SyneRyder

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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
While I actually agree with you (though, outsourcing to lowest bidder would account for much of what you're seeing with humans), I just saw Bug Hunt Bench scores that gave me some pause: https://x.com/PawelHuryn/st
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
But that one was posted today, and it's in reference to this event. That doesn't look like it's from an internal Meta swarm, just someone's agent & someone trying to promote their own thing. And what they've mad
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
This is so so weird. Astra is 61. Grok is 61. Even Muse is 61. Even Kimi K3 & GLM 5.3 are at 60. Everything above 61 is Anthropic. Well, Muse can reach 62, but for some weird reason that model isn't publicly available, and it&#x2
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
They must do, surely? I've been vibe coding my own harness, in particular for use with Ox Alpha. The 429 downtime when Ox Alpha was at the height of popularity quickly gave me a refresher crash course on backoff strategies, like adding
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
Yeah, I really like GLM 5.3 Flash with vision. Reminds me of when Claude was lots of fun to work with. It does feel slow, thinking away on the Chinese servers, but it's so incredibly cheap that for a lot of tasks I don't mind it t
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
> Like, who actually cares? Are people excited for the new benchmarks? Is it interesting to read the model cards? I'm genuinely interested. Even the benchmarks - before Fable came out & while waiting for Astra, I actually setu
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
Even 4.8 has its quirks. I just had a bizarre session tonight where it essentially did no work in the whole session and just told me to go to sleep. I'm used to the "go to sleep" thing, but not to it dodging the work. That&#x
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
I have a Pismo G3, so running Haiku on that would also be of interest to me (and I hadn't seen Tabby-PPC before)... though honestly I'm probably going to keep that machine as the PPC OS X & Classic machine that it is. If I can
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
Looks pretty good from the web page! How does this differ from Decent Sampler though? There's probably obvious differences but I haven't had a chance to dive into figuring that out for myself. You should see if you can get a menti
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
AudioThing, TAL and Modartt have Linux versions as well. Korneff Audio is moving in that direction, but not everything is ported over yet.
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
> and this is _the_ way to distinguish a Kiwi from an Australian Well, that, and Kiwis tend to say "hey bro" a lot ;) Beached Whale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
I don't think I've ever actually seen a theo video, but I stumbled across this and think I've seen all I need to know. 3:45 even references your criticism. Average Theo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
The term for this is a "shibboleth", if it's of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
The Chinese models are open weights, so they can host & finetune them in the EU. Mistral is calling them "European Compute Units". Mistral has pivoted to become a hosting provider of open weight LLMs. "Mistral’s platform
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
My understanding is that the AI policy is more to do with issues of copyright and code provenance. They want to make sure that all of their code is cleared with no risk of accidentally using 'stolen' code or GPL code repeated by a
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
Will do, I think I recognize your username from the forums :) Life is getting in the way and makes it difficult to write a bug report with the necessary level of detail & logs. But when I can find time, I intend to. I think the ACPI iss
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
Just a heads-up for those trying it out, I've found a couple of regressions in Beta 6 that rendered my Haiku system unbootable, until I remembered about hammering the space key during the boot sequence to get to the safe mode menu. In
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
Gus Gus too. And some of us still remember Greta & Jónsi, even out here in Australia.
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
> Claude code is a decent harness but then you have to use Anthropic models... Claude Code works with models from other providers too. Anthropic supports this. You can configure some Claude Code environment variables to switch: eg chan
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
I just want to say, kudos on your We Recommend section. I was initially rolling my eyes at the "StemDeck... does not accept any money, sponsorship, or funding" line, here we go, another open source project that isn't thinking
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
I'll give a concrete example, but I think we might be talking at cross-purposes. A reasonably randomly chosen news article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-27/shania-twain-intervie... This HTML page is 36
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
> HTML is about 5%-20% more tokens than a similar Markdown. I'm not seeing this at all. I've got a small search engine I made that strips HTML back to Markdown for its full-text indexing. HTML is typically 10x bigger than the
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
Well, you mentioned Gas Town — that deserves an immediate reflexive downvote :P I actually upvoted your post. I'm not sure I entirely agree with it, but I was interested to see more discussion about it, and that felt worthy of an upvot
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
From their blog post, it's 320B total parameters and 18B active parameters, so a similar size, but slightly bigger. Regular pricing is $0.15 input, $0.50 output... but currently 50% off, making it $0.075 input and $0.25 output. That be
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
Yeah, that's a fair point. "More intelligible than Adriano Celentano in Prisencolinensinainciusol" is not a high bar. As another comparison, I went back to MiniMax M3 for a while last night. It was significantly faster than O
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
Rather than a pelican, for fun I showed it a couple of screenshots from Niu Lai and asked it to create an SVG inspired by the images. I explained a little about how the movie had been made by a mother & son team, initially derided but t
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
I agree, the blind test is valuable - like the old Pepsi Challenge. I like Ox Alpha. I'm getting some actual work done with it, I'm really enjoying working with it, and I've already cut back my Anthropic budget in anticipatio
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
I've been using a harness that I made myself, and making improvements to the harness has vastly improved its performance. It's actually been a useful model to identify flaws in the harness. I think something also went wrong with t
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by SyneRyder 1mo ago
I was hitting 429 overloaded regularly with Ox on OpenRouter yesterday, but a lot of that turned out to be problems with my harness. I fixed some bugs, improved the back-off, and I haven't hit a 429 error since (touch wood). OpenRouter
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by SyneRyder 2mo ago
I think this site was trying to measure the size of the Google index, not necessarily the size of the entire web, despite the site name. The page talks about "Indexed Web" and "Indexed Dutch Web". But their numbers still

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