Also, a word to the wise: The reality of running recent Chinese open weight models is that they are all overtuned for successfully completing tasks. I can ask Qwen3.8 Flash Next to grep for regexes that use PHP-specific…
Yeah, this particular example was pretty sketchy on Cohere's part. Unsharing a namespace like that is a pretty standard way to safely do things that would otherwise require root. Yes, this exposes some root-level kernel…
Qwen3.8 27B is a dense model with expensive K/V caching. It's fantastic if you have 32-48GB of VRAM and want to run 1 or 2 agent sessions locally. But if serving batch inference for many users, it's expensive. DeepSeek…
I can't speak for Google-sized organizations, but Protobuf enum semantics are an invitation to broken, flaky and incorrect systems. There are reasons why Google pays this price! But I think it's one of the worst…
Buggy slop products will burn buyers and then people will buy less. The very-early-80s video game companies shoveled out slop, including a few games that wouldn't even launch. Which led to the Great Video Game Crash of…
I have a bunch of third generation Philips Hue bulbs, from around 2016. They weren't cheap. But I've had them all this time, and I brought them along when I moved house. Haven't burnt out a single bulb yet. I understand…
> Without credible open models, they only have a few customers, and those customers have leverage against nvidia. With open models, they have tons of customers, and nvidia has all the leverage. I wonder if Nvidia is…
> Sam Altman has repeatedly said that he doesn't want AI to automate everything and that AI will destroy jobs and bring different, new types of jobs. Sam Altman says a lot of things, most of which seem to benefit Sam…
First, if someone's profession has been vastly transformed, and not necessarily in pleasant ways, they're allowed to have feelings about that. If nothing else, I find talking to AIs to be exhausting. But more…
> With llama.cpp, you can give it an ebnf grammar and constrain the output to any formal grammar you wish. With llama-server, you can use basically any GGUF model as a Jev-like classifier. See Pi.dev's codemode and the…
This model isn't terrible, at least on the benchmarks. It's 78B A3B and performs about like Qwen3.6 35B A3B. You can probably run it comfortably in 96B of RAM with a decent quant that doesn't lose too much.…
Looking at "Felony Bench" https://www.felonybench.com/ , I see that a majority of known "rogue model" incidents do involve cybersecurity evaluations. But several of them do not. The attacks on RubyGems appears,…
> Those who think it's me or the machine will fail. > Those who realize how much you can accelerate your research with the help of AI will succeed. This is only true up until a point. If I treat a mid-sized model (say,…
On the other hand, we have recently taught rocks to think about software engineering. And while not perfect, they're surprisingly good at it. Once you start building things that are even a little bit like minds, I…
Eigenvectors represent fixed directions, not fixed magnitudes. From Wikipedia: > More precisely, an eigenvector v of a linear transformation T is scaled by a constant factor lambda when the linear transformation is…
> > we should fight for human survival > All problems arise from this statement. Let me go on the record, then: Given a choice between every living human being becoming absolutely, for-real dead and the human species…
> * For a section of population who were in a certain age-range when the pandemic hit and that derailed their certain kinds of plans/hopes/dreams in personal life* ... > So I feel a strange kind of relief about this…
Yeah, but I understand that fingerprinting is essentially a pseudorandom overlay onto a pseudorandom base signal. And unless you have access to both the random number generators and the weights, I don't think you can…
Yup. Their benchmark appears to consist of giving an agent XLSX files that use advanced Excel features, but no copy of Excel, and expecting the agents to interpret the spreadsheet the same way Excel would. So the agents…
Largely because they're residential botnets in places like Brazil (a real example from one of my sites that was crawled to near-destruction). Someone could probably do something about this, but it's out of reach for…
Thank you for the clarifications! Someone from Iceland tried to explain this all to me once, and if I understood correctly, it had less to do with the GDP (which also includes money circulating within Iceland) and more…
> The No campaign fears losing control over Iceland's prized fishing grounds under the EU's Common Fisheries Policy and has vowed never to share the country's waters with anyone. Brussels has indicated Iceland could…
Yeah, this is the problem. If you're on an immigrant visa, working a real job, then you have a life in the US: an apartment or a house, a pile of belongings, maybe a spouse and kids. If you need to leave the country to…
> That really depends on the model, I run a few models locally. All at speeds comparable to or faster than Opus. Yes, a lot of Qwen3.8 27B setups are actually quite snappy, as long as they fit 100% in VRAM. In my…
> AI is the subtrate the future runs on. Current AI can automate significant amounts of grunt work in programming and math. It's good at running web searches and writing summaries. There are a few other niches where it…
Also, a word to the wise: The reality of running recent Chinese open weight models is that they are all overtuned for successfully completing tasks. I can ask Qwen3.8 Flash Next to grep for regexes that use PHP-specific…
Yeah, this particular example was pretty sketchy on Cohere's part. Unsharing a namespace like that is a pretty standard way to safely do things that would otherwise require root. Yes, this exposes some root-level kernel…
Qwen3.8 27B is a dense model with expensive K/V caching. It's fantastic if you have 32-48GB of VRAM and want to run 1 or 2 agent sessions locally. But if serving batch inference for many users, it's expensive. DeepSeek…
I can't speak for Google-sized organizations, but Protobuf enum semantics are an invitation to broken, flaky and incorrect systems. There are reasons why Google pays this price! But I think it's one of the worst…
Buggy slop products will burn buyers and then people will buy less. The very-early-80s video game companies shoveled out slop, including a few games that wouldn't even launch. Which led to the Great Video Game Crash of…
I have a bunch of third generation Philips Hue bulbs, from around 2016. They weren't cheap. But I've had them all this time, and I brought them along when I moved house. Haven't burnt out a single bulb yet. I understand…
> Without credible open models, they only have a few customers, and those customers have leverage against nvidia. With open models, they have tons of customers, and nvidia has all the leverage. I wonder if Nvidia is…
> Sam Altman has repeatedly said that he doesn't want AI to automate everything and that AI will destroy jobs and bring different, new types of jobs. Sam Altman says a lot of things, most of which seem to benefit Sam…
First, if someone's profession has been vastly transformed, and not necessarily in pleasant ways, they're allowed to have feelings about that. If nothing else, I find talking to AIs to be exhausting. But more…
> With llama.cpp, you can give it an ebnf grammar and constrain the output to any formal grammar you wish. With llama-server, you can use basically any GGUF model as a Jev-like classifier. See Pi.dev's codemode and the…
This model isn't terrible, at least on the benchmarks. It's 78B A3B and performs about like Qwen3.6 35B A3B. You can probably run it comfortably in 96B of RAM with a decent quant that doesn't lose too much.…
Looking at "Felony Bench" https://www.felonybench.com/ , I see that a majority of known "rogue model" incidents do involve cybersecurity evaluations. But several of them do not. The attacks on RubyGems appears,…
> Those who think it's me or the machine will fail. > Those who realize how much you can accelerate your research with the help of AI will succeed. This is only true up until a point. If I treat a mid-sized model (say,…
On the other hand, we have recently taught rocks to think about software engineering. And while not perfect, they're surprisingly good at it. Once you start building things that are even a little bit like minds, I…
Eigenvectors represent fixed directions, not fixed magnitudes. From Wikipedia: > More precisely, an eigenvector v of a linear transformation T is scaled by a constant factor lambda when the linear transformation is…
> > we should fight for human survival > All problems arise from this statement. Let me go on the record, then: Given a choice between every living human being becoming absolutely, for-real dead and the human species…
> * For a section of population who were in a certain age-range when the pandemic hit and that derailed their certain kinds of plans/hopes/dreams in personal life* ... > So I feel a strange kind of relief about this…
Yeah, but I understand that fingerprinting is essentially a pseudorandom overlay onto a pseudorandom base signal. And unless you have access to both the random number generators and the weights, I don't think you can…
Yup. Their benchmark appears to consist of giving an agent XLSX files that use advanced Excel features, but no copy of Excel, and expecting the agents to interpret the spreadsheet the same way Excel would. So the agents…
Largely because they're residential botnets in places like Brazil (a real example from one of my sites that was crawled to near-destruction). Someone could probably do something about this, but it's out of reach for…
Thank you for the clarifications! Someone from Iceland tried to explain this all to me once, and if I understood correctly, it had less to do with the GDP (which also includes money circulating within Iceland) and more…
> The No campaign fears losing control over Iceland's prized fishing grounds under the EU's Common Fisheries Policy and has vowed never to share the country's waters with anyone. Brussels has indicated Iceland could…
Yeah, this is the problem. If you're on an immigrant visa, working a real job, then you have a life in the US: an apartment or a house, a pile of belongings, maybe a spouse and kids. If you need to leave the country to…
> That really depends on the model, I run a few models locally. All at speeds comparable to or faster than Opus. Yes, a lot of Qwen3.8 27B setups are actually quite snappy, as long as they fit 100% in VRAM. In my…
> AI is the subtrate the future runs on. Current AI can automate significant amounts of grunt work in programming and math. It's good at running web searches and writing summaries. There are a few other niches where it…