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.

Google's feature don't discourage people from using Reddit. Reddit's shitty UI keep me from using it. I WAS an OldReddit viewer but they did away with that option as well. News site like USA Today are such an ad laden crap fests that it is no wonder people use any option to NOT have to view it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Gurgle, they suck and we all know it, but they are a convenient scapegoat. I get 2 papers at my house, the local Yuma Sun which is like a High School paper, and the SF Chronicle. Reporting is not what it used to be, both are opinionated crap most of the time. The best stuff for facts is always AP.

Kimi K3 is 2.8 trillion parameters. "Considerably smaller" would mean something like GLM 5.2, which is 753 billion.

Shrimp is bugs. You can ease into the land shrimp from there.

if you can "see" walls and gaps by clicking then you can presumably navigate a cave even if your light source goes out

It still won't stop you from being eaten by a grue.

They're like "How dare you object to our literal enshittification of the product. We bought those laws fair and square!"

Just wait a bit and there will be a glut of smart phones available as everyone under the age of 16 gets booted of social media and the net in general.

wow the world you live in seems sooo um exciting

The people that made things got tired of the BS and moved on. The people that TALK about making things are going as strong as ever...

I've been at fark since Drew was begging for beer. It's a hole these days sadly echoing echoing echoing...

"They were one of the early zealot converts and, well, it didn't work out very well for them long term." ---------This very much

When are users going to learn that any data they only have one copy of, they're just one error (human or electronic) from having zero copies of?

Would you turn your laptop over to an intern and expect they'll never fuck it up? Because we're basically doing the same thing when we hand the keys to an Agent. The only reasonable move is to never operate on the only copy of anything, if you can possibly avoid it.

The "unaware" problem is largely because the target is actively trying to anticipate and dodge, and it takes a fraction of a second to track and recalculate... by which time the target has already moved again. First they had to figure out how to target and attack. They did this. Then they had to figure out how to dodge and anticipate incoming attacks. They did this. Human combatants would (with practice) learn to compensate for this as well, which is when it really helps to anticipate what evasive maneuvers the opponent has at their disposal. The robots are still figuring this part out. But humans have the same problem, both physics and the speed of information processing mean our movements will always be "behind the curve". We deal with it by guessing where the curve is pointing, and sometimes being wrong, because going for the apparent target will *always* be wrong unless you're fighting a fence post.

A 16 GB 6800XT is going for under $500 these days, if you're willing to cross the CUDA/ROCm divide.