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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:41AM (#50351872)
That's exactly what I was thinking. Actually, if you look at the "Is Qwen improving" 25 and 10 forward passes, it doesn't seem to improve much.

Additionally, since it relies on using GSM8K and MATH datasets: how does it compare in terms of compute with other training methods?

Re:Quitting jobs: The two-week notice is dying. Maybe it should on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:48AM (#50349592)
In France and Czech republic, all the workplaces I have been in require a 3-month notice, same for rental contracts.
Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:47AM (#50338456)
Your comment piqued my interest and holy shit... I was not prepared for that. This is peak slop games, straight out of the freshest garbage pile.

I wonder if they tried to play their games? Just looking at them make me angry.

I just commented the same thing about a magic cake bush my dog found. I am deligthed to see it is a universal dog (and human?) thing.
My dog had a similar thing with a bush.

One day, she found a whole cake under a bush and brought it to us (I'm talking a cake big enough to feed 8 persons).

From that day forward, she would intensely forage under the "cake bush" every time we passed it.

Re:Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:02AM (#50195466)
It has always seemed to me crazy (and maybe a bit lazy) that people will just blindly use self-generated confidence scores from LLMs without having some sort of validation mechanism.

Also, as another poster said: decomposing your rating into as many dimension as possible is better way to generate some confidence score grounded in fact.

I tried to be in good faith and read the paper, but I can't deal with these "wall of text" figures that have been popping up all the time in the last few years.

Also it is not obvious from the introduction/conclusion what the goal of the study is, other than showcasing technical abilities. I'm hoping they can now use it on real-world problem because it seems like a nice tool.

Re:Claude Duet on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:24AM (#50192275)
From all the comments in the thread it seems to be personnal assistants: I've seen halding groceries, ordering things, booking lessons, writing emails etc.

In a sense, I get it because they are not always the most fun part of life, but it seems odd to me to want to automate away every single little inconvenience of your life away.

Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:51AM (#50183034)
Not a joke at all. It is well documented. Attention peaks a few hour after you wake up then it's all downhill from there. It seems counterintuitive, but somebody working at full capacity for "only" 4h a day can be more efficient that somebody working 12h every day (of course, these all ballpark numbers and depend on a lot of factors, sleep being one of the most crucial one).
Re:Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:03AM (#50177875)
I don't see how this would have been different is the author of the paper had used Google to get their fake stats published instead.

Yes, it is deceptively easy to post fake information on the internet, and with social media and AI, it is even easier to spread them.

I wonder however, would prompting a LLM to use only reliable sources return the fake stats website?

Re:Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:18AM (#50177561)
Disclaimer: I did not work in protein design but in biophysics. However some of my collaborators did.

It definitely is a small help. Although the lab I was working with had supercalculators to generate microtubule-binding proteins, They were kind of limited in how many they could simulate and try, so being able to go through 318K molecules is useful. Our lab was then tasked with doing the testing (I designed the automated assay) and this part is going on right now, I expect it to last around a year (small lab, many tests to run).

Once potential medical targets have been found, the actual work takes several years as you have mentionned as you would switch to cell cultures, then animal models, then human trials. That matches the 6-7 years timeline you mentionned.

So overall, you can crunch a ~6-months period into 1 month, which is definitely a time saver.

My favorite is mustard rabbit (Lapin à la moutarde). It's basically rabbit stewed in white wine, cream or butter and mustard. Mustards helps make a really thick sauce and you can use a copious amount since its flavor mellows down when you cook it.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:48AM (#50162656)
The "not bothering to check" part is the most annoying.

There are already several of these "proofs" that have been retracted because they did not make sense.

I would have no problem accepting this whole ordeal if the humans behind each proof took the time to re-read, understand and synthesize the result in a readable paper.

There is ample evidence of how damaging fake information can be, and paper retraction never fully undoes the damage (see the Andrew Wakefield and his antivax "paper" for instance).

Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:10AM (#50151410)
To me, the weakest link of this whole chain (and a lot of automation chains) is the classifier. Something (probably a Claude model) decides which part is sent to a human reviewer.

How is it calibrated? Do you rank every file in the project by their criticality? Do you train a classifier? Do you base it on some heuristic like number of downstream files affected?

Re:My old job feels distant now on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:20AM (#50150999)
Same sentiment here.

I always wondered why so much of discussed politics centers around race and gender, but I think this is a good hypothesis.

"More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants."

Re:Jev Meets the Trolley Problem on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:02AM (#50150071)
I think the more interesting result you provided is kind of buried in the article: after you re-word the question and put the negative consequences of pulling the lever, the models switch decision.

This has always been obvious to me, but I wish more people would understand this: uncalibrated decision models are basically worthless. The model clearly doesn't "understand" the semantics of the question since the result heavily depends on how you word it.

It is nothing new thought. Before that, a lot of people would ask LLM for confidence scores while classifying text (I even saw a paper from a team at Google).

So with that in mind, I really don't get the hype behind decision models. If you need to curate a dataset to build a classifier anyway, why not train it yourself and have an even faster model?

Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:33AM (#50117125)
It really depends on your teeth layout.

If you are lucky enough to have very straight and packed teeth, there is very little room between your teeth for any food to be lodged in. I used to never floss then one day I tried it and it took me 3 weeks of flossing before the wire came out clean and odorless.

Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:52AM (#50116806)
https://harnesstax.github.io/

From what I gathered, a simple harness like the one from Pi is sufficient.

Similarly, I would advise against using tons of skills and keep the ones you genuienly find useful (they are just .md files so you can copy them). The only skill I use is /strategic-compact from everything claude code (ecc) because I like to read the summary before a manual compaction.

Re:A man hiking the world in search of rare cheeses on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:24AM (#50088232)
It's definitely my favorite from Slovakia. Definitely made even more delicious with halušky.
I noticed that there are a few duplicates, which seem to point to different transcripts of the same source.

For instance if you go to Marc Andreessen's page, at the top there are 2 quotes which are basically the same THEN/NOW with one quote from JRECentral and one from PowerfulJRE.

What I don't understand with this "technology will solve everything" mindset is the following:

Why do you find it more reasonable to build factories on the moon, rather than accept to live more austerely?

I don't see what is so hard to understand at all, it is mostly ecologically minded.

Human production and consumption (in a broad sense) is generating/leading to ecological catastrophes. Some people believe technology will solve the problem, some people believe the easier solution is to stop producing as much.

Unfortunately, that means letting go of some privileges and not everybody will agree on what to let go.

Re:An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:10AM (#50084626)
Super cool!

I'm guessing that would make it a good contender as a sort of all purpose tool for STT / TTS / Translation?

That could be super cool, right now it is really annoying to have to juggle between different models, all of which have different capabilities depending on the language.

Re:GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:20AM (#50067966)
One way to mitigate hallucinations is to loop the question like in this paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2606.13814

It does not tell you if the answer is correct, just if it converges. I think it will be a permanent problem in areas where answers do not have a an obvious definitive answer like coding and mathematics.

To me, burning out your employees just mean you are understaffed.

Some people are okay with working 50+ hours a week and that's fine, but you shouldn't expect it from anybody.

I refuse to do more than 10% of the time written on my contract on a regular basis. There is ample evidence that doing more is counter-productive anyway.

Forcing your employee to be overworked is form of short-sightedness. Sure, you get 60 hours of work from your employee for a few weeks, but soon their performance will diminish, leading to them needing to more time to catch up.

For the potential employees reading this ask yourselves: what is more efficient, an employee working 40 h at 90% mental capacity or an employee working 60 h at 50 % mental capacity ? (feel free to ask ChatGPT if you cannot do the math).

I had to look it up but you are right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Liberty_Financial

Laws really are just as effective as boo-boo band-aids aren't they?

Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:39AM (#50007159)
The idea is to show you how to solve non existent problem.

Imagine a world where you get paint chips with no color! Then you could use our product (you could also just look up the name of the colors).

Re:Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:38AM (#50005117)
I have found the opposite to be true in conferences, but it might be different for maths than biology?

The worst presentations are always the one that assume that you know every experimental technique and every bit of knowledge. I always took the stance that the audience had at most a master's degree in the field and took care to explain everything, even briefly.

Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:41AM (#49930875)
With 8GB I would recommend quantized versions of 9B models such as these:

- https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF - https://huggingface.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-9B-Distill-GGUF (unofficial Qwen 3.8-9B) - https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF (my personnal favorite)

Re:Pi.dev: You Said No MCP on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:02AM (#49922567)
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for explaining MCP in those terms, it finally makes sense to me now!

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