But a very small sensor paired with a good telephoto lens is an interesting option. You can get away with much less glass for the same zoom but the downsides of a small sensor. So you get something like the Nikon Coolpix P1100 which has 2000mm full-frame equivalent magnification, but only 16MP and terrible low light performance.

^ https://squareallworthy.tumblr.com/post/163790039847/everyon...

A token misfired

Good thing they jumped on that as soon as they were profitable instead of burning cash. Oh wait...

I think a distinction to draw here is that Cloudflare had relatively large capital raises and were almost immediately profitable¹. They had the luxury of throwing away money. Judicious optimisation makes sense for scrappy start-ups, especially when trivial optimisations like these could easily be farmed off to an agent.

¹ https://timeline.www.cloudflare.com/

Minor nitpick: I believe Elixir and Erlang are strongly typed languages, but for a long time they have both been dynamically typed. With v1.20, Elixir is well on its way to transitioning to a gradually static typed language, and to-date has done so almost purely through inference (except for guards which can explicitly specify type information)

A truly stochastic method is more likely to hit against edge cases, rather than an agent that tends to towards idiomatic solutions and that is trained against a corpus of existing software, and burns millions of tokens/watts spinning its wheels.

^ There's plenty of business value to be found in agentic AI without reaching for it for every solution. I'd even posit agentic AI is even better when paired with focused old-fashioned squishy-brained software engineering in the loop.

> Sure enough, when he exposed volunteers to the equivalent of 30 minutes of summer sunlight without sunscreen, their nitric oxide levels went up and their blood pressure went down.

I can't find information on the methods for this particular study. So I'm curious if he just set up UV lights on a timer and sat his subjects under them. That's something anyone can set up in their home office if they live somewhere gloomy. Instead of taking a vitamin D pill, turn the timer switch on for 30 minutes of a properly calibrated and positioned low-dose UV light (and out of direct line of sight to anyone not under it)

Or just take a nitric oxide supplement :)

Nothing stopping turnkey OSS AI hardware being productised, including niceties like opt-in automated updates. If the trend continues of models becoming smaller and more capable for everyday use, it also derisks against obsolescence.

As an outsider, I'm curious on how?

https://www.catl.com/en/news/6812.html

Typing probably makes sense where memory-correctness needs to be enforced (e.g. Rust), and inferring those semantics require a much wider context. But memory-correctness isn't really something that afflicts BEAM languages.

He gives a lot more nuanced take than 'types are useless', which is more like 'types are less useful than people think in the context of Elixir development'. (Which makes sense because he's in the middle of implementing a type system for Elixir.)

https://youtu.be/giYbq4HmfGA?t=571