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Imagine you’re trying to deliver groceries in a busy city using a map that was published in 1971. You’ll find yourselves looking for houses, apartment blocks, entire neighbourhoods that didn’t exist when the map was drawn. This is what it’s like when an AI coding assistant or agent is trying to work on a code … Continue reading "CRESS Principles for Context Engineering – C is for Current"
Earlier today, I saw this news on my Threads timeline: Guy finds Google Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI model on our devices. I must confess, I am still using Google (Chrome and the likes; especially Chrome) on my laptop and my phone, mostly due to the convenience. That said, I’m already sick of […] The post Some short updates appeared first on coriander in pho.
If you’ve been building anything with agents in the past year, you already know the shape of the problem even if you haven’t named it: you’ve got a model in one cloud, a vector store in another, a tool server somewhere on-prem, an MCP gateway facing the public internet, and a handful of A2A flows […] The post Notes from Philip Griffith’s talk: Why Traditional Networking Fails Agentic AI appeared first on Global Nerdy.
Terrible things happen Beautiful things happen People are weeping People are laughing The world is a play Of light and shadow Everyone is a victim Everyone is to blame No one is a victim No one is to blame An old man dies in your arms An infant is born in your hands The peony I planted last year in my garden I thought had not survived now swells with ancient
A book Steve likely would like. A neat part of the Lovecraft legend. I liked the Mountains of Madness when I read it a few years ago.
What's really needed is humility.
Farmer here. We would not need market interventions if we simply had high tariffs on food. Farmers produce a commodity product that has to compete on price with food grown in countries with zero labor protections (Mexico cowboys earn $17 per day on average vs WA state cowboys who make $17 minimum per hour) and zero environmental protections (many chemicals are banned from use here and engines need very expensive pollution mitigation devices). The post We need tariffs first...
I recently set up a local coding AI on my MacBook Pro M5 Pro with 48 GB of unified memory — no cloud, no external API, nothing leaving the machine unless I explicitly route it there. Here is an honest account of what I tried, what crashed, and what finally worked. The goal I wanted to run a capable coding model locally — no cloud, no API costs, no code leaving my network.
Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space
When the Roman legions arrived at the Lima River, they were convinced it was the River Lethe - the River of forgetfulness, and refused to cross…
I’d like to start here (as opposed to somewhere else?) by putting something on the record. Or the cassette tape, or whatever. Travan tape? LTO? My esteemed BSD Now podcast co-host Tom says he has enough computers; sentiment to which I can relate. I have enough of these electronic contraptions to last me a lifetime of tinkering, upgrading, maintaining, maintaining, maintaining and did I mention…? Naturally then, I’d like to clarify that I have absolutely no need for...
Judges need accountability, judges need to be able to be fired when they behave illegally or unethically. Judge Ural Glanville at a minimum behaved in an unethical manner if not criminal manner by attempting to use prison time to force the attorney for the defendant to reveal attorney client privileged information. It shocks the conscience that this judge was not given prison time or at least fired from his job.… read more “Judge Orders Attorney’s Arrest but it IMMEDIATELY...
Some well modelled Dutch railways…. Urban trams…. HO, some of it modular on the grand scale…. And to close, how about these gigantic HO loop fiddle yards?
A continuously evolving list of observations from San Francisco.