phillc73
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Comment · 3 days ago
Which is a shame, because I'm sure there are some really good projects using GenAI effectively to produce high quality products. It's just that they're being drowned out by the slop cannons.
Comment · 4 days ago
Some of them may be cider only varietals, which usually aren't super tasty on their own. This doesn't make them any less valuable, they just have a different use case.
For example, UK cider varietals include:
Dabinett (Bittersweet, high in tannins, well-balanced flavour, single-varietal and blended ciders)
Kingston Black (Bittersharp, high acidity and tannins, rich flavour, vintage-quality single-varietal ciders)
Comment · 5 days ago
Australia, New Zealand, Ireland etc
Comment · 6 days ago
Naming things is hard. Raven, modern scientific computing for OCaml has been around for a while: https://raven-ml.dev/
Comment · 8 days ago
I use Maki[1] harness and GML-5.3, GLM5.3 Flash and Deepseek-4.1 Flash 1017, with a little bit of MiMo-2.6.
The key I've found is a strong skill. At the beginning, sure there were problems. However, I implemented an AGENTS rule that said if a Janet script failed more than twice on the same "gotcha", the correct syntax was added to the skill. The skill is regularly reviewed, consolidated and pruned. The Janet skill is a floor and loaded at the start of every session.
Edit: Also worth mentioning is that I developed a Janet module with runtime type guards and other helpers to encode the "gotchas". https://github.com/jennystats/janet-kit
[1] https://maki.sh
Comment · 8 days ago
The beautiful thing about Janet is how lightweight and portable it is, no JVM.
I use Janet for all my agentic scripting. Python is forbidden in my harness. Janet scripts for everything. Love it.
Comment · 12 days ago
I remember wild mushrooms, yabbies, eels as well. Prawning with my grandfather in a saltwater lagoon using hand nets and a hurricane lantern.
Comment · 12 days ago
Did you eat them as a kid too? Growing up in rural Australia, I regularly ate rabbit in the late 70s and early 80s. It's been a while since I've had one though.
Comment · 12 days ago
Growing up in rural Australia I remember eating rabbit as a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. One of my favourite meals was a sweet rabbit curry with rice that Mum used to make. Haven't eaten it in probably close to 40 years and my salivary gland is activated right now as I type this.
Comment · 13 days ago
I flew Thai from Europe to Australia last month. The Economy legroom and space was pretty good. I did not feel cramped.
Comment · 14 days ago
I’ll add Melious.[1]
I feel like I’m getting good value out of my subscription and they have the cheapest GLM-5.3 API rates I could find in Europe. I moved to them recently from Mistral for the better prices.
They do have a slightly different daily inference capacity allowance, but it’s actually not too bad once used to it. I was forced to up my game and figure out what GLM-5.3 Flash and Deepseek-4.1 Flash could actually do for me, rather than just throwing everything at GLM-5.3. Quite happily chugging along with a nice balance across them now.
I am hoping Melious make the new DS 4.1 Flash 1017 available soonest.
Comment · 17 days ago
I don't know if the MOPD patch still loops. I do know that whichever model Xiaomi is running on their own API as of two days ago does still loop (it's not clear if they're running the MOPD or not, but it would seem odd that they wouldn't).
Comment · 17 days ago
> This is the first near-frontier model we've caught in infinite reasoning loops in a long time
Depends on where you draw the line for "near frontier model", but the current leading open-weights model, MiMo-v2.6, has exactly this problem. They released a fix on Hugging Face[1], but as of two days ago the model available via Xiaomi's own API still sticks in reasoning loops.
Comment · 18 days ago
If you don't know Slopcore and Claudia, these links will help: