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Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:14PM (#50171266)
Was it inspired by this?

https://housing.over.pizza/

Re:Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:44AM (#50052784)
Tried to use it and the error messages and documentation were overwhelmingly unhelpful. Spent about an hour on it. Maybe it will get better though, good luck!

I wish the useful improvements would be ported to https://github.com/open-annihilation/open-annihilation which seems a better open source project.

Yes; or something which has a similar effect.
It feels lke they replace older models with "optimised" versions which are cheaper to run, but keep the same name.
For pixel owners: the Google photos app cannot be uninstalled, but you can disable it using adb.
> "Instead of improving an agent against a fixed test, we let the evaluation evolve alongside the agent"

This quote should have been highlighted earlier in the article.

Re:Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? on Friday August 14, 2026 @03:39PM (#49303632)
It defines and introduces a lot of concepts/acronyms in the thinking blocks which we normally don't read.
Re:Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @04:46PM (#49278321)
> If the model was designed specifically to quantize down to 1.58b, then it's different.

> AFAIK, there's no large models designed for this yet.

Isn't BitNet b1.58 2B4T what you are looking for? (haven't tried it myself though)

> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a question that is roughly 2000 years old. Still no good answer.

I feel like we are moving towards a very specific answer, without much thought: AI.

Did anyone calculate this for OpenAI?
Looking forward to giving this a try with llama.cpp. I’m watching the open-weights competition with high expectations.
I think that would spoil a lot of the fun. I would favour visual and audio feedback loops to interactively learn how things work under the hood.
Sounds like a great way to inflate your success metrics for AI queries
I disagree. Whether something is manipulation depends on whether you are trying to change someone’s opinion or behavior, not on whether the manipulator has “good” or “bad” intentions, since those judgments are not objectively universal.
> Part of this can be good (you talk about what they care about, where 90% of broadcast messaging might not apply) and part of it can be bad (manipulation.)

Side note: it's manipulation either ways because you chose what to talk about, with a goal in mind.

Re:Harness Engineering on Sunday July 19, 2026 @05:25AM (#48966367)
Serious question: how do we verify claims like these on the effectiveness of a harness?
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:41PM (#48962159)
Has anyone tried Kimi K3 against gpt-5.6-sol on real projects?
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:33PM (#48962079)
Exactly; this is a no-go for me, I will wait for an independent provider to sell the service, which is possible thanks to the open weights.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:38PM (#48952030)
I understand you're trying to be funny, but my point is that with novel technology there are novel ways to claim innocence in courts because of the legislative void.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:38PM (#48941223)
They could use an agent to summarise the source material, and then train models on those summaries, and claim that some sort of clean-room training has happened?
Re:Meta's Un-Stable Signature on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @08:08AM (#48816610)
> Or are you referring to the claims from Meta, Google, and Adobe -- which failed to hold up under independent evaluation.

This.

> However, he demonstrated a clear lack of understanding regarding what makes the bits "independent" or how to resolve the independence problem.

Yes, I didn’t want to call it out explicitly, but this is exactly the kind of thing that would have made my undergraduate statistics professor lose patience.

Re:GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse on Monday July 06, 2026 @08:19PM (#48812197)
I can't find on their website some indication of what kind of usage I can get out it, otherwise I'd be interested.
Re:Meta's Un-Stable Signature on Sunday July 05, 2026 @03:09AM (#48791938)
This is a great statistical analysis and it was a pleasure to read, but I wasn't expecting the claims to be so poorly supported. There's also a reply from one of the Meta authors there, worth checking out.
Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:03PM (#48788469)
I remember hearing this perspective when I first started in the software industry, and I agreed with it for quite some time. But frankly, we’ve never been further from it.
Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:08AM (#48773186)
The more I read into it, the more pain memory flashbacks I got. Bravo
Re:Fable 5 Is Back on Thursday July 02, 2026 @01:19AM (#48756841)
I'm trying it right now for a side project of mine, compared to Opus it is effectively better at following instructions and somehow has better "depth" when reasoning on complex tasks. However, if it will not be part of subscriptions, I will not use it anymore.
Re:The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:59AM (#48747948)
64MB was a luxury
Re:Claude Sonnet 5 on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @05:43AM (#48744370)
I don't know what I am doing right, or wrong, but I have access to claude and codex and I find myself giving the more serious work to codex recently. I tend to trust it more. I might try again Fable when it's back, but this Sonnet 5 didn't work well for my current projects.
Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? on Saturday June 06, 2026 @12:29AM (#48421393)
How did you give LLMs tool use?
Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? on Saturday June 06, 2026 @12:01AM (#48421261)
I could spot numerous bugs in code written recently and less recently, by me or colleagues. I was not angry but grateful and I knew there was no way back!

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