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shawn.fmI used to like Ubuntu and Canonical products and these days I’m more indifferent towards them. Their products have a place, but I wish Canonical would stop killing off some of the more interesting side projects.
Surely this isn’t pure coincidence!?
Jeff, the Origin https://imgur.com/gallery/jeff-origin-lp9Q2tC
I use Alacritty and GNOME Terminal. I don’t have a great reason for not using or trying Ghostty other than I have a minor aversion to Zig. (Again, not a great reason and arguably a not good reason)
Are these prices subsidized by user generated outputs? Can I even trust any answer to not be carefully worded and rephrase the response to "user data"? Even so, what's to prevent some "oops" event that seems to be all too common? At least some months back Bedrock seemed to be properly isolated, but I've heard of many getting non-ZDR notices for new models.
It's a nice accomplishment, but I think we have very different definitions of "indie".
Apple has released some small models previously that seemed genuinely great, along with some quality research/efforts. I’m just not seeing the same level of depth here, am I missing something?
I use JWT just for handling of tokens, because it’s so well supported, but I won’t use it for anything more than token storage _because_ it is so vulnerable to mistakes.
The fact that mistakes are so easy to make is indicative of poor design in the spec itself.
I’d push this more towards personal preference of how code is expressed matters much less now than how maintainable it is.
There is the aspect of long type names, they often don’t have much impact when tokenized. The character count of words is nearly negligible - they often become one or two tokens anyways. But, the choice of words may have a greater impact on how the word choice weights an LLMs contextual processing of that word (a human may be able to ignore an inaccuracy in naming a bit more flexibly than some LLMs).
Edit: Well, they just re-vibed it. Went from the most generic Claude 4.6 era to today’s models, quality wise. I wish I had saved a copy of the original, because it would have taken me actual solid effort to make a page that generic out of an LLM.
For example, I found Kimi K3 to use more tokens than some other models, which caused it to cost twice as much purely because of the token volume. This experience lines up with ArtificialAnalysis’s benchmarks, but not these.
There’s a number of other comparisons here that don’t match up with my experience or other benchmarks. By many accounts, this is the outlier.
I could attribute the differences to harnesses used or something like reasoning levels, but none of those details are published.
While this seems interesting, I can’t take this seriously.
Correction: The harnesses are listed as a column, I missed that. My other concerns and questions still remain, it’s unclear why some of their results are the outlier that does not match my experience, ArtificalAnalysis’s benchmarks, or some of the experiences of others commenting.
I've been looking for explicit alternatives to Fandom for some content and it's annoyingly sparse.
Just the other day I saw some meme about how if we saw as many ads taking over sites like we do now, that was a sure sign of having your machine getting infected with a virus.
Generally I've found a good portion of websites that block users with ad blockers tend to be the worst offenders with aggressive ads...
Sometimes I’ll add mouthwash or hydrogen-peroxide to the tank, it works well. Usually I start with a quick rinse, then a brush with the flosser on, then a finishing brush with the flosser off.
I see this and am unsure if it’s over-engineering a less effective solution. It’s neat, but I can’t say it excites me; am curious to see reviews and comparisons. The form factor does seem a bit odd though, visually it’s mediocre imo.
I’m not an expert in metallurgy by any means, but this seems really off. There are many recipes for steel and varied processes that also impact the final product.
I’ve been at companies that were founded on sales of physical goods that literally had vendors pick them for vended goods because they found the software made purchasing more convenient - as in they literally had customers tell them they bought their physical goods because of their software. They didn’t need the software. The software wasn’t critical to acquiring goods. They could have purchased goods elsewhere of similar quality and often potentially lower cost. The customers cared about the software, the software (that was not part of their core business) drove the core business.
Edit: I originally had a lot more typed about how craft matters and not being strictly about perfection. It wasn’t necessary to drive the point, so I removed it. People do buy craft and many pay a hefty premium for better craft (in all aspects, both producer COGS and customer needs/desires).
It is speculation and theory. Many of said same authors have been surprised at how far transformers have taken the general technology. Yes, transformers have inherent limitations and not all LLMs are powered by transformers.
Besides that, many experts don’t want their entire career defined by strictly transformers based LLMs, it’s very reasonable they have “walked out”.
> Please spend a bit of time researching the subject before posting anything here.
Uncalled for.
That’s your opinion, for many there are clear patterns of loss-leaders and market capture plays.
> potential customer companies are firing and closing all over the world
I’d wager this is due to economics outside of AI.
> Plus, these investments are based on a promise they'll never uphold since the LLMs are a technological dead end for their ambitions.
More speculation and opinion.
> Yes, there's a bubble and we've known for a while now, thank you.
Ok, so analyze it accordingly instead of lazily calling it the same as the dot-com bubble.
There are some things you’ve said that I agree with (to a limited extent) and others that I do not. I have no interest in slop articles calling it a dot-com bubble, put some effort forward and make the share worthwhile.
The dot-com bubble had investment before mass adoption. AI has mass adoption, there are many industries where usage of AI is now expected. They have similarities, but claiming they are the same is so fucking stupid.
The syntax complexity and the ecosystem haven't been ideal for LLM development. And there have been publications on findings of LLM efficacy with different languages. Rust is most often towards the lower end of efficiency/correctness when benchmarked.
This is just so weird to me, because I would say the same about Zig.
I tried to get into Zig even chatted with Loris Cro when he was streaming. I was looking to explore what my Rust project could look like in Zig but there were features simply missing that I couldn't do without. The entire interaction was mostly about how bad Rust is and how I could just do something different in Zig (completely misunderstanding my ask, with little interest to explore my actual requirements).
I remember watching HN and seeing every time there was something Rust related trending, there was ALWAYS a post made shortly after trying to hype Zig and this went on for like 4 years.
I'm not a Rust contributor and I don't care for some of the challenges that come with Rust, but I love what it accomplished and I find it does it very well. Back then I found the Rust community had interest and respect for Zig, so the discourse was very much one sided.
This is speaking from recollection engaging with programming communities years back - I found the Rust community to be interested and respectful of Zig but it didn’t seem to be well reciprocated, if anything much the opposite.
https://huggingface.co/easiest-ai-shawn/Qwen3.6-27B-ExCal-EX...
https://huggingface.co/easiest-ai-shawn/Qwen3.6-27B-ExCal-Mi...
Do be sure to use dflash and/or mtp for the draft:
The design though, it seems very... uninspired? It has hints of throwback in the design, but imo it does not have the look of luxury or sports car.
And if you really want “open”, there’s isn’t much better than a Voron in that aspect.