andsoitis's comments

On: The Breath of Intelligence: What emerges between AI reasoning cycles

[andsoitis]

The “breath” or the “breadth”? Or maybe it is meant to be ambiguous.

On: DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

[andsoitis]

> Mojo lang seems to be targeting, but I rarely hear about it here

Momentum over at Mojo lang seems very very slow.

According to their roadmap, they're still busy on Phase 1 ("High performance CPU + GPU coding"), and haven't touched Phase 2 ("Systems application programming") and Phase 3 ("Dynamic object-oriented programming").

So perhaps there isn't much to talk about?

[GeekyBear → andsoitis]

They've got a lot of work yet to do to be a general purpose language, but for GPU programming they have already demonstrated that they can outperform CUDA on Nvidia GPUs.

That's pretty compelling.

On: Pentagon says the public can draw its own conclusions on UFOs

[andsoitis]

That's the kind of thing you say when there is no proof, just innuendo that captures the minds of people already primed to believe.

On: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

[andsoitis]

Summary: no proof of aliens.

[abacadaba00 → andsoitis]

If you read carefully, only “inconclusive” reports have been released.

I guess that’s what “Unexplained Areal Phenomena” means.

[SiempreViernes → abacadaba00]

That's a good point, they should also release all the reports that have been conclusively shown to have an ordinary explanation.

On: Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

[andsoitis]

> It's not like capitalists are creating anything valuable,

Some capitalists create enormous value, some destroy it, some are essentially passive recipients of returns generated by others.

Capitalists provide real productive functions like capital allocation, risk-bearing, founding, governance, monitoring, etc.

[shimman → andsoitis]

No capitalists just provide money, something other entities can as well. Often better too.

Capitalists are completely useless when they have no workers, so I don't understand your points outside of "wow capitalists require a lot of workers to exist."

Hence the rush towards LLM systems, the dream of perpetual labor machine is too enticing.

There is also no risks for capitalists, do we live on the same planet where the stated US economic policy isn't to socialize the risks and privatize the gains?

[Jensson → shimman]

> There is also no risks for capitalists

So you argue no capitalists ever lost money? It happens all the time, the risk is real.

On: Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

[andsoitis]

> but then again our housemaster was an Afrikaner

What are you saying?

[madaxe_again → andsoitis]

That the apartheid regime and its proponents were not terribly nice people.

Sorry if that’s a controversial stance these days.

[andsoitis → madaxe_again]

Stereotyping all Afrikaners with that brush is despicable.

On: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

[andsoitis]

As long as you didn’t sell, and in fact bought more on the way down, you did well. Of course, not everyone’s time horizon works the timing (you might need the money and so sell at a low point), but generally, being in the market pays off.

On: Sley is live: the first native AI programming language

[andsoitis]

That readme is horrendous, at least to my eyes. I was trying to figure out what languages / runtimes Sley interops with.

On: (Official) Claude FM music for thinking and building [video]

[andsoitis]

I use brain.fm, which I highly recommend. They have major categories: Focus, Relax, Sleep, Meditate, and Workout.

On: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

[andsoitis]

Now that you have stopped using Claude Code, what have you replaced it with? Would love to know your setup. I am experimenting with local models too, but nothing comes close to Claude (Code), at least for me - not just for coding, mind you.

[zamalek → andsoitis]

FWIW, if you want frontier-level performance, as it was a few months back, Deepseek v4 and K2.6 are there. Almost zero chance you can run them locally, but you do have choice in terms of providers.

Qwen-coder-next is considered SOTA for things you could actually run locally.