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redman25··on Intelligence vs. cost scaled by real prices
Artificial analysis's "intelligence vs cost per task" chart shows the provider's price. I had deepseek scale the prices against openrouter's prices and re-draw the chart and pareto line.

Some models saw big improvement. Deepseek 4.1 flash in particular joined the pareto when openrouter's real prices were taken into account.

redman25··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Id love to learn what prompts you’re using to do that. Explanations one at a time. Thats something I’ve thought would be helpful before but didn’t know how to achieve it.
redman25··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Maybe they’re gunning for speedy non-interactive pricing? Or its a limit of the technology or a business decision?
redman25··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
More like acting without a sense of civic duty is stupid. Or acting without a basis in evidence is stupid.
redman25··on Qwen 3.8
Deepseek is one of the worst in terms of hallucination rate according to artificial analysis' benchmark: https://artificialanalysis.ai/?omniscience=omniscience-hallu...
redman25··on Prefer strict tables in SQLite
A large portion of the tests are closed source unfortunately which would make it tough to create a port.
redman25··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
I've been preferring Mimo recently. Same price as deekseek, more reliable tool calling (subjectively), and has some nice qualities in terms of prose, etc.

I've heard others say that Deepseek tends to be smarter on specific problems but that Mimo tends to more well-rounded.

redman25··on Claude Fable 5
Exactly, intelligence is limited by cost and physical constraints just as much as anything. That's the thing that seems to always be missing from the run-away singularity discussions, it's treated like a perpetual motion machine.
redman25··on Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
IDK this model release is a bit disappointing considering the community has been chomping at the bit for the 124ba4b model. There was some leaked info about it but people suspect it was not released because it was too close to gemini flash in performance.
redman25··on Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
I too prefer my misinformation delivered with maximum confidence and no accountability.
redman25··on A few words on DS4
What prompt had you given it?
redman25··on MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
I'm not OP but I work outside and use light mode. Macs are generally fairly bright as long as you aren't in direct sunlight. Solarized light mode for the win though.
redman25··on Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
It’s a heck of a lot faster too.
redman25··on Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
Doesn’t ham radio not allow transmissions to be encrypted by law? That rules out most of the internet.
redman25··on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
A strix halo machine or MAC will run at less than 20watts idle. You could leave it running.
redman25··on Artemis II safely splashes down
Is 10 days enough to make walking difficult?
redman25··on Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs
Not to be confused with nanocoder, the agentic coding harness.

https://github.com/Nano-Collective/nanocoder

redman25··on Google releases Gemma 4 open models
Exactly, compare MoE with MoE and dense with dense otherwise it's apples and oranges.
redman25··on Google releases Gemma 4 open models
200a10b please, 200a3b is too little active to have good intelligence IMO and 10b is still reasonably fast.
redman25··on Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
It's why you always have a rollback plan. Every `up` needs to a `down`.
redman25··on Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
So someone is debugging something with git bisect and stumbles on the old commit and gets pwned. Maybe that's why they force killed it? To avoid people going back in history and stumbling on it.
redman25··on The 49MB web page
CPU/network throttling needs to be set for the product manager and management - that's the only way you might see real change.

We have some egregious slowness in our app that only shows up for our largest customers in production but none of our organizations in development have that much data. I created a load testing organization and keep considering adding management to it so they implicitly get the idea that fixing the slowness is important.

redman25··on Shall I implement it? No
It’s mainly the benchmarks that have encouraged that. The more tokens they crank out the more likely the answer is to be somewhere in the output.
redman25··on Shall I implement it? No
I feel like the right response for those situations is to start asking questions of the user. It’s what a human would do if they did not understand.
redman25··on Shall I implement it? No
It depends on the harness and/or inference engine whether they keep the reasoning of past messages.

Not to get all philosophical but maybe justification is post-hoc even for humans.

redman25··on Shall I implement it? No
How about a human coworker who screws up 1% of the time? Doesn’t sound so bad in that light. It’s the nature of being human.

Good code review is the solution but if it’s faster to do it yourself, that’s fine too.

redman25··on NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun
First things first, we have to colonize the rest of the solar system before we can terrorize Earth.
redman25··on Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
For consumers, there's little reason to run unquanted, especially for large models which take less of a hit from quantization. I'm running a 200b model at Q3 with very little degradation. A 1000b model would see even less change.
redman25··on Don't trust AI agents
Yeah, good software takes time. These are all popping up way to fast.
redman25··on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
So it's ok for a privately held company to have this data but not the police without a warrant?
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