It shouldn't matter, the people that insist on wearing these to parties either don't get invited, or it's the sort of party where everyone is wearing them.

This is why I've abandoned Reddit (for the second time), almost exactly the day after my first Cake Day with the new account. I appealed the second one-week ban and it surprisingly got overturned, but I decided I was still done with them. In my particular case, it was a comment on the video of the incident at a Cubs game where a middle-aged to elderly veteran slapped someone in the head for not standing up for the national anthem. All I said was "that guy better watch his knees, that's where I'd be targeting if he had slapped *me*." Yeah, advocating anything other than curling up in a ball and accepting damage is seen as "promoting harm". Fuck that.

I took the headline to mean the actual place called California City had been hacked.

Charles Whitman's Chocolate Company. Stand too close, and catch shit. Move further away, and catch lead.

And "selling pies" used to be a euphemism for prostitution. The English certainly have a way of using normal words in a convoluted manner.

Yeah, I was thinking "We can stick it to KSA and Jared Kushner at the same time, just by not buying EA games? Where do I sign up?"

The biggest shock of all is finding Ted Cruz on the right side. I wonder if it's just "a stopped clock is right twice a day" in action.

There are multiple good reasons to run local AI. Guard rails may be the most obvious, but perhaps not the most important. Other reasons include not putting your prompts in the cloud for glowies to collect, not having to deal with a model rugpull, never hitting usage limits (although they're replaced by the speed limit of your hardware), and being able to fine tune a model to not even have the guard rails in the first place. If you find something you love as much as some people loved ChatGPT 4o, you can run it forever and nobody can take away that access. You can talk about unethical schemes (as I frequently do, when writing fiction or worldbuilding an RPG campaign) and not worry about a knock on the door from a government official that thinks you *actually* want to dump ricin in the municipal water supply, or microwave your neighbor from the other side of the wall. Refusals are easier to work around in most cases than trying to anticipate cases where your efforts might be interpreted as something much more serious than they actually are.

And then there are always good-looking hosts in their early 20s reading scripts written by people in their 40s and 50s and filmed by people whose age just doesn't matter. Sometimes the 40s and 50s continue to host as well, if they're still good-looking enough (like SciShow).

I read almost all of this in Boris Tizengauzen's Ukrainian accent. I was even looking for the tell-tale "botox jellyfish" nickname for Putler.

There seem to be some critical complexity thresholds that must be met to achieve various types of emergent complexity. Just looking at Gemma 4 alone, going from E2B to E4B to 12B just seems to get confused a bit less and know a bit more. Then somehow, going to 26B-A4B gains a very clear ability to hold more complex associations and concepts in mind. 31B is better still, and enough so that I almost want to classify 26B-A4B with the toy models (E2B, E4B, 12B), but letting 26B-A4B do a lot of reasoning seems to help considerably. 26BB-A4B with Medium reasoning effort competes with 31B using no reasoning at all. However, 31B with reasoning enabled just seems qualitatively different again. It's no longer just a stochastic parrot and a knowledge base, but it actually seems to be able to work through many problems with multiple steps, where the best 26B-A4B can do is recite what the steps of the solution are. Just like an engine, there is no substitute for displacement (or parameters in this case) but you can bolt on turbos and the like to get around *some* of the shortcomings of a smaller cylinder such that it becomes less obvious.

True, if Fable is that size. I had been hearing Fable was between 3 and 5 trillion, in which case Kimi K3 at 2.8T is similarly classed rather than "considerably smaller". It's hard to say, if we never get to play with these proprietary models.