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by sottol 3d ago
Anything that puts pressures on Nvidia's margins is going to have an outsized effect imo - margins declining from 75% to ~50% would undo all of its projected 2027 growth of 70%. And what about the purported "AI frontier slowdown&q
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by sottol 13d ago
Thanks! Qwen-3.8 27B seems to benchmark better but I'd like to try this some time.
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by sottol 13d ago
The press release: https://ifm.ai/k2/press-release/
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by sottol 13d ago
It's not the blog post, but there's some info here: https://ifm.ai/k2/ 375 A23B, 36 A4B, 32B, 7B, 3.7B, 0.9B variants. > 32B: Ranking among the top models in its class, 32B is our most powerful dense model
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by sottol 1mo ago
I'm torn on this - on the one hand performance matters, on the other so does capability. I could run Qwen 3.6 27B on my laptop, but at 5 tok/s it was too slow even without overthinking - I never used it. OTOH, Qwen 3.6 35B A3B ran
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by sottol 1mo ago
A lot of the benchmarks seem often near meaningless these days - really bench-maxxed to the hilt. I tend to still look at the Artificial Analysis rankings to get at least an idea on relative performance of models, is that still warranted? W
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by sottol 1mo ago
There's 5B working age people world wide and only 50% of those make more than $500/mo where it's even conceivable to spend $50/mo. I did the napkin math, it can still sorta kinda work out. I think more realistically we&#
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by sottol 1mo ago
Most of them live and breathe biking. They choose to make close to minimum wage to "do what they love", they don't own the store. I think it's genuine excitement and enthusiasm that you take as elitism. Often, it's
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by sottol 3mo ago
BMW did have the _iconic_ "halo angel eye" headlights in the mid-2000s - the most iconic headlight signature at least in my memory. So your point would make sense. Those were often copied by enthusiasts and "ported" to o
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by sottol 3mo ago
Afair, e.g. Land Rover stopped producing the classic Defender due to more stringent pedestrian protection regulations in the EU. They introduced strict front-end safety requirements for cars and SUVs whereas the US does not. So vehicles des
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by sottol 3mo ago
Hard to find reliable data, but could only find (shared) data for 2022 for large SUVs - whatabout doesn't quite cut it imo, feel free to look into midsize SUVs but imo the really large ones are more problematic: Ford Expedetion: 81,988
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by sottol 3mo ago
There's Will Whang's boards - IMX585 [1] (16:9 1"-ish) and even IMX283 [2] (1") and even IMX294 [3] (Micro 4/3). But just those camera boards run $199 to $399, and released in "artisanal quantities" (I thi
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by sottol 3mo ago
I don't think this is solely tied to car manufacturing automation. Even though Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring them, I would imagine they'd be well-positioned to commercialize general-purpose robotics and not just for car manufac
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by sottol 3mo ago
I've sort of been thinking about this as well. Personally, I'd like to re-capture the era of personal blogs and niche knowledge discovery of the earlier web I experienced - crossed with something easy to host/publish and not
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by sottol 4mo ago
But these AIs need energy and GPUs data-centers ... who pays for those? I could imagine a circular mini-economy between a few companies making the bare essentials to keep AI running and not catering to 99.9% of the population because they d
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by sottol 4mo ago
Exactly. But I did find an article ([1]) and spend doesn't seem that high per engineer ($150 to $250 per eng) - at least on average, I assume the costs were skyrocketing towards the end. > Adoption climbed from 32 percent of enginee
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by sottol 4mo ago
Maybe that's the plan :) But on a more serious note, do we know how much Uber spent per technical employee/month? I assume it is far more than even any of those $200 "max ai" plans. And the other question is how much the
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by sottol 4mo ago
Otoh, you can buy contact lenses OTC in other European countries... not saying Europe isn't over-regulated (try legally building a bike-trail on your own forest-land in Germany!! ...insanity) but it's a bad example.
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by sottol 4mo ago
Once you have a reliable printer, the workflow is mostly to slice -> send to printer -> wait and check on it every couple of hours until it's done ime. Imo it no longer super matters how much better the on-screen ui or webcam are
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by sottol 4mo ago
Bambu also tried to patent several widely used techniques in china, fyi. https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/8/6/141
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by sottol 4mo ago
My thing with bambu was always that they polished whatever the industry (and hobbyists) had invented and closed it all off, then also innovating on top of that but never giving back unless they _had_ to. Polish and mechanical design are gre
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by sottol 4mo ago
I would have said Prusa a year or two ago but they've reneged a little on their open-ness. That was probably in response to Bambu being fully closed and gaining so much market share. The Core line of printers seems promising and a big
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by sottol 5mo ago
I really like the look of the car, but from the title it sounds like a Mustang has been converted into an FSD Tesla ("teslafied" Mustang) - but Tesla suspension, Tesla interior... this smells like a Mustang body fitted onto a Tesl
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by sottol 5mo ago
One reason I used it was that I wasn't locked into a single provider and switching them was as easy as changing a drop-down. Small feature? Sonnet or GPT5.4/mini? Large changes? Opus. And why not see how good Raptor Mini does this
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by sottol 5mo ago
Interestingly, Espressif nowadays does something similar on the ESP32-P4 which is RiscV but doesn't have builtin Wifi/BT. So they tend to pair it with an ESP32-C6 which runs the WiFi stack and firmware that communicates with the P
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by sottol 7mo ago
If I'm mistaken, then the article states that the investment is $1T annualized when taking software development costs into account [1] if the labs don't all suddenly decide to stop development. That would mean earnings of ~ $1.1T
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by sottol 10mo ago
Thanks, I'll have to try that. I've only had mediocre success with Jules using it for a couple weeks after launch but I always felt like it may have been running one of the smaller models.
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Ask HN: Coding experience with Gemini 3 Pro
3 points by sottol 10mo ago|3 comments
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by sottol 10mo ago
you can bring your google api key to try it out, and google used to give $300 free when signing up for billing and creating a key. when i signed up for billing via cloud console and entered my credit card, i got $300 "free credits&quot
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by sottol 11mo ago
$30B ... 2GW datacenter ... ??? ... AGI

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