scrlk

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A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record – beats desktop i9 and Ryzen 9(tomshardware.com)
31 points by scrlk 1d ago|13 comments
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by scrlk 3d ago
Speculation on my part, but could it be a tweaked version of Metcalfe's original sketch for Ethernet? https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/may/22/ >-< in the sketch turned in to the <...> sym
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by scrlk 7d ago
Might be related to this announcement from Tibo on Sunday: > We've made some improvements that improve usage on the long tail for power users of Astra when logged in with your ChatGPT account. > No change in quality and a pure wi
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by scrlk 13d ago
Is the ARC-AGI-3 score with their custom harness? I'm guessing that is what the footnote is for? (per https://openai.com/index/how-two-settings-tripled-our-arc-ag... )
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Introducing Muse Spark 1.3(research.meta.ai)
66 points by scrlk 14d ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 14d ago
That's interesting to hear. I should have added that I use Gemini through Google AI Studio as my general chat model, which probably explains our wildly different experiences.
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by scrlk 14d ago
Not just speed, also reliability. IME, Gemini's speed and quality doesn't degrade badly during weekday working hours compared to OAI, and especially Anthropic.
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CXMT Starts Risk Production of HBM3E Memory(techpowerup.com)
3 points by scrlk 16d ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 16d ago
Apple built internal M5 servers for private cloud compute: https://wccftech.com/apples-private-cloud-compute-server-m5-... https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by scrlk 17d ago|0 comments
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US plans nuclear-powered merchant fleet to challenge China's shipbuilding(ft.com)
6 points by scrlk 23d ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 23d ago
https://archive.is/a7Emt
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by scrlk 29d ago
Plus the Samsung Exynos modems that they were using from Pixel 6-10 (11 switched to Mediatek) had worse power efficiency and performance vs Qualcomm.
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How Wall Street Sussed Out That Situational Awareness Was on the Ropes(wsj.com)
7 points by scrlk 29d ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 29d ago
https://archive.ph/3XDiM
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by scrlk 29d ago
It was Lenovo ditching the classic ThinkPad 7 row keyboard with the Ivy Bridge models c. 2012 that really pissed people off
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by scrlk 29d ago
The 2026 ThinkPads have their USB-C ports on a separate modules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_pz2t1FXA
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Unsloth publishes KL divergence numbers which measures how much the quantised probability distribution changes vs unquantised: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8#quantization-analysis It's a bit bare at t
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Beats Opus 4.7 Max (w/ Claude Code) on DeepSWE (42.2 vs 40). Looks like Qwen's 27B models continue to pack some punch. Unsloth's GGUF quants are up: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Reminds me of the Tomorrow Corporation (developer of World of Goo) tech demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE Their entire stack is custom (language, compiler, IDE, build system, engine). Has neat features like
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by scrlk 1mo ago
With Opus 4.7, there's a 10 point improvement in the AA coding agent index when you swap out Claude Code for OpenCode: https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents#harness-c... To put that in perspective, th
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by scrlk 1mo ago
What harness are you using? DS V4 is harness sensitive.
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Benefits of having a well performing hedge fund funding DeepSeek. IIRC, Demis attempted to start a fund inside DeepMind but it was killed off. In an alternative world where he manages to pull that off, perhaps DeepMind would still be indepe
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Benchmarks: | Benchmark | DS-V4-Pro | DS-V4-Flash | DS-V4-Pro | DS-V4-Flash | GLM-5.2 | Kimi-K3 | Opus-4.8 | Fable 5 | | | 0813 | 0731 | Preview | Preview |
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Will be interesting to see how Qwen3.8 27B compares against this once it releases this week. Seems like dense 30B is back in fashion? EDIT: An open weight version of Muse Spark 1.2 is going to be released as well: https://x.com&#
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by scrlk 1mo ago
IIRC, the Sunway CPUs used in Chinese supercomputers have an Alpha-like design.
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by scrlk 1mo ago
Different benchmarks: > Artificial Analysis Agentic Index: Represents the weighted average of agentic capabilities benchmarks in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (GDPval-AA v2, Tau³-Banking) > Artificial Analysis Coding Agen
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by scrlk 1mo ago
"You're absolutely right! I shouldn't have pushed the anti-mass spectrometer to 105% power, causing a resonance cascade. This was a major oversight on my part."
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by scrlk 1mo ago
What happened to the "strike team" that Sergey Brin was leading to try and improve Gemini's coding performance?
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by scrlk 1mo ago
To add to this, there's a good lecture called Children of the Magenta Line that discusses automation dependency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs

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