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From what I've read, it's the first time a (C++) draft hasn't been passed by consensus. So what happens now?
Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:43AM (#50218609)
Long-horizon RL symptoms perhaps?
Comic Code ;) You won't regret it, been using it 5 years.

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Re:Muse Wonder on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:29AM (#50067587)
Meta's blog post still list it as 2nd in AA. Any ways, AA moves benches constantly, when Qwen3.8 was released something similar happened.
Re:Muse Wonder on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:34PM (#50059849)
RL team hill-climbing this to 2nd AA place and this fast is crazy

How does it work on day-to-day workflows? does it translates well?

Re:Best LLM for every budget, updated daily on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:04PM (#49832667)
Oh yeah totally, good point. I remember there was controversy around Claude tokenizer generating more tokens lol
Re:Best LLM for every budget, updated daily on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:56AM (#49832517)
What's impeding a lab from releasing its own new model, pricing it really low for the beautiful Pareto plot, accompanied by phrases VC love like "establishing a new frontier in cost", to just then raise prices back up?
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:30PM (#49805981)
Live notification in Codex:

> GPT-5.6-Sol is retiring. This conversation will automatically switch to GPT-6-Sol

I don't recall OAI retiring a model so early lol. Similar arch?

Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:25PM (#49729401)
Interesting. Perhaps I can see this being quickly adopted in LLMs-as-a-judge, where you normally need (a) a structured answer, say, with lots of different fields (metrics) and (b) you want the judge to be fast, not being a bottleneck.
Re:I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:50AM (#49672312)
The CTO himself reported 600 commits and 300 PRs each day. And they can do so because they have a massive CI [1]:

> Every day CI runs about 20..80 million tests in 600 commits and 300 pull requests

> Last year, ClickHouse spent 360 years of machine time for CI

I am no user of CH so I can't talk about their product. But we are talking about a company with 686 employees as per their LinkedIn, where ClickHouse is clearly the core of their business. Considering all of this, is 50+ commits a day that much?

[1] https://presentations.clickhouse.com/2026-openhouse-sf/great...

Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:49PM (#49631932)
> I am so used to using one hand to operate phones.

I even forgot about this. God damn it, I enjoyed the SE so much because of this.

Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:13PM (#49630881)
Seems like a big engineering feat by Apple, but for real, who asked for this?

Edit: Is there that many demand for a foldable iPhone that justifies Apple making such engineering investment?

Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:48AM (#49608026)
Reminds me, kinda, to when Astra was launched and OpenAI announced an improvement to the bounded prime gap. Which BTW, Prof. Julia Stadlmann had published an independent result only a few days earlier

Stadlmann improved it from 246 to 240, OpenAI later claimed 186 I think?

Maybe someone can help clarify? I am no expert at all, but I can't help but see similarities.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31126

Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:26AM (#49606738)
> Let me make plain what I have said to colleagues in private: in view of this body of work, I believe Luis Martínez-Zoroa deserves a Fields Medal.
This would go hard if I was an OpenAI agent
Re:The efficient frontier of LLM inference on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:40AM (#49535371)
2026 has been the year where spec-dec has matured, it has been adopted by all big OSS engines and i'm sure it's present in quite a lot of inference providers as the default

I feel like P/D dissaggregation will be the next big one for providers, as prefill tends to be compute bound while decode mem bound which I guess each will have a different type of node

Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:29AM (#49460638)
Here is an employee of HF at a time answering how do they make money, supposedly [1]

> We make money via compute credits + Enterprise Hub + HF Pro subs [...]

I guess this plus custom inference deployments, external inference providers, partnerships with the big cloud AWS, Azure, etc.

[1] https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1928050126498713706

Re:"Famous Deep Learning Papers", David Bau on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:54PM (#49453157)
Agree. I'm not into interpretability but I always try to follow what Bau and his team are up to.
Re:Ox-Alpha Is GLM on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:31AM (#49430252)
Z.ai founders were one of the pioneers in MM-LLMs with Cog-VLM years ago, back when LLaVA emerged. I wouldn't be surprised if they added multi-modal capabilities
Re:Ox-Alpha Is GLM on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:36AM (#49429857)
Ziphu has that many resources to be able to serve capacity for 1 quadrillion tokens per day on Nous portal? My bet is that it's a Composer model from Cursor running on xAI cluster, they already did a Composer based on Kimi-K2.5
Announcement tweet by Stanford prof Percy Liang and Marin: https://x.com/percyliang/status/2090918065634684997 https://xcancel.com/percyliang/status/2090918065634684997

It will include Pre-training and Mid-training. ETA 3 months.

Live wandb dashboard: https://wandb.ai/marin-community/marin_moe/reports/535B-A23B...

GitHub issue tracking progress: https://github.com/marin-community/marin/issues/8435

23T tokens (not deduped) directly in S3 for anyone to see: s3://marin-us-east-02a/marin/datakit/store_4d2e363d

Intermediate checkpoints also in S3

Re:Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:10PM (#49365902)
They should've included Qwen3.5-397B-A17B in the benches then :/

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