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elijon RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree

I just spawn a subagent in the cheapest range (for example flash-lite) to summarise a tool use. It's the only way that has worked based on my benchmarks and generalises well.

elijon Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video]

he's just talking about going from ReAct [1] to Ratchet [2]. It's largely understood in all tooling (langraph, workflows/goal, honcho, bot mode etc.).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629 [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22148

elijon Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

This is actually quite easy to implement at the harness level and the NER can be way more naive because of the typical nature of LLM dialogue (programming, long running tasks etc).

elijon An agent in 100 lines of Lisp

it is also possible to sandbox elisp at least. I allow pure functions through by default: https://github.com/elij/macher-agent/blob/main/macher-agent-... -- more an interpreter then straight eval but works as author states

elijon Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

this works so seamlessesly inside emacs out the box without a dedicated app

https://github.com/elij/macher-agent

elijon Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

I'm using the 30b MOE model on same spec with 65k tokens as a sub agent with tooling and it absolutely writes decent code. The dense 9b I agree wasn't great.

elijon BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability

if you're a linux person consider a routing on host setup with FRR with /32s. As every host is a /32 network you can focus more on the aspects of BGP rather than TCP/IP.

elijon Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

I asked Bard for the best Arsenal team and it was able to choose current players. It was also able to say how many goals they scored in current season as of today.

elijon When Rust hurts

same issue with networking (specifically per packet heuristics) and even Java hasn't got that right either.

elijon BGP on Windows Desktop

route on host (rfc5549) is the best strategy for host mobility if your fabric is designed around that idea and you embrace ECMP, stateless networking and bipartite topologies. You need to track state to do that without changing the FIB.

elijon UK Police to get new powers to shut down protests before disruption begins

yea we did this in the UK during the 2011 riots, not technically protesting but same as this law.

elijon UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir without patient consent

so I believe this initiative is problematic but I feel activists are shooting themselves in the foot talking about privacy and conspiracy. The issue is lock-in -- the authority is mandating compatibility with proprietary Palantir feature sets (for example approach to federation and access control) and use at a local level (outside NHS-E) as a cost saving measure (the cost saving part means replace not dual operate 2 platforms). This is signaled strongly here and in the FDP procurement.

elijon Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

these leaders are a reflection of the voting population in this and those respective countries.

turns out we don't have that many smart people in the UK

elijon Meta Quest Pro

research has found a bigger correlation with indoor time in early years than computers

elijon Sensisble Soccer

I still refer to SWOS as the greatest game of all time

elijon Rejecting data demands, ExpressVPN removes VPN servers in India

interesting that they're having so much success with false RIPE/ARIN entries. Proper geolocation (as in with visiblity of most T1s) would trivially identify the origin of traffic.

elijon Rejecting data demands, ExpressVPN removes VPN servers in India

not true -- your prefix location is a BGP tag which is appended based on where you're physically connected (which T1 carriers will do). Obviously you can get around it with an overlay network but you'll need some trivial PoP in India.

elijon Russia Sanctions Add Shock Internet Censorship Twist for UK ISPs

they're also dealing with the restrictions on switching fabrics (that were shoe horned in with the 5G hardware restrictions)

elijon Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes: enforce network policies on encrypted traffic

I like this idea and this is very much the future. I wish it wasn't out of band and these proofs could be embedded in the relatively small address space of IP headers. This also lets us take advantage of merchant silicon for branching logic.

Obviously some work is needed in the host IP stack for per packet tagging (DCSP/traffic class) rather than per socket and then flushing.

elijon Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to fail

I agree with all points with respect to static EMRs including NLP efforts.

The cadence, uniformity and alignment of event stores to underlying pathways does pose an opportunity (but there's so little research and I suspect Brian didn't have access to this space). An EMR is a projection/point in time snapsot of these events (basically API calls). There's also inherent natural labels because inferences are evaluated against an actual pathway.

Specifically speaking about intra-episodic inferences -- longitudinal predictions (over several episodes -- or a patient life time) becomes wildly inaccurate. There's a lot of research to demonstrate this no matter which models are used.

elijon Ukraine accepted to NATO cyber defence centre

I think you're forgetting our history with the first part -- especially within our Isles. This is my issue when we try to be too clever about this.

get around a table and talk it out rather than put Ukrainians and Russians in the firing line in an irreversible way -- while we pontificate from relative comfort in the Europe/US -- no one wins from this fighting

FYI: It was criminal as a Brit to fight against IS (the goal of UK) as a civilian

elijon Ukraine accepted to NATO cyber defence centre

this situation has truly opened my eyes about how selective the general population (especially in the UK) can be about certain things.

supplying arms and willing civilians to fight a war = bad Russia 2014

supplying arms and willing civilians to fight a war = good Liz Truss (UK Foreign Secretary) 2022 but before 2022 it was bad

*disclaimer -- both bad

We have been told my entire life that boycotting economies is bad (which is what is going on, this isn't just sanctions) and in some situations discrimination (on grounds of race) but now it's ok.

My brain hurts trying to reconcile these positions.

We just need to end this conflict ASAP and it doesn't help promising to speed run UKR into EU and NATO (even if that's the ultimate goal)

elijon Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

It's very important, specifically in the UK, to put N501Y in the context of political decisions that impact the R index.

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1344774576371335175

elijon A 32nm 1000-Processor Array

Maybe this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845698

elijon Former NASA chief unveils $100M neural chip maker KnuEdge

Looks like an FPGA with only the DSPs and no logic units.

The SoC is probably used in the same way (high level tasks like networking etc.) as it is in FPGA land.

elijon Magic Leap Alleges Workers Stole Its Secrets

AV? https://blogs.intel.com/evangelists/2016/04/26/the-case-for-...

elijon BlackBerry Unveils an Android-Powered Phone with Security Features

The priv physical keyboard is touch captive and also supports swiping up for word completion

elijon Genomics Marks the Next Sequence for FPGA's

Accelerated reference alignment (via something like an FPGA) is definitely a way forward as the problem is now relatively well understood.

Would be interesting to see where things go with respect to de-novo and graph alignment.