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scrlk··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
Plus the Samsung Exynos modems that they were using from Pixel 6-10 (11 switched to Mediatek) had worse power efficiency and performance vs Qualcomm.
scrlk··on How Wall Street Sussed Out That Situational Awareness Was on the Ropes
https://archive.ph/3XDiM
scrlk··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
It was Lenovo ditching the classic ThinkPad 7 row keyboard with the Ivy Bridge models c. 2012 that really pissed people off
scrlk··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
The 2026 ThinkPads have their USB-C ports on a separate modules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_pz2t1FXA
scrlk··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Unsloth publishes KL divergence numbers which measures how much the quantised probability distribution changes vs unquantised: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8#quantization-analysis

It's a bit bare at the moment, I assume they are going to add further detail later (eg comparison to other quants), similar to their other releases.

scrlk··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Beats Opus 4.7 Max (w/ Claude Code) on DeepSWE (42.2 vs 40). Looks like Qwen's 27B models continue to pack some punch.

Unsloth's GGUF quants are up: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

scrlk··on Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE
Reminds me of the Tomorrow Corporation (developer of World of Goo) tech demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE

Their entire stack is custom (language, compiler, IDE, build system, engine). Has neat features like time-travelling debugging and instant hot-reloading for code and assets.

scrlk··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
With Opus 4.7, there's a 10 point improvement in the AA coding agent index when you swap out Claude Code for OpenCode: https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents#harness-c...

To put that in perspective, the difference between GPT-5.6 Sol Max and 5.6 Luna Max is 8 points. That's a lot of extra performance that you can get for free just by using the best harness.

scrlk··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
What harness are you using? DS V4 is harness sensitive.
scrlk··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Benefits of having a well performing hedge fund funding DeepSeek.

IIRC, Demis attempted to start a fund inside DeepMind but it was killed off. In an alternative world where he manages to pull that off, perhaps DeepMind would still be independent with Demis at the helm.

scrlk··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Benchmarks:

    | Benchmark                | DS-V4-Pro | DS-V4-Flash | DS-V4-Pro | DS-V4-Flash | GLM-5.2   | Kimi-K3   | Opus-4.8  | Fable 5       |
    |                          | 0813      | 0731        | Preview   | Preview     |           |           |           | (w/ fallback) |
    |--------------------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------------|
    | HLE (wo/w tools)         | 42.7/60.0 | 37.8/51.5   | 37.7/48.2 | 34.8/45.1   | 40.5/54.7 | 43.5/56.0 | 49.8/57.9 | 53.3/63.0     |
    | Terminal Bench 2.1       | 87.9      | 82.7        | 72.1      | 61.8        | 81.0      | 88.3      | 85.0      | 88.0          |
    | NL2Repo                  | 61.5      | 54.2        | 38.5      | 39.4        | 48.9      | -         | 69.7      | -             |
    | Cybergym                 | 83.3      | 76.7        | 52.7      | 38.7        | -         | 80.0      | 78.3      | 83.1          |
    | DeepSWE                  | 62.7      | 54.4        | 12.8      | 7.3         | 46.2      | 67.5      | 58.0      | 70.0          |
    | Toolathlon-Verified      | 74.1      | 70.3        | 55.9      | 49.7        | 59.9      | 76.5      | 76.2      | 77.9          |
    | Agents' Last Exam        | 25.7      | 25.2        | 16.5      | 15.8        | 23.8      | 27.6      | 25.7      | -             |
    | AutomationBench (Public) | 31.8      | 25.1        | 12.8      | 10.8        | 12.9      | 30.8      | 27.2      | 29.1          |
    | DSBench-FullStack        | 71.1      | 68.7        | 41.8      | 37.0        | 61.8      | 73.7      | 71.6      | 77.2          |
    | DSBench-Hard             | 67.2      | 59.6        | 31.1      | 25.8        | 54.5      | 63.0      | 71.7      | 68.3          |
Source: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vmi0fg/deepseek_v4...
scrlk··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
Will be interesting to see how Qwen3.8 27B compares against this once it releases this week. Seems like dense 30B is back in fashion?

EDIT: An open weight version of Muse Spark 1.2 is going to be released as well:

https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2086756152034066792

https://xcancel.com/alexandr_wang/status/2086756152034066792

scrlk··on The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)
IIRC, the Sunway CPUs used in Chinese supercomputers have an Alpha-like design.
scrlk··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Different benchmarks:

> Artificial Analysis Agentic Index: Represents the weighted average of agentic capabilities benchmarks in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (GDPval-AA v2, Tau³-Banking)

> Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.3 incorporates 3 benchmarks: DeepSWE, Terminal-Bench v2, and SWE-Atlas-QnA

Qwen3.8 Max is 55.4 on the Agentic Index but hasn't been tested for the Coding Agent Index.

scrlk··on Discovery Loop
"You're absolutely right! I shouldn't have pushed the anti-mass spectrometer to 105% power, causing a resonance cascade. This was a major oversight on my part."
scrlk··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
What happened to the "strike team" that Sergey Brin was leading to try and improve Gemini's coding performance?
scrlk··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
To add to this, there's a good lecture called Children of the Magenta Line that discusses automation dependency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs
scrlk··on Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
IMO, yes. For example, Qwen 3.x is insensitive to weight and KV cache quantisation, whereas Gemma 4 is more sensitive: https://localbench.substack.com/p/kv-cache-quantization-benc...
scrlk··on Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
KL divergence is your friend when it comes to evaluating the effects of quantisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback%E2%80%93Leibler_diver...
scrlk··on Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
Nice to see a provider being transparent about KV cache quantisation. I've been suspecting that some providers do this silently whilst heavily promoting their unquantised weights, even though KV quantisation can degrade quality more than weight quantisation.

However, I wish their testing were more detailed. Firstly, some model families are more sensitive to KV quantisation than others (only Kimi K2.6 was tested). Secondly, the evaluation suite they use to claim that FP8 KV quantisation is indistinguishable is noticeably lacking coding benchmarks; in long-running tasks, minor tool call errors compound over time.

scrlk··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
> Aschenbrenner party blamed short sellers who targeted the firm’s positions for exacerbating the fund’s losses, the letter said. The letter compared Situational’s experience to a bank run.

4 years ago, it was SBF blaming Changpeng Zhao for shorting FTT and triggering a run on FTX.

Now another EA has followed the path of making a lot of money relatively quickly and losing it just as fast, using the exact same arguments for why it happened.

scrlk··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
https://archive.ph/PCjtG
scrlk··on IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats
1.43 IMAX isn't exclusive to 15/70mm, it can also be screened with IMAX's dual laser projection system.
scrlk··on 'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts
https://archive.ph/WBSCj
scrlk··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
> While people get some sort of benefit out of AI-generated code, these tools actually end up making them slower

Curious that he references a METR study from July 2025, before the leap in model and harness performance towards the end of 2025/early 2026.

scrlk··on Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
Not just compute for OAI, GPT-5.6 is more token efficient across the board vs the Anthropic equivalents: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models?intelligence-index-toke...

No wonder why Tibo can afford to hit the reset button liberally.

scrlk··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
https://archive.ph/3J3iw
scrlk··on SQLite Is All You Need
SQLite with WAL on a standard NVMe drive will easily do thousand of writes per second.
scrlk··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
Ultra = parallel subagents with max reasoning

Pro = test-time compute (best of N responses)

scrlk··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
Announcement: https://x.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805

Prompt: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98...

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