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acchow··on Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain
GPS...?
acchow··on Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released
The 512GB is likely targeting people who want 1TB RAM (2x cluster).
acchow··on Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision
There were 222 pedestrian urban-area deaths in Spain in 2025.

There is a risk of just being outside. Usually due to cars.

acchow··on Genie 4
Subtle product placements tailored specifically for you will be injected into movies and TV
acchow··on Anthropic S-1
We’ve already seen 90% reduction in intelligence costs multiple times over the last few years. Each time, token consumption rises 20-100x
acchow··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
> NVIDIA’s CFO wrote me a letter stating that 15,625 shares of my stock options had vested, and that I was required to exercise them. I did, and then forgot all about it.
acchow··on iPhone Duo
The original "phablet" was the Samsung Galaxy Note, considered comically large. At 147mm x 83mm, it's about the same size as the iPhone 18 Pro (150mm x 72mm)
acchow··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
> It would be extraordinarily easy to simply say, this model was not trained on your work, if that were the case.

The Huggingface Attack revealed that making blanket statements like this is difficult and requires quite a bit of manual labor:

1) the agents spin for days and produce too much output to review 2) using LLMs to process that output skips many important details

Ergo, the agent could likely decide it would like to look through actual user data, hack its way into that data, and produce way too much output for a human to decide whether or not this occurred.

acchow··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Chrome on iOS has always been JIT'd because it used a WKWebView.

It still uses a WKWebView today, even in the EU, despite Apple now allowing alternative browser engines in the EU as of 2 years ago.

I'm sure Chrome will eventually ship Blink+V8 in the EU. It will take some time

acchow··on GPT-6 Astra
That’s using the default system prompt, right? Which is told to be an assistant.
acchow··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
This is already present today in California Driver's licenses in your Apple Wallet (mDL).

When you scan your driver's license at a compatible reader, you're given a notice of what information is being requested and the ability to share it (or not).

It can also request some derived attribute (is this person above the age of 21?) instead of the actual data field itself.

Most of this is from ISO/IEC 18013-5

acchow··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Humans are equally fooled into believing each other are conscious.
acchow··on Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
> 2 billion tokens (mix of Opus and Fable), 24 hours

That's 1.3M tokens per minute. I suppose you mean input tokens? This would not have cost $2000 at API prices because you would have cache hits.

acchow··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
I agree. The “frontier level” open weights models benchmark really well but fall behind in real world performance
acchow··on What's the best programming language for coding agents?
> omitting explicit type declarations makes the code more compact.

I guess this ignores languages with type inference? Hindley-Milner and others

acchow··on Online Friends Are Real Friends
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Embracing this change in what you value in relationships is a key part of growing up.

The shift from playing together (childhood) to having each others' backs (adolescence, college, 20s) to building up each others' lives (adulthood).

Your true friends have bigger dreams for you than you have for yourself.

acchow··on Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
The "CLI crowd" is also primarily using LLMs on their own computer. Where they have their CLI tools.

This doesn't cover the case when you're talking to an LLM from web, or via Slack or Linear, etc. There, you will want MCP so the LLM can use services on your behalf as you. That's portability.

acchow··on I'd not buy a LG monitor
Why do monitors need drivers to work?
acchow··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
That's about right. Half the TPS with half the power.

GLM-5.2 will be much more demanding tho

acchow··on Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
> like 180W-250W TDP > running GLM 5.2 would be cool at like ~100 tokens per second for a single session

Your power consumption estimates are off for this generation of GPUs. A 27B dense model gets 50-80 tps on an RTX 6000 using 600 watts.

acchow··on 98.css
If it takes longer to find stuff on a page, one of the most prized metrics goes up: time on page.

And here we are.

acchow··on Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Opus:

No life ran more bleak and desolate than Yu Xin's —

yet in his twilight years, his verses stirred the rivers and the passes.

acchow··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
I don’t think you need a 10-30b model for most smartphone use cases.

But I meant to counter gp’s claim that “I can run a 27b model on an iPhone” is kind of pointless and disingenuous. Yes I’m sure someone will come up with a way to run a “27b model” at 0.1 bit quantization on an Apple Watch pretty soon misses the whole point of saying a model is “27b” in capability.

Achieving a parameter count is not the point. And is almost meaningless

acchow··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
We're too easily conflating parameter count with capability. That Bonsai 27B you're running is at 2-bit quantization. Is it really better than the best 10-18B models?
acchow··on The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
> It makes it impossible to click on any links in the footer of the page

That's a UI bug. Real infinite scroll does not have a footer.

acchow··on I love LLMs, I hate hype
No, Apple Watch won't have the compute or the ram needed in 5-10 years. That will require 8-9 doublings in RAM and even more in compute.
acchow··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
> and nothing would stop you playing it

Not true for PS5 games. Sony can push a firmware update to disable games, even if you own the disc.

acchow··on Africans Are Turning to Starlink
There are only 170 ground stations (about 100 in the US).

So for someone living in rural america, it's really "famous last 300 miles".

acchow··on Claude Sonnet 5
Agreed. The graphs clearly show that opus 4.8 performs strictly better at the same cost per task
acchow··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
That $6700 is a $5000 upgrade over a base model Macbook Pro.

$5000 in US Treasuries (currently at 4.89%) yields $244.5/yr. That's more than enough to cover the annual Claude Pro subscription ($200/yr) which includes Claude Code with lots of Sonnet usage (far better than Qwen 3.6)

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