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hendleron AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

Google gears is grinding

hendleron Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet

Cloudflare is certainly making a full court press to provide infra for the agentic web. My own ability to see whats coming also believes we need wallets, agent protocols, cloud services for agents, etc. So, maybe this is the way.

At the same time, something tells me what is coming isn't going to be as recognizable as these products build for.

hendleron AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller Incorruptible

A company's values become even more important with AI accelerating and expanding the mission of traditional Delaware Corporations.

Do you have advice on how to use AI to help teams stay true to their values?

Having not read your book yet, in my mind there's the obvious legal support AI can provide to help navigate complex situations, but maybe there's some other groundwork in the value creation and implementation itself?

hendleron Now AI agents need what RSS does

...And Semantic Web.

hendleron CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

Just ask, "I need to wash my car. If a carwash is 50 ft away should I walk or drive?"

hendleron India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark

There's some interesting, sad, but hopeful science fiction about where this is headed.

Ministry for the Future: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-fo...

Excerpt here: https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-ministry-for-the-futur...

hendleron Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

With the TPU deal with Google and their relationship with Amazon they will have access compute coming online.

I worked with 4.6 and found some improvements for better planning and sustained us, but agree some posters 4.7 is slower, overthinking.

What I expect is frontier models to get bigger and more expensive (especially fast mode like on Cerberus). And most of his get much smaller distillations for the more generous subscription tiers.

hendleron Global warming has accelerated significantly

The question is not if the commenter is an expert, but if they are correct.

The claim that some models didn't take larger systems into account is also because an expert in the arctic wasn't an expert in oceans. And the expert in biodiversity isn't an expert in food supply chains. Expertise isn't the question. Instead it is - do all of us who are non experts (all of us) have enough expert data to have a systemic understanding of an accelerating trend?

hendleron I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

same for me

hendleron A header-only C vector database library

Useful for embedded devices? Crashes, disk updates not important for ephemeral process?

hendleron Shannon: Claude Code for Pen Testing: #1 on Github today

Since this is open source, it's a white-hat tool, but it also democratizes script kiddos being able to do some serious damage.

It's happening everywhere, all at once. I guess who owns the most hardware wins the arms race?

hendleron Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

Finland happiness study revealed the concept of "go first".

hendleron A Survey of AI Agent Protocols

HTML was XML for the web. Nothing to it from a technical perspective.

hendleron Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference

Check out BaseTen for performant use of GPUs

hendleron Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference

Google TPUs, Amazon, a YC funded ASIC/FPGA company, a Chinese Co. all have custom hardware too that might scale well.

hendleron Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference

Is this because 405b doesn't fit on Groq? If they perform better, I would also have liked to have seen.

hendleron Vector databases are the wrong abstraction

Seems like a nice abstraction.

Since I see DuckDB mentioned, folks wanting serverless may also be interested in LanceDB, written in Rust, with most features built out for Python.

https://lancedb.com/

https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb

Side note, I wrote a proof of concept of embeddings generator being handled inside PostgreSQL, independent of the index.

https://github.com/Hendler/flame

hendleron Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning

Thanks! Feel free to reach out.

hendleron Wild animals are spiraling to extinction. Can a bunch of bureaucrats save them?

Your answer is part of why I am concerned. Maybe new incentives or leverage can be created. Giving AI the power to create new social dynamics seems both too dangerous and necessary.

hendleron Wild animals are spiraling to extinction. Can a bunch of bureaucrats save them?

I care a lot about the environment, and worked in climate tech for 7 years. I also am very hopeful for AI's contributions.

When we say that AI will help save the environment, I can see short term gains in things like nuclear energy expansion and improvement, better educational opportunities, robotic labor and other efficiency automations, etc. On ecosystems and biodiversity, I don't see a clear path.

AI can improve our understanding, but a systems collapse requires very complex bio-chemical systems that are all interdependent. Maybe we all live in bubbles of AI controlled environments post Holocene, but we rely on larger earth systems that will be difficult to rebuild post collapse.

Does anyone else worry that AI will not be rapid or sufficiently impactful to deal with ecosystem collapse?

hendleron Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning

I also wrote wrote an LLM to Prolog interpreter for a hackathon called "Logical". With a few hours effort I'm sure it could be improved.

https://github.com/Hendler/logical

I think while LLMs may approach completeness here, it's good to have an interpretable system to audit/verify and reproduce results.

hendleron RabbitMQ 4.0

https://nsq.io/ is also very reliable, stable, lightweight, and easy to use.

hendleron Deepwater Sub Recovers Roman Battering Ram Used in Carthage in Punic Wars Battle

    Peaches
    4 hours ago

    Maybe try posting a picture of the darned thing in use? RN it’s a pile of coral.

        Yellowfoot
        3 hours ago

        Unfortunately, all contemporaneous photographs of the item in use were lost during the burning of the Library of Alexandria a few centuries later.

hendleron AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level

see also https://leandojo.org/

hendleron Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?

No. Good catch though! I am not Jim, though I have talked with him!

hendleron Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?

Prolog itself is still developed and used in various settings (mostly swi-prolog?), but other languages and logic engines solve domain specific but similar problems better (rule engines, formal proof verifiers, etc). For exploratory work it can be useful.

I have tried to use it in combination will LLMs unsuccessfully, partly because the domain was not specific enough. Otherwise you need a lot of real world knowledge and a large fact database.

Logic engines for first order logic in RDF/OWL also have interesting logical inference abilities, like graphdbs.

Any programming language can do "logic" and the work at MIT/CSAIL in probabilistic programming may turn out to be a better way to combine fuzzy logic and formal proofs.

Not sure this answers your question, but maybe this points towards some interesting directions.

hendleron Shapeshift: Semantically map JSON objects using key-level vector embeddings

Created a Rust version using devin.ai. (untested)

https://github.com/HumanAssisted/shapeshift-rust

hendleron An air quality model that is evolving with the times

sure - twitter.com/Hendler

hendleron An air quality model that is evolving with the times

Air quality is not thought enough of in terms of localized data. Some modeling works at larger scales, but if you want to know the forecast for other pollutants (especially ones that disperse or transition) or the source of methane leaks, you need very localized data from many modalities (wind direction, temperature, topographic, seasonal, traffic, etc).

I worked at https://aclima.io on air quality for 6.5 years. My role was managing backend data pipelines, but I worked with scientists and data scientists who were pushing the boundaries of models' capabilities. Models are complex and expensive - any advancement here, like Graphcast, is very important. [1] One job our team was responsible for is to reduce the cost of high quality data, so we drove vehicles around to collect very localized data, which ended up being temporally sparse. Modeling can fill gaps to some measurable level of certainty.

It should also be said that policy is far behind the science, but the burden will remain on science and data to continue make conclusions irrefutable.

[1] - https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/graphcast-ai-model-for...

hendleron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

Hey, looks interesting. Any consulting positions?

ps typo "Excellence isn't really really important to you"