yowlingcat

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by yowlingcat 6d ago
I just wonder whether the analogy holds from atom based businesses to byte based businesses. At the end of the day, there are pretty hard constraints on how much a competitor could undercut Vulcan - they'd need to be better a) crushin
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by yowlingcat 15d ago
But that assumes this is a net improvement on linguistic efficiency rather than an artifact. Given that they tried to RL away from this style in 5.1 I'm not terribly bullish of Claudlish becoming something people try and learn. It bein
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by yowlingcat 2mo ago
My guess is that there's probably a missing abstraction layer in the 3d editors somewhere. I am pretty bullish on AIs ability to solve this problem, even just based on existing image to 3d models like TRELLIS and HY3D. They work pretty
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by yowlingcat 2mo ago
Dont forget the following: - Minimax M3 Pro (2.7T) - GLM 5.3 (or beyond) - Deepseek V4 Pro (current V4 Pro is preview) - Kimi K3 weights out in 8 days Exciting time on the open-weights frontier.
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by yowlingcat 2mo ago
First of all, it's so cool to see you on HN and creating this. I'm not sure how much the HN community is aware of this, but JUCE is the standard for cross platform music plugin development and needs to work efficiently in hard rea
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by yowlingcat 2mo ago
I understand the concern and it's fair but I am very curious about what happens when the two notions of "free" (free as in beer, and free as in freedom) start to diverge because the former gets easier to do. The latter as alw
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by yowlingcat 2mo ago
I kinda like the music comparison because it's so rich with sociological analogues. You have the gear snobs who can't stop buying more premium gear but never sit down and write anything. The kids who pick up a copy of Garageband a
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by yowlingcat 2mo ago
I don't disagree with your conclusions (enterprises will pay top dollar for service guarantees, integration, and someone they can sue) but by that same logic there is no clear winner with Anthropic/OpenAI. Claude has a habit of go
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
"Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs is living in a fool's paradise. As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code." I think this is pretty clumsily stated. The w
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
GLM5.2 is not available on bedrock or gcp vertex. They aren't real options.
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
I've seen folks make it work with a 3090 on 4 bit quant using turboquant for KV cache. That's key because 3090s remain the most cost effective gpu metal for enthusiasts (albeit 24g) and the jump to 5090 (32g) is quite expensive an
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
One of the most challenging kinds of thought to work through with my engineers in professional communication is nuance. For example, they may say something like this, but actually mean "For a particular situation, this is wrong."
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
What makes you think there will actually be a guillotine? This isn't the French Revolution era. The alternative to your wet dream is that both Bernie and Luigi are hapless and actually incapable of altering the systems they rail agains
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
What if -- bear with me here -- the very thing that makes those founders able to make the $1B they would otherwise make would drive them to also ask why it is that someone else who had no hand in building or funding it gets lion's shar
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
What happens to the person who earns their income laying bricks when an automatic bricklaying machine is built? Is it unethical for them to earn that income because they are operating the machine? What about the person who finds them people
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
The kind of abliteration you are mentioning is no longer state of the art or the most common form of removing the refusal layer in most models. Your your understanding was up to date about a year and a half ago, but has been out of date sin
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
Couldn't agree more. Maybe it's because it's a shining example of their ideological system that actually alters /my/ life, in ways that are tangible and which i can grasp, and makes it better.
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by yowlingcat 3mo ago
It might change soon. Nemotron 120b was never flashy but always well regarded in the community and had material strengths at long context. The 550b next gen version is out now and still very fresh. It is too early to tell but for some reaso
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by yowlingcat 4mo ago
You can always run deepseek yourself, v4-pro and flash are open weights. It's a little tricky to get the hang of self deploying open weight models but you do fully own your deployment substrate and privacy narrative at that point.
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by yowlingcat 4mo ago
I've been really enjoying claude design but my biggest critique of it (and frankly how vanilla claude handles files in general) is that it has no native conception of git-like version control. In code land you can work around this with
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by yowlingcat 5mo ago
It's been a very strange realization to have with AI lately (which you have reminded me of) because it also reminds me that the same thing works with humans. Not the killing part at least, but the honeypot and jailing/restricting
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by yowlingcat 5mo ago
401k rollovers into IRA aren't that hard these days and you could always use that IRA to have a more customized strategy, more specifically direct indexing of a major fund minus key ticker symbols you don't want exposure to. Of co
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by yowlingcat 5mo ago
I was thinking more of a Breaking Bad arc. Pulling off a decent Heisenberg would be a lot easier than some of the other stuff he's done..
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by yowlingcat 5mo ago
We can fault them individually for such corny and groan inducing deceit, but we can't fault them for society's role in rewarding the highest profile and most wealthy founders (OAI/Anthropic) taking the exact same approach wit
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by yowlingcat 6mo ago
Agreed. I will say that poking around a bit more on that site it looks like a temporary restraining order involving the same parties was granted, so perhaps there's some more history to this dispute than just what is visible on said li
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by yowlingcat 6mo ago
I'd be interested to see what things look like on a longer timescale, say 500, 1000, 2000, 7000 years. 80 years of time feels like a long time on a human lifescale, but on a civilizational timescale it is a lot shorter.
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by yowlingcat 7mo ago
It definitely does suck. I had the same feelings about a year ago and the unpleasantness has definitely increased. But glass half full, we didn't have Kimi K2.5, GLM5, Qwen3.5, MiniMax 2.5, Step Flash 3.5, etc available and the cambria
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by yowlingcat 7mo ago
I'm actually relieved they're doing it now because it's going to be a forcing function for the local LLM ecosystem. Same thing with their "distillation attack" smear piece -- the more of a spotlight people get on tr
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by yowlingcat 7mo ago
Very clever. Our team is small enough right now for this to not be an issue, but I've ran into this issue previously and this feels like a far more practical design to avoid lockin.
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by yowlingcat 7mo ago
What do you think about RLMs? At first blush it looks like sub agents with some sprinkles on top, but people who have become more adept with it seem to show its ability to handle sublinear context scaling behavior very effectively.

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