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Aurornis
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Claims about Ox Alpha performing at Fable level were from the social media hype cycle. Everything new in the LLM space brings a wave of influencers hyping it up as a revolutionary leap forward. Don’t forget to like and subscribe to learn mo
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All smaller models and models behind frontier are expected to be released by default. Otherwise there’s no reason to produce them. Chinese labs are not releasing all of their model weights. Qwen is known as an open weight model by most, but
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My professor and teacher friends are painfully aware of how many students submit AI generated essays. They're adding steps like having the students discuss and defend their essay, which immediately reveals the people who had AI write s
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The spread isn't as large as I thought from the headline. It's closer to a toss-up than I would have expected. The length of the response is a huge factor: > Students tended to prefer longer responses. The selected answer was 3
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So less than 4% of the userbase filters out vibecoding stories? This looks like a big red herring. Every time I open up the lobste.rs home page, there's an 80% chance the most commented on stories are related to AI in some way. Other s
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> You're phrasing it like it was kind of an inherent technical limitation with this kind of burning weights into silicon. It is. As I said, they could have shrunk it with a smaller process node, but that's not at all close to w
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> You can also beat the Neo on every measure by comparing it to $700 Windows laptops. https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/dell-xps-13-2026-review This shows the Neo winning on benchmarks, except for file transfer s
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> I know this is what Taalas was doing (acquired by AMD), here was their demo, https://chatjimmy.ai/ which is based on Llama 3.1 8B. It feels like this should start to happen soon. Taalas needed a giant chip (6nm) for an
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> increasing ambient temperatures, That study was so bad that I can’t believe it’s becoming an actual concern that people use against data centers. They were barely able to register a temperature increase a couple hundred meters directly
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I’ve debated Mac Studio or MBP at each generation. For equal spec machines the price premium to get a MBP over the Studio is always smaller than I expected, so I pay the extra amount and get the MBP. This changes when you get into connotati
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> Xiamoi is some random chinese company not known for high end chips and was able to catch up impressivly in a short period of time Xiamoi is a huge company and is a commonly known brand. They’ve been making chips for a long time. They d
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> It's the really inexpensive Neo, of course, but even the M5 laptops are consistently beat on performance and battery life by Intel Windows laptops. Of course you can beat the entry level MacBook Neo by comparing it to larger, more
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Enthusiasts buying these for fun are not the target market. These aren’t big sellers to begin with but a lot of the sales are going to companies where people have budgets for gear like this and can make a business case for it. This is, sadl
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It is not the same all over the world. Starting a small company in the US is a breeze compared to what I’ve watched peers in the EU fight against.
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> But in the free time I had, I did end up making a SaaS that set me up very comfortably for the rest of my life. There were examples like this of people in the groups hitting on something and making enough money to retire (if they manag
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Do you have a non-video, non-X summary of what he’s talking about? I’m not watching a 31 minute video on X to figure out what this is about. Theo is another influencer who thrives on being contrarian, embellishing negative claims about thin
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> talking about how Macs are complete trash and can’t be used “for agents”. DHH has always been a contrarian who speaks highly confidently in extremes. He does well in topics where he can show up and act like a beacon of sane and helpful
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> They have tried to find the highest that the market pays for sota models; however, on the consumer side, this is just too confusing and unsettling: The consumer side cheap monthly plans exist for the same reason companies like Cloudfla
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> (from their perspective) extremely wealthy blow-ins I’ve had some friends do the digital nomad lifestyle. One thing that stood out to me was how many of them were not really doing that well financially. The stereotype is someone with a
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You’re still missing it Humans did do the review. They paused their ability to take new rides until the human review was complete.
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Yeah, you actually want to do this with monitors of that generation to make them last. You could argue that there should be an option to disable it for people who don’t care. Refusing to take 1 minute out of your day to learn the reason for
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> But wouldn't you want a human to be involved in this process? The article says human review was used for the final decisions. The accounts were temporarily suspended during the investigation. Investigations take time because you n
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There is something amazing about letting the computer work at something tirelessly until it gets to a working solution. I’m also amazed at how often I can speed up the process by reviewing progress, inserting my knowledge, stopping it from
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> This guy will get you killed Yeah, no. Advising people to correct Vitamin D deficiencies but to avoid overdosing is correct. I quoted the study. The study agrees that excessive Vitamin D consumption is not good.
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Study was in an elderly cohort with cognitive impairment. This is a cohort more likely to have nutrition and diet problems and spend all of their time indoors. I haven’t found the full study but the results look marginal for a narrow group.
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> There are versions of Qwen3.8-27B that are unrestricted and available from hugging face. The restrictions are not a single check in the model that can be removed. Those models on Huggingface are manipulated in different ways that also
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> Has it? CPUs ran much cooler back then. CPUs now throttle to keep their temp in check. Back then, if the temp got too high they’d be permanently damaged like in the example above. > Water cooling was harder. But also way less common
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Hardcore builders will remove the lid of their CPU to get the best possible thermal contact. The performance improvement is very small and not worth it but the bragging rights are fun. Unless you destroy the chip while delidding it, that is
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> I realize that there’s a population of people who just refuse to use anything associated with Musk because politics have eaten our brains A lot of people aren't touching anything Grok related since they were caught uploading entir
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> Sure, you can let politics dominate everything you do. I assume they're referring to the recent discovery that Grok Build was uploading entire repositories to their servers in the background, include .env secrets that had been exc
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