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exactly, it seems to validate my assumption from some time ago, that we will mostly use local models for everyday tasks.

Not just local models but bespoke apps. The number of bespoke apps I've created shot up dramatically in the last 6 months. I use one to do my recipes/meal plan every week. I have one that goes through all my email addresses and summarizes everything daily. I just finished an intelligent planner / scheduler for my irrigation system that takes into account weather forecast and soil moisture levels. If something is anno…

As someone who hasn't used AI for "real" app development (mainly just getting ChatGPT to generate small functions & scripts), do you have any recommendations on what tools or resources I should use to get started with this?

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My Chinese friend told me MiMo doesn’t have a meaning in Chinese (of course Mi 米 = rice). Anybody have a clue for what it stands for?

Isn't that basically standard for names? What does Google mean? Even when the words in a name do have some meaning, they often don't apply. The meaning of the word brother doesn't really mean anything in the company Brother.

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My Chinese friend told me MiMo doesn’t have a meaning in Chinese (of course Mi 米 = rice). Anybody have a clue for what it stands for?

Isn't that basically standard for names? What does Google mean? Even when the words in a name do have some meaning, they often don't apply. The meaning of the word brother doesn't really mean anything in the company Brother.

It's standard for English names (although google is a real word - the number represented by a one followed by 100 zeroes), but not so much for Chinese - at least personal names seem to usually have a real meaning rather than just sounding nice, although I'm not sure about how much that extends to product names.

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My Chinese friend told me MiMo doesn’t have a meaning in Chinese (of course Mi 米 = rice). Anybody have a clue for what it stands for?

Isn't that basically standard for names? What does Google mean? Even when the words in a name do have some meaning, they often don't apply. The meaning of the word brother doesn't really mean anything in the company Brother.

Why did you choose Google when its classic lore they named it after a real word "googol" and the current spelling is just a typo from the first investor check.

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English won. The Chinese youth struggle to write their own calligraphy characters they can read now. Typing favors English.

The pendulum already turned back. The current generation under 20 grew up with touchscreens. That obseletes input with pinyin; many don't care if the device has no keyboard.

If only Unicode decomposed Chinese characters on a per basic stroke basis: it would be so much easier to have keyboards following that.

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Haven't we reached a situation where English is the de facto language of scientific research, especially AI benchmarks ? It's clearly impossible for me to try anything in Chinese, I'd need a translation.

Correct. Lingua franca for at least the last 75 years, if not longer.

For publishing results, yes, but not necessarily for the generation part of it.

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LLM benchmarks are mostly bullshit right now. Wait a few years until the hype cycle returns to sanity.

>> These benchmark numbers cannot be real for a 7b model > LLM benchmarks are mostly bullshit right now. Wait a few years until the hype cycle returns to sanity. This could mean a lot of things. Can you be a bit more specific? It's one thing to say benchmarks are gamed. Another to say models end up being trained on the benchmark indirectly. Another to say they the particular experimental setup during the benchmark is…

All of these claims and more are true because of perverse incentives right now.

Personally I use Qwen 2.5, works well enough for me. Qwen 3 is a dud.

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Isn't that basically standard for names? What does Google mean? Even when the words in a name do have some meaning, they often don't apply. The meaning of the word brother doesn't really mean anything in the company Brother.

Why did you choose Google when its classic lore they named it after a real word "googol" and the current spelling is just a typo from the first investor check.

It still doesn't really mean anything. Knowing the lore behind the name doesn't let you understand it any more than just taking it as a random name.

Re: Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model

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The pendulum already turned back. The current generation under 20 grew up with touchscreens. That obseletes input with pinyin; many don't care if the device has no keyboard.

If only Unicode decomposed Chinese characters on a per basic stroke basis: it would be so much easier to have keyboards following that.

This has nothing to do with Unicode and everything to do with input methods, of which there are a variety. Some methods are indeed shape-based like you suggest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_method#Shape-bas...

By the looks of it, Pinyin (a phonetic one) won by a landslide, which I suspect this is the result of a long effort by the Chinese government to install Mandarin as the official language of China, above regional dialects (different regions would write similar characters but pronounce them differently, and defaulting to Pinyin has this "nice" effect of having people "think of how it would be pronounced in Mandarin first", even when the result are characters that would be read by a Cantonese speaker).

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