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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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I tend to move back and forth between Common Lisp and Racket - so many good things from both communities and tech.
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I turn off running scripts on installation. So far, no inconveniences.
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I love the zero dependency implementation. I do this style of breathing during specific time periods of practicing Qi Gong. I will try your script when I get to my laptop. Thanks.
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Interesting ideas for generalizing goals to reduce human labor in human <—> agent interactions. That said, maybe it is better to set up customized skills and infrastructure for large projects? A…
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Until Anthropic, OpenAI, and Tesla have IPOs and are then bound by some laws to be truthful, I don’t want to bother about their possible valuations. I do care about: how useful their products are vs. …
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That is a very cool web app with lots of interesting examples and a good place to read code examples and be able to run them. I tried using the editor Mine written in Coalton. Coalton is a nice langua…
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Sometimes I see things that make me reevaluate assumptions I make. I am all in on flexibility using LLMs and agentic coding harnesses: I hate feeling locked down to one platform. Then I saw this in th…
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Well, good for them that they are charging enterprises API rates. Why in the world not do something similar for consumers? Use for free a few times a day, have a $5 dollar plan for light use, and perh…
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I feel sorry for people who have to use strong AI agentic agents all day long for their jobs. I just came off of a 30 day experiment using Gemini Ultra (all the Antigravity+Claude Opus I could use) an…
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Thanks for the references. BTW, Google is my pick for the winner in the USA tech giants AI race. I worked at Google about 12 years ago and was impressed by their use of renewable energy, etc.
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Great article that reinforces my own opinion but adding the cleverness of adding low cost human labor into the equation. Nice. I spent a month comparing Gemini Ultra plan to using much lower cost Deep…
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I started doing this at work in the late 1970s: if I had to talk with someone at work about new code, design, etc., I would always suggest we walk outside for a while and talk+walk. Big win in creativ…
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Pardon the almost 50 year old nostalgia, but I got so much out of manually typing in code from old BYTE Magazine and other articles.
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Twenty years ago my neighbor, a retired surgeon, made me a PVC didgeridoo and did the wax buildup thing - I still mostly play that didgeridoo. Years later my wife bought me a traditional heavy didgeri…
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My didgeridoo teacher had the class practice at home continuously blowing air through a straw - it still took me almost half a year to reliably be able to do circular breathing. I have read a few refe…
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I tried it and the text input area was black with a dark font. I checked the documentation, and asked DeepSeek v4, Claude, and Gemini for help with the fonts/style and nothing works except to run…
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While you are correct that something like Antigravity 2 + Opus 4.6 can handle large scale software engineering tasks, I would argue that it is usually (but not always) better "coding agent hygien…
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> "which use cases earn the inference cost they burn?" That is the question. I love using OpenCode with paid inference providers and seeing the cost of every little thing I do. On the oth…
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The app over-write thing is not good. It took me 90 minutes to get the new chat Antigravity, the new Antigravity IDE, and Antigravity CLI installed and one task done on each. My 1 month subscription o…
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I agree on search, really like DDG. I only rely on Google products that I pay for (Gemini APIs, YouTube Premium, occasionally pay for Colab, purchased Books on Play).
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You are using Q6 6 bit quantization; on my 32G MacMini I use Q4 and it is faster but when I use it with OpenCode, I set up a task and go outside to walk for ten minutes. Smart, capable, and slow. Stil…
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Strong agree with the premises of the article: I like the framing that the AI hype-masters are successful because they instill a fear of missing out in corporate leaders. I have worked with old fashio…
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Yeah, I mostly agree with you on both points. 1. Tech execs are all in for making money. A small tangent: my wife and I used to enjoy the All In Podcast, but now those four guys mostly lie (my opinion…
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No, just keep the usual tax/finacial/health data on my devices. I consider Anthropic's Mythros security bug finder mostly marketing, but other things worry me that there might be a glob…
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Not sure how much it helps, but I just run all my Apple devices in "Lockdown mode", don't install apps (use Safari), and try to mostly use Safari in private sandboxed mode.
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yes, and Claude is available on Google AntiGravity with some paid accounts.
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I can guess: I am 3 weeks into a 4 week Ultra subscription and the amount of Claude Opus and Gemini Pro tokens that they give you on the subscription is very generous - I feel like I have been gorging…
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Maybe this will be a market success? My non-tech brother loves all the AI features on his Pixel phone. Apple has a good story with Handoff to connect Apple devices. Google might have some success sell…
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I am in the US but my daily chat AI is Proton's Lumo+. Adequate, good features, not too expensive. I am near the end of a 1 month experiment using Google's $250/month Ultra AI plan and …
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That looks cool. If they support binary releases on macOS Apple Silicon I will try it out. I wrote one major project in UCSD Pascal on Apple II 45 years ago: my Honnibo Warrior Go Playing program. For…