problem. How can it be that sites are getting overwhelmed with scrapers that are just looking for training data? You only need to scrape it once to train a model, so shouldn't there be less traffic from this than there is from search engines?

On the other hand if the article is wrong and the traffic is coming from other ai uses (like an agent visiting pages on behalf of a user) then that would make sense.

I haven't seen it do it by itself that much so far. Even then, a lot of the time is spent waiting for some shell command to complete, which isn't inference. I guess being able to do parallel inference is like having multiple cores in a cpu, you can get by without it by just sharing that single core, and having it just gives you a performance boost under certain circumstances

Most useful LLM work is done in parallel

I guess what I'm doing is not considered that useful then? I usually only have zero, one, or occasionally two things actively doing inference at a time, be it claude code sessions or one of the chatgpt/claude web interfaces, and i bet that's true for like 95% of people using llms. And anyway i bet even the hardcore people using a bunch of parallel agents would appreciate having access to local, private inference for some things.

You're obviously right though that cloud inference isn't going away anytime soon

Agreed, if there was something actually better to switch to then I'd be interested. But seems unlikely for that to happen now - it's easier than ever to build a new github, at least the app itself but i doubt someone's gonna bother with the business effort needed to actually build it up as a reliable, trustworthy option that you know will be around for a while, which is a process that takes years when you know you're going to get disrupted. It would probably have to be open source to get early adopters to use it but somehow be nicer to use than GitHub, and there's basically no money to be made

That's how i feel about it too. But i haven't used it because there's no point in getting used to a new model if it's just gonna get taken away again. I wonder if they're also doing this to get some sort of signal on which types of users everyone is - for example someone else might always be chasing whatever the best model is

Road to Elm 1.0 16 days ago

Same, I basically assumed the community around it had died out. But i guess the sole maintainer/creator is still around.

I never used elm except for doing a tutorial, but lately I've built a full stack gleam app (using coding agents for the most part, with a lot of control in the beginning on the structure of the code) and have found that process works quite well

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I'm confused because this snippet implies he's doing the trading himself, whereas later in the article it says it's done by a third party on his behalf that (he says) isn't informed by his personal knowledge. So it's not as clear but insider trading as is implied here

Definitely thought you meant claude opus but now from reading a couple other comments it sounds like you mean something else called opus?

I've re-read the comment again and I'm convinced it's not ai. It uses a pattern that ai adopted but it seems like an actual genuine comment. This is based on my spidey senses so it's not something I'm going to debate logically but it seems quite a few people agree with me. And I've seen lots of annoying ai-written stuff, and of course use Claude and Chatgpt regularly

I kind of agree with that perspective, if you're testing them on something in the exam, why isn't the course material teaching it to them? After all you're paying a lot of money for tuition. I went to a good university where the assignments were hard, but as long as you did them the final exam ended up being easy without having to study for them because you already learned everything.

But i also did a semester abroad at a German university and i found there was a different philosophy there where the assignments don't teach you much, and everyone skips class and then studies really hard for the final exam which is often 100% of your grade