icelancer

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Former miserable Data Scientist. I run a small business now.
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Comment · 16 days ago
probably my single biggest beef with their client and why i don't use it all that often outside of non-interactive mode
Comment · 1 month ago
Huh. I never considered this. Hacking TVs with firmware would be a great project for LLMs to fuzz.
Comment · 1 month ago
I've played both. The GM plays tremendously differently than Stockfish.

Engines - specifically heuristically-driven ones like Stockfish - don't play like a strong GM. They play engine-perfect chess, which isn't how a GM plays with any consistency.

I'm only a decent amateur (1550 USCF) but when I lose to a titled player it's largely explainable in human terms how it happened.

Comment · 2 months ago
I think the point is that a larger model with far less reasoning time solves the problem just fine. Which of course is the tradeoff: The smaller the model, the more reasoning you need to get decent answers to tough questions.
Comment · 2 months ago
> I can imagine a curve where for a given level of “intelligence” you either need model size, or inference time (“test time compute”), and can somewhat trade one for the other.

This is exactly what was shown on Luna/Terra/Sol tradeoffs - Luna requires much higher reasoning efforts to approach Terra/Sol on lower reasoning. Which is fine, of course, no complaints - but true.

Comment · 2 months ago
it does this at a variable rate of frames which you can set - not sure if it is transcribing or natively understanding audio, but I think it's the latter since it is much faster than most transcription models I am aware of

Regardless you are right - I can roll my own.... but why

Comment · 2 months ago
Crazy it's still the only video understanding endpoint. It's what I use it for and no other model even offers a competitor.
Comment · 2 months ago
Great point.

The EA group have a ton of parallels to the Scientologists, so all of this is not surprising.

Comment · 2 months ago
I use Modal for fine tuning and unsloth mostly.
Comment · 3 months ago
This is what I've been waiting for. We are still using fine-tuned deployments of Qwen3.6-27B with a lot of success but could use a bump in intelligence. Here's hoping.
Comment · 3 months ago
This is actually a very good question.

The funniest and simplest answer is that you make money off yourself.

Comment · 3 months ago
I asked an adjacent question to a broker friend who flatly replied: "Not interested in being served a Wells Notice."

Which more or less answered the question for me, even if he was being a bit hyperbolic.

Comment · 3 months ago
Gets a 100% on Pangram. Stuff is so distracting. Write your own posts, FFS. Or at least pass it through "humanizer" type plugins.
Comment · 3 months ago
dash dash "--" on a lot of systems and word processors turns it into the em-dash automatically

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