cogman10

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by cogman10 1mo ago
It's not good faith to mott and baily, gish-gallop, and non-sequitur. I've not seen a comment yet that is actually responsive to points being raised about why this action by the administration is a bad idea. Instead it's &qu
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Yeah, as I said, he moved a box of magazines. You trying to make the contents of the magazines scary by quoting the DOJ doesn't change the nature of the crime that got him 30 years. And, to be clear, this box could have contained a sig
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by cogman10 1mo ago
7B produced 2 answers, 1 was correct though more expensive and the second was incorrect. The first attempt with 7B the model got stuck in an infinite loop.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Now a days? No. It's actually getting to be a bad question because they all push out about the exact same answer. But much earlier they did and, apparently, these really small models still do. At this point it serves as more of a smo
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by cogman10 1mo ago
To be clear, the question wasn't a complex one. It was more on the level of "could I use this for a fast inline coder" IE, single somewhat simple function question. I wouldn't have dreamed to use this as an agent model.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
It's actually just a coding interview test that I liked to ask in the past. You can find it and others on leetcode. The reason I personally like my question is because it's pretty close to some of the real world work we do. It&#
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by cogman10 1mo ago
My quick review of the 3.7B model (because I was interested) is that it's not to be trusted for coding. It failed my basic test I like to ask models and generated incorrect code. When prompted about the bug, it preceded to start hallu
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by cogman10 1mo ago
They are trying to keep the models within the same quant class, which is tough to do since a lot of models aren't distilled to lower quants. There is, for example, no Qwen3.8 7B. It is odd to me, though, that they didn't run the s
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Ever so slightly, definitely not as bad as the senate. I'm all for doubling the size of the house, but that's more to combat gerrymandering. The larger the size of the house, the harder and less impactful it is to gerrymander. T
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> Some opinions that would have been demonstrably in the Clinton/Obama administration would be considered MAGA now. Interestingly there's been a few party shifts. It's not just one direction. For example, Reagan was prett
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by cogman10 1mo ago
#2 isn't really addressing the argument being made. > The fact that reputable sources were not provided to justify the need for fixes has been reputable source enough. The the question wasn't "what do people prefer" i
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Regardless what anyone thinks about the security of voting in the US. I'd hope that they could see how massively upending multiple states' voting systems 2 months before the midterms is a really bad idea. Even with the best inte
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> they have a pretty good handle on why atoms decay Oh, they actually don't. Radioactive decay, AFAIK, is still an open physics mystery. We know it happens, we don't know why, what causes it, or if there even is a cause. We
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Perhaps post training? I believe I read that Qwen 3.8 is just post trained Qwen 3.6, which is why it was able to be released so quick. It may be that these flash models are simply post trained larger older models.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Makes me wonder if all atoms with 2+ nucleus elements (protons and neutrons) are radioactive but the halflife is so far out as to make something we'll never detect.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
I dug into the linked article because I think the short blurb was a bit vague. This was it's conclusion. (R-PET -> Recycled polyethylene) > Results show that R-PET bottle has the lowest impact for all the selected LCA categories
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Google AI is saying 25->30 on average with a high of 50. That still ends up being translated to 1/2 to 1/3 (up to 1/5th) the energy of plastic. Glass is also one of the few good cases for recycling.
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> A returnable milk bottle takes much more energy to produce and much more fuel to transport than a plastic carton, and has to make around ten or more trips to use less energy than a bottle made from polyethylene plastic. This seems like
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Oh. What was the charge against Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada and what exactly did he do to justify that charge and the 30 year sentence? Please link to what he did that was above and beyond what I described. You claim it was more than j
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> Very few people are accounting for all the "efficiencies" that are not represented by capital holding in somebody's accounting book. Yeah, my hometown is a good example of that. It has always had a population of around
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by cogman10 1mo ago
> The problem is that the Mom & Pops are inefficient and the giants are efficient. There are diminishing returns to efficiency. Grocery stores, for example, are just as efficient as Amazon is even though many of them are a fraction
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by cogman10 1mo ago
There were oligarchs with massive amounts of power in the days of the Roosevelts. Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Vanderbilt. These were all huge oligarchs that definitely fought to try and keep America in a feudal dark age. Things se
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Yup. Consolidation of the markets is ultimately what's destroyed small businesses. It's currently working on the likes of dentists and vets. The US has devolved to the point where only someone with a large amount of wealth can s
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by cogman10 1mo ago
What's interesting is that it may have had multiple changing purposes during construction. It took 1500 years to be established in its current form. It's pretty likely (to me at least) that the purpose of the year 1 work was diff
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by cogman10 1mo ago
Yeah, I could literally open up a port on my computer which executes everything sent to it. As a bespoke app, it's pretty unlikely that it would ever be exploited even though it's ridiculously dangerous. To be at risk, you'd
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by cogman10 2mo ago
Yes, because no evidence of the injury was presented at trial other than the officer's testimony. If he was shot in the neck, why didn't the prosecution show a photo of the wound? Why are his neck and shoulder injuries a privacy
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> and he actually shot a police officer during their "protest." He did not, he shot at an officer and missed. He was also the only one of the protestors that shot.
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> It is trivial to extract samples of the training data that was used, which can bolster existing lawsuits/foster new ones. At least to this point, the legal teams could get the model via discovery. IDK that the lawfirms realize th
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by cogman10 2mo ago
I'd look at the Prairieland Detention Center Case to understand how broadly and aggressively this government is using "terrorism" to go after political opponents. Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada got 30 years in prison for movi
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> The city does not actually produce food. Stores get their produce from wholesalers. > Leading to the infamous bread lines of the Soviet Union or Venezuela or what have you. These two statements don't follow one another. If the

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