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Qwen 3.6 27B is quite good for agentic coding, and practical to run on consumer hardware. You need a system with either 32+ GB VRAM, or a unified memory system with 48+ GB VRAM and…

They're comparing to Opus 4.6, not 4.5. It was Anthropic's best public model up until last week.

I run Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B on my MacBook Pro, and in my experience its capability level for programming and code comprehension tasks is roughly that of Claude Sonnet 3.7. Honestly I …

It’s worth also comparing Qwen 3.5, it’s a very strong model. Different benchmarks give different results, but in general Qwen 3.5, GLM 5, and Kimi K2.5 are all excellent models, a…

I disagree about the image quality at typical sizes - I find JPEG-XL is generally similar or better than AVIF at any reasonable compression ratios for web images. See this for exam…

JPEG-XL provides the best migration path for image conversion from JPEG, with lossless recompression. It also supports arbitrary HDR bit depths (up to 32 bits per channel) unlike A…

Those ratios seem way off if you're referring to the M1 Max and not the base M1. If we use Geekbench CPU performance, the Ryzen 9 7945HX (which is from 2023) is around 12% faster s…

153 GB/s is not bad at all for a base model; the Nvidia DGX Spark has only 273 GB/s memory bandwidth despite being billed as a desktop "AI supercomputer". Models like Qwen 3 30B-A3…

It's colleges they they have been clamping down on, as they were bringing in absolutely massive numbers of mostly Indian students who were coming mainly to work in low-end jobs and…

Mistral models are largely along the likes of what you were asking for. However, Grok (any version) absolutely is not a “don’t say gay” model, it talks about sexuality of all forms…

That’s the thing - old German compact luxury sedans from the 80s had the control feel, balance, and light weight you get from a Porsche, while also being practical family cars. The…

Aside from the Mazda MX-5 (which isn’t the most practical car), almost all small, simple, and light cars made today are econoboxes. They’re not designed to have the rich control fe…

In general, I agree. However, many older cars were small, light, simple, and raw - characteristics that have largely disappeared from modern cars. Automatic transmissions from the …

Qwen 3 Coder 30B-A3B has been pretty good for me with tool calling.

While cloud models are of course faster and smarter, I've been pretty happy running Qwen 3 Coder 30B-A3B on my M4 Max MacBook Pro. It has been a pretty good coding assistant for me…

Privacy, both personal and for corporate data protection is a major reason. Unlimited usage, allowing offline use, supporting open source, not worrying about a good model being tak…

On my M4 Max MacBook Pro, with MLX, I get around 70-100 tokens/sec for Qwen 3 30B-A3B (depending on context size), and around 40-50 tokens/sec for Qwen 3 14B. Of course they’re not…

You should use flash attention with KV cache quantization. I routinely use Qwen 3 14B with the full 128k context and it fits in under 24 GB VRAM. On my Pixel 8, I've successfully u…

They just recently released the r1-0528 model which was a massive upgrade over the original R1 and is roughly on par with the current best proprietary western models. Let them take…

People supported families with single incomes with less than high school education for centuries before the 1950s.

KDE 6 is quite stable in my experience and faster/more efficient than Gnome too.

The excessive translucency makes contrast much worse and complex backgrounds poke through to distract from the test. Readability suffers severely. This is a terrible design directi…

Is reading and memorizing a copyrighted text a breach of copyright? I.e. is creating a copy of the text in your mind a breach of copyright or fair fair use? Is it a breach of copyr…

Demo available at https://chat.z.ai/ In my experiments, its non-reasoning variant is the strongest non-reasoning LLM in its size class, and outperforms much larger LLMs like Llama …