No no, I fully agree they are necessary, I'm just making a different point. My point is about weight, not necessity.

I also believe that EVs are necessary, and they're much heavier than ICE cars, because batteries are heavy. This comes with clear problems - for example, pedestrian safety. What annoys me the most is that because all in all EVs are a good thing (or better than the alternative), we've accepted that weight and nobody bats an eyelid at the idea of a 2-ton car when it's in fact an abomination.

Bikes are not cars, thankfully, but 15 kg is not a light bike. It's a light e-bike, but for it's within 1960s standards for what a light "bike" should be. And if you're a petite middle aged woman who carries her bike across 2 flights of stairs in the train station, being told that a 15-kg mountain bike is "light" is a bit of a middle finger.

I feel e-bikes are like electric cars and SUVs, so bloated that they're redefining what "light" means.

My cheap gravel bike from 2020 is 10 kg, and this one is 15. Is this "reasonably light for an e-bike"? Sure. Is this "so light that I won't believe it's electric"? Well, it's 50% heavier than a budget gravel bike from 7 years ago, so no way I could believe that.

Interestingly what I've said here ☝️ ️comes with an interesting implication. There used to be a type of software "engineer" that couldn't actually think through a problem and implement a good software solution. They were valuable because they could refactor, write code, but not think through a problem. These are the people who have the most to lose at the moment, and also the ones that find the least value on AI, because AI only does really well the single thing they could do.

I appreciate the intent behind that sentence, and the problem is that is written (or said) by people who don't understand coding.

Syntax was never the hard part. Code syntax is a set of rules that you can teach a machine and it's "easy" enough for an LLM to grasp it. The problem here is that this phrase does a "code = syntax" but ignoring all the difficult things that actually are in the code. Architecture, design, tradeoffs, translation of vague requirements into concrete software components...

All of those things are terribly hard, and the reason why many LLM-first coding projects get abandoned at 70% and then companies need to hire a Software Development consultancy to mop up their mess.

I'm an engineer. I've studied aerodynamics. I know how helicopters work. I know the blade is a wing that generates lift. I can even explain it all in detail.

Yet if we came across some alien antigravity technology and we started making antigravity aircraft, I'm sure that would make more sense to me than helicopters because what the hell. My brain just refuses to believe they can fly.

Are these any good? I mean, within their size class, obviously - not expecting them to compare to Kimi K3!

Models the size of that 135M one open up some interesting use cases for edge devices.

🙌 Communist Trump is making all textbooks free 🙌

I think this means we can make a torrent client with a built in function that uses 0.1% of 1 CPU core to train an ML model on anything you download. You can download anything legally with it then. 👌

Most people tend to develop coping mechanisms that help them pass as non-ADHD individuals, by lowering their standards for what they can achieve in life and by accepting the abnormally high amounts of stress that hiding their ADHD causes them.

Psychologists call this "growing out of ADHD".

Polestar sells something for a similar price and better quality, and without awkward associations with a billionaire nazi.

$700 million is the estimated development cost of the Falcon Heavy.

Not a game, not a space simulation, but the actual Falcon Heavy rocket. A rocket that can actually go into space.

I know they're different things but I thought I'd leave this here to put things in perspective.

God this is equally terrible and hilarious 😂

For example, The Associated Press reported that an official Meta AI chatbot inserted itself into a conversation in a private Facebook group for Manhattan moms. It claimed it too had a child in school in New York City, but when confronted by the group members, it later apologized before its comments disappeared, according to screenshots shown to The Associated Press.