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monkfish328on The Beam

Love beam

I just wish elixir had static typing built in :)

monkfish328on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

I wonder if fasting of some sort is able to reset these effects somehow - shoot any material on that if you know of it!

monkfish328on Apple's Software Quality Crisis

rrrrrrrrrr

rawrrrrrrr

monkfish328on The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention

Or for that matter, a transform that's learned from the data :) A neural net for the transform itself!

monkfish328on My Time at MIT

> When you approach work with humility and curiosity, you learn more and participate more fully. Good collaborators value these qualities. A beginner’s mind is an asset. Staying close to your authentic self helps you find your true calling.

Love this.

monkfish328on Composable SQL

Ain't noobboddy goott tiimmeeee

monkfish328on Ask HN: I don't want to code anymore. What else can I do?

You're living in the perfect time then! With tools like Cursor AI, I find myself writing less and less code to achieve a product outcome.

First question will be what do you enjoy and how can you do more of that? Or enjoyment aside, what is it you would like to achieve.

Difficult, I know.

monkfish328on We avoid effort even though it can improve our well-being

I often say, "happiness is over a hill". :)

monkfish328on AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world

And capitalists! Those who _own_ the means of production (AI, robots....).

If you have equity in an AI etc company, you'll be flying.

Wealth concentration may increase, barring a revolution.

monkfish328on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

Love it! Like Toucan but with LLMs.

Looking forward to being able to save specific words/phrases for future review + audio functionality + pinyin for Chinese please :)

monkfish328on Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

Fair point

monkfish328on Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

For sure

monkfish328on Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

Zuckerberg has never liked having Android/iOs as gatekeepers i.e. "platforms" for his apps.

He's hoping to control AI as the next platform through which users interact with apps. Free AI is then fine if the surplus value created by not having a gatekeeper to his apps exceeds the cost of the free AI.

That's the strategy. No values here - just strategy folks.

monkfish328on Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

Zuckerberg has never liked having Android/iOs as gatekeepers i.e. "platforms" for his apps.

That's the strategy. No values here - just strategy folks.

monkfish328on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

Guessing they've all made a lot of dough as well already?

monkfish328on The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way (2000)

Could we use this magnetic field for propulsion?

monkfish328on Starlink Defies Order to Block X in Brazil

A non-paywalled article on the topic - https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/09/02/tech/musk-s...

monkfish328on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?

Whatever you do, try to do it incrementally in phases. That way, you'll learn iteratively :)

monkfish328on South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware

Wow I've always heard that South Korean internet is supposed to be one of the fastest in the world? How did that go wrong?

monkfish328on Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo

Or perhaps statistics is reasoning generalised? E.T. Jayne's classic on this makes the case, I'd encourage reading the first chapter - https://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Science-T-Jaynes/d....

monkfish328on [dead]

Nothing forges on in Palestine, after entire population starved and infrastructure destroyed.

Here's to surviving the nth ge-n-ocide.

Although we should indeed mourn victims on all sides.

monkfish328on TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development

So just to clarify, how would one go about auto-generating a stub handler for these route definitions?