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Ciphon Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

It runs locally, but will weights be available?

Maybe LoRa? Doesn't get more sovereign than that. As long you have people to connect with, that is.

Ciphon Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

There's two huge aspects of management that gets diluted when it's compared to "managing" an LLM: - labor laws. You need to know those in the country where the employee has their contract, because this will restrict what you can (and must) do in your managerial role - Empathy. Managing humans is extremely messy and requires a ton of EQ to do well (parents have first-hand experience of this).

So, i.e: comparing being a manager to real humans vs instructing a next-token generator dilutes the skill of being a good manager and leader.

Ciphon Grok 4.5

I'm genuinely curious about your view on this. Ziphu AI release pretty capable open weights models. As long as we don't feed information that is confidential or become overy reliant on the tech that's on someone else's computer - what are the other riaks that you see in using Chinese models?

Ciphon Arena AI Model ELO History

Thank you for your answer. I have a similar question as OP, but in regards of the GPT models in MS copilot. My experience is that the response quality is much better when calling the API directly or through the webUI.

I know this might be a question that's impossible for you to answer, but if you can shed any light to this matter, I'd be grateful as I am doing an analysis over what AI solutions that can be suitable for my organisation.

Ciphon Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB

Doesn't fstore have a filter for that?

Ciphon Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

Marp is pretty neat for markdown presentations, not too complicated and has useful (and pretty!) output.

https://marp.app/

Ciphon Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

Another annoyance is how the sync between the editor and preview pane "jumps" uncontrollably when using mermaid. I do however love it too and comitted to use it over other note-taking software.

Ciphon Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

I love mermaid, but I'm also very annoyed by the variety of how its implemented in different markdown editors. One thing that I find quite annoying is the lack of fontawesome support - afaik only the live mermaid editor and hack.md supports it out of the box. Other editors require a lot of .conf file editing.

Thanks for the tip of nomnoml, didn't know about it.

Ciphon Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

They are quite similar, PlantUML has support for more types of diagrams than mermaid (such as network diagram), but IMO PlantUML is "messier" to write, I find Mermaid more elegant in writing diagrams.

Ciphon The UX on this small child is terrible

Doesn't matter if you use BeOS or roll your own Linux distro - the hardware isn't mature enough for distributions that supports sleep states.

Good news is, you might be lucky and get decent hardware setup with a functional sleep-module from start. If it does not, get a comfortable couch.

(And congrats to the addition! Best of luck and PM me if you need someone to listen to your parental suffering or joys).

Ciphon 1977: Zork

I used to be a cat-like dual wielding rapier knight with totem-skills, had a lot of fun with my old guild until the RP requirements were dropped. Still z thank you and the rest of the gang fort giving me so much fun and be able to meet so many nice people. I'm sure my character (Shearr) is still gathering dust somewhere :-)