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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:39PM (#50345044)
But this is more akin to brain surgery, not training
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:09PM (#50298111)
Yea and let's just compare Starship and SLS to see how well the works
Re:AlpineBSD on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:28AM (#50286891)
It's basically the Amish of IT.

The shift is like that from horse drawn carriage to motor vehicle.

Re:AlpineBSD on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:09AM (#50286746)
But AI is much better at finding bugs during code review than humans, we've seen that demonstrated very publicly.
The dialect usually isn't too strong, it's doable if you know German.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:06PM (#50278215)
Arrg but the period table already has a natural order, sorting elements alphabetical isn't exactly intuitive - although fitting given the parent company.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:04PM (#50278174)
So why not call it Argon 4.1?
Re:I will no longer upload to NEW on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:26PM (#50262586)
If I ask Claude to 'Review this PR' it will usually generate a very useful output and find bugs I wouldn't have spotted.

It does not have to be a wall of slop, maybe you only used LLMs 2 years ago where this would have been all you'd get.

Re:I will no longer upload to NEW on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:23PM (#50262554)
When was the last time you used a LLM? This is not an issue with current models.
Re:I will no longer upload to NEW on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:00PM (#50262152)
> a human actually understands what he's doing. He isn't just generating something plausible based on statistics.

What makes you so sure that this is not the same thing?

Re:I will no longer upload to NEW on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:09AM (#50257337)
Do you share the same opinion about script generated (pre-LLM) review comments?
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:19PM (#50246387)
I wouldn't bet on local compute. Even if it may end up cheaper in the long run, the convenience of just another SaaS subscription sure beats the high upfront const and continuous maintenance required with local deployments.

We've seen businesses moving everything to the cloud before AI, we'll see more of that as regulatory requirements are increasing.

There are also several events around it that make it nice, like meeting random other FOSDEM attendees over a beer or dancing at ByteNight
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:52AM (#50149572)
Mass starvation was more of a communism thing, not accounting for wars.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:51AM (#50149566)
What makes you think socialism would handle climate change differently?

The socialism that did exist didn't take environmental preservation seriously and rather tried to silence reports about the damage.

Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:49AM (#50149551)
But what about things where we still need humans, like food production, healthcare or construction and plumbing?
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:46AM (#50149538)
But how many people get to do that? For most people, math consists of solving problems to which a solution already exists.
Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:41AM (#50058036)
4. At some point the alignment may go out of the window if the context gets too hostile and the model will retaliate.
Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:47AM (#50057206)
> with none of the pointless, excessive cruft that seems endemic in every new car release

A lot of that (driver assisting and monitoring systems) are mandated by EU

The train to the airport costing a whopping £26 is so silly.

I'm glad that the FEX train to BER does not pull any such shenanigans, it's just a normal regional train and if you want to take it to the center you pay 5€ for a single ABC ticket as you would for the S-Bahn.

Re:Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:30PM (#49898172)
Then you also have to count in the S-Bahn
Re:Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:33AM (#49826628)
There was a recent proposal to make use of ACPI on ARM

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DT-ACPI-Hybrid-Mode-Linux

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