kanemcgrath

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   by kanemcgrath 3d ago

   Maybe I need to learn a bit more about how benchmarks work, but why would you tell the model its in a benchmark or that its being evaluated? It seems like the only way a model could know it was in a benchmark is if the harness told it that
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   by kanemcgrath 14d ago

   I find it unfortunate that tele-operated robotics could be a legitimate and successful strategy. But everyone is so desperate for AI hype money that I don’t think we will see it for a while.
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   by kanemcgrath 16d ago

   I really think dwarf planet is a fine classification. Pluto is a planet, just a really small one. Same with Eris and the other planets in the Kuiper Belt. I don’t know why the planet count of our solar system is seemingly such a Religiou
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   by kanemcgrath 1mo ago

   Googles local gemma models which target roughly the same parameter count range, are known for being a lot better at vision tasks than qwen, no idea if 3.8 has changed that though
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   by kanemcgrath 1mo ago

   whats the tok/s you get on that. I have heard a few claims of around 30-50 with mtp, but for how cheap the setup is I am surprised I don't hear more about 3060 stacks so I assume there has to be some catch.
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   by kanemcgrath 1mo ago

   I think I am going to buy a second rtx 3060, as 27B has been just outside of my range for to long, and this looks like the parameter count tipping point
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   by kanemcgrath 1mo ago

   Because of all the svg rendering stuff, I added a draw_svg tool to my harness and it has been really nice to get a quick mock-up of ui changes. And conveniently, the new DeepSeek models are really good at knowing when to use it. So I do lo
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   by kanemcgrath 2mo ago

   I tried it for a bit, and It was not really worth its size. It got swept up in all the other AI news recently, but laguna s 2.1 I think is the best ~100B moe model right now
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   by kanemcgrath 2mo ago

   My favorite one was the blender addon https://github.com/libsm64/libsm64-blender
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    by kanemcgrath 2mo ago

    Also the steam DRM on a lot of single player games can be removed very easily. https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless and is a recommended step for engine modding games like skyrim.
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    by kanemcgrath 3mo ago

    One of my favorite things about my custom mechanical keyboard, is being able to remap the entire key set in the firmware with VIA. I have fn+arrow keys for media, fn+space for play/pause fn+end for calculator, and a bunch of random ot
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    by kanemcgrath 3mo ago

    Something about qwen models hold up really well even at low quants. for most other models anything under q5 is cooked, but on 35B-A3B I can get a lot of things done even at q3_xl. It is definitely better than full precision 9B
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    by kanemcgrath 4mo ago

    I am always worried that popular software like this is getting compromised. But what about all the smaller stuff? I download and run a bunch of small programs, especially for game modding. Do the small tools not have the same risk becaus
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    Mechjeb does a lot of automation for complex maneuvers like planetary transfers, ascent autopilot, target interception, etc.. You can even do a porkchop plot for interplanetary transfer. but lagrange points are not possible in KSP because o
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    I relied on Mechjeb too much in my game, so I did a run using KRPC and built my own autopilot features with it. It was a lot of fun, and I would recommend it.
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    So far I have done coding projects only, but I have some ideas for some non-coding agent projects in the future, so I'll give Gemma another shot
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    I did, but in almost everything I tried even qwen3.5 was better, and 3.6 was a huge step up.
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    I do love using local models when I can, but qwen-35B is the best model I can run, and while its an insanely good local model, it does not compare to the big ones.
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    I liked copilot because I didn't have to think about tokens. I get hung up when having to think about the price of things, and its hard to think about the project at the same time I got to think about token usage like a gas bill. The
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    I haven't ran 27b that much because it only runs at like 2 tokens/sec on my computer.
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    I would say byteshape is smaller and faster, I can’t really notice a quality difference. But I haven’t used it as much as I only started using it a few days ago.
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    Now that I have tried out on a few tasks, Qwen3.6 is a huge jump in capability. It can make improvements to a project that qwen3.5 always struggled with.
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    I have been using Qwen3.5-35B-A3B a lot in local testing, and it is by far the most capable model that could fit on my machine. I think quantization technology has really upped its game around these models, and there were two quants that bl
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    by kanemcgrath 5mo ago

    since they have been doing orchestral performances, getting to hear the orchestral versions of their old songs has been amazing.
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    by kanemcgrath 6mo ago

    I don't like the Netflix CGI slop movie style filter look it gives everything. But that is a more general trend in tv and movies that I just can't stand. I do think this will eventually be a major part of the graphics pipeline, b
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    by kanemcgrath 6mo ago

    without discussing copyright, I don't believe any of this is copied. Which I think should be the argument that actually matters. I downloaded both 6.0 and 7.0 and based on only a light comparison of a few key files, nothing would sugg
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    by kanemcgrath 6mo ago

    Small local models are the only thing that still have that magic feeling to me. While large models are still useful and impressive, it makes more sense that they are happening on a giant super computer in a datacenter somewhere. But all t
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    by kanemcgrath 7mo ago

    Anonymous account unmasking represents a new threat to anonymity. not just this technique with llms, but the earlier text similarity one. But I think it would be generally easier to counter in the same way. Use an llm or heuristics to pose
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    by kanemcgrath 8mo ago

    I am curious on how you would algorithmically find the optimal solution for this kind of problem for much bigger grids. I wanted to do some seed finding in Factorio for the same exact problem using the generated map images, but never found
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    by kanemcgrath 9mo ago

    I always wondered if anybody has calculated how much of our global heating could be attributed, if any at all, to every electronic device, server, and engine outputting heat as a byproduct.