Stephan
knowsuchagency.bsky.social
Stephan
@knowsuchagency.bsky.social
I'm a software engineer & community builder.

Orange County AI 🤖
PicoCache: A persist drop-in replacement for functools.lru_cache

github.com/knowsuchagen...

#python #softwareengineering #opensource
GitHub - knowsuchagency/picocache: Persistent drop-in replacement for functools.lru_cache
Persistent drop-in replacement for functools.lru_cache - knowsuchagency/picocache
github.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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This is quite fun.

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory

t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1
April 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Shameful and pathetic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2s2.... trump and vance are an embarrassment. They are the definition of weak men.
Watch tense Oval Office argument between Zelensky, Trump and Vance
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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ChatGPT 4.5: What did they train that cost 500 times more than the training cost for DeepSeek V3?
February 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Let the last couple weeks be the death knell to the trope that the Chinese can't innovate.
January 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Check out the buzz DeepSeek AI is causing in Silicon Valley—there’s a post from a Meta employee on the anonymous workplace forum, teamblind. www.teamblind.com/post/Meta-ge...
January 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I just had the first song I’m fairly certain is entirely AI-generated come up on my Spotify “Discover Weekly” playlist open.spotify.com/track/7aL7nF...
We Collide
Van Snyder, MAD1AD, TOROK · We Collide · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
December 27, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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The other major Chinese AI lab, DeepSeek, just dropped their own last-minute entry into the 2024 model race: DeepSeek v3 is a HUGE model (685B parameters) which showed up, mostly undocumented, on Hugging Face this morning. My notes so far: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/25/deepseek-v3/
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base
No model card or announcement yet, but this new model release from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek (an arm of Chinese hedge fund [High-Flyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Flyer_(company))) looks very significant. It's a huge model …
simonwillison.net
December 25, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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You can now call 1-800-CHATGPT
You can now call 1-800-CHATGPT
You can now call ChatGPT for up to 15 minutes in the US, or through WhatsApp.
buff.ly
December 18, 2024 at 6:40 PM
The shooter has a master's in CS, a github, and he's an elon stan. It makes so much sense and yet none at all.
December 9, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

(The exact same laptop that could just about run a GPT-3 class model 20 months ago)

The new Llama 3.3 70B is a striking example of the huge efficiency gains we've seen in the last two years
simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/l...
I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop
Meta’s new Llama 3.3 70B is a genuinely GPT-4 class Large Language Model that runs on my laptop. Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt …
simonwillison.net
December 9, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Exponentially more people are mistaking quadratic growth for the former
December 8, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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main thing i have to say to a lot of you is that if you truly believe that nothing matters then you should delete your account, log off, cancel your voting registration and stop paying attention to anything political at all
December 8, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Remember with increasing sample size, your averages become more reliable

The Ns justify the means
December 7, 2024 at 9:56 PM
If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room
December 6, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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After the official launch of official version of the o1 model, OpenAI updated the UI to bring together image generation, search, reasoning, and canvas into one place. Now, just by typing '/' , GPT 4o can tap into the reasoning capabilities of o1.
December 6, 2024 at 3:25 PM
It’s hilarious the lengths Python devs will go to avoid writing JavaScript
December 6, 2024 at 7:10 PM
I had fun creating a minimalist desktop chat application using pyinstaller, pyloid (electron but python), gradio, and my own library, promptic. github.com/knowsuchagen... #python #ai #programming
GitHub - knowsuchagency/pyloid-chat-demo: minimal python desktop chat application
minimal python desktop chat application. Contribute to knowsuchagency/pyloid-chat-demo development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:26 PM
This is one of the coolest visualizations I've ever seen! Shoutout to @moebio.bsky.social for creating this incredible transformer visualizer moebio.com/mind/ #ai #aidevs
mind
moebio.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:38 PM
I want to turn bluesky into THE place to find the latest in #ai. #aidevs seems like a good one to highlight technical stuff, but maybe there are others being used already?
November 23, 2024 at 7:45 PM