hmm.fyi

hmm.fyi

A place for the things that made you go hmm.

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travel

Tourist Traps

quarter--mile.com @cyrus

Look, I’ve read (and watched) Bourdain. I love almost everything he made. And Bourdain is the kind of guy people point to when they tell you to do what the locals do. But ironically, what Bourdain and people like him did is not what the locals do. Or not anymore, at least.

This take flips the script on modern travel culture. I’ve often been told to optimize for what the locals do when visiting a new place but this advice is actually wrong!

Everyday residents are often just stuck in comfortable, mundane routines while visitors hold the real freedom to explore, play, and fully immerse themselves.

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ai

Local AI needs to be the norm

news.ycombinator.com @cyrus

An essay of mine made it to the front page of HN today to spur an interesting discussion. I genuinely believe the puck is heading to an increased amount of local AI usage.

What I’m particularly excited by is that in a few years, local hardware will be even more capable of running highly intelligent and efficient models that are more powerful than we think possible right now.

I still believe frontier cloud hosted models will always be better from an intelligence point of view pound-for-pound, but the underlying point I was trying to make in my essay is not everything needs that level of intelligence.

In fact, most things don’t.

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