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Tostino··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
They'd probably claim "well, it's not an A/B test then, because we are pre selecting for a specific user type who signs up for this".

I don't think that's an excuse, but it is likely the reasoning.

Tostino··on Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster
You really don't need an entire new inference engine for this. I modified vllm to work just fine for my decision model experiments.

It properly uses the single shared context and only recomputes the questions, or if the questions are longer, I let the questions go first and then the context that changes often can go after, and then the answer menu tokens... I got roughly the same speed increase with the right workloads that you're saying though.

Tostino··on Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout
I hope nothing but the worst for Oracle as a corporation...though nothing against the technical talent there.
Tostino··on Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state
If not a windows laptop, a generic GitHub actions runner on whatever hardware they give you.
Tostino··on New iMac with M6
In this economy?!

I jest...but I'm disgusted by the price gouging going on. Glad my hardware is relatively recent and I had mostly maxed out already when I bought it a few years back. The same setup today would be closer to $7k with equivalent parts.

Tostino··on PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)
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Tostino··on Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party
For their behind closed door conduct? Yes... act on that information how you will.

For getting hacked? No (other than judging the technical team competency).

Same applies here.

Do remember though that the RNC was also hacked at the same time as the DNC, but only one was released right before the election.

Tostino··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
I already eat just poultry and some fish...GP's message is still grating for me. I know i'm not being ideologically consistent by continuing to eat any meat, but it is what it is. I can live with that dissonance.

But you will not bring people over to your side with their approach.

Tostino··on Revolut down as users report app not working
The person you originally replied to.
Tostino··on New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot
I'm saying they aren't regularly working their horses for hours and hours in that type of heat, day in day out. I'm not saying people don't ride them at all.

But it does seriously take a good bit of hosing them down to lower their internal temp to a safe point after being worked hard. You can't just get them wet and call it good, you need to sit there and keep it flowing over them.

Tostino··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
Some of them know the exact danger, and want it to happen because they assume they will be part of the in-group.
Tostino··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
Just get out of here and keep watching more slop history on YouTube.

Tik, right?

Tostino··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
Anyone have the full article?
Tostino··on Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system
Explain to me where in the Constitution it has a carve out for creating an incentive for a private company to gather and collate that data, and then using tax dollars to pay for it.
Tostino··on Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system
Uh, maybe it's legal for private citizens to do, but it very much is not constitutional for the government to be doing it.
Tostino··on Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
Gosh darn it, it sure is profitable though!
Tostino··on Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system
That can be part of signing the contract for these tools if any thought to security was put in place
Tostino··on Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve
Maybe I'm misreading their point...but I'd think that OP was being intellectually consistent and saying that the drug laws should be enforced as written for everyone, or repealed and replaced by more sane laws... because of you were to enforce them as written, you'd have 20-30% (wild ass guess) of the country serving prison time.
Tostino··on New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot
And then have to hose them off for an hour so they don't get heat exhaustion. I have a barn full of horses I grew up with in FL. You're misinformed.
Tostino··on LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents
Ollama is generally just not great software. Use something else and you likely won't have that issue.
Tostino··on Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture
As soon as you scale out to multiple machines, you're already thinking about non-uniform access. If you just push that down one layer further, I don't see all that much of a difference if you're already having to do the work in your software to deal with it.
Tostino··on Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
You don't have a choice when cities, counties, or other government officials decide to make announcements on there.
Tostino··on Build your own decision model
If a lab doesn't know how to put a new output head on a transformer, they shouldn't be considered a lab.
Tostino··on Build your own decision model
Why would a Qwen 1.7b be too slow? You should get well under 200ms there.
Tostino··on A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
You better not be someone who ever talks about caring about the Constitution.
Tostino··on "Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM
How else could you possibly code a GUI?
Tostino··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
What they should do, is inject a system prompt at that point telling the model to get out of there. It is the entire reason they train the different levels into the template.
Tostino··on What is the size of Yemen? (2024)
What specific border are you talking about?
Tostino··on What is the size of Yemen? (2024)
Were they charged and convicted with a crime? Maybe they should have been...but we'll never know now.
Tostino··on Jev Can't Be Calibrated
The available API shapes have limited so much over the years. It's really hard to come up with a new one and have it used, so everyone just tries to fit their work into the existing APIs (chat/completions).

Good job to them for putting out something that does seem quite nice to use, and will likely get a bit of wider traction.

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