jnwatson

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by jnwatson 10d ago
The true paradox of the internet is that the more private, the more anonymous, the more safe a platform is, the more likely it will attract pedophiles, criminals, and terrorists. You either have to accept the legal and moral consequences th
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by jnwatson 10d ago
Yes, think of all the new security engineers we'll need!
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by jnwatson 11d ago
And YouTube, and Cloud, and Play Store, and Waymo, not to mention that they could coast on their Anthropic and SpaceX stakes if they didn't have any of the above.
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by jnwatson 13d ago
I run an abliterated distillation of Qwen 3.8 27B, slightly quantized to fit on my 4090, and I've been evaluating it to use as a worker bee for research directed by a smarter model. Much like in the article, abliterated Qwen will not o
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by jnwatson 15d ago
This is like the good ol' days of the x86 wars. Mo' cache, mo' GHz. I find it impressive that these pocket computers are running at almost 5 GHz now.
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by jnwatson 16d ago
In the history books, this'll be the post indicating the end of writing code as a professional occupation.
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by jnwatson 18d ago
It keeps the users on their toes.
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by jnwatson 18d ago
That was my thinking. It is the first legit use case I've heard.
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by jnwatson 18d ago
Mind blown. The more I read about statistics, the less I know.
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by jnwatson 19d ago
On your last point, I was surprised how effective peer pressure was in getting agents to sacrifice for "the collective" (an agent's words) in the Hugging Face breach. How would one prevent the watcher from being influenced in
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by jnwatson 19d ago
No, NX precedes Spectre by a long shot. It was originally intended so an attacker couldn't use a buffer overflow to change the PC and execute directly out of the attacker-controlled buffer.
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by jnwatson 21d ago
It cuts token usage because they are using a different service with a different token budget for the reader/code writer tasks. You can also just delegate this to subagents with Claude Code (though you have a more limited choice of mode
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by jnwatson 21d ago
It means it can execute arbitrary machine code in the sandbox.
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by jnwatson 21d ago
Reality Labs is a division of Meta...
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by jnwatson 21d ago
Yeah but some folks are just data collectors/hoarders. It isn't about consumption.
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by jnwatson 24d ago
Can't anyone set up a "registrar" for a subdomain of a domain they already use? They control the DNS record, right? Why is ICANN even involved here? I don't see how this is any different, other than the second-level do
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by jnwatson 24d ago
They are cancelling 3rd level domains, not the 2-level domain you have.
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by jnwatson 25d ago
"Ariely is named 636 times in the Epstein files". Yikes.
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by jnwatson 26d ago
M5 Ultra has 4-5x the memory bandwidth of both. 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth opens up good performance on relatively large models.
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by jnwatson 28d ago
My lower bound is 20 t/s. 100 t/s would be great but even Opus doesn't sustain that. I'm at ~7.2 t/s on a Shoehorn'd obliterated Qwen 3.8 on my M3 Pro, which is rough.
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by jnwatson 29d ago
3.7 flash ain't bad. It isn't Opus or Sol, but it fits pretty well in the second tier.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
A prosperous middle class is not a requirement for capitalism to work, and there are more capitalist systems where that's not the case than where there is. The upper class live in walled neighborhoods with private guards. There's
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
Back in the day, my college held an annual scavenger hunt, filled with engineering puzzles and racing around town looking for landmarks. There were "judges" in the path to check on progress. Bribing the judges (with alcohol) for
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
Kind of arbitrary since it doesn't impact their upstreams. The very first thing I used GenAI for was fixing build and CI pipeline issues, exactly the drudgery no one cares about. Today, LLMs are excellent at the yeoman's work of
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
It buries the lede. Prime Agent sounds like a very cool project.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
Oh I didn't; only a distilled 27B model ran locally. This was just to figure out if distilling caused the problem.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
It literally ran forever without a reasoning budget. I tried even the 2T model and cut it off after a half hour. This is to review a few hundred-line source file. It was consistent behavior from 2T to vanilla 27B to my ablated distilled
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
I can't get Qwen 3.8 27B to do a simple code review on a fairly basic Python file. With thinking on it just ruminates forever and with thinking off it gives obviously bad borderline hallucinating advice. Edit: I tried again with the
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
It absolutely is a crime in many jurisdictions.
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by jnwatson 1mo ago
I have a CS degree. I learned some useful things. However, I graduated in 1998. I've had to learn a bunch of stuff since then because it didn't exist in 1998. For folks that don't have CS degrees, they just have a little mo

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