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It's a unit of mass used in the firearms world

I believe the fully baked-in nature is pretty important for the perf they get. With a cartridge port you now have a bus between the weights and the compute and the weights and that…

For anyone who wants to learn more about this claim, I thought this video was cool: https://youtu.be/M9Hoy9Kn1u0?is=1O5AJPEziihH1MSJ

Dwarkesh recently pointed out [0] that these guys are almost forced to spend most of their compute on training instead of inference. This is because they need to maintain the appea…

No I think you are thinking of Etched/Sohu. Taalas' approach (at least for their demo'd product) is to bake the whole thing in completely. IIUC the optimiser can even see the weigh…

I'm not satisfied with any of the text editors I've used (I've used all the big ones for a few years each). Zed was a promising new direction I.e. VSCode minus the bullshit. But it…

I don't want someone "to make it simpler for developers to follow changes applied by an LLM in an ergonomic fashion". I want a text editor. I want "VScode without the bullshit". Th…

this prompted me to search and find: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xcancel/

ABP works for the most common of these too (e.g. popups/banners)! You have to enable it in the settings I think. JS annoyances it won't fix are like idiotic scrolling behaviour and…

Firefox has this too, it's useful. However I only find that I use it for websites that have shit CSS that makes it hard to read on mobile. For everything else AdBlock Plus works fi…

You know if you tap on the text at the top, it takes you to an article that expands upon the question. In this case you'll find that article discusses the strengths and weaknesses …

In the Linux kernel I've had a lot of luck with: 1. "find the code that does X" 2. go read that code 3. When you hit a bit you don't care about, go back to the model and ask it for…

I have been pondering this and I think it's likely a gap that will get filled sooner or later. Right now there's just so much value in building LLM tools for experts that everyone …

> The model outputs are much more concise than when I try and talk to GPT-5.6 Sol about mathematics. By signalling expertise, Tao shunts the model into “talking-to-mathematicians” …

I think it was reasonable in the very recent past. There was a period where AI had major capabilities that had not diffused fully into the zeitgeist. So often you could see someone…

It doesn't matter if you have the RAM, running a 1.5TB model for a single context stream is fundamentally inefficient.

I agree but worth noting that it's never gonna be very practical to run LLMs like this at home. Unless we have some sort of design breakthrough, the only "sensible" way to run them…

> This is a very fast model. I was already impressed by how fast 3.5 Flash was. But I've never compared it to other models in its class for coding. Why? Coz models in that class ar…

Coz you want to know what flooring, doors, cupboards, bath, sinks, railings, windows, etc they are putting in. I went to view a flat this week, it was a building site. That's still…

Requiring disclosure seems obvious. Using AI for these pics is also not inherently deceptive though. I live in an extremely overheated housing market where properties are usually s…

After a rebase, mybranch@{1} refers to the previous location of mybranch, so you don't need to manually track these before-rebase branches etc. (In practice I find this syntax supe…

Google should be able to detect this and ban those apps from the Play Store. They have the incentive too.

Even if nobody is "cheating" your particular definition of cheating, the benchmarks are _somewhere_ in the super-structural gradient descent. Models are benchmark-maximising machin…

Great to see there are others doing the same. It's a extremely cool that ESPHome is able, just by existing and being good, to create this little industry of no-bullshit products. W…

Yeah I was thinking airtightness might be the difference. My flat seems to be bizarrely hermetic (when you turn on the kitchen extractor fan, it struggles if you don't have a windo…