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We watched "Murder Building" (Le Crime du 3e Étage) yesterday. With my daughter, at "Chloe", an open-air cinema. Nice moovie, beautiful night, we had a great time.

Today I had a long discussion with Eric, a professor of architecture from Austria while we were both enjoying the afternoon by the sea. I learned so much! Public spaces are so valuable. Developing the skill to ask and listen, too.

A summer morning.

The smell of sea and pine trees.

All windows open, to let the breeze flow through the small summer house.

Cicadas.

My daughter singing and playing the guitar in the next room.

I read my book.

Big news. AMD acquires Taalas.

This is the future: LLM-on-silicon, on every device makes total sense. You have your CPU, GPU and AIU. Local, fast, optimized for one model. If you want more power, or a newer model, use the cloud. Just like we do with CPUs/GPUs.

AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon

Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second

If the title was "Meta developers accessed the internet and hacked another firm", the reactions would have been different. There would be some lawsuits at least.

Why not now?

Codeberg is such a disappointment. I used to build a number of tools that integrated with Farcaster. Is Farcaster crypto? Do I have to ask permission/assessment and explain politely that "it's not crypto the way you may think"?

Omg, the arrogance.

ENS is an extraordinary piece of tech. The fact that projects focused on decentralization and censorship resistance ignore it shows:

1. How bad is crypto branding, even between devs who should be embracing a decentralized, censorship-resistant kv-store.
2. How short-sighted these devs are.

Airports are special places. So many stories start, end or take place in airports...

Returning from a short trip to Dublin. Last time I was here, it was nearly 30 years ago. Ireland has a special place in my heart.