VulgarExigency

I wish I had been surprised by what I read in this article.

Deepseek claim they are earning 38 dollars per GPU hour on inference. If you compare Deepseek Flash's off-peak pricing with Sonnet at API rates, Deepseek is 16x cheaper per 1M output tokens, and 13x to 33x cheaper for input, depending on whether or not it's a cache hit. Inference is very profitable.

This seems a bit reductive. What if you want to do a progressive rollout of the feature? What if it has a problem, and you want to disable it without needing to redeploy across multiple regions? What if you want to A/B test it?

> It's so bizarre to watch China embrace the wonders of science and technology, while certain American startups and communities repeat "WHAT ABOUT THE BIOWEAPONS?"

It shouldn't be. China is the closest thing to a technocracy the world has.

> Back then the establishment used the CIA/FBI to prevent a multi-coalition, working class movement across ethnicity, unions, and religions that would have made the US a better democracy.

What makes you think they've stopped?

It's gonna be even worse then they name the 11th iteration Potassium.

Blaming Russia for a train crash in Spain is a level of psychosis I had never seen before.

I think it sounds slightly "off" but its cadence certainly sounds way more like a human than other AI voices I've heard.

McDonald's!

> That is the danger of open source models. They destroy monopolies and shrink margins.

Danger? You mean benefit?

A fanfiction where the author gives the main character good boy points for writing more words is kind of the extreme end of this, though. Web serials and fanfiction tend to be overly verbose and meandering, and the Methods of Rationality is very much on the less verbose side of them, but by the standards of traditionally published fantasy and sci-fi it is wordslop.

Excuse me but you've distilled this comment from me

> Reminding you what food is going to be bad soon. Letting you know a list of recipes you can do with what food you have.

How? Are there cameras inside the fridge that check best before dates, and what food is in there? Having a fridge that is actively spying on what I eat seems even worse.

I've used feature flags extensively throughout my career as a SaaS developer, but I've never considered their usage in desktop software. Not sure how I feel about it.

When was the last time China bombed another country?

My solution for this is to just subscribe to an entirely legitimate IPTV service which costs about as much for a year as one month of Sport TV costs.

Do you honestly believe that most of the thousands of PS2, PS3 and PS4 games will get vibe-coded backend clones?

Well, that's actually not true at all. Stockfish is not a very good odds player and at queen odds is easily beatable even by bad players like me. It will just trade down into more trivial and easier to win positions that it perceives as "less bad", since everything is super-losing anyway when you start down a queen.

Leela odds networks, on the other hand, are an entirely different beast. I cannot beat Leela queen odds, much less rook or minor piece odds, and even GMs struggle against Leela knight odds.

Without odds though, yeah, Stockfish is just incomprehensibly strong by human standards. All top chess engines are, but Stockfish moreso.

I don't think they're comparable. RTK just modifies the output of CLI tools to reduce the number of tokens, a Roslyn MCP gives the agent a fundamentally superior way of interacting with a C# codebase.

How does this compare to Beads, if you don't mind me asking?

https://github.com/gastownhall/beads

Alas, the Chinese scientists have not read Harry Potter fanfiction, and thus their minds are inundated with cognitive biases

Leela proved that the ideas worked, regardless of the conditions that the AlphaZero vs Stockfish matches were run in.

What's funny is that if computer chess had paid more attention to computer shogi, Stockfish could have already been using NNUE by that time, and not lost to AlphaZero. But perhaps that would have stifled Leela's development, and would have led to worse training data for Stockfish in that parallel universe's present day, making it weaker overall.

Leela Chess Zero did surpass Stockfish for a while, until Stockfish switched its eval to NNUE. Modern Stockfish would annihilate AlphaZero.

Deepseek already has 2x peak pricing. This is just going to be cheaper across the board.

Perhaps the general pattern you see is not a "fundamental difference"? Could it be that you are also falling prey to the "all you see is all there is" cognitive bias?

I had to pause multiple times when watching The Curse because I was writhing in spiritual pain from excessive cringing. It was amazing.

In 2026, everything we say, see or do on the internet is just another data point for some unscrupulous bastard to seek profit from.

Absolutely no consideration for the people who, when posting things to Tiktok, would prefer for them not to get scraped.

Nominative determinism strikes again https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/10.1308/147363515X141345...

Well, yes, it does not know it is lying (it does not know anything, in fact). But for some reason, with Sol specifically, it has persistently written false information when it had the correct information within its context to a degree I've not experienced with other models.