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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 agree. I worked in Singapore for a short while and I was so very impressed by the people and the government. Singapore is a great place. It is breathtaking to see a government govern in the interest…
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I used to be a huge fan of the All In Pod Cast before the four hosts started spending too much time going on and on about their $2000 bottles of booze, and too much bragging in general, and too much p…
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thanks for the link! Interesting paper and little-coder looks purpose built for my own local model agentic experiments.
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When you run ollama serve, make sure you override the context size to about 32K. Also, I give the model a useful short README.md on the code it is writing or modifying, and a Makefile with useful targ…
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The politics and economics of Musk throwing some support towards Anthropic is interesting (samma is probably pissed). But, if you will pardon a little rant: I hate the idea of subscription inference p…
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I like Google’s business model more than the other frontier model providers: sustainable. One thing I don’t like with Gemini Ultra is no visibility into token use or what the cost would be. I have bee…
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Yes! Sometimes when models get something wrong with less widely used programming languages, I like to just cancel the current inference, fix something myself, then tell the harness/model that I f…
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I have been experimenting with using Claude Code with both the qwen3.6 31B MOE and 28B dense models. Yesterday the 31B model once got confused on refactoring some Prolog code and took a very long time…
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I was in their Pro plan for about a year, now on Ultra, and I am planning on downgrading to the cheap $8/month plan and just using OpenCode with a good inference provider because of one thing: I …
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I am trying to wrap my head around this: if I remove Chrome Browser, will I reclaim the disk space for this model? Thanks in advance.
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I love TUIs because so much of my dev career was ssh/mosh/tmux to remote servers and working where the fast network bandwidth and computational crunch lived. I was vibe coding a layer on top…
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That would have been very useful to me, before I retired! That said, I only run the Hermes Agent on leased VPSs and PyInfra might be a cool and easy to access Hermes - I need to think about that.
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Awesome. I fly very small remote controlled airplanes and a tiny drone. I am a bit nearsighted and I fly my airplanes and drone relatively close to where I stand (10 to 75 feet). A friend flys a few l…
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I agree. I have rather constrained use cases for LLMs and the agentic harnesses that I use with them. I try one or two of my use cases with new models or harnesses, make my own often subjective judgem…
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Chiasmus Looks very cool. I might have a use for it because I like to use LLM harnesses to explore code. Thanks.
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Oh, thanks!
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I bought a 32G MacMini over two years ago and it has been great for experimenting with local models, and now is even useful for local coding (at a slow speed!) with models supporting large context si…
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The shortages are caused by memory manufacturers in Asia having supply chain problems, and the pending strike at Samsung, right?
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Will this require a paid plan? That is, could Warp, when modified, work with a local model on Ollama, no charge?
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A word of warning: I just installed OpenWarp from source, but it looks like it will not let me use my own provider without signing up for an $20/month account -- just like the original Warp I ver…
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it is usually fast, but if gemini-cli or any other coding agent is sluggish I quit using it for a while.
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I like the idea of Mistral, but the last time I evaluated Mistral Vibe it was really nice for $15/month but not as effective as Gemini Plus with AntiGravity and gemini-cli. I am currently running…
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Using Zed with ssh is an interesting idea. I spend a lot of time mosh/ssh to VPSs, then running 'emacs -nw' locally on the server. This is a great setup since I love Emacs, but I will g…
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I experiment a lot with local models, great results for engineering tasks, less so for coding agents. I have used the following on a 32G MacMini to help write useful code: ollama launch claude --model…
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I love LLM tech and want to see it support viable long term businesses that don't rely on losing money providing subsidized subscriptions that lose money. I ranted about this on X yesterday, prim…
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Same for me! My .emacs config has improved and I wrote my own Emacs based coding agent https://github.com/mark-watson/coding-agent …
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Indirectly I use Mistral daily: I like Proton’s Lumo private chat and that runs on Mistral technology. Something like Lumo is very much good enough to replace search and general information browsing a…
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A friend taught me and a few other friends how to play Mahjong early this year. Great game! You do need a skilled instructor and four people to play. This article is good, I wish that I had it five mo…
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So much of the public hates AI, at least the non-tech people I talk with. Good to see so much common sense among the general public. While I find a Gemini Ultra subscription worthwhile for myself, mos…
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I live in Emacs, but I will give Mine a try when get a free hour. I read about Coalton in X and follow the author but I haven't invested time yet to try out.