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One context I could imagine is a young person with shaky grasp of English trying to come up with an interesting school/university project via conversations with an LLM set up as an OpenClaw agent…

especially because this is the most painfully glaring flaw in their plan. Their solution is for an inference provider to... store the KV cache (which they can compute!) on-premise, on their own disks,…

I've had it happen. I ran an experiment, taking a couple hours and producing ~2 GiB of files. One of the results looked good, so I told Claude Opus 4.5 (at the time) to commit the code changes, u…

To be fair, it is good to know that it disobeys simple instructions like "don't examine my git history" far more than other models. (It should of course be a different benchmark, so as …

I would just warn that you may not be able to recognize what is worth learning at your stage. Intuition for library design and the architecture of software packages/external APIs is something you…

I have DSPD as well, and was pleasantly surprised to see how much of the article discussed DSPD. That being said, I do think a lot of what the author is saying flies right in the face of traditional a…

11/20 for qwen/qwen3.5-flash-02-23 in Claude Code, with effort set to low.

No, that's what the headline implies, and the body of the article doesn't support at all. It's (currently, and with no indication of intent to change this) two separate branches of thei…

but Taalas had to quantize Llama 3.1 8B to death to get it to fit. It can't produce coherent non-English text at all.

and if I was to guess, the latest generation of models (Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-codex, etc.) differ from Opus 4.5, GPT 5.2 primarily in the addition of deeper, more difficult (most likely agentic and…

No, Python or units[1] is always a better choice if I'm near a computer (and I nearly always am these days, unfortunately, I suppose). I do have three wonderful slide rules, though. [1]: https:&…

Introducing a solid zero-knowledge age verification option is the opposite direction of ending anonymity in the Internet, which other parts of the same governments are also working on. So yeah, I'…

I'll just throw in support for gaming on Linux – it's pretty nice feeling these days! I still have the occasional (once every 5–8 months?) update cause a short-lived bug, but it's a ver…

This is written by someone who's not an AI researcher, working with tiny models on toy datasets. It's at the level of a motivated undergraduate student in their first NLP course, but not muc…

One sign would be occasionally changing course in response to overwhelming employee feedback. If that never or almost never happens, the feedback is being ignored, not taken constructively and not fol…

This isn't right – calibration (informally, the degree to which certainty in the model's logits correlates with its chance of getting an answer correct) is well studied in LLMs of all sizes.…

I really like your posts, and they're generally very clearly written. Maybe this one's just the odd duck out, as it's hard for me to find what you actually meant (as clarified in your c…

I'm a little shocked at Simon's conclusion here. We have a man who bought an social media website so he could control what's said, and founded an AI lab so he could get a bot that agree…

That's a bold claim! Actually, there are plenty of scientific experiments that show actual differences between people who report aphantasia and those who don't, including different stress re…

That's the thing, some people do see things in their mind that clearly. It's about as rare as full aphantasia, but it's absolutely a spectrum.

I think you're assuming more people are like you than actually are. This is part of the classic debate around aphantasia – both sides assume the other side is speaking more metaphorically, while …

They're definitely quite hard for me. I bet my colleagues, friends or family could answer them for me better than I can without prep (which would involve chatting with my wife). Many of the exper…

Is the analysis right, or did the LLM hallucinate this?

Yes, so that one can use it for more creative writing exercises. It was pretty creative, I'll give it that.

No, it's completely useless, and puts the entire rest of the analysis in a bad light. LLMs have next to no understanding of their own internal processes. There's a significant amount of rese…

It makes quite a lot of sense juxtaposed with "train time compute". The point being made is that a set budget can be split between paying for more training or more inference _at test time_ o…