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This is basically my thought- my school is considering all sorts of things to combat AI cheating, and most of them scale poorly. You can implement them and increase your reputation…

This has been obvious to everyone who knows that the key feature to the devs of these browsers is “-based.” None of the chromium-based browsers are anything other than UI tweaks an…

Out of all the companies that signed the open letter that Dario references, Google and OpenAI feel like they did it to poke at their competitor. I probably should have taken shots …

Such a cop-out. Dario, you got in the news because you were trying to say that Moonshot did something wrong by distilling Claude. You got in the news because you were trying to eff…

Tl;dr: think hard about what you’d use this much RAM for in a desktop setting and do some research about how people like the 395 for your use case. Not all use cases work well. Any…

Feels like they released this to ride the wave of press of GPT-5.6, Kimi K3, and Qwen 3.8. Doesn't feel like Google has much substance with this post except a bump in version and t…

They aren’t training at all. They are quantizing existing models, it’s just that the process is different. The 27B uses Qwen3.6 27B as the base model.

> Somehow I have to incentivize students to learn the material on their own... And a really effective way to do that is a graded test ... I know. The desire to get a degree or the …

I have a few thoughts related to this, and maybe I can get them out and ties them back together at the end. 1a. Yes, college isn’t right for everyone, and testing the traditional w…

“We lose money on every rack, but we make up for it in volume!” - Elon Musk, probably

Additionally, I thought the threat being modeled for “biology” was stuff like bioterroism- how to make anthrax, how to distribute a toxin, etc. I don’t feel like calculating result…

OCR means optical character recognition. The terms do not require a direct transcription, but that is mostly what OCR meant in the past. If you’re using an LLM’s vision capability …

I feel like CRAN should be used for packages that are expressly made for others to use, and with effort put in to the documentation and vignettes. If you’re making a package for a …

This is a great example of why prompt engineering is still relevant. Without providing definitions and examples and a well defined rubric, you’re going to see different models disa…

I looked at it and am unimpressed. I’ll take any Pininfarina designed Ferrari over this plain looking thing. Jony Ive did an okay job on the interior but the outside is just plain.…

I did read the article and I’m not arguing against a straw man. If you’re going to let an AI agent do everything for you then go ahead and use Rust (or any language with a strong t…

It’s funny that in your reply “this article is almost certainly intended to be read by humans” you made what is the best case to keep writing code in Python even with AI. Sure, if …

If we're shipping the alfalfa to China, I assume that means it's supporting some Chinese person's food source, whether they are directly eating the alfalfa, or some animal is eatin…

Comparing water usage of AI to agriculture and cities is a little misleading. The cities' water usage is to keep people alive with basically mandatory things, like hygiene, and dri…

If Mistral Medium 3.5 supports it, that might get it to 10 t/s. It will still be fairly slow.

> being able to run a model and being able to run a model fast are two very different thresholds Specifically speaking, on my Strix Halo machine with (theoretical) memory bandwidth…

For a while it was all about getting the lightest shoes, because picking up heavy shoes slowed you down. Then the energy return (pebax foam, carbon plates/rods) became the main foc…

While that seems like a bummer, as long as he doesn't quit he'll have many more chances to set the record himself.

Intelligence agencies and companies for which industrial espionage is an actual concern will re-encrypt their data storage, or have already done so. The only risk is on data that w…

Just because other companies have released open weights models doesn’t mean they are doing so with the same motivation. And I never implied that the Chinese companies decision maki…