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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:14PM (#50343024)
If thats keeping you upright in your chair then buckle up, wait to the distributed systems version of the tech, its coming.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:39PM (#50342485)
I dont feel the air of impressivness here. It seems like of course so. Of course theres geometric relationships in the data we dont understand, of course a mathimatical relationship machine found it.

These models are made by a vanishingly small group of people based on how much a frontier lab consumes, of course theres increasing capability in these areas, arent these models having access to much of the same data? didnt chat gpt 4 try to do something like this to chat gpt 2? havent surgical weight edits been done before?

What is with this level of astonishment here? Astraturfing? Im not THAT impressed, i applaude the teams progress, but im not in wonderment.

its like owning a personal computer in 1986. the tv talking how its going to revolutionize everything and yet their too expensive for most people to own or and 40% problem people were getting bogged down with just owning a pc, writing dear john letters to their VCRs for ever calling them difficult to use.

And all the opinions were conflicting, and all the opinions were correct.

were still hunter/gatherers, watching nature and learning its cycles, bending it toward a greater good is all our default state, we are the shapers of earth its our role here.
Re:When Do We Become the Person We Ought to Be? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:32PM (#50190006)
that feeling will pass, brains keep on developing right through mid-40's. But I implore you to find a great accountant asap, you get what you pay for.
"What even 'IS' a bug really?" HN topics from 2036
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:42PM (#50120746)
I thought it was less of a demo and more like perfromance art?
Re:Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:16PM (#49839045)
Oh yes I see, America bad, got it.
Re:No More Code Dumps on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:17PM (#49779036)
I look forward to your tireless contributions to moderating the next and better rust community on reddit with your stated passions for openness and sharing of all personal projects you will tirelessly curate for me to consume, thank you for your efforts.
Re:Claude Is a Contrarian on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:49PM (#49701973)
It is! Its charming. What claude dosnt have is an off day, its just the same. No sleepy claude, no stresses claude, no sad claude you know hes not himself this week because of some thing going on with his girlfriend or mom or whatever. Its devoid humanity, the same exact tone and expressions over and over and over.
Re:Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:30PM (#49636107)
well then theyll be do better post war, just in time for fallout timeline
Re:I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:54AM (#49622880)
In 2006 i was arguing in barrens chat with someone spouting racist nazi bullshit, 3 days of this they sent me /t saying i couldnt stop them shaping the minds of young men. Shaping the minds of young men, an exact quote i would hear being used by steve bannon many years later. This.. thing.. has been active for much longer then 10 years.
Re:The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:20AM (#49606187)
ok well I went from not knowing what a tensor was to having my pi coding agent polish up my orchestration layer in about ~60 days, wheres the ai dreg hiring at?
no shit, that hole in the ground smouldered smoke onto the horizon for 6 fucking months.
how does one do that from their comfy chair?
Re:Ask HN: Why are the high rep people on HN so stupid? on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:06AM (#49517836)
no u
i guess ill never know
Look at homes in Florida, some areas have the whole outside pool/patio in a netting. I dont own/know/or endorse this website but it has some examples of whats common https://www.phifer.com/blog/florida-pool-enclosure-screening...

Anything less then this is going to be work.

Chemical based? they are a terrible idea, dont work very well so need constant re apply and then your just poisoning your land. why even be outside then?

uv light/electrical based? they are terrible and will kill every damn thing else alive. dont install these outside! inside only!

Water based? this actually works(depending on where you live)just get a small tub or like a plastic storage or recycling bin or a 5 gallon bucket, and keep it there outside full of water, throw in a hand full of leaves and dirt before you do, every so often throw in "mosquito dunks", thats it. you get them to use the honeybucket and keep it full of mosquito larva eating bacteria, something like that, look into it.

Mosquitos are evolved for our skin, they smell out breath, they are our perfect enemy, you wont fully avoid them. get used to wearing long breathable clothing when your working in the heat, a very loose outer layer over a very thin inner layer can feel cooling in the heat and keep them away from our skin while working outside.

Mosquitos like to be outside in when the angle of the sun is low, so work outside when the angle of the sun is high overhead. If you have alot of mosquitos even when the sun is high then you got a lot of mosquitos indeed and need dunk buckets asap. might want to check your property for standing water, get your gutters cleaned.

Mosquitos are pathetic bugs, they can be eating by many other bugs and birds. A diversity of plants on your property will bring a diversity of bugs. A diversity of bugs will bring a diversity of larger bugs, which will bring a diversity of birds. Make habitat for all of these on your property.

Dont spray chemical fertilizer/herbicide/pesticide, stop mowing 100% of the lawn and let some go to seed. this will slowly bring more diversity. have an area where you pile sticks twigs and logs, a waist high pile of random sticks provides a huge space for bugs to hang out. Dont bag your leaves, let them settle all winter long, did you know fireflys overwinter in leaf litter? when you blow leaves away, you blow healthy bugs away too. Do all of these things and slowly the bugs and birds in your neighborhood will learn your yard is safe, the increase diversity will bring so many medium/large hunter bugs and birds that mosquitos wont be able to survive out there.

Re:What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:23PM (#49395357)
ohhhhh yeah they had those sata ssds out a few years before the nvme thing came out, I almost forgot about those! but in 2006 yeah that woulda not been cheap, like year zero early adopter type stuff too, pay 1200 for 32 gigs and its dead in 2 years maybe 5 years tops. I got my first one of those quite a few years later once 256gb was comparable in price to 1tb harddisk drive.
Re:Why must a socialist also be woke? on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:27PM (#49281453)
No its even simpler, they voted to be white.
Re:Anyone play the Half-Life games recently? on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:21PM (#49279892)
Booted up half life 2, got through to vortigon at that rail road outpost and the civilians get cut down right around that corner there, turned it off right there, was a bit much.

Maybe its because one of my kids was watching me play too, but man was that whole intro just awkward, not scifi enough anymore, especially watching the citadel "turn on"... yikes.