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InsideOutSanta··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Musk confirmed in federal court that xAI does it: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/elon-musk-testifies-that-x...

It's also how providers build their smaller models out of their larger ones; they publicly talk about the process.

InsideOutSanta··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
> seek advice from unsuccessful people

Intuitively, I would guess that they have a better grasp of what made them fail than successful people have of what made them succeed.

InsideOutSanta··on Three important steps in my maturation process
In your 20s and 30s, it's relatively easy to brute-force physical and mental health problems.

I didn't understand what the word "stress" even meant exactly until I got into my late 30s. Then I realized that I had been under extreme stress for most of my life but had not noticed it because I could just keep going despite constant exhaustion and borderline depression. Then, that suddenly stopped working.

I wish I'd realized this a decade or two earlier.

InsideOutSanta··on Death to the Self-Playing Game
Yeah, the article's premise is false. If Vampire Survivors plays itself, then how come I suck at it?
InsideOutSanta··on New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
AKA the good old times when it wasn't as culturally accepted to be openly evil if it made money.
InsideOutSanta··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
To be clear, I wasn't being facetious.
InsideOutSanta··on The Amazon tax
See also: ads for apps in app stores.

These companies effectively monopolize app distribution on their platforms and then make discovery so poor that developers who try to sell apps in their stores must pay for ads in those same stores.

InsideOutSanta··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Yeah, we don't need to "both sides" this. It's obvious which side had the bot army.
InsideOutSanta··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
I'm pretty sure tokens are priced to maximize revenue, not inference profit.
InsideOutSanta··on On AI regulation and messaging
That's actually an interesting question, and I don't think we have the data to answer it. But we do have the Steam data, and about 7% of Steam users have a GPU that can run it well at a 4-Bit quant (≥24 GB VRAM). About 30% can run a 3-bit quant - I'd say that's just barely usable (≥16 GB VRAM).

I'm not sure whether that's low or high, or how it compares to a general audience.

InsideOutSanta··on A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
He explains the difference here:

> I can pick up H417s on the official WCH store on Aliexpress with free shipping and no verification hullabalu.

I think the point is that anyone can make these chips, so there are Chinese sellers who just throw them in a padded envelope and send them out without bothering with all the stuff "serious" vendors do. And because they're cheap enough, if doesn't matter if some get lost in the mail.

InsideOutSanta··on The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
The Kensington SlimBlade scrolls when you rotate the trackball.
InsideOutSanta··on Qwen 3.8 27B
I don't care how good Grok is, it will be a cold day in hell when I give a guy who goes to AfD rallies, instrumentally supported the current Ebola outbreak, and gives the Hitler salute on stage (don't try to tell me he did not, I saw the video) any money I'm not absolutely forced to.

And yes, OpenAI and Anthropic are highly questionable, too, and so I've ended my OpenAI subscription and I'm moving from Claude to other providers. But even people who do not do that are absolutely justified in drawing a line at supporting Musk, because there's a difference between mere normal shittiess and Musk.

InsideOutSanta··on Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead
Do you actually know that he lied? From the article:

> Cambridge initially said claims of plagiarism regarding Arday's thesis and some journal publications had been investigated by Liverpool John Moores University (LMJU) and the journals in question.

> LJMU - which awarded Arday his PhD in 2015 - concluded that he had not plagiarised work.

It is absolutely undeniable that there has been a witch hunt against minorities in positions of power in the last few years. It is unclear to me whether this guy actually did anything wrong.

What is clear to me, though, is that the level of scrutiny and the attacks he received are not consistent with what most white men in similar situations received.

InsideOutSanta··on Introducing Toast 1
If you get big, the naming no longer matters. We made jokes about the Wii until everybody had one. But if you don't get big, and most people have no idea what they're looking at when they see your product for the first time, naming definitely matters.
InsideOutSanta··on Cursor is now a part of SpaceX
xXxSpaceXAIxX: Return of Xander Cage
InsideOutSanta··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
An LLM so nice, they named it twice.
InsideOutSanta··on Mistral OCR 4.1
Well, you get hundreds of billions in debt, and then you get open weight models distilling your proprietary models.
InsideOutSanta··on Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration
Well, it falsified my intuitive guess that more unauthorized immigration might decrease crime because there are more people who risk deportation if they are caught.
InsideOutSanta··on Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, too, but it seems to me that most people responding to you misunderstood your point.
InsideOutSanta··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
I don't think training people to burn out by 35 is a good plan for anyone involved.
InsideOutSanta··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
What if I told you that I saw you punch a baby?
InsideOutSanta··on More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts
The amount of money you can make with this only depends on how much money you already have.
InsideOutSanta··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
This is like claiming that Linux isn't open because you don't have a PC. Models can be open-weight even if you don't have the hardware to run them.
InsideOutSanta··on Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]
> It’s a not very well kept secret in the industry

I would rather say it's been a very well kept secret if it's true, which I highly doubt. It also makes absolutely no sense; so far, Anthropic has taken every opportunity they had to release good numbers. Why would they keep it secret if they were wildly profitable?

None of this makes any sense. The only thing that makes sense is that Anthropic isn't profitable at all, and is burning investor money to stay afloat. Else, why keep raising tens of billions and only release vague annualized numbers?

Genuinely, this makes no sense at all. If you want to convince people otherwise, you need more than just "oh, it's a secret, but we all know it."

InsideOutSanta··on Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]
> nobody in the corporate world is using Linux desktops

This is the wrong comparison. An LLM provider isn't like a desktop OS; it's like a server OS. And everybody is using Linux for their servers.

> And let me know when your parents start using the Chinese LLMs on their own.

That already happened. To be fair, they're Chinese.

InsideOutSanta··on Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”
> So we are just vibe patenting rubbish and rebranding it with AI?

"Patenting rubbish" is a description of pretty much all software patents since forever.

InsideOutSanta··on Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change
Yeah, same. I have the phone I actually want, and then I have the phone I need because otherwise I couldn't function in society. It's workable but sometimes unpleasant, because I don't bring two phones with me, so I just can't do some things others can.
InsideOutSanta··on Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change
Fair.
InsideOutSanta··on Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]
Anthropic has not released an official EBITDA figure.
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