UncleOxidant

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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
To some extent you wonder if this "tapping the brakes" might be saving some companies from themselves. It's likely we're in the overinvestment phase of this technological cycle and that's usually followed by the bus
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
Oregon has a 1-year moratorium on new data centers qualifying for the state's Enterprise Zone (EZ) property tax incentive programs (as of June 5, 2026. We shouldn't be giving tax incentives to these Data Centers. But it looks like
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
Interesting. But I'm kind of hard getting past the AI-written README: "What Reame is NOT for — said plainly, because trust is built here: a general-purpose ChatGPT replacement (frontier reasoning and broad knowledge need frontier
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
I've got a Framework with 128GB. Sure, I'm probably not going to run Deepseek V4 flash (though, I could run the 2-bit quant). But there are a lot of models (especially MOE models) that run fine. Even Qwen3.5-122B in a 4 or 5 bit q
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
That's a 2-bit quant of DS4 flash. You're probably better off running Qwen3.6-27B at Q8.
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
In general I think from the coding side they're more robust now. However, people generating docs are maybe not as experienced with how to prompt in ways that avoid having the LLM tell you what you want to hear. I think this is still a
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
> done by my clankers or clankers of other people I'm getting so many requests to review LLM-generated documents - planning docs, docs intended for end-users, project docs, business plan docs. A team member sent me a zip file with
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
> you will never get laid off. Please explain this assertion.
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
Qwen3-coder-next is very usable. But I don't think it's as good as Qwen3.6-27B (though it does run faster on my hardware). It would be great if we could get a Qwen3.7-coder, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
Qwen was doing something like this with their coder models. But alas, they seem not to be releasing those anymore. Last one was Qwen3-coder-next.
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
It's based on an open weight model (Kimi 2.7) so shouldn't it also be open weight?
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
At this point I wouldn't consider Romney "rightwing", more of a centrist by current standards. Heck, the president probably thinks Romney is a socialist.
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
One minute in and WTF is this?
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
To both of your points: the beer hall demagogue wouldn't have gotten to Chancellor if the German elites hadn't decided that he really couldn't do that much damage and we may as well let him be chancellor to quiet down his fol
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
I think there's a compelling case to be made that WW3 started in 2014 when Putin invaded Crimea.
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
I read Sinclair Lewis' Babbit last year and it was kind of depressing how little has changed since 1922. The political climate (at least as portrayed in the novel) seemed eerily similar to now. Maybe we continually go through oscilla
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by UncleOxidant 3mo ago
We're kind of already having the WW3 part.
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
Kind of like submitting resumes these days. AI winnows them down and the remaining few get passed to humans.
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
I'm trying to figure out why I should have any interest at all in participating in this? I mean, other than the $1000, but there's really no clear criteria as to what would win that $1000 since AI is judging it.
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
> 2008 shaped our thinking on this I've seen this assertion a few times now in the thread here, can you elaborate? The events of 2008 were kind of extraordinary, so I'm not sure we should shape all of our policy based on that -
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
> I guess preferential treatment could be the only issue? I'm not sure it's the only issue, but for now focusing only on this issue: it's a really big issue. The R's often complained about Dems choosing winners and
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
I'm old enough to remember that around last Fall people were declaring Google AI dead and then they came out with Gemini 3.1 Pro and there was a bunch of discussion about how Google was back and was going to end up ultimately beating t
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
It would be great if the Gemma folks would release a code-focused model. Probably won't happen, but it's fun to dream.
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
Has either of these companies released models before this? It's hard to believe that they could release a supposed Mythos-level model just out-of-the-blue. Deepseek, Z.ai, Alibaba/Qwen have been at this for a lot longer and have b
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
Yeah, I don't understand the downvotes either. Complaining is one thing (and it's certainly valid to complain about Meta), but nothing's going to change if a lot of people still use their service. Sure, one person getting off
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
List of longwave radio broadcasters - including those that have shut down. The shutdown list is much longer than those remaining (only 7 remaining). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longwave_radio_broadca...
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
> Nvda for one has every incentive to keep the nemotron line going They're releases so far have been kind of lackluster compared to Qwen and other Chinese models. My suspicion is that Nvidia won't be releasing models that appea
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
> The spigot can be turned off at any time. True. And it's possible that this has already happened at Alibaba Qwen - at least for the smaller models that people had a chance of running at home (122B and smaller).
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
Read Crime and Punishment ~25 years ago, the Idiot ~20 years ago. I read Karamazov last year and Demons early this year. I still think C&P is the best of his books with Karamazov a close 2nd. Demons is very dark, but also it seems prop
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by UncleOxidant 4mo ago
A friend went to an Obama rally in '08 when he came to town. Later he said, I'm sure I'll regret voting for him, but I'm also pretty sure I'll regret it less than most votes I've taken.

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