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by adrian_b 6mo ago
While the Russian army was the main force in the war against the Turkish empire, in the beginning it was close to losing the war, so it had to request help from the Romanian Principates. Only the combined Russian-Romanian forces have succee
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The Latin alphabet and some local alphabets were allowed for some years after the formation of the Soviet Union, but eventually during the thirties Stalin has started the Cyrillisation by force of most of the Soviet republics. Any opponents
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Cyrillic has been indeed frequently used as a weapon, even if usually not by the Church, but by Tsars or by the Soviet state. Even the Eastern Christian Church, while it allowed various local alphabets, most of which were derived from the G
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Not this year, when many vendors either offer lower memory capacities or demand higher prices for their devices.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The output of a coding assistant cannot be copyrighted, but it may contain code from which the copyright has been removed and which is used in a manner incompatible with the original license. Even the more permissive licenses, like BSD, MIT
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
And killing Iranians and destroying their assets helps how the Iranian opposition?
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
That is a danger, but for now it seems rather distant. OpenAI has provided in the past a couple of open-weights models, but it does not seem to plan the release of any others. But except for OpenAI and Anthropic, with this announcement Zyph
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
> Open internet with cheating detection => cheating is widespread, 20-36% of tasks are flagged for the stronger models, with source code lookup accounting for the majority of the violations. Therefore: > blocking internet access e
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Until now, I have never run "a custom ROM or something", but just the Android that came from the phone vendors and its updates. Nevertheless, I do not have a Google account and I do not intend to have such an account. Of course, t
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Intuitive comprehension works much better for Medieval Latin, like that used in the scientific publications of the 16th/17th/18th/19th centuries, i.e. the kind of Latin that would be used by people like Newton or Gauss. Medie
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
If this were true, they could have learned it at any time before now. When the changes are done precisely during a time of huge increases in the prices of all kinds of memory devices, it is hard to believe that this is a random coincidence.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Well said. This matches perfectly my experience in working in many companies, where in most of them meetings were useless, but in a few places meetings were very useful, depending on how the companies were organized and how the attendance t
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The U.2 form factor is a 2.5" drive, not larger than it. "U.2" does not change anything in the mechanical characteristics of a 2.5" drive, it just replaces the SATA or SAS electrical interface with a NVMe electrical inte
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The chat templates of all Gemma 4 models have been updated 7 days ago, to fix some bugs related to invoking tools. So any tests done with models that have not been updated during the last days are no longer relevant and they must be repeate
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
For each of the 4 gemma-4-*-it models there has been published an associated small model gemma-4-*-it-assistant, to be used for MTP. If a GGUF file is generated for MTP, it must include both the big model and the small model. There was a re
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I do not know what you mean by sparse models. All 4 gemma-4-*-it models, regardless whether they are dense models or MoE models, have associated small models for MTP, whose names are obtained by adding the "-assistant" suffix. ht
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Multi token prediction is the same thing as speculative decoding. This is mentioned in the Google pages describing their MTP implementation. Google has now provided small models for each of the previous Gemma 4 models, e.g. "gemma-4-26
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Free variant of this research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14327
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
What should be really surprising for the users of UNIX-like operating systems is when they lose data because traditional UNIX utilities like cp, tar or cpio do not make complete copies of files, as one would expect from their description. W
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
> I want that file system archived to tape. And so, tar does. The traditional UNIX tar and cpio utilities cannot archive the modern Linux file systems without loss of metadata. Most modern tar programs implement various file format exten
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Yes, I completely disagree with TFA. The problem described in TFA is not specific to Apple, but the same problem appears when archiving any decent filesystem that has been designed during the last 3 decades and not a half of century ago, in
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Security is mandatory. Obscurity is optional. Obscurity is not worthwhile when it increases your own costs. Nevertheless, if you can add obscurity with negligible additional cost and inconvenience, then you should do it.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
> The claim you should know everything about everything you work on is an intensely naive one. It is true that you normally do not need to know everything, or even most of it. Despite this, it is necessary to be able to discover and unde
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Whenever such claims were made, it was correctly pointed that Tesla makes very few models, so their sales per model may be higher than for other vendors even when the total number of sold cars is higher for their competitors, where the sale
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I think that this is sad, because it is a useful pattern. It is very frequent to find things about which a majority of the people wrongly believe that they are X, but in fact they are Y. In such cases, you must point to them that "it&#
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Power electronics shall never be connected to the "Internet". Any such installations of solar panels, batteries and the like must be interconnected only in a private network without Internet access. For remote monitoring and contr
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
While most people would not be able to run Kimi K2.6 fast enough for a chat, as a coding assistant the low speed matters much less, especially when many tasks can be batched to progress during a single pass over the weights. If you run it o
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
No. I have downloaded Kimi-K2.6 (the original release). du -sh moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 555G moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 du -s moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 581255612 moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 For comparison (sorted in decreasing
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Fine-tuning for a specific task is even much less realistic than the benchmarks shown in TFA. Most people who have computers could run inference for even the biggest LLMs, albeit very slowly when they do not fit in fast memory. On the other
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
> Xiaomi confirming that weights for their newer V2.5 Pro model are dropping soon This has already happened. I have downloaded both the big Pro model and the smaller but multimodal MiMo-V2.5. https://huggingface.co/Xiaomi

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