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I make things. Compilers → Microsoft Band → HBO Max → LLM/AI. https://www.tinytown.ai/
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Incorrectly gone down pathways kept in context still poison future answers. If things go too far astray it is best to start a new chat. Tl;Dr coding assistants will happily go in loops suggesting the same wrong fix again and again. New chat, change initial prompt a bit, proper solution pops out.
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People don't need to love AI content, it just needs to be addictive. Same as people don't "enjoy" short videos content, they just cannot look away from it. In an ideal world AI content will be good, but companies will stop investing in improvements once they reach good enough.
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Yeah the full stoves run on 220 just like and other electric stove.
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Getting a large skillet as hot as possible for the 3rd time while cooking a meal, 5 minutes adds up. The amount of heat I can put into a pan determines what cooking I can do, less heat output means I have to cook in smaller batches or the pan gets overwhelmed. E.g. 3 batches @ 10 mins each vs 2.
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Induction is faster than gas. So fast that when I first got an induction stove I turned it up to max to heat a pan and it warped the pan!
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I've had sugar boil over when making jam and basically permanently stain a glass top.
That aside, induction gets hotter than my old gas stove, and the responsiveness is better than anything else. Plain electric is annoyingly slow to cook with.
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Local and Seattle based, we're on meetup. I'm posting here some, I have 2 other blogs I maintain as well, and approx 0 time to write!
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I love my Bolt, but the tiny range (realistically ~190 miles in summer, much less in winter) plus the super slow "fast" charging (well over 90 minutes) means realistically I can't trust visiting my favorite camping spot 80 miles away in the mountains.
Thankfully it is the last of the slow EVs.
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Also this is a highly controlled ed-tech setup. Ed-tech interventions often have great results in initial pilot studies because the instructors are well trained. (As they were here). Going from a test class to mass deployment in the real world is *hard*. Lots of post-mortems on this topic!
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The improvements are impressive, but they cannot be 1:1 compared to other methodologies, especially given the insane diversity of schooling and even living conditions in the countries being tested.
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Meta Ray-Bans are amazing, on my last trip they translated Latin and Arabic engravings in old Spanish palaces. Personal LLMs are a power thing, we need better batteries. At some point Meta and Goog are going to have an antitrust fight over access to phone APIs. Ray-Bans' are limited by Android APIs.
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They compared their results to other studies, informative, but not the same as a like to like from the same population. I love what AI can do for learning (I use it all the time to help me read journal articles!), but I also love mathematical rigor!
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To be clear, the program had a teacher leading the class. Comparison is to students with no extra tutoring. With extra hours of practice there is no surprise that the students' English was better. A comparison should be done to similar curriculum that is not AI assisted but still using edtech.
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I used to be able to diagnose computer problems based on the sound the computer was making. Unusual HDD seek patterns or fans rev'd up used to mean something specific. Now days SSDs don't make noise and ~spyware~ background tasks keep them running all the time even if you aren't doing anything.
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Looking at the transcript, all is revealed.
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Super interesting and great research, and kind of scary no one thought to ask this before, I honestly just took it for granted myself when building a rag system....
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I worked at Microsoft for a decade, I've seen the Windows kernel code (it is a nice codebase!) No way am I going to Windows 11 with how hostile it is to users. :( After 35 years of Microsoft OSs, my next machine will be Mac or Linux.
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The tile renderer for www.tinytown.ai claude's original code ran at like 15fps, it was re-rendering everything every frame. Also lots of off by one errors. Useful because it got me started but I had to spend several days fixing it up.
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Regular microwaves duty cycle, 50% power is on 50% of the time then off 50%, and the cycles can be long (e.g. 5 seconds on, 5 seconds off). Inverter microwaves actually output any % power at a 100% duty cycle, so you can slowly heat up anything with fine granularity.
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You know what an inverter microwave is, but you dismissed it so easily! It is truly life changing! You can heat up almost anything to a perfectly even temperature all throughout! Get one and try it out, it'll change how you microwave. Perfectly thaw meat, smoothly melt butter/chocolate/anything!
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My #metarayban glasses are an exception, Facebook has the coffers to fund my once a week queries to llama until the heat death of the universe, assuming they so desire. But I don't count on it and I fully expect the free ride to come to an end eventually.
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To be clear I'm talking about the #moxie shutdown. A product customers loved, and with a huge up front cost I realize adding a monthly fee on top would be a hard sell, but (hindsight 20/20) that is what consumer good LLM backed HW companies need to do.
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My son was less than 2 when he learned that ads are bad. One time I was watching a "content producer" on YT and, at 3yrs old, he asked me "why are you watching an ad?" Even at that age he could recognize the video was trying to sell something. (Style + tone of voice is powerful)
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That is already happening w/o AI, a rubber stamp marked "Denied" is easily stamped by human hands.
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I got used to it because it worked even when explorer had given up! There was a long period of Windows history when the shutdown menu was unreliable but the shutdown command was rock solid.
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The cursor is smaller relative to size and resolution of monitors. Higher DPI screens and 27" displays.
A 16 pixel high cursor on a 640x480 display was pretty easy to find. Now days Windows has a 19 pixel tall cursor, and a 4k screen is 2160px high.
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I got a cable modem back in 1999 and I could watch port scans happen on real time because my hub lights would flash. I detects a few successful intrusions when I saw sustained network activity on the hub lights. This was before every application was chatty over the network all the time!