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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 6d

Why I believe there are a lot of misleading papers about LLM reasoning.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 12d

That's the whole point. The concept exists almost everywhere but in places like Sicily and China it assumes a fundamental role in life.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 12d

Today I discovered that in China there is this concept of "losing face" (mianzi / 面子), which maps 1:1 with Sicilian "perdiri la facci" both as exact wording and conceptually.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 16d

Saying that a vector database reaches a given recall percentage is more marketing than anything, HNSWs are more complicated than that. Let's explore why in this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG3q...

Vector databases and recall: exploring the concept in a more deep way.

YouTube video by Salvatore Sanfilippo

www.youtube.com

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 19d

Finally YouTube is going to improve the dubbing feature with lipsync and potentially (looking at this example video) voice matching. That's great in general, and I'm very happy for my YouTube channel that can be better experienced by english speakers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W3n...

Made On YouTube 2025: Auto-Dubbing

YouTube video by Updates From YouTube

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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 27d

Who are the designers of the new iPhone UI? Would love to hire them in order to create the hardest escape room in the world.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 28d

We have it now! "WITHATTRIBS" :) It's documented in the README, and I'm here for any other info. Merged into unstable some time ago.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 29d

VRANGE was merged into Redis unstable and will be likely back-ported. It allows to get lex ranges of elements in vector sets, which is useful as iterator and for other tasks.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's a few days that I'm writing a blog post on HNSWs. As usually, writing about a subject raises new questions, that trigger new searches, and in the goal of explaining what you understood, you understand more. Blogging may no longer be cool but surely remains useful.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Sep 1

New EN video: Inspecting LLM embeddings in GGUF format with gguflib.c and Redis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugba...

Inspecting LLM embeddings in GGUF format with gguflib.c and Redis

YouTube video by Salvatore Sanfilippo

www.youtube.com

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Sep 1

ADV: my C course on YouTube is free and can be watched without problems with subtitles or dubbed audio by non Italian speakers :)

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 29

LLMs are not just data dumps (with errors) are powerful data manipulation and transformation devices.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 29

This also needs to contain devices designed to last, with simple UIs (keyboards and displays) that can be powered on (solar power maybe?) to ask questions straight away. GPUs may long be gone at some point.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 29

We should likely put a large LLM weights and the explanation of how to do inference in some hard-to-degradate material, inside N bunkers in different parts of the world. So that humans are more likely to be able to restart civilization in case of fatal events.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 29

Still, I believe there is no better way so far in order to archive the human history for the long term. The web (it is now very clear) loses pieces every year. I really hope that the LLMs weights will be saved for a long time as an archive, incorrect very in many details, but better than nothing.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 29

That's however is, in my opinion, a *side effect*. I refute the idea that LLMs are mainly just lossy compression of information: if we don't add to this view their ability to combine and process such information, we are providing a strongly insufficient mental model.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 28

At this stage AI will provide a huge boost to balanced people that don't jump in any extreme hype / anti-hype train, and will create issues to the folks that don't see that judicious application of LLMs is the key. One of those historical moments when wisdom is an advantage.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 25

Playing with adding LLMs embeddings into Redis vector sets, to explore relationships and differences with embedding words models like Word2Vec. Will make a YouTube video and/or blog post.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 25

The problem is there, it's the solution that is totally useless. I'm not denying the problem. But it is self-evident when the PR is a mass of AI generated code. At the same time, AI can help to refine a PR and produce *better* code. Also contributors build trust over time usually.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 24

Why the "declare AI help in your PR" is useless, courtesy of 3000 years ago logic:

- If you can't tell without the disclaimer, it's useless: people will not tell.

- If you can tell, it's useless: you can tell.

Just evaluate quality, not process.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 22

You are not there for some time now. Maybe you can't imagine the level the posts in the timeline have reached: it is TERRIBLE. All full of sexist racist shit I don't follow. Also things that don't make me sleep at night like footages of incidents and alike. What a total trash.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 22

It's worse than that: I'm in both communities because for work concerns I can't afford to cut most of the community of Redis, but there are also people there that kinda questioned the fact I encourage switching here. Also many top accounts (not Musk/Trump supporters) stay there for simplicity.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 21

When you use coding agents for something that produces the bulk of the code of an application that will be used for years, also factor in the technical debt that you are happily accumulating. When you use LLMs an an aid, you could, on the contrary, improve your coding culture.

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 13

New blog post: AI is different.

antirez.com/news/155

antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Aug 12

Experts self distillation, RL on long context directly vs incremental, XML format, exact optimizer parameters, there is quite some meat there.