Balinares

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by Balinares 3d ago
Scotland at least mulled independence quite seriously pre-Brexit, and one of the strongest arguments against which the UK advanced was that in leaving the UK Scotland would also leave the EU. The EU presidency, at the time held by Spain whi
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by Balinares 3d ago
He sells himself as an ethical guy, and doing things that are broadly positive for everyone even if they're against your own personal self-interest is basic ethicality.
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by Balinares 4d ago
How about connecting the sadist to the caring environment where they might heal and, in time, learn empathy.
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by Balinares 8d ago
Humans need food. Food does not just appear in supermarkets.
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by Balinares 10d ago
Nvidia is party to a number of circular funding deals that would land them in an exciting situation if the other involved parties, i.e. frontier US labs, were to bite the bullet, for instance if the market in general broadly switched to ope
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by Balinares 14d ago
Thank you, I know about those. And I'll stick with this quant. Normally I'd be with yout there, but Qwen 3.8 is turning out to be good at self-correcting, and the free memory I can use for extra context is worthwhile.
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by Balinares 14d ago
OP is calling blatant fascism fascism. I am utterly baffled by your position.
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by Balinares 14d ago
Disagreeing with fascism seems like a reasonable position to me.
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by Balinares 15d ago
For real. I'd pay good money for a concierge service to find me the right person.
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by Balinares 19d ago
The idea of democracies is that the government is answerable to its people, though the idea may seem quaint in this day and age.
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by Balinares 21d ago
I've found it tends toward long thinking loops even for simple tasks (and any quantization seems to increase their length), but those do exit eventually, unlike with Qwen 3.6. I use the Unsloth UD_Q2_K_XL GGUF with default parameters,
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by Balinares 21d ago
Interestingly, I've found the output of Qwen 3.8 27B to be competitive with Opus (4.6-ish anyway, not quite 4.8), but the experience is very different. Where Opus has seen it before and knows how to do it, Qwen knows how to work it
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by Balinares 28d ago
Wow, interesting. What KV cache quantization do you use?
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by Balinares 28d ago
I anecdotally observed the same. Interestingly, it also seems to tend toward self-correcting, which makes lower quantizations borderline usable. There'll be more faffing around, but still converging toward a solution. I wonder if that&
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by Balinares 28d ago
Qwen 3.8 27B beats Opus, Fable and GPT 5.6 by a comfortable margin on the AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate benchmark.
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by Balinares 1mo ago
And once again, Qwen 3.8 27B beats Opus 4.6, what the hell. It's both funny and a bit terrifying and I still can't quite believe it. It runs decently on a gaming PC! Opus 4.6 came out only 6 months ago and was then broadly conside
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by Balinares 1mo ago
Reproducing the post's money quote here because it's absolutely the crux of why the Qwen 3.8 release is seismic IMO: "The models at this size continue to get better at an impressive rate. We don’t need to spend half a million
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by Balinares 1mo ago
Worth noting that the default GGUF template sets the reasoning to xhigh. You can use the Froggeric template to set reasoning to medium instead: https://huggingface.co/froggeric/Qwen-Fixed-Chat-Templates Worth noting as
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by Balinares 1mo ago
Haven't those existed in Krita forever?
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by Balinares 1mo ago
That's a reasonable point, so let me qualify: at a glance, it seems Qwen 3.8 27B can trade blows with Opus 4.6 on coding tasks, where trading blows doesn't necessarily mean it's a clear winner or even an equal, but does mean
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by Balinares 1mo ago
I wonder if Anthropic and OpenAI possibly missed the window to go public. A 27B open-weight model trading blows with the SOTA from just half a year ago is not great news for trillion-dollar investments...
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by Balinares 1mo ago
I wonder if that's what deer feel, yeah. See what's coming, see it right there, and yet just... don't quite believe it.
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by Balinares 1mo ago
I find I can't even process that models from only 6 months ago, whose predictions were already somber, turned out to be overly optimistic by a factor of 50% and climbing . And life appears to just go on for now, at least for my privil
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by Balinares 1mo ago
What makes it a (crystal clear IMO) dark pattern is that the purportedly "free" feature set gives the user no value whatsoever. It only exists to induce sales. Inducing a high-bar commit (the purchase) by first securing a low-bar
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by Balinares 1mo ago
Amnesty was indeed threatened with lawsuits from anti-rights orgs that thereby did not in fact beat the anti-rights allegations.
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by Balinares 1mo ago
In case your assumption here is that TFA is about Edge disabling adblockers: it's not. It's just removing ManifestV2 support. ManifestV3 is still supported. Despite what one might assume, MV3 does not seem to measurably diminish t
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by Balinares 1mo ago
I haven't found that to be true at all. So I suppose there's a personal component to it and your observation doesn't apply universally? If so, though, that's possibly good news: it means there may be factors that are you
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by Balinares 1mo ago
There was a time when Google SREs were inventing the profession from the ground up, and it was the stuff of legend.
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by Balinares 1mo ago
This assumes a world where one parent can afford to not work and mind the kids full time instead. This also assumes a world where having a parent over their shoulder full time doesn't severely mess up kids. And meanwhile, punishing com
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by Balinares 1mo ago
Ah, you're right. Thanks for the correction. I read that other post too fast.

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