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wgd

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About wgd

Generalist Software Engineer and Electrical Engineer with experience ranging from circuit design/layout and microcontroller firmware, to backend servers and JavaScript frontends. Currently working as a Software Engineer at Estuary.

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    Comment #49219289

    If memory serves the DeepInfra offering is marked as fp4 because that's the native precision of the experts (which are of course the majority of the weights in a MoE model) so they…

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    Comment #49152219

    There is https://noslopgrenade.com/

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    Comment #48948621

    It's actually pretty straightforward to recover file-states from conversation history. I accidentally deleted the wrong repo on my machine once and recreated all the lost work from…

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    Comment #48928644

    You don't hear about them much because their models aren't really competitive. I really wanted to try Trinity Large as a daily-driver in the MiniMax M2 sort of niche but I couldn't…

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    Comment #48900401

    > DeepSeek and GLM are left out of the tables entirely: we only have rough characters-divided-by-four estimates for them, not real tokenizer counts, and this post is about measured…

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    Comment #48898914

    Yeah, I originally expected this to be about a cursive variant which could be plotted as a single-valued function or something.

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    Comment #48887312

    A more accurate title might be "Average University Students Can't Identify Czech AI Poetry". The random-chance performance seen here is reminiscent of the 50-50 nonexpert performan…

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    Comment #48877154

    At first I thought this excerpt was meant to warn people off without directly alleging AI authorship, but I guess that's less likely since I see you're also the submitter

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    Comment #48848970

    The current Deepseek V4 Pro is still just their initial preview AFAIK, with the "real" model release rumored to come later this month. GLM-5.2 might be outperforming simply because…

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    Comment #48848837

    Pangram does work, in the specific sense that when it says something was AI authored it is vanishingly unlikely that it was written by a human (who was not deliberately trying to w…

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    Comment #48805515

    > The reason that people don't understand why Anthropic wont let the subscription be used with other harnesses Even more specifically, the very fact that people would prefer, if th…

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    Comment #48805337

    I've read a lot of his other writings so that context might be informing my reading here but it sounds like he's pretty straightforwardly discussing the potential of aluminum foil …

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    Comment #48800325

    Yes, those ones would be at least a somewhat-plausible simulation of a real scenario people care about: a once-clean codebase that was allowed to become messy by a succession of in…

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    Comment #48799868

    "agent pipelines that [...] clean a messy [repository]" This feels like a terrible approach, sufficient to condemn the entire study. Apparently half of the "minimal pairs" in this …

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    Comment #48775031

    Some dishwashers add a simple timer-based heuristic so if you open it for just a few seconds while you lazily grab something the "clean" indicator stays lit.

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    Comment #48629144

    I've always been amazed at how terrible most frontier LLMs are at compaction given how embarrassingly easy it is to come up with half a dozen different RL training evals which woul…

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    Comment #48563246

    The problem is that the moment you introduce shared remote hardware there's a slippery slope leading right back down to "just pay an inference host for model tokens". If you're tra…

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    Comment #48522680

    I've got a GLM subscription (mostly because I like supporting open model makers, pretty sure my monthly usage is so low that pay-per-token would be more cost effective), so I gener…

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    Comment #48522209

    The GLM-5 series is 744B-A40B. This is not a local model for any reasonable definition of local, but it's an open model which means (once they upload the weights in a week or so) t…

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    Comment #48509794

    Often in MoE models the experts are quantized while the shared portions, being a much smaller part of the network with greater impact, are kept at higher or full precision. Not fam…

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    Comment #48479413

    Yeah, the evidence feature is so terrible that it actively harms the overall reputation of Pangram. The main "is this AI or human?" classification is done with a machine learning m…

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    Comment #48478989

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    Comment #48470552

    People say "determinism" but I don't think that's actually the property we care about. For instance you could imagine a compiler that makes heavy use of superoptimization with rand…

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    Comment #48470032

    Yeah I agree this is probably outside of the intended scope of the silent sabotage mechanism, but there are plenty of reports of the "loud" safety classifier misfiring on innocuous…