The one being incorrect is you. Archie's representation is quite accurate, in the US context.

Yes, a very "middle of the road" supporter of far-right Tommy Robinson (who has a 17% positivity ranking among Brits). The guy who said "When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them." The guy who described diversity as an "ideological inferno", a "religion" led by "high priests". The guy who was so radical and repressive at Basecamp that at one point 1/3rd of its employees all walked out en masse. Truly, a remarkable centrist of our times!

Not talking about VRAM or unified memory. Regular DRAM.

There's been a lot of advancement recently on how to best manage MoE expert swapping (FreeToken is just one example).

Best joke of the day, but I was hoping for something about the misnomer. Floss refers to the stringy stuff and there's no string in this story?

But I might have asked my dentist about this if I'd seen the story before my last visit. Pert' shure I'll have forgotten all about it by the next time...

Very productive opening joke. Thanks.

Last paragraph.

We can only hope, but I predict it ain't gonna happen. Sadly.

Currently reading How AI Thinks by Nigel Toon. Some interesting bits and it's going quickly, but not seeing anything much to recommend in it. The intersection of "experts on AI" and "people who write well" remains small, though it may become more difficult to tell if they use AI to help write? I think it's only the deepest experts who can really explain things clearly, whereas AI is mostly focused on sounding deep with hallucinatory seasonings as convenient.

How are you connecting to Slashdot from the year 2024?

If you have ~128 GB of RAM, consider Qwen 3.8 Flash + Freetoken. You'll only get half the tok/s as 27B but the quality is significantly higher than 27B - it beats it solidly in all compared benchmarks (for example, DeepSWE 1.1: 42,2% vs 58.7%).

Grok is a "discount model". It's cheaper than Claude Sonnet yet better than it. Doesn't compare to Fable or Opus, but then again, they're way more expensive models.

Note: I avoid using Grok - not just for the Musk factor, but because there are better options, e.g. GLM-5.3 and Qwen-3.8. Also, if you really want to save money, GLM-5.3 Flash and Qwen-3.8 Flash are amazingly good for their price range.

Among the many features that could improve Slashdot... You got me to try to figure out if it's a parody account or a sincere moron.

However with that many digits it must be a fresh identity. I think age should be one of the main features of that imaginary MEPR (Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation) system I used to daydream about. I still feel like there should be a measurable symmetry between reactions to comments and the reputation of the identity that wrote the comment, so that a history of reactions would clarify whether an identity is deliberately or accidentally being funny.

On the one hand I can't even figure out which dimensions of MEPR would assess "sanity", though it does seem clear to me that anyone who is still defending the YOB has at least one loose screw rattling around upstairs. Time to take a break from Claude games and see if any of the AIs know of a website with MEPR?

The angle I was looking for on this story was about the Chinese side, and yours was the "most significant" comment in that direction. (But the Chinese are not limited to batteries and electric cars for priority technologies...) Now about the funny side...

I'm expecting the #YOB to respond by signing a decree banning solar panels. Mostly because he hates California, but his official zero dark thirty excuse will be "Made in China". Or maybe a special economic emergency "justifying" a million percent tariff? (Xi will not be amused, which is likely to have repercussions in Iran and Taiwan, but who's looking forward these days?)

Joke of the week is still under development. Something in the chicken and egg genre. Did the sick YOB make America unwell? But how did the YOB ever become so YUGE, so Orange, and such a Buffoon? America's worst product and not suitable for export, even to such friendly places as Russia or North Korea or Epstein's island.

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Ed Zitron is a moron who has predicted the past nine out of zero AI crashes, who simultaneously gets paid to hate on AI while also getting paid to promote AI (DoNotPay).

The funny thing is that he openly acknowledges that inference is very profitable (~40% margins) for all parties - he just argues that you should count training. But that argument makes no sense, because if capital tightens across the AI industry, then everyone will cut back on training and scaleup, and... then what? Where's the implosion? Everyone is profitable then. You may lose certain players in competition against others (their as-mentioned profitable assets being gobbled up by others), but the industry remains healthy.

There are more dramatic types of possible contagion risk, but they all end up with *someone* holding onto the high-profit-generating inference assets, even if it's high-seniority investors, leaving the the low seniority investoors high and dry.

The enshittification of Cursor continues.

Maybe this will force them to support more open models.