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whazor··on Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
Given the approach from the article, you can commit the hints to git and run tests for verification. The model would be used during coding.
whazor··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
A question I have, with the type { output: string }, would the model not become a LLM? And if it does, shouldn’t it cost the same as a LLM for output?
whazor··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
There are also people arguing that children should have no internet access because its harmful.

But children do have access to internet and often with some protections.

This is also how I feel about AI, where a full ban is the lazy way out. Similarly like the internet, it is not possible to 100% protect a child every potential harmful AI interaction.

whazor··on GPT‑Live‑1 in the API
This voice model can do tool calling. So as long you give it powerful tools, I believe it to be useful.
whazor··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
I can understand the concerns but at the same time it feels weird to deny young people the ability to make their ideas reality. I got proper internet access when I was 12 and that is how I taught myself how to program.
whazor··on ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol
Once you know this, you cannot unsee this in every AI design everywhere
whazor··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
I'm confident that Muse can do lots of agentic tasks succesfully for normies on outdated models. Like buying sneakers, booking appointments, dealing with government forms.
whazor··on Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework
Yeah and you probably have to. An ETF easily has >1000 different stocks and even being weighted. So it has a completely different risk appetite by being so averaged.

But ETFs do have to follow particular rules defined by their product description. So it is still interesting to benchmark against.

whazor··on Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework
The 'edge' is holding the investments over long periods of times. Agents are merely automating the portfolio managing part for lower costs.
whazor··on Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework
It would be more interesting to compare trading agents with index tracking ETFs. The better version of an ETF could maybe be a model where you zoom in on the companies and add/remove to your portfolio on the company related news, but keeping a broader portfolio.

Maybe agentic trading still performs worse than ETFs. But alternatively, if it were meaningfully better then it would be okay to opensource, similarly how ETFs are publishing their portfolios.

whazor··on Mistral raises €3B
It makes no sense to train frontier models from scratch anymore. The best frontier models are only a half year ahead of Chinese open models. In this regard Anthropic and OpenAI are also in a bad spot when they waste so much compute on training models.

An important factor is that fine tuning existing open models is incredible cheap. You can easily change any cultural biases if you want a model to be 'sovereign'. And Mistral could combine that with their custom data sets for their enterprise customer needs. Mistral still trains their own models, but they also seem to offer fine tuning existing models.

With model weights being commoditized, another differentiator could be deploying efficient inference chips, especially if you combine it with a developer ecosystem for vendor lock-in. That is why it is interesting that both Samsung and ASML are investors, since they are companies that could make a difference in this area.

whazor··on Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it
Is the article inventing any new words?
whazor··on Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development
So many moving parts that can break. I am already sad my robot vacuum cleaner broke (it's the moving lidar that broke). I have to send the entire thing including dock back to the manufacturer (very expensive).

My preference would be ifixit level guides where you can easily replace parts yourself. Then it would be perfect if the same servo is used everywhere so I can have 3 or 4 stored somewhere.

whazor··on AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
Alternatively, AI teaches you lessons about technical debt, code maintainability, and architecture faster too. Traditionally it took at least one or two years to really bump into those problems. Now any student can get into these problems within one or two weeks.
whazor··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
The browser mode is great, except its fully banned by Cloudflare. I tried cancelling a phone subscription but Cloudflare stopped it.
whazor··on Stripe acquires Clerky
My analysis is that Stripe wants to own the costs of running a startup. They would get a complete picture of both sides of the business: what money comes in and where it goes.

There are also a couple of advantages. They can take money directly from revenue before it leaves Stripes and without any processing costs. They can also invest into startups through credits and financing. And finally, their exposure to bankruptcy risk can drop as well.

whazor··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
I think it will happen.

And EU regulations are generally more two-sided where lots of innovations can happen by smaller marketplaces as well. Not just Amazon.

whazor··on New EU-wide product repair rules come into force
My robot vacuum cleaner broke. The lidar sensor is broken. The manufactures asked me to send it to their repair center but the whole thing, including the dock. This is a major pain to do so. I would much rather receive a new lidar sensor with some instructions on how to repair it myself.
whazor··on Don't Paste the AI, please
Create new chat after step 2, then ask AI to fix the spelling / grammar of those three sentences
whazor··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
Fastmail search sucks

But now I use the MCP and that seems to resolve all my search problems. Now I let an agent search. Their MCP can still be improved though

whazor··on Mistral OCR 4.1
Mistral is (wisely) are changing their strategy. They switched to hosting open models and they are investing in hosting inference within EU.

Fine tuning an open model to European values is significantly cheaper than making your own model.

whazor··on For the love of god stop using CPU limits in Kubernetes
Remove CPU limits. Keep CPU requests. Keep memory limits.
whazor··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
There is actually an interesting kind of yin-yang balance between Opus 5 and Fable:

- Fable is more cautious

- Opus 5 gets things done in a more dangerous way

Both models score similar. The only issue is that Fable is more expense/usage limited.

whazor··on Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations
Kubernetes is where Oxide, from my armchair, doesn't yet quite match the public cloud.

On AWS EKS Fargate, each pod runs in its own dedicated VM. With Oxide each k8s node is a VM, so you still need something like Talos.

On networking it looks like it is getting closer. Where you can have external subnet give pod routed IPs without overlay. But the gap, as marked by the article, is also the load balancing.

It would be nice if Kubernetes were a native feature out-of-the-box. Also integrated within the existing user/access control.

whazor··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
I disagree with pipeline being broken.

Now with agents, you can get really bad (vibe coded) code bases in a week.

Before, to get this kind of experience, you had to work in a company for at least 2 or 3 years.

whazor··on My Agent Setup
I don't have problems on ChatGPT with the amount of MCPs (five) I have. But each MCP can do quite a lot.
whazor··on My Agent Setup
I am now on the MCP route, where I have lots of personally hosted MCPs. Including managing calender/e-mail.

It does not cost too much effort to maintain MCP servers. No port forwarding or VPNs required thanks to OpenAI tunnels.

And security wise its quite nice, since you have to activate MCP or give permission sometimes. So each chat is kind of isolated from each-other.

whazor··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
My trick is to let agents make an University Course Curriculum based of books and papers. Then if I don't understand something, I ask AI to simplify the book/paper until I get it.
whazor··on My server is a phone now
Remove it.

In normal conditions, you use the product while it’s active. But with a server you are not daily checking.

You might have a bug in your changing limit. I think the constant higher temperature could also become an issue.

whazor··on Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
Ah, a real delicacy then
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