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by regularfry 3mo ago
Tagged Netstrings (tnetstrings) was a related proposal from 15 years ago or so. It replaces the comma with a single-character type definition so you can do JSON-like objects with a couple of recursive types: you had ',', '#&#
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by regularfry 3mo ago
The fanfare over multi-touch in phones is something I've never understood. It's flashy but phone use (certainly my phone use) is optimised for one thumb, not two fingers.
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by regularfry 3mo ago
Resistive touchscreens get a lot of criticism but even back then that was partly down to Apple propaganda which caught on because people were used to cheap screens with rubbish resistive sensors. The touchscreen on the N900 was good : high
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by regularfry 3mo ago
I'm yet to be convinced that number of PRs as a productivity metric is any less flawed than counting lines of code. I can believe - easily - that there's a real uplift here, but attaching any meaning to the 24% number at all is a
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by regularfry 3mo ago
That's a stretch but it doesn't change the outcome.
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by regularfry 3mo ago
On 1 and 3, the obvious move is to shift the bulk of the harness behind a new API that's not based on raw LLM access. Then they get to hide secret sauce behind that API and all three go from commodity to premium while simultaneously b
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by regularfry 3mo ago
Terrible ideas get executed all the time, despite the problems with them being well understood.
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by regularfry 3mo ago
Bedrock is really out of date with the models it offers, to the extent that I'm not sure they even have plans to update what's on there now they have the deal with Anthropic. They're still offering Qwen 3 , not even 3.5 an
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by regularfry 3mo ago
Wheels in a different configuration solve the stairs problem. https://www.sacktrucks.co.uk/stair-climber-trucks/
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by regularfry 3mo ago
Either 1) the company has device-level control to the degree that they can not only restrict which API endpoints people can connect to but which accounts they use to do so (in which case this already isn't an issue); or 2) they don&#x2
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by regularfry 3mo ago
Seems weird. A 9B model would normally fit unquantised on a 24GB GPU.
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by regularfry 3mo ago
With this model size I've found that the harness seems to matter more. I've moved on to little-coder rather than raw pi with qwen3.6 27b personally, it might be worth taking a look.
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by regularfry 3mo ago
Nah. There are already models at every size on the scale. If you want to run an open 1T model today, you can. What's going to happen is that the capability at any given size point is going to get better over time as new training regime
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by regularfry 3mo ago
That ends up begging the question, because the next step is "how high do you have to drop it from so that it's travelling twice as fast?" and you're immediately going round in circles.
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by regularfry 3mo ago
"Eventually" doing a lot of work. Micron (and implicitly anyone signing this deal) are betting demand is going to outstrip capacity for several years, taking into account what new capacity can be brought online and when.
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by regularfry 3mo ago
I do think this is worth emphasising: the article only focuses on mortality. Not quality of life. Vitamin D makes me not feel like crap, it's cheap, and effectively zero risk. I'm not expecting it to make me live longer, I like
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by regularfry 3mo ago
You could, but it's driving in the wrong direction to try to build that knowledge into the model weights because you'll always run into a capacity limit sooner with a small model than with a larger one. The thing the model is s
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by regularfry 3mo ago
> First, if you know nothing you don't even know what you're missing or what to search for. RAG on the initial prompt would be the first thing to try. > Then, without unlimited context, you have to do research for every task
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by regularfry 4mo ago
That particular example doesn't quite fit, but I've certainly seen cases where otherwise perfectly ordinary fixed strings needed to be broken up to meet linting rules.
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by regularfry 4mo ago
"Pretty much" doing a lot of work. But it's kinda analogous to 99% JPEG compression: yes you can detect loss, but you get meaningful compression ratios out of it and the subjective appearance is nigh-on perfect. Shannon would
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by regularfry 4mo ago
The problem is that the situation in the RAM market might just... not go away. It's locked in for the next couple of years unless the AI market goes pop. Which it might! But if it doesn't, there's no particular reason to thi
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by regularfry 4mo ago
I've been getting 40-50t/s out of qwen3.6:27b on a 4090 limited to 350W with the MTP changes that went in. That comes out at 8.75J/t at the upper end. No idea how that compares with anything else out there. I'd expect a
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by regularfry 4mo ago
You've gained that happening much less frequently. The tradeoff is making every other problem harder to diagnose.
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by regularfry 4mo ago
The difference won't be in the individual tasks. It'll be in the scale of job they can take on and how you interact with the model. Think of pairing with a junior vs replacing a full delivery team, that's the sort of differ
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by regularfry 4mo ago
It's not quite true to say that if you release it you get nothing. If it's worthwhile and picked up by the open-weights labs, you get much bigger and better models implementing it than you would have had access to or been able
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by regularfry 4mo ago
Not in the first 800,000. Maybe in the first 8,000. They really struggled with reliability early on the E65, they introduced a lot of new (to them) technology all at once.
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by regularfry 4mo ago
Don't we also have to worry about heating of the solar panels themselves? 150W/m^2 isn't the incident power, it's the output power. Incident is something like ten times that. Some of that's going to be reflected, bu
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by regularfry 4mo ago
25% of cars. It was... not good.
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by regularfry 4mo ago
Other way round. He invented the induction motor (1887) which the three-phase grid was then demonstrated to drive (1891). That's how influential it was. There are other reasons a three-phase grid is handy but being able to drive thes
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by regularfry 4mo ago
If you had bought a 7 or 5 Series at that time, you would not have had that experience. The 2001 7 Series had something like a 25% roadside breakdown rate.

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