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Yep, exactly. Engineers always think these sorts of “ask the user what to do” mitigations will be effective, but they forget that users have no clue and the repetition causes users…

Yes, agreed, but I think it’s going to be difficult to have a high quality model that “does it all” and have it be local. For a quality “does it all” model, you’re going to need a …

So, Kimi K3 in silicon sometime soon?

Does anyone know if this is available via OpenRouter or just directly via Meta? I've looked on OpenRouter and it just shows the standard pricing with a single provider. Was hoping …

Images of Zuck driving a white van near elementary schools…

For Deepseek specifically, OpenRouter has a number of non-Chinese providers. Pricing varies.

I agree. I don’t mind you training on my data if you’re up front about it and you are willing to compensate me for it in some way. And if I don’t like the deal, I can always pay fu…

This is a well-known issue with all “Do you want to let me maybe do bad stuff to your system, but 999 times out of 1000 it’s not a problem?” prompts. Users get reflexive about hitt…

IMO, purpose built or “adapted” models are The Next Big Thing. If I’m using a model to write Python code, for instance, I really want the 8B or 27B expert model for exactly that, w…

I agree with this. Interestingly, I’ve been using Deepseek v4 Flash a lot these days but I definitely have to constrain it a lot with tests. Fortunately, I can have it write the te…

And Poolside’s latest models (Laguna S 2.1) are pretty good (not frontier, but competitive with the tier 2 models). Which means that Mistral could certainly compete in that space.

I think Deepseek is selling roughly at cost (perhaps a slight premium). They don’t guarantee that they don’t train on the submitted prompts, so I suspect they are mining the data. …

> If a process tells me that "if the light is blue and the sound is sharp then the lever must be lowered", it outputs reasoning By this definition, all computer programs using simp…

Yes, a proper definition of reasoning must be provided. How are you defining reasoning, exactly? You imply that formal logic is reasoning. Is reasoning just formal logic or is form…

I was hoping for a test of the old Pringles can antenna.

I chuckle at the thought of going back to letterboxing with people arguing that “we need to see the top and bottom of the frame, like the director intended!” What’s old is new agai…

LOL, okay fair enough. Then maybe let me say that I was left disappointed.

Clearly, words morph over time. A “computer” used to refer to a human who would make numeric calculations with a pencil and paper. Maybe we’re at that point with “thinking” and “re…

Sure, other living, non-human things clearly reason and think. My German shepherd dog is quite smart and demonstrates these processes all the time. But is a machine following an al…

This feels like a problem with anthropomorphizing. We’re using words like “reasoning” and “thinking” because they are comfortable, and then we’re getting wrapped around the axle be…

My university had a great Physics department (Nobel laureate level), but every year you’d have a bunch of junior year (year 3) physics students desperately trying to switch into en…

Sure, it seems true for a short period. But rushing something forward means you cut corners and that catches up with you over time. Anyone who has ever had a sales team asking for …

Aka “mechanical sympathy”

Cool, will do. Was playing around with it last night some more.

Yep. Much of the old phone system has now transitioned to highly-compressed, packetized voice running over IP rather than the traditional synchronous SONET infrastructure. While SO…