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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:15PM (#50343869)
If it's new it's news.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:57PM (#50343631)
And you can teach another person to make herpes virus.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:55PM (#50343602)
They're just included in the prompt as big lists of numbers.
It's in the video, they've just framed up the shot to see the reflection of what looks like a piece of paper with colored stripes printed on it.
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:27PM (#50311482)
Maybe they are looking great though, crisp uniforms absolutely dripping with medals.
Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:53PM (#50307651)
> Reddit traffic is down and management blames AI search not referring users to Reddit.

Couldn't have anything to do with management's decision to require logins to access the site.

> Is the idea that we should precisely time both?

That's the usual approach yes. You want to have equipment you buy show up where it's going to be installed, installed and activated in as short a time possible. You don't want to have it sit in a warehouse for 6 months while you try to get permission to break ground because, in a normal market, the equipment will be losing value during that time.

> Is the idea that buying GPUs before you buy the datacenters is hoarding but buying datacenters before you buy the GPUs is not?

Does someone have a storage room full of data centers?

In this case, companies actually do have large inventories of GPUs they bought before they had datacenters to install them in.
As they say, safety regulations are written in blood.
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:55AM (#50291095)
Are there actually any laws to break?

Alibaba (Qwen) at least has plenty of people in US offices to go arrest.

Re:Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:49AM (#50284692)
Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.
How much VRAM do I need to run DOOM?
Re:Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:27PM (#50276298)
I could swear I saw something about an NFL broadcast using them. They were part of the PGA championship broadcast.
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:36PM (#50261765)
Showing off an anglo-bias with the Japanese train station in the 1980s, with a man speaking english.
I don't see how anything would be more resilient than solar.
The time required to verify is much higher, so some combination of vastly speeding that up or vastly increasing the quality of individual "thought steps".
Re:CorridorKey 2.0 on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:16PM (#50252537)
Then cg is also tired status quo stuff. I'm working on brain generated imagery where a carefully engineered prompt causes the user to picture a scene directly in their mind.
"computer touchers"
Re:Diamond Transistor on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:22PM (#50248503)
Power electronics isn't just grid scale equipment.
I guess if you want good health care at an affordable cost you should have gone to Mexico where the anti-venom that is $10,000 a vial in the US is sold (by the same company) for $100 a vial.
What's so illogical about it? Galaxies are spinning as though there's matter that we don't see. Maybe there's matter that we don't see.
That's true in the sense that it's true for every single model.
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:43AM (#50168112)
What's the evidence that demand outstrips supply? Is there a wait to get an inference provider or interruptions in availability?
Re:Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:07PM (#50156582)
Probably harder to hit six single-soldier carrying drones than one helicopter.
I haven't managed to run anything on my 8GB card that isn't blown away by free tier Gemini.
Radio didn't make the date cutoff to be a right in the US.
You would get most of the cost out of design by automating the engineering. Whether the customer prefers a pure AI design or spending .001% of the bulding budget on an architect will be a matter of taste I guess.
> architecture because you can't generate infinite synthetic training data for those.

It's just harder to do. Would not be at all surprised to see e.g. Autodesk bought out for exactly that purpose.

> whats the training data that points to using hacking for solving math problems though?

I'll get back to you on that when I get done reading the training data.

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