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Comment · 3 days ago
doesn't it also threatens most servers currently not on planet earth? like on chinas space station? i guess ISS's hardware is too old and UEFI didn't exist back then, so they are probably safe.
Comment · 1 month ago
i filed my swiss taxes for 2025 in 2026 (april) by dumping everything (local tax law, tax guide, my and my wife's documents, bank statements, income statements, etc.) into a folder and asking claude to fill it out. i had nothing to fix. submitted it.
Comment · 1 month ago
This falls into the obscure ("not important") but not difficult part of problems, that has an extreme long tail, compared to exceptionally difficult and important.

indeed as the author mentioned, LLMs can greatly help in areas where there is a long tail of not so important, easy to solve problems, that humans just don't have the time or priority to focus on. But combine this long tail of problems that can be solved: accumulated this might still be very beneficial as a sum of things.

Comment · 1 month ago
who tf uses prompting to "pretty please don't cheat on this"? the best practices for ages (in terms of ai) is to separate the eval from the test code/agent.

another best practices every single solution using LLMs/agents should implement is "never trust the llm".

Comment · 2 months ago
You can't ask Claude if your quota ran out. You have to wait for the reset...
Comment · 2 months ago
Please challenge me and explain why this is a break through worth the headline they use for their own work.

How I understand it, without really reading into it:

- Thomson Reuters did not "create" a frontier model, they gave some money, maybe a bit of their data to Imperial College London, and took Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 35B A3B Model for a basic fine tune.

- "They" (some undergrads at Imperial College London) used an existing ablation framework to undo some of the topic alignment of the original model.

- "They" fine tuned on some domain knowledge trying to preserve general knowledge - here maybe, just maybe some data came from Thomson Reuters.

As a result: one of 100's of Qwen 3.6 35B A3B sparse model fine tunes, just for publicity, to write overstating headlines like "X created their own frontier model"

Comment · 2 months ago
Hyperpersonalized code to its rescue. With the qwen3.8-27b release tomorrow and the advent of vibe coding and the improvements into proper agentic engineering we are moving towards hyperpersonalized software. This means we don't need a centralized maintainer for smaller tools. the facebook ad blocking cat and mouse game is something I cna very well imagine to just be something my computer would solve in real time, updating the uBlock filter/userscript to adapt to any fb changes in near real-time.
Comment · 2 months ago
https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/summary Countdown at 28h now.

Sadly they seem to not be releasing a sparse 35b A3b or anything inbetween "too large to host for mortals" and "fits into a consumer rtx". Probably not to eat away their profits on their API serving. 120b - 300b is a dead space right now, very few good releases in that size range. (I know there are, but the big labs aren't releasing stuff here)

Comment · 2 months ago
Hyperpersonalized code to its rescue. With the qwen3.8-27b release tomorrow and the advent of vibe coding and the improvements into proper agentic engineering we are moving towards hyperpersonalized software.

This means we don't need a centralized maintainer for smaller tools. the facebook ad blocking cat and mouse game is something I cna very well imagine to just be something my computer would solve in real time, updating the uBlock filter/userscript to adapt to any fb changes in near real-time.

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Controversial thought: Browsers will become a niche and fall into obscurity like IRC nowadays, based on what I observed working in South East Asia, where people don't even know what browsers are and "the internet" are walled social networks and apps.
Comment · 5 months ago
I don't get it either. i have a pixel 10 and it looks exactly like desktop mode, when connected to a docking station...

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