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You're right that it's not literally frontier. But like recent Qwen releases, it is a lot more capable than anybody thought models of this size could be a year ago, like capable enough to set a ceiling on what you can charge for AI for certain applications. Others still clearly justify a stronger model, but this trend may continue, etc.

Thanks!

Me: I want this

Also me: just a month ago I bought a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for my phone because they are completely sufficient for the work emergency use case along with the termux app

The thing about a diagonal measurement is it doesn't tell you if it's going to fit on a shitty airline tray table or not. Some laptops with a larger diagonal measurement are not too deep. Others are way too deep.

How about the Panasonic Let's Note? Still made, although not for the American market. A little thicker so that it can have an adequate battery and be small at the same time. I love it, but I didn't know it existed until my recent trip to Japan, and I didn't come across quite the right used machine before coming home.

Oh man. I have a ThinkPad L14 as my personal, beater, okay to take on the plane to Japan or whatever machine. And I hate it because it's too big. But I'm also hooked on it because it has pretty decent performance, excellent battery life with the third party battery I put in it, acceptable keyboard, acceptable trackpad.

I read this review with mounting excitement until I got to the part about the things he doesn't like. And yeah, those things would drive me up the wall too.

Although it might be fine if that touchy keyboard works well for touch typists. For me, that's everything.

I'm pretty sure eval time is token generation time where it's actually outputting new tokens. If you're getting a thousand per second on that, I'd love to know on what.

I'm not having the same problems, but I completely take your point about this being tricky with ADHD, as all things built to maximize engagement can be.

Slop is not data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.

Actually, why should Google collude on pricing? They have deep pockets and could starve out the competition while keeping prices low, if they really wanted.

I think it is priced high because it's basically their smartest model as well as their fastest, so why shouldn't they?

You can still use earlier generations of Flash at a lower cost if you want "fast and cheap and just OK," which often makes sense. (Just checked)

I would predict they will lower this price when 3.5 High appears, but perhaps not all the way.

This is a bit like discovering punk rock for the first time and rolling your eyes and saying "yeah, we really need more rock"

Already "too many signups" at 13 votes, ruh roh

This looks amazing. I hope Android will be an option.

Halfway through I was imagining aliens to whom this operator comes naturally and our math is weird. By the end I found out that we might be those aliens.

I love this! Dijkstra's Algorithm is always a fun time

I've been busy adding postgres and sqlite support to apostrophecms:

https://apostrophecms.com

Six months ago, that would have been unrealistic, because we're heavily committed to the mongodb API and we make it part of our own API.

Starting in December though, Opus 4.6 made it perfectly realistic to pursue this with Claude Code as a series of personal weekend projects.

Now, despite not having any official resources on this until the last week or so, it should land in May.

This doesn't work for everything. It absolutely helps that the problem I'm solving is an "adapter pattern" problem: "make X talk like Y." And that we have a massive test suite, at multiple levels. That combination makes "here's the problem, go solve it, grind until the tests pass, don't bother me for a few hours" a realistic AI agent request.

But it's a little mind-blowing all the same. The hype around AI is so out of control, it can be easy to miss genuine "holy crap" moments.

Along the way I've written a fair bit about how to run Claude Code autonomously on your household server in a reasonably secure manner:

https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-wit...)

Also general Claude Code tips and thoughts on workflows that help and workflows that ultimately just speed your burnout:

https://apostrophecms.com/blog/claude-code-part-2-making-the...

I know, everybody's writing this stuff, but the desire to share is natural.

(Disclaimer: I'm part of the demographic AI was trained on. If I tried not to sound like a bot, I'd have to sound like... well, somebody else)

Correct link:

https://pages.awscloud.com/aws-reaction-ai-space-orbit.html

I don't know how this gets messed up every time I try to share it here.

AWS just dropped this blog post describing the glories of AI data centers in space.

Most companies hyping this ignore the cooling problem: in space, you only have radiative cooling to rely on. Even though the temperature outside is absolute zero, radiative cooling is so inefficient that getting rid of heat is a major engineering requirement for every spacecraft.

But AWS is doubling down. They describe "natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees" as a BENEFIT of space-based Ai datacenters.

Obviously, AWS engineers are smarter than this. And AWS is a solid business with a future, AI or no AI.

So why does AWS, a credible company with an established reputation, feel the need to echo the hype? Is there anyone left who doesn't know this is greenwashing?

[Reposted due to bad link in my original post]

Whoops thanks, made a fresh post.

"The vacuum of space provides natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees..." This is not how physics works. The lack of convection in space makes cooling harder, not easier. This isn't the only nonsense in the article but it's the worst part. How do we make it prohibitively embarrassing for companies to keep making this claim that AI data center cooling in space will just magically work?

"The vacuum of space provides natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees..."

This is not how physics works. The lack of convection in space makes cooling harder, not easier. This isn't the only nonsense in the article but it's the worst part. How do we make it prohibitively embarrassing for companies to keep making this claim that AI data center cooling in space will just magically work?

I found the article itself very informative and not particularly ai-tastic. But then I got to that infographic at the end. Holy smokes was that disappointing. It seems clear they didn't even bother to read the captions the AI scribbled.

Last night I had to install the VO.20 pre-release of ollama to use this model. So I'm wondering if these instructions are accurate.

That's interesting man, that's pretty f***' interesting. I don't think I've seen it though. I've let it run for hours making changes overnight and I only do git operations manually.

Oh, but maybe allowing it to do remote git operations is a necessary trigger.

OK, so maybe we're headed for a dark forest scenario as far as profit driven startups go.

But if your goal is simply for the thing to exist, there is a strong incentive to share.

Plain old Unix permissions can get it done. One account for you, one account for AI. A shared folder belonging to a group that both are in. umask and setgid to get the story right for new files. https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-wit...

I get that they could do this in a future update, but if you never connect it to the Internet, a TV that doesn't require it today isn't going to just start. (Unless they pregamed to do it on such-and-such-a-date, but that would be a nightmare for their legal department if the rules change)

I'm interested in pushing the envelope a bit on the raspberry Pi to do personal assistant projects with it. The pi zero 2 is a surprisingly powerful little device, it is comparable to a pi 3B, except it has less RAM.

I was trying to do a bit of generative art for a pixel display in my window, and feeling creatively stuck, then realized I wanted turtle graphics. Implemented that and I was unlocked.

Great stuff. Is your team interested in the STT problem?

Wow! I'm so glad this actually did open the door from someone. I remember nerding out over how lame it was, but I was fortunate enough to have a TRS-80 Model III in my household. And I didn't fully grasp the hardware limitations then.

Someone really should DIY a real Atari "VCS," as in adequate bank switched RAM and something not unlike TRS-80 BASIC achieved without outlandish hardware for the time...

OMG! Someone pulled it off back in the day! I had no idea. So much for my retirement project idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuMate

That's ok, I have a lot of years to go before I need one LOL