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rllearneratwork··on Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
and Glimmer has 10x active params of Lightning. Meaning ~ 10 slower on same HW
rllearneratwork··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
the ceiling is to eval's quality
rllearneratwork··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
you actually can run 120B (see Nemotron-3-Super) model in NVFP4 on DGXSpark, so I'd imagine it'll run here as well
rllearneratwork··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
this is great idea! Hackers of Hacker News let's have more projects to overwhelm bad actors with bad data. Perhaps using OSS LLMs for that.
rllearneratwork··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
yes. Has been possible since at least M1.

Buy M-based iPad, nice monitor, keyboard and mouse. Connect mouse and keyboard to monitor via USB. Then iPad via USB-C/Thunderbolt to monitor. Everything "just works" and you can handle surprisingly high amount of work this way

rllearneratwork··on AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
nuclear strike is an effective tool in many war scenarios, why would AI (or anyone else) recommend against it??

We should, of course, have human decision makers who must work tirelessly to make sure those scenarios are never even remotely realistic.

rllearneratwork··on DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says
pretty sure it is against ToS for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
rllearneratwork··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
This is a time to boycott all of the president's Elon enterprises. I just cancelled my Tesla solar installation in California. If you are thinking about buying a Tesla - don't. Also do not vandalize other peoples' Tesla.

If you are thinking about working in AI for x.ai or Tesla - do not. This will not look pretty on your resume.

rllearneratwork··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Israelis will be in for a very bad after backing and helping russia. They forgot too quickly how jews have been treated there.
rllearneratwork··on Questions censored by DeepSeek
The real danger is not covering for communist's insecurities but lack of comprehensive tests for models which could uncover whether the model injects malware for certain prompts.

For example, I would stop using US bank if I new they are using LLMs from China internally (or any adversary but really only China is competitive here). Too much risk.

rllearneratwork··on Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047
because it was a stupid law which would hurt AI innovation
rllearneratwork··on X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
Majority of Elon's net worth is tied to Tesla. Tesla has a massive presence in and therefore dependence on China. How can we accept Twitter as a free-speech platform? Just because he says so?
rllearneratwork··on Telegram says it will share phone numbers and IPs of 'bad actors' to authorities
what is the next step? Not allowing the sale of cars without remote shutdown switch? something else?
rllearneratwork··on AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature
One thing I love about Apple is that they are building products for what their leadership team actually needs/wants and uses themselves. This started with iPhone (e.g. what kind of smartphone do we want instead of all that blackberries?) and is very obvious with Apple Watch line.

This is great and one of the reasons why their products offer genuinely best user experience.

rllearneratwork··on Wyoming mayoral candidate vows to let an AI bot run Cheyenne
I would love experiments like this to happen. My intuition would be that the results would be better than expected.

Main caveat is whether he will actually proceed with all of the bot's decisions even when it goes against his beliefs, family and friends interests.

This is a problem AI fundamentally doesn't have but humans fall for all the time.

rllearneratwork··on Nemotron-4-340B
this is june-chatbot model currently running on chatbot arena from lmsys
rllearneratwork··on 'Pacifist' Japan is tooling up for war
"USA has actually done a lot" - so did USA guarantee Ukraine's " borders and sovereignty"? Or did it not?

The worst thing to do (which USA did) is to make a promise and not deliver. Had Ukraine knew that USA will abandon it, it might have entered negotiations in early 2023 from a much more favorable position.

rllearneratwork··on 'Pacifist' Japan is tooling up for war
where does this logic stop? At whose borders?

Because if Ukraine falls I can guarantee you that first it will be minor incursions into Poland and/or Baltics airspace. Then false flags attacks. Then more. Each time testing "escalation management" and sewing disagreements into political scenes in the West. Then more.

putin has said many times that he considers collapse of USSR the greatest tragedy ever. He wants revenge for this. And he is getting it.

rllearneratwork··on 'Pacifist' Japan is tooling up for war
USA abandonment of Ukraine clearly shows to everyone that promises from USA mean nothing at times of real hardship. The sad lesson of all this is that if country wishes to be both safe and independent it must posses its own nuclear weapons and means of delivery.
rllearneratwork··on Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
молодец, товарищ!
rllearneratwork··on The New Inflection
"AI safety and ethics are a big deal" - yes. But no bigger deal and, arguably, a smaller deal compared to software safety and ethics.
rllearneratwork··on The New Inflection
is it really a win on MSFT part though?
rllearneratwork··on OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
>> "A huge chunk of the company went into open revolt and he got a competing offer that threatened to recruit all of them"

- They had a huge funding (>80B?) round planned in which employees could cash-in. Without Sam that round was guaranteed to not happen. So they all had huge financial incentive to support them. Which I guess, characterizes him as a great manager who thinks many steps ahead.

rllearneratwork··on Alexei Navalny has died
geography and special ties with US. One thing russia has always been comically spectacularly bad is navy
rllearneratwork··on Alexei Navalny has died
"Invading a well-armed Europe is almost impossible."

- You don't get it. An alliance of china, russia, iran and north korea will be enabled to do whatever they want. Including invading or, more likely, hitting with missiles critical infrastructure in any Nato country with the exception of US and UK

rllearneratwork··on Alexei Navalny has died
was murdered by putin and his thugs, not "has died"
rllearneratwork··on Sora: Creating video from text
I'm excited that tons of people don't need to tend to horses or sew and plow everyday. Automation is a great thing.
rllearneratwork··on Sora: Creating video from text
this is so exciting! why do you feel depressed.

Btw, a year or two from now you'll be able to run a more powerful open model locally. So, not they aren't having some outsized amount of power

rllearneratwork··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
doesn't work in US on Android now. An app says "Gemini is not available"
rllearneratwork··on Airbnb tenant refuses to leave for more than a year
"life doesn't actually work that way" - it absolutely does. When society fails to enforce laws, criminals step it. I lived through that reality during USSR collapse. I'm sure many other people in collapsing/collapsed countries can relate. Your movie experience is the one which isn't relevant, not mine lived experience.
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