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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:04PM (#50341912)
I feel like 'create a network to play an atari game' is not very hard for a frontier model. Since it has seen plenty of those on its training. If it could create a network for a problem that is niche just by tweaking numbers, that would be a lot more surprising. Making qwen better at math to me was a lot more surprising
Re:Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B - stronger coder than Qwen 3.8 on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:42AM (#50336698)
It scores almost as high as GLM 5.3 and Kimi 3 on Deep SWE, how is that possible?
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:47PM (#50262963)
Again, very impressive from a technical point. But language is so flawed to do anything creative. It just turns out all looking the same and kind of boring
Re:A few thoughts on intensity on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:51PM (#50233542)
> If you consider how impossible the startup journey is, it stands to reason that only through intensity can something be created out of thin air that grows to be worth billions of dollars in just a few years.

It is sad to me that this is the benchmark for so many people. It is only a success if it is worth billions.

Re:Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:45AM (#49989591)
Can someone explain this architecture a bit more in depth? They say the pointer head scores the hidden state at each option against the hidden state of the answer. But the LLM produces hidden states per token, so an option can span multiple tokens, no?
The tech has always been mature enough but simply too expensive. But since combustion engines are sold out for the next years, data centers are rushing to get anything they can. So the extra millions for power generation will be a rounding error
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:04PM (#49820925)
It does not. But there are so many sources that can be. And easily at that. So why go this route?
Re:Zed DeltaDB on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:25PM (#49188512)
This feels very useful for training agents but almost completely useless to humans? Do I really want to go back to every change I made? Whatuse would that be?
To me it feels so weird that people are trying to push these model for online shopping like "here is how this dress/shirt/pants would look on you". But these models will always make the clothes fit your body and show you in flattering light and so on. How the actual garment fits is still as elusive as before these tools
The "climate" cares little about carbon intensity of labor or dollars. It cares about absolute tons of green house gases in the atmostphere and if you use more to produce more you still use more.
Very cool! How hard would it be to add all the solar installations? They must be in the register as well
Re:Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @05:19AM (#47245481)
What prevents a bad actor from posting "easy" problems to the board, solving them and getting quick reputation. Then as a validator they can easily validate their own malicious changes to someones software?
Re:Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:18AM (#47149258)
I always wondered how these models would reason correctly. I suppose they are diffusing fixed blocks of text for every step and after the first block comes the next and so on (that is how it looks in the chat interface anyways). But what happens if at the end of the first block it would need information about reasoning at the beginning of the first block? Autoregressive Models can use these tokens to refine the reasoning but I guess that Diffusion Models can only adjust their path after every block? Is there a way maybe to have dynamic block length?
Re:Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents on Monday February 16, 2026 @06:27AM (#47033764)
Does anyone know what kind of RL environments they are talking about? They mention they used 15k environments. I can think of a couple hundred maybe that make sense to me, but what is filling that large number?
Re:GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:52PM (#46994119)
With the rough numbers from the blog post at ~1k tokens a second in Cerebras it should put it right at the same size as GLM 4.7, which also is available at 1k tokens a second. And they say that it is a smaller model than the normal Codex model
Re:Claude Is a Space to Think on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:20AM (#46884970)
I think this says a lot about the business approach of Anthopic compared to OpenAI. Just the vast amount of free messages you get from OpenAI is crazy that turning a profit with that seems impossible. Anthropic is growing more slowly but it seems like they are not running a crazy deficit. They do not need to put ads or porn in their chatbot
I feel like this comes from the rigorous Reinforcement Learning these models go through now. The token distribution is becoming so narrow, so the models give better answers more often that is stuffles their creativity and ability to break out of the harness. To me, every creative prompt I give them turns into kind of the same mush as output. It is rarely interesting
Re:Trinity Large: American Open Source Foundation Model on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:10AM (#46792419)
They trained it in 33 days for ~20m (that includes apparently not only the infrastructure but also the salaries over a 6 month period). And the model is coming close to QWEN and Deepseek. Pretty impressive
Re:Kimi Code CLI on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:49AM (#46778758)
Re:Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland on Saturday January 17, 2026 @12:57PM (#46660221)
You cannot negotiate with a bully. The EU should have never backed down so easily before. I hope someone will soon find some balls and not let the US walk all over everyone
This is actually the first song where I would not have guessed it to be AI. I think the video is "performed" by a real human?
For all of these kind of releases I ask myself, if it would work well they would not release it for free
Re:China's AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can't Catch Nvidia on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:35AM (#46286956)
Is it actually possible that nvidia chips will have 50TB/s bandwidth by 2028? Right now it shows they are at 8 TB/s. To me it seems the Nvidia forecast is a very, very optimistic exponential. Nontheless, Huawei not matching the scale of production seems to be the biggest hurdle
Re:The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora on Thursday December 11, 2025 @09:22AM (#46231727)
>> Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible use of AI that protects the safety of users and the rights of creators.

Wow so Sora Slop is coming to payed Disney+?

It is really hard to figure out what is satire and what is actual news these days with the orange man..
To me, this only makes sense on a word level not sentence level. I can understand that words, especially those that are older, have evolved because of energy and comfort constraints of our physiology. But to extend this to sentence level is a rather big step. I would suppose it works for simple, short sentences that had to be efficient in the past. But imagine sentences about computer science where most words are rather new and have been chosen by arbitrary rules. To me it would be interesting to see, if this hypothesis holds when applied to longer and more complex sentences and "modern" words.
That is partly true. High population density means a lot of roof area. Solar is perfect to put on roofs, you need no extra land. It is basically free (save the investment of the panels which pay off quickly nowadays)
Re:Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @03:17AM (#46055286)
If we think of every generation as a compression step of some form of information into our DNA and early humans existed for ~1.000.000 years and a generation is happening ~20years on average, then we have only ~50.000 compression steps to today. Of course, we have genes from both parents so they is some overlap from others, but especially in the early days the pool of other humans was small. So that still does not look like it is on the order of magnitude anywhere close to modern machine learning. Sure, early humans had already a lot of information in their DNA but still
Re:Estimating AI productivity gains from Claude conversations on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:25AM (#46045570)
".. Claude estimates that AI reduces task completion time by 80%. We use Claude to evaluate anonymized Claude.ai transcripts to estimate the productivity impact of AI."

What is this? So they take Claude and ask how much do you think you saved on time here? How can you take this seriously. ChatBots are easy to exaggerate, especially about something positive like this.

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