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Re:Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token p... by chrisweekly on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:18PM (#48031728)
Tangent: this is one of those situations where slang is harmful to understanding. When I saw "will absolutely destroy" my first interpretation was a positive connotation. Of course further context made it clear you were being straightforward, and this isn't aimed at you. Along these lines, "drop" has become a problematic term: "Acme co dropped support for Foo" means it's EOL, but "Foo dropped today" implies it just landed. Idioms are hard enough when they don't serve as borderline autoantonyms. To wrap up this extended digression, if anyone else finds this sort of thing interesting, and could use a good laugh, check out Ismo (a standup comic from Finland who makes truly hilarious observations about English as a second language).

https://youtu.be/oGmzfjuicE0?si=nL_W75s8UDp1g-zI

https://youtu.be/jXcMoHeWaYQ?si=QMi7nEwVWvCZyzbl

Re:Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token p... by kridsdale1 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:37AM (#48035509)
I had the same experience.