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SoftBank Seeks Over $11 Billion in Junk Bonds for OpenAI Bet(bloomberg.com)
2 points by scrlk 5d ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 5d ago
https://archive.ph/4wrJR
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by scrlk 10d ago
The UK has mini roundabouts, which are just a painted white circle on the road: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Mini-rou... Drivers treat them as a normal roundabout by giving way to
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A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record – beats desktop i9 and Ryzen 9(tomshardware.com)
28 points by scrlk 11d ago|11 comments
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by scrlk 11d ago
You can still go to a tailor and commission jackets, trousers and shirts, made with the same quality of fabrics and manufacturing techniques. With shoes, you can still go and buy hand welted shoes. It all comes at a price but I don't d
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by scrlk 11d ago
The share of household spending on clothing has gone from 10%+ to under 5% in Western countries. When you're spending that much, it's not a surprise that clothing was "BIFL" both in quality and upkeep (repair rather than
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by scrlk 17d ago
Might be related to this announcement from Tibo on Sunday: > We've made some improvements that improve usage on the long tail for power users of Astra when logged in with your ChatGPT account. > No change in quality and a pure wi
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by scrlk 23d ago
Is the ARC-AGI-3 score with their custom harness? I'm guessing that is what the footnote is for? (per https://openai.com/index/how-two-settings-tripled-our-arc-ag... )
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Introducing Muse Spark 1.3(research.meta.ai)
66 points by scrlk 24d ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 24d ago
That's interesting to hear. I should have added that I use Gemini through Google AI Studio as my general chat model, which probably explains our wildly different experiences.
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by scrlk 24d ago
Not just speed, also reliability. IME, Gemini's speed and quality doesn't degrade badly during weekday working hours compared to OAI, and especially Anthropic.
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CXMT Starts Risk Production of HBM3E Memory(techpowerup.com)
3 points by scrlk 26d ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 26d ago
Apple built internal M5 servers for private cloud compute: https://wccftech.com/apples-private-cloud-compute-server-m5-... https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by scrlk 27d ago|0 comments
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US plans nuclear-powered merchant fleet to challenge China's shipbuilding(ft.com)
6 points by scrlk 1mo ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 1mo ago
https://archive.is/a7Emt
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Plus the Samsung Exynos modems that they were using from Pixel 6-10 (11 switched to Mediatek) had worse power efficiency and performance vs Qualcomm.
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How Wall Street Sussed Out That Situational Awareness Was on the Ropes(wsj.com)
7 points by scrlk 1mo ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 1mo ago
https://archive.ph/3XDiM
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by scrlk 1mo ago
It was Lenovo ditching the classic ThinkPad 7 row keyboard with the Ivy Bridge models c. 2012 that really pissed people off
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by scrlk 1mo ago
The 2026 ThinkPads have their USB-C ports on a separate modules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_pz2t1FXA
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Unsloth publishes KL divergence numbers which measures how much the quantised probability distribution changes vs unquantised: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8#quantization-analysis It's a bit bare at t
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Beats Opus 4.7 Max (w/ Claude Code) on DeepSWE (42.2 vs 40). Looks like Qwen's 27B models continue to pack some punch. Unsloth's GGUF quants are up: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Reminds me of the Tomorrow Corporation (developer of World of Goo) tech demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE Their entire stack is custom (language, compiler, IDE, build system, engine). Has neat features like
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by scrlk 2mo ago
With Opus 4.7, there's a 10 point improvement in the AA coding agent index when you swap out Claude Code for OpenCode: https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents#harness-c... To put that in perspective, th
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by scrlk 2mo ago
What harness are you using? DS V4 is harness sensitive.
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by scrlk 2mo ago
Benefits of having a well performing hedge fund funding DeepSeek. IIRC, Demis attempted to start a fund inside DeepMind but it was killed off. In an alternative world where he manages to pull that off, perhaps DeepMind would still be indepe
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by scrlk 2mo ago
Benchmarks: | Benchmark | DS-V4-Pro | DS-V4-Flash | DS-V4-Pro | DS-V4-Flash | GLM-5.2 | Kimi-K3 | Opus-4.8 | Fable 5 | | | 0813 | 0731 | Preview | Preview |
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by scrlk 2mo ago
Will be interesting to see how Qwen3.8 27B compares against this once it releases this week. Seems like dense 30B is back in fashion? EDIT: An open weight version of Muse Spark 1.2 is going to be released as well: https://x.com&#
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by scrlk 2mo ago
IIRC, the Sunway CPUs used in Chinese supercomputers have an Alpha-like design.

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