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Why?
There's a box.
You give it a problem, and it comes up with a solution.
Why does it matter to you if the box is strictly a LLM, or if the LLM can write code that it executes?
Even neater if the box is self-contained with a local model. You provide electricity, and it comes up with solutions. Why does it matter if it can do chess "in its head", or if it has to use scratch paper?
Another way to achieve something like this is Cosmopolitan C Compiler, Actually Portable Executables. For example, Redbean. (Jart, all of your certs are bad! I can't open your websites any more!) http://justine.lol/
It's a binary that can run on Windows, Mac, Linux, and it is also a zip file. The application can read the zip file and on several systems (not Windows), it can self-modify the zip file. Including hosting SQLite inside the ZIP file.
I feel like, this is a huge stumbling block that many people have. They'll give a model their data, and ask it questions. I vastly prefer letting the model understand the schema, and then writing functions or programs to answer those questions. I feel like I get way, way better answers. I can have it write unit tests for those functions. I can fuzz test those functions. I can look for data that doesn't fit the schema. I can process new data way faster (and with fewer tokens). I can repeatably get the same answers from the same inputs. I can check the code into a git repo and track changes to it over time. I can share the code with other people. I can review the code. I can improve the speed of the code and get the same answers. I can review the error accumulation, and improve it. I can decide how to handle anomalies, and encode those answers.
It's really neat to see what a frontier model can do itself. No doubt.
But "play chess by hand" is a frankly awful metric. It's kind of like asking someone to take a cube root of some arbitrary decimal, in their head, with no scratch paper.
I don't know, maybe WebTorrent should have been the answer? For upcoming, viral content?
But for the deep archives, like the Wayback Machine? I feel like I'd happily pay for egress, and a bit to support them. If it was automatic and built in...
I wish Flattr or something like it had thrived...
Downloader pays.
I make some content and upload it. When you want to download it, you pay Amazon the egress fees. And maybe I get to charge just a bit more, to help me with the Ingress, storage, content creation, etc.
I mean, I know that there's going to be problems with rate limiting, etc. And yes, we have those problems with LLM tokens today. But this just feels like such a useful thing that it baffles me that it doesn't exist already.
That means you need to be prepared to do X.
And what if some of the components of X expire? That means you have to pay to keep them on hand.
And the distribution of how often you do X is absolutely not predictable. Sometimes it's months between them. Sometimes it's 10 in a day.
If you had to be prepared to serve 20 hamburgers, any given afternoon, with no warning, how much ground beef would you waste, over a year?
Counting how much ground beef you did use does actually provide some information. I'm not discounting that. But it absolutely does not tell the whole story.
How often is there a malpractice case for a hip replacement?
I'm willing to bet that the costs of a malpractice case can be one, two, three, or even more orders of magnitude higher than all of those other expenses. Dwarfing any of those enumerated costs. Even cases that they win.
Of course they're looking at the statistics rather than counting beans.
I meant, "Yes, you're so damned right! It's even in the dictionary! I wish people would educate themselves and not believe lies!"
Apparently the dictionary is "woke."
Wikipedia: "A tariff, or import tax, is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer."
Oxford Economics: "Tariffs are taxes imposed by a government on goods and services imported from other countries."
If I had to guess at the comic author's intention...
It's commentary that the logic is flawed. If this is why you're doing tariffs, you're not using them correctly.
Not that tariffs should never be used.
A scalpel is one thing.
Dynamite is something else.
Like, "other countries pay the tariffs."
No. They don't.
How can we have nuanced conversation about the trade-offs, if the leader of one political party blatantly lies about a fundamental detail of how tariffs work?
600% reduction in the price of drugs?
We can't even start a discussion with people who believe this. At all. They reject any information, even their own knowledge of how numbers work.
He worked at Google for 12+ years. He created memcached, WebSub (PubSubHubbub), OpenID, and Perkeep (Camlistore). He's a late-stage co-founder of Tailscale.
If he's a junior engineer, then I have no idea what a senior engineer is.
What has OP done for me lately? :)
So, I want to make an RSS feed Gadget. And you will run an RSS Aggregator Gadget, and then some Presentation Gadget. Do I have that roughly right?
How does my Gadget talk to yours? Cloudflare Tunnels for CGNAT, NAT traversal? CapnProto for the schema? Fire and forget? Online only? Queuing? Store and forward?
How do I keep track of my Contacts? Who is allowed to read my feed? Are controls built in?
So so so many questions. Do you have office hours? :D
They might not be officials, they not might represent the official organizations, but those things do happen.
Especially awesome if film-makers started DONATING their video assets to the museum.