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by dofm 3mo ago
Not sure I would, in the 2026 culture, sling around the words "murdering intellectuals", even just for title clout.
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Now put this fact in the thread's context: water shortage/stress… But doesn't adding a large reservoir mitigate both? You're not pumping the entire reservoir up and down hill every day.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Ahh you found the link I couldn't find with a search. Yes — they claim that it is likely to be able to assess confidence in whether the statement it just made is correct. But it isn't going to be capable of that while it is answ
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by dofm 3mo ago
You certainly can't ask an LLM for its confidence level because it will generate that answer as it sees fit. My understanding was that models can be post-trained to assess their own confidence on short prompts within a level of accur
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by dofm 3mo ago
You also have problems with short prompts whose results depend highly on the understanding of nuance. The router is going to have to mostly solve the prompt to decide which model to send it to. What you actually want is a model that can con
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by dofm 3mo ago
AFAIK the mountains are about as high as Wales? It looks like there's a 600MW storage scheme in the planning stages. That's about a third of the capacity of Wales's largest system (which is the biggest in Europe) and about tw
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by dofm 3mo ago
"the problem is what to do when it gets dark" Batteries (or pumped storage hydro, which is more like a gravity-driven capacitor)
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by dofm 3mo ago
Not a deliberate FU, for sure. Sam Battle simply would not do that. I thought it was both fun and funny. But it was earnest and playful at the same time. For us Eurovision is simply not something that registers as a serious thing; the years
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by dofm 3mo ago
We do have a rather unusual relationship with naffness in this country! It's very difficult to explain :-) New Zealand also has the same sort of church/community raffle culture, I gather; very much an export. The Conservatives did
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by dofm 3mo ago
New Labour did that with gambling deregulation. Betting shops have begun to disappear not just because of moving online, but because regulations have finally limited the pernicious power of the fixed-odds betting terminal (FOBT). They were
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by dofm 3mo ago
I would be wary of generalising from British student society culture to wider British culture. But we would (IMO correctly) observe that while raffles and lotteries are both technically a form of gambling, a raffle is not really a lottery i
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by dofm 3mo ago
No worries. YMMV for coding things but I've learned a lot more about LLMs this way than I think I could have from just reading about and using cloud LLMs.
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by dofm 3mo ago
OK so I don't have enormous agentic coding experience yet (I'm still learning about the tech more than coding with it) but: - The consensus is that if you have a properly kitted out PC with enough VRAM, the Qwen 3.6 27B dense mode
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by dofm 3mo ago
> and some d-bag starts blasting ads for gambling on your phone at every opportunity. Or crypto. Which tweaks many of the same nerve endings.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Except that — and I say this as a centre-left sort of person — almost none of this is the Conservatives' fault. Essentially all of the UK's gambling hellscape was triggered by massive deregulation by Tony Blair's first New La
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by dofm 3mo ago
Gemma 4's tool calling was recently fixed; that was the main issue with agentic use in my experience. Otherwise IMO it codes about as well as the Qwen MoE for PHP and SQL. It's a fully impressive model (though it is not as mindben
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Most people carry one of history's most technologically-advanced cameras. How many can say they actually use it for something interesting? Figuring out how to use a phone camera in creative practice is really an interesting challe
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by dofm 3mo ago
You don’t deserve the downvotes for what is a wholly reasonable and not unusual question. Art really demands constraints, simplicity is clarifying, ephemerality is provocative, and designing your own creative tools invites metacognition.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Not tested much but it is not noticeably worse than the underlying Qwen 3.6 27B in Q4_K_M, which in my experience is kind of a first for a Qwen fine-tune of this nature. They are almost always worse. I think it does use fewer tokens while r
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by dofm 3mo ago
I ran into some issues that are more extreme versions of Qwen's thinking loops while reasoning. It is great at the small puzzles I set for it but it did some frankly insane things on a PHP coding task I set it. It also had some issues
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by dofm 3mo ago
I really had high hopes for the larger Ternary Bonsai and it feels like there is scope to improve, but I get the sense (albeit a naïve, probably not fully informed sense) that improvement can perhaps only come by training directly into tern
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by dofm 3mo ago
I am not a fan (he’s really alarming and so is Palantir) but one thing from the recent CNBC interview caught my attention. He rushed past it but he asked something like: if these frontier models are going to be creating so much value, why a
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by dofm 3mo ago
Indeed. It's transparent and ham-fisted. I think it may cost him in the future.
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by dofm 3mo ago
I always find it interesting when people choose to so carefully stress and spell out the words "Chinese Communist Party". It's a bit like spelling out "Barack Hussein Obama". It's a dogwhistle. Yes yes, it&#x27
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by dofm 3mo ago
The blog post literally equates “gypsies” with animals. It’s not difficult. It’s beyond yikes territory: it’s his now typical xenophobia and bigotry. Now we know how the 1930s felt, I guess. Wealthy fair-haired motorsport brat edgelords wer
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by dofm 3mo ago
The labour needs to be eliminated — essentially nobody in the economy paying them for an equivalent job — for enough money to be freed up for it to work. But then these people who are either unemployed or job sharing some remaining work don
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by dofm 3mo ago
> but it presupposes that there is a theory of everything that can be used to perfectly simulate the universe, and I'd like to remind everybody that we still don't know whether such a thing exists Is it even possible that a c
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Anyone who writes in a flamboyant style now - as the essay's author does - necessarily comes across as a kind of pastiche. There is something camp or affected about it Necessarily? Not at all. I am not sure where “camp” or “affect
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by dofm 3mo ago
I fully disagree. It is immensely readable (even if you might want an inline dictionary, something afforded by every contemporary operating system and eBook reader). I think that in 2026, if you really want someone to read something, ther
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by dofm 3mo ago
My picking is not fast enough or consistent enough for bluegrass unfortunately, but I will end up with a dobro one day! The weissenborn type I play has a similar scale length and luckily my lap steel is not the shortest (23") so my bra

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