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AWTom··on Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
There is some research on layer duplication on existing pre-trained models. This paper also references layer skipping: https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.967.pdf
AWTom··on Data centers trigger voter backlash
The cost argument is wrong. Compare Gemini 2.5 Pro to Gemma 4 31B.

Released only 10 months later, a tiny open-weights model outperforms what was once SOTA. Fable and 5.6 Sol will be outperformed by laptop-class models next year.

AWTom··on DisplayMate
I’ve always used lagom.nl/lcd-test/
AWTom··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
> Cloudflare will not let you run an image heavy site on its own

Cloudflare R2 object storage is S3-compatible, offers free egress, and does not share their CDN product's fair use policy against image-heavy use. Storage is 65% the per-GB cost of S3.

AWTom··on FLUX.1 Kontext
Thanks for sharing, this was a great read.