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by mft_ 5mo ago
I like your analogy; but of course, there comes a point where reducing weight in an automobile does have downsides: it might be more noisy because of reduced sound deadening, less safe because of removal of crash structures, less waterproof
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by mft_ 5mo ago
Agreed, especially for something like this that might get used a handful of times (I’m assuming most people don’t have myriad cables or want to check them regularly?) The problem of course is that on my 14” screen the area to the right of t
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by mft_ 6mo ago
It’s the other way around. People are concerned about the various implications of the US and China owning all of the best models, and Europe not really being at the races (Mistral noted). Switching to a European router achieves very little
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Thanks. I’ve been experimenting with local models for over a year now, on and off, so this isn’t just limited to the latest Qwen. Anyway, I have no problem running them, but there’s a huge difference between running something via a chat int
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by mft_ 6mo ago
I’m frequently surprised how little I can find online about exactly this - different harnesses for local models and how to set them up. The documentation for opencode with local models is (IMO) pretty bad - and even Claude Opus (!) struggle
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by mft_ 6mo ago
I don’t know whether there’s a US vs. Europe difference on this, but I failed to get my (European) bank to do this a while back when Tesla continued to take money for a subscription after I’d given the car back. (I had to kill that credit c
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Totally. It’s usually a lack of time, lack of energy, general ‘life getting in the way’, that leads me to drift away from a side-project. These factors can always be reversed. And (whisper it) a bit of vibe-coding can also help unstick a pr
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Indeed; a "European" router serving mostly US models is (deliberately?) missing the point.
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by mft_ 6mo ago
> The struggle is the high level regulatory bodies (with the exception of aberrations such as the current admin's approach to appointment) generally select for individuals with a low risk tolerance. This may be true, but I don'
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by mft_ 6mo ago
> Which illnesses have been cured? Diabetes, cancer? Type I diabetes - no, but this is a condition in which the body attacks the part of itself that makes insulin. So by the time it happens, it's too late. Sadly, we're genera
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by mft_ 6mo ago
> To be clearer, Pharma is chasing a nice long treatment plan, that will require expensive drugs till the end. Pharma does not heal - this is not good for business. This is a trope regurgitated by people who don't know any better.
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by mft_ 6mo ago
So China innovated around GPU supply issues (because they had to) but Europe couldn't/wouldn't? Hard to not see this as another sign of European stagnation...
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by mft_ 6mo ago
> Beyond the face that these are all already highly automated Nonsense. To take first two examples: Power plants may run mostly automatically, but humans decide how/where/when to build new plants, and humans build them. I&#
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by mft_ 6mo ago
You’re right… but that’s on the rest of the world not getting their shit together. It’s this sort of example (and not properly supporting Ukraine, and not agreeing how to collectively deal with migrants, and not agreeing how to coordinate d
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by mft_ 6mo ago
I want us to automate food production and distribution. I want us to automate creation of building materials and creation of buildings. I want us to automate power generation, and see the marginal cost of power drop to zero. I want us to au
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Huh, running the Q4_K_M quant with LM Studio, and asked it "How can I set up Qwen 3.6 27b to use tools and access the local file system?". Part of its reply was: Quick clarification: As of early 2025, "Qwen 3.6" hasn&#x
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by mft_ 6mo ago
There were plenty of phones with touchscreens before the iPhone. They were crap, with mostly resistive touchscreens, but they existed. I had a rebranded version of this: https://www.gsmarena.com/qtek_s200-1417.php My offic
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by mft_ 6mo ago
One would think, but some folks seem to struggle to learn from others' experiences, and need to experience things for themselves first. For example, the UK defense review that was published during the Ukraine War (in which the UK is
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by mft_ 6mo ago
I think it’s binary. You’re either part of the “growing my personal brand”, self-aggrandising b**shit crowd or you’re not. If you’re in it for yourself, it’s all about your posts and your comments on other people’s, so that’s fine. That’s t
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by mft_ 6mo ago
There was also Qwen3.5-35B-A3B in the previous generation: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Similar observation: sometimes when we get off the couch, on which we have a blanket made from artificial fibres, it causes our TV to go black for a couple of seconds. The TV is wall mounted and a metre from the end of the couch, and about
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by mft_ 6mo ago
> Not asking, and living in ignorance, is riskier. For high-stakes questions, of course I'd want references that only an online model like ChatGPT or Gemini, etc. would be able to find. If I am asking a local model for health advice
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by mft_ 6mo ago
I suspect a possible future of local models is extreme specialisation - you load a Python-expert model for Python coding, do your shopping with a model focused just on this task, have a model specialised in speech-to-text plus automation to
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by mft_ 6mo ago
You're right, and I think we're slightly at cross purposes. I'm not disagreeing that AI will drive some major societal changes as you outline. My point is that the current narrative of "AI will take our jobs" is to
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Inequality was growing hugely (and still is) before the recent advent of LLMs. Given the slow-burning but growing resentment against the people who are profiting from this inequality(popularly the “billionaires” but in reality broader than
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by mft_ 6mo ago
It might be (like many things in Switzerland) reassuringly expensive , but my original point was that on many objective metrics (e.g. longevity, avoidable mortality, cancer diagnosis and survival, waiting times, etc.) the Swiss healthcare
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by mft_ 6mo ago
> Untested is always relative. I disagree; "untested" is a very definitive statement. Not tested. Especially when it's in a thread discussing people using all manner of less tested or sometimes literally untested peptide
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Does it show your spoken words on the screen live (i.e. streaming) or does it wait until you’ve finished speaking? I find it very helpful to see my words live - for some reason it helps my simple brain structure what I’m saying, and I’m muc
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Okay; noting that the argument has moved from "untested" to "relatively untested". To clarify, is your concern the inadequacy of the approval process FDA uses for (all) vaccines (noting that many vaccines --e.g. influenz
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by mft_ 6mo ago
It seems to be more complicated (or unpredictable?) than that: > In this study, rapid weight loss was associated with the loss of kidney function in males with normal weight, and with improvement of kidney function in overweight males. &

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