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Comment · 12 days ago
I use DS-4.1-Flash a lot but find it often gets caught up in long thinking runs. The "But wait... Actually... Hmm..." type of thing. Even though the tok/s is good, it stills feels slow because of this. Same with 1017.

I use Opus 5.5 at work and it does this much less (I know, different classes). Maybe it is to be expected of the flash models.

Comment · 17 days ago
I miss n-gate :(
Comment · 17 days ago
Semi-related, this story stuck with me about the university experience now vs in the 90s.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-01/how-uni-life-has-chan...

By the end I felt so sorry for the young man they profiled, what an enormous life experience he largely misses out on.

Comment · 1 month ago
AVAST VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED.

Blasting out my PC speakers at 2am...

Comment · 1 month ago
I think it's my stage of life (40s with kid) where finding the time to watch a movie is often too hard. But reading the review is only a few minutes.
Comment · 1 month ago
Highly likely we'll have different tastes, but the last two movies I watched were The Drama and Pillion. Greatly enjoyed them both.

Just a heads up, maybe don't watch Pillion with your parents/kids though...

Comment · 1 month ago
I often enjoy reading movie reviews more than watching the movie they review, even when I do enjoy the movie.

I can't usually describe that well why I did or didn't like a movie, so it's fun when I read a review that does put into words how I felt about it. It gives me a deeper perspective on my own feelings about the movie.

Shout out to Vince Mancini, my personal go to film critic.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
From the TRM methodology:

1. excludes proceeds from crime that originate in fiat and later transfer into crypto

2. exclude transfers to blockchain addresses that have not been attributed to illicit activity

3. excludes laundering of illicit crypto proceeds

While this seems reasonable to create a metric to compare YoY, I think it's very flawed to generate an absolute figure of illicit activity (or percentage of transaction volume).

Comment · 2 months ago
I must say absolutely hilarious video. The "persona" of the dog is great. As someone who is generally pretty "keep your AI out of my art" this looks very fun to play. I can imagine this being cleverly integrated as a primary feature of a game (this must already be in the works). Ideally as a small model able to run locally alongside the game.

The moment where the dog is going on about "something foul in the air" as the player is attacked by a wolf ("F--- dude you could have warned me!") was great comedy.

Comment · 2 months ago
There are many more possibilities than that.

For example, OpenAI did not explicitly tell the model to hack HuggingFace, but "accidentally" left some context permitting (or not explicitly forbidding) certain tools and designing a poor sandbox to begin with. And what do you know, something happened.

The fact the Anthropic announced that their own model did basically the same thing within a couple of weeks does, to me, suggest their is a strong PR driver to all this.

Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks for sharing! I remember thinking pre-kids mostly about how much work they would be but not really considering the joy they bring too. Like I knew they would, but vastly underestimated what effect that would have on my life.

I don't particularly regret any of my choices either, but knowing what I do now, would have chosen to have kids earlier in my life.

Comment · 3 months ago
I have almost no experience of archery and this annoyed me. So many close shots of Odysseus or other soldiers limply firing arrows that look like they'd barely make it five feet. But the next shot is a soldier getting barrelled off his feet by the force of it...
Comment · 3 months ago
Funny you mention LotR, coming out of the theatre after watching The Odyssey I thought "man, if only Peter Jackson had made this".

The landscapes were often gorgeous, but otherwise I thought it was all a bit dull unfortunately. Can only imagine what it would have been like if someone as detail-obsessed as PJ took it on.

Comment · 4 months ago
Ah that makes sense, thanks!

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