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by serf 6d ago
the weight of an llm is 21 grams, I think.[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment
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by serf 6d ago
>Also the time limit is stupid and pointless. it's harder to tell at a glance rather than pulling out a magnifying glass and counting the fingers of everyone in each group; the time limit pressures the player into making underqualif
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by serf 7d ago
>I also mentioned a bank if you're not in the US. revolut in the US is a fintech group with a bunch of bank partners.
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by serf 8d ago
agreed. a niche knowledge callout is about the worst benchmark one can give a smaller model. smaller models are attempting to distill the useful methodologies, not the license plate number of an obscure extras car on Magnum PI. that said I
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by serf 8d ago
I think the premise is more that if one is given a grouping/constellation of unit tests that one can derive generalized laws by looking at what behavior those tests were checking for or against. if there are a dozen unit tests trying t
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by serf 9d ago
>The only on-par open source solution is https://workadventu.re/ , but it is impossible to self-host to the point that one would think they're doing it on purpose so that you pay them for hosting. is there a name for
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by serf 9d ago
>One of my most successful life-hacks is to avoid people I don’t like or don’t trust. following this advice would have made most of my professional life impossible, what a luxury it would have been to be able to.
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by serf 10d ago
the vast majority of successful SaaS offer capabilities or services no where near the frontier. furthermore i'd argue that the success of an saas, or really any startup, has more to do with things aside from the code and service itse
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by serf 10d ago
slow as in the output is slow, or slow as in slow token rates? qwen3.8 has been fantastic as far as token rates are concerned for me, but the overthinking thing with higher reasoning levels takes some coercion to get right. fwiw pi and herm
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by serf 11d ago
hard social stigmas just produce defiance and cheaters. so, in other words, that seems like the way to breed more realistic acting agents rather than getting rid of them.
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by serf 12d ago
what do you call a dieselgate for ev? hmm coool interior and aero. all of the hyper efficient designs end up looking like the modern prius designs with the swan tail rear and hawk-beak nose.
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by serf 15d ago
>I've never seen oil prices decrease due to any regional disruption; the market is global. oil spiked and then crashed during the gulf war & the iraq war in 03. the gulf war probably because of western price control methods kick
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by serf 16d ago
3 hrs and 52 minutes of Musk. I didn't even want to sit in front of a screen for 2 hours for Bob Dylan, sheesh.
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by serf 16d ago
>If you have access to a SOTA model without guardrails, provide a prompt that lets the agent come up with "creative" solutions to problems, and don't properly isolate it, they can end up inadvertently hacking 3rd party com
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by serf 16d ago
>Asheron's Call, Planetside, World of Warcraft, and Dark Age of Camelot. It seems like only WoW survived wow, daoc, runescape, eve, and now planetside 2 are still operating. everquest, the big one missing from your list, is also sti
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by serf 17d ago
It's my perspective that open models are closing the gap faster than the frontier is widening it. I'm not alone in that opinion.
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by serf 17d ago
>Because they own the IP and they get to decide the terms of how it’s licensed. how'd that work out for the rest of IP owners that had their stuff used as training data for use in model creation? was the material they trained on pro
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by serf 17d ago
I recently had to config my harness to watch for cybersecurity flags from astra and funnel requests to flash when they occur because Astra gets queezy when you talk to it about UDP packets in games. Works fantastic. Glad there is a more &#x
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by serf 17d ago
>I care about the beauty that one can construct from the human mind, and that was the entire point, at least for me, to practise math. the result of this originates from the beauty of the human mind, even if the tool used blinds you to t
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by serf 17d ago
there absolutely are ways to cache common-routes to fields of commonly requested paths. (hint : it's not all regex and checksums.)
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by serf 19d ago
>I think the „my brain isn’t the same anymore“ sensation is pretty universal. I disagree with the premise that you're propping up with the exercise example; I disagree that humans are thinking less because of mechanisms available in
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by serf 20d ago
>I believe skills will eventually be eating by model capabilities a model capability is never going to fill in an unknowable blank that a custom skill (or whatever equivalent your paradigm supports) can. a model might have the cleverness
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by serf 20d ago
Neither the invention date or the mental health terminology have anything to do with the fact that js being commonplace is a privacy and security nightmare -- which was actually the point.
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by serf 22d ago
it wasn't timed like a cascade, and it relies on the premise that every single frontier provider is working so efficiently that they spend exactly what they need to provide for their exact market with perfect margins. I do not believe
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by serf 22d ago
does that area have a textile manufacturing history? I ask because i'm only familiar with a thread/yarn bobbin, I wonder if it derived from that.
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by serf 22d ago
customers buy furniture options when they order the plane. related : many flight demonstrators in the past for large passenger planes have had no interior at all aside from the cockpit and ballast kits.
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by serf 23d ago
Gemini is great (and fast) at vision tasks. It's a huge benefit to add on to an existing pi/omp harness install just for that feature to use in conjunction with other (stronger) models. Too bad this anti 3rd party usage stance ba
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by serf 23d ago
>whim you probably can't even appeal. not to beat a dead horse in this thread , but that should give the motivation needed to seek alternatives.
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by serf 23d ago
all of them? openrouter and deepseek/glm working fine here. as is my local qwen. you're ignoring the point parent was making.
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by serf 23d ago
I thought hearing about The Cave on repeat for 30+ years was nauseating until video game metaphor took over for all of philosophy in common media. you don't know what you got (til it's gone)

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