@lproven @mike It will help making a better non-AGI product. While not AGI (good!) they can be useful. And that direction is already profitable (opex-wise, if you stop doing research and scaling). It is financially prudent to expand.
Maybe the promise to VCs are outrageous, but the product itself is solid (and will benefit greatly from bigger buildouts).

I hate LLMs and the crap they sometimes unload on my screen. They're neither a good product at the time, nor seeds for the superintelligence. But the "nothing more" part is just objectively false.

Pyramid schemes have no value beyond pyramiding and scheming. LLMs have the value of arguably better search engines. People are paying real cash to get real skills and tutoring out of them.

I get that "imperial" sounds majestic.
But how it is even possible to do science using subjective units "like ass-warm per square pint"?
Besides sociology ofc

@cfbolz @DRMacIver Python is even easier to learn if you `dis` a lot and know how does the magic work. Don't understand a concept? dis it! Can't figure out the magic? dis it!

tired: C with classes
wired: C with structs

(yes it's just C)

x86_64 is a fantasy console too

if you're brave enough

-- I fixed the normals, I swear! No, this time for real. Yes, I've tested it from multiple directions.

@nikitonsky The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

@Edent I see no causal connection between my education and the energy use of that system :blobcat_mlem:

@Edent How much energe did they use to collect the data and predict future energy usage?

@me One of my first Delphi apps was a fake "system is locked" window with a password prompt -- to steal a BIOS password or something like that.
Worked just fine with some "social engineering" on my mom 😅

New thing from the Zstd (and LZ4/xxhash) crowd: OpenZL. A dozen or so building blocks (shufflers, transposers, filters, compressors) that can be chained together. Can automatically build "best" config based on sample data; same decompressor can decompress any config. Nice! openzl.org/ (and whitepaper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03203) #compression #openzl

@marick It is even simpler than that: "Survival of the fit enough".

Whatever else is going on, you only need to meet the bar of being viable. No need to waste energy to reach the apex in all of the environments. You can put it to make a niche of your own instead. Or not, the evolution wouldn't judge.

@aras C++ proudly holds the crown of fastest-to-crash-language indeed.

@ericflo This.

Responses API are a bit cleaner and nicer to use. But everyone else is stuck on completions and we can't have nice things )=

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