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It is weird, a year and a half ago I wrote a blog post (https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some-actual-...) basically describing a lot of what Muse does, except all hosted locally. I included a section about using hardware around the house to enhance AI agents.

When the initial Muse launch happened, my first reaction was "wow this sounds familiar."

Now the HW side of things is announced.

To be fair, this is all obvious stuff that should be done. The key is who can pull it off. It has been pointed out many types that technically Muse is nothing new, some combination of Gemini products can already do it. The counterpoint being that packaging and branding make a product.

I am kind of sad that desktop computer use ended up being the way to go instead of hooking into mobile phones. Mobile phones allow for a lot more potential integrations with day to day life, plenty of services now days are (sadly) only available through a mobile app.

Googles subscription offerings are so confusing, I didn't even know gemini spark was a thing. The Gemini brand means so much now.

Meta was genius in coming up with a new name and offering Muse for free to start. They can upsell you once you see the value. Meanwhile I have 3 existing Google subscriptions to different services and from what I can tell, paying for one of the all in one subscriptions that includes Gemini would cost me a lot more.

I did this two decades ago with slashdot comments.

My random blog was highly ranked for a fair number of technical topics.

5.6 Sol has happily reverse engineered and decompiled binaries for me.

Heck it has proactively asked me if I wanted it to tear apart APKs that remote control some HW I have.

I can easily use close to 100 million input tokens a day. A few million output tokens but at the end of the day maybe a thousand or so lines of code get written.

Yeah embedded means a lot of things.

People working on cortex m series chips still static alloc though. :D

Them and game programmers. Also the HFT people from my understanding.

The latter two are due to latency concerns.

Still though, it is something that I think more engineers should try out once or twice. Thinking about how buffers actually need to be is a useful exercise.

Nah we did something similar on Microsoft Band. I wrote about how - https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/cooperative-multitas...

The tldr is you had to preallocate a struct with anything you wanted captured ahead of time.

Embedded people are well used to this.

Dynamic memory management is a performance enhancement. It lets you more efficiently utilize memory vs static allocation at the cost of, well, lots of types of bugs.

You can always preallocate MAX_NUM_ELEMENTS * SIZE_OF_OBJECT for all your arrays. If someone tries to send you more objects then you have buffer space for you just reject the request.

Latency sensitive programs already do this, since memory allocation is rarely deterministic (although it can be in .NET and other similar languages). Likewise a bunch of destructors going off when an object is freed in C++ also takes a, practically, non-deterministic amount of time. (Really well profiles and controlled programs can make this deterministic if allocation patterns are always identical, but that is rarely the case.)

Of course having fixed sized buffers means you have to have protocols that are aware of size limitations. Most protocols now days assume infinite memory. Everything just fails, badly, when memory does run out.

After having worked in embedded for awhile I grew to deeply appreciate planning around memory limits. Really everyone should be doing it but almost nobody is.

There are multiple companies dedicated to turning gift cards into cash.

It isn't some new idea, he just didn't follow all the rules doing it!

In summary - if a perfect AI is made that orders the ideal product for someone, the best mix of price, performance, and reliability, then Amazon will be screwed because they make more money on ads than by selling people the exactly what people want/need.

As a brief reminder to readers at home, in a theoretically perfect free market, profit trends towards 0 as competition increases.

At that time my city was flush with funding from biotech startups and one or another of them donated a bunch of really nice equipment to my school.

> I remember genetically modifying E. coli to glow in the dark in high school.

That was a fun class! I haven't encountered anyone else outside a students who went to my one HS in Seattle during the late 90s / early 2000s who also remember doing that, interesting to hear other schools had a similar class.

Having worked at multiple large companies more often than not the truth is there are 5 levels of approval for every tweet that goes out and writing a single blog post can take months.

The smart companies out source their gorilla marketing to a third party, having realized their own inadequacies.

I was at the same dose of concerta for a decade. I just recently increased to the next dosage.

At this rate I'll top out of dosage sometime around when I retire.

It really isn't on my list of concerns.

Part of diagnostic criteria is how long something lasts.

If you have a really good week you aren't going to get diagnosed with mania.

If you have a really good month where you quit your job, move to Italy, and try to start a new job carving marble statues (and you've never carved stone in your life), well those will all be factors in any diagnoses given.

On the other hand, if you feel sad because your dog died, no one should be writing you a script for anything.

But if your dog died and you can't even function enough to go to work for a month, yeah it is probably temporary, but maybe some help is warranted, be that therapy or meds.

> Just as it would be nonsensical to avoid shopping at WalMart, Target, or any of a million other places. Because I guarantee they're all associated with people you won't like.

In a capitalist society voting with your wallet is one of the few powers consumers have to change corporate behavior.

Why would I give that up?

Yeah goodie bags are totally a thing.

Really well thought out goodie bags are a treat, they follow the theme of the party and they have memorable (even if low priced) gifts.

Most goodie bags are filled with disposable toys that break after a few minutes of play.

I've already granted it permissions to do everything outside the sandbox.

It still starts off in the sandbox anyway. :/

My favorite part (codex thing) is how it runs all commands twice, every time.

Once on a sandbox, realizes nothing works in its sandbox, then again outside the sandbox.

Fucking hell.

Multiple security holes. Issues marked fixed that aren't really. Giant holes left in solutions.

Sol over engineers now and then (hey please don't factor that function out into its own file....) but it doesn't do the same level of stupid terra does.

That said, plan with Sol, implement with terra, have Sol fix all the mistakes, then I go over the code and make recommendations for the architecture to fix Sol's foolishness.

All non-trivial code terra has generated for me has had at least one serious bug in it. Typically caught by a review from myself or Sol.

But I wouldn't trust lower tier models for end to end solutions.

My program failed those people out hard and early.

Two of the freshman classes were weed out classes and they did their job well.

I listen to lots of music. Music controls are super useful to me.

I mainly own my watch for notifications and calendar reminders.

Timers, again every day.

To each their own.

I went to a 2nd tier state school in the early mid 2000s.

For our senior project class, one group of students successfully incorporated as a startup and sold their project to the city as a SaSS app, and my group ended up open sourcing our cross platform app.

Everyone in the program could code - really well - by the time they got to their junior year. Those who couldn't were weeded out early on.

May have helped they the entire first 2 years were taught in native languages with manual memory management.

I got bit by this with redis a couple years ago. The default install on my VPS's distro had it open to the world by default, and it even configured UFW for me (gee thanks!)

No password, owned within seconds of install. :/

It is safe to assume anything Darren Korb works on has an amazing OST.

Heck even the games that aren't that good (of which there is arguably only 1) have an amazing OST.

Missing my favorite - Transistor

Also missing the classic Dreamweb.

Pretty sure my choosing to work for companies ran by stable sane people is responsible for the complete lack of drug fueled orgy invites on my calendar.

Actually the one drugs + stripper party I was invited to was so damn sad and pathetic I left after a few minutes. A bunch of geeks who got rich, using money to do an impersonation of the crazy lifestyle reality TV taught them they were supposed to be having.

I left the party and went back to playing board games in another wing of the hotel.

> If I turn my old gorenje all out on four burners it'll output the likes of maybe 30kW give or take. The largest burner is I think about 15KW on full throttle and that does only acceptable wok or very smoky steak on cast iron ribbed pan.

I have an American made dirt cheap entry level induction range. It is nearly a decade old. It gets used for wok cooking almost daily. During holidays I run all 4 burners non stop for hours on end.

Plenty of commercial kitchens are switching to induction as well, it dramatically reduces ventilation costs, and it provides better temperature control. For smaller kitchens, or when a lower cost build out is needed, induction is a huge win.

The technology is reliable, even if you unfortunately got stuck with bad implementations in the past.

50% of a gas burner's power goes into the air.

Every test done comparing residential gas vs induction burners has shown induction burners heat up pots and pans faster than gas.

Induction puts ~98% of the energy right into your pan. (Based on how losses are measured, some say 90%, whatever, it is way more than 50%!)

> Electrical is inadequate power delivery-wise and requires completely different cookware to the point that it's a different cuisine.

There are Chinese induction wok cooktops that have a curved bottom so a wok fits in and can be heated up all around. Sadly the ones sold here in the states are just 120v, really wish I could get my kitchen stove equipped with one of those running at full power. Though honestly even 240v is limiting.