SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Or install Linux for free and have a better OS than either.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Wtf are "the security authorities"?
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
What do you mean by "naively"? Reporting a security vulnerability to the vendor is the responsible and ethical thing to do. Suing someone who did you a favor is fucked up behavior and they should be shunned for it.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
I dunno about that. Gemma 4 is probably the best model for general self-hosted use for almost everyone that doesn't have a data center in their basement. They didn't have to release it at all, and they didn't have to release
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
I was surprised to find self-hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash answers accurately about almost every hot-button topic I could think of except Tiananmen Square, which it refused to answer. Self-hosted Qwen, on the other hand, is stridently supporti
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
I've found the average output of many suboptimal models is still suboptimal, especially when it comes to judging the accuracy/correctness of the work of other models. I did some benchmarks recently of how well various models fin
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Google keeps flexin'. It's surprising that Gemini isn't more competitive against Claude or OpenAI models for code and agentic use, because it's clear Google still has some of the best AI people in the business. But, I gu
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
That's not true. In Texas the neighbors are exactly the people who have standing to sue for deed restrictions violations.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
"someone can just arbitrarily decide that land cannot be used?" Yes, deed restrictions in Texas are contractual obligations that run with the land. Due diligence in acquiring land in Texas involves making sure existing deed restri
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
In Texas it is exactly the neighbors who have standing to sue over deed restrictions violations.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Except when they violate civil rights (i.e. "whites only" deed restrictions are not enforceable, though they do exist), I think the answer would generally be yes. In some places in Texas, there is no zoning, only deed restrictions
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Only that it would just slow down the model and make it dumber. You can't tool and harness a weak model into strength and you probably don't improve top models with boondoggles.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
I don't feel strongly about anything most folks are arguing back and forth about, but this one is obviously wrong. Everybody and their brother has made an agent. There are toolkits. You can whip one up in an afternoon. Not only that, I
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
There's literally never been more money being thrown at that problem.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Yeah, I think a lot of the "slow down" rumblings we're hearing from OpenAI and Anthropic are really overtures toward regulatory capture; basically, "now that we're in the lead, we need to lock this shit down so nobo
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
I did some more experiments and found DeepSeek V4 Flash actually answered pretty well on a bunch of other sensitive topics (Taiwan, the Great Firewall, Uyghurs, press freedom). It searched the web and fed back mostly the WikiPedia entries s
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Yeah, that's probably true, but we're also seeing that there's still tons of inefficiencies in how LLMs are being run. Seems like every couple months there's some new technique to squeeze more performance out of less har
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
I asked self-hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash to write a poem about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. Here's what it said: "I'm sorry, but I cannot write a poem about that topic. I don't have any information about
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
I think we agree? What moat? You answered yourself: "capital intensive" But, history says the supercomputer of today will fit in your pocket in a few years. They've bought up all the RAM and GPUs, which pushes the capital req
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
The moat looks deep today but it's going to become more shallow every year. Training a new model from scratch takes serious resources. Post-training/fine-tuning an existing model, dramatically less. The knowledge for the process w
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
8-bit on that one (unsloth 8_K_XL). But, the next post compares all common quantizations of Qwen 3.6. I have another coming in a day or so for Gemma 4 with the 4-bit QAT version, which is very surprising (in a good way, Gemma 4 is impressiv
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Autonomous buses and private vehicles don't solve any of the problems high speed rail solves.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
The feeling is mutual.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Sure, California is a failed state on a lot of fronts, but Musk literally said he was pushing hyperloop for that reason. https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article26445107... Whether he was the only reas
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
He is ruthlessly cunning. Not unusual in sociopaths and narcissists.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
What kinds of things he's delivered do you have in mind?
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
He doesn't actually want progress. He wants power and wealth for himself. Public transit is an equalizer, it serves normal people.
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
The consequence of becoming the world's richest man? Oh, the horror. The very wealthy do not face consequences for their actions. He lies every day about his companies, and no one ever does a thing about it. DOGE killed a few hundred t
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
Which is irrelevant to SpaceX bottom line. Launching GPUs into space, whether by twos or by tons is not going to be a profitable venture. It's just a wildly expensive bad idea, and it is obvious to anyone that understands how much it c
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by SwellJoe 5mo ago
It also achieved Musk's actual goal: derailing and delaying mass transit initiatives, the California High-speed Rail project, in particular. He knew it was bullshit. He's dumber than most people realize, but he's not dumb eno

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