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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:22PM (#50346266)
How is this even possible? It seems unlikely that Astra could have learned on its own how to handle weight data, and it’s hard to imagine it could intuitively deduce better weights either.
Re:Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80 on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:21AM (#50299840)
I hadn’t heard anything about Smalltalk since seeing it used in version 1.4 of Scratch, so it’s a pleasant surprise to come across it again after all this time.
I have great respect for those who conduct research on algorithm optimization.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:03AM (#50284419)
It would have been much cooler if the naming sequence had been helium, neon, and argon, rather than argon and carbon.
Re:Four Months of Zig on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:07PM (#50268873)
How much of the four months went to keeping up with breaking changes? Thats been my main blocker with zig, more than the language itself.
Re:New MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:58AM (#50260374)
Thanks. buy when you need it is solid advice. I’ll probably wait and see on this generation.
145GB is hardly small. How does something like this even happen? In more ways than one.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:50AM (#50260259)
Hope the copy-and-patch work gets a proper write-up before it’s removed... The technique is interesting well beyond CPython.
Re:New MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:46AM (#50260203)
Should I skip this generation of MacBooks, or should I buy one now? I’m worried about how much the price of the next MacBook might go up.