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mark_l_watson
21,400karma·8,624submissions·August 19, 2009
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I am an author of 20 books and a practitioner specializing in artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, and the semantic web. I have 55 US patents. I code in Common Lisp, Clojure, Swift, Python, Haskell, Java, and Scheme. My web site is https://markwatson.com
My recent books can be read for free online on my web site or optionally you can pay for them at https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson
Twitter: mark_l_watson and Mastodon: @mark_watson@mastodon.social
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Right on, for code examples for my writing and my own ‘gentleman scientist’ experiments I stick with gemini-cli and codex. For play time, I literally love experimenting with small local models. I am a…
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as someone else mentioned, lots of apps to run local models. I also wrote my own app, in Apple’s app store, that uses Apple’s system model.
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Looks wonderful but I have an old iPad Pro with an M1 and 16G memory and I already feel my old iPad Pro is powerful enough to run local LLMs, write books, use SSH/Mosh to my servers, etc. EDIT: o…
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Hello my friend, you deserve a good day! I have just spent a few days (part time) getting AiderEmacs working for running local models and commercial APIs. Fairly useful. Next up for me is integrating …
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I use the Python Kuzu graph database library, super convenient for local experiments. I see no reason to stop using it. The underlying database is archived on GitHub so it isn’t going anywhere.
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I also like that it runs on bare metal. I wonder is it builds and runs on macOS? (I am on a mobile device and can’t check it myself.) Off topic, but I love the design of the linked web site.
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A great idea, bypassing as much conversion as possible between vector space and natural language tokens. Reminds me of a discussion of having AI’s “talk” to each other using vector space. There was an…
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Good account of his reasoning. Off topic, but my Dad’s last girlfriend before he died two years ago was a co-founder of the Hemlock Society/International Right To Die organization - huge effort t…
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I agree with you. I think chat interfaces are really good with voice interfaces while walking, asking for a foreign language lesson, effectively doing a web search while walking by speaking and listen…
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I spent several years working with OPS5 in the 1980s. The Common Lisp code, especially the Rete network stuff, was fairly straight forward to modify and generally work with. Good times.
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Location: Flagstaff Arizona
Remote: Yes, but willing to travel for in-office time
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: neural networks, deep learning, LLM (starting in 1985), general AI, l…
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I used UCSD Pascal on an Apple II computer.
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I can’t read the linked FT article but I wanted to mention that Ed Zitron’s podcast Better Offline is interesting for me because he has a contrarian view of tech that is often different from my own. S…
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Go is a wonderful game. My older brother bought a Go set when I was a little kid and we played together. Now, 65 years later I need to give him a 9 stone handicap (I cheated by taking lessons from a S…
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I rate the value of LLM based AI on how it improves me personally. Positive experiences include being able to more easily. read scientific papers with an AI filling in details for embedded math, and a…
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I only use NotebookLM a few times a month when I have many input sources I want to sift through. Very valuable but most appropriate for longer work/study sessions.
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Interesting paper, and something I have been thinking about. I am retired so I am a lighter user of AI than most people here but I still have Gemini and ChatGPT to a half dozen deep research studies f…
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Short answers: dollar dominance and market access leverage. The argument for benefits of US economic power are clear. Less clear is military power: The Plaza Accord was framed as cooperation among G5 …
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I agree. Amazon and I think Microsoft are also working on their own NVIDIA replacement chips - it will be interesting to see if any companies start selling chips, or stick with services.
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I think the answer to your question is ‘not for very long.’ I frequently have breakfast with a friend who is a retired math professor and he is an avid investor in the stock market. We talk a lot abou…
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Earning report does not break out profit from Gemini separately, but this is still useful https://abc.xyz/assets/34/fa/ee06f3de4338b99acffc5c229d9f/20... A long ti…
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I think that The Plaza Accord (1985) ended up crippling Japan economically. The Plaza Accord is an excellent example of my country benefiting from military and economic power - unfortunately, the days…
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I was also wondering if Google would try to make profit from selling TPUs, but they probably won’t because: At least for me, Google has some real cachet and deserves kudos for not losing money selling…
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I think that NVIDIA’s moat is the US government. Remember our government’s efforts to prevent the use of Huawei cell infrastructure in Europe and around the world? I am a long time fan of Dave Sacks a…
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Wow, I have absolutely no need for access to a game engine but I still will do the free trial. Some complaints about cost but $3 per week or $30 per year seems reasonable enough. I am a fan of the Swi…
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Thanks, your comment was the one I was looking for, even though I had guessed that ‘brew install mc’ would work. I am curious how mc will fit in with tmux and emacs-nw.
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Great idea! I have wanted to experiment with GrapheneOS but didn’t want it to use it for banking or calls.
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There are ways to mitigate this, the fly weight pattern, etc.
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It looks like this just runs on Nix? For decades I have enjoyed doing development remotely on leased servers or VPSs, living in tmux and Emacs. This project looks like a good direction for some types …
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The VS Code ecosystem has too much complexity for my tastes. I do keep a copy around with a few code formatting plugins installed but I feel more comfortable with Emacs (or Vim for my friends who are …