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Kayou··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Why do all LLMs do a particle simulation when you ask them this prompt ? Qwen3.6, Qwen3.8 and Ling 3.0 Tiny all did the same thing !

I find Ling 3.0 tiny particularly interesting as it looks really nice for a tiny model with 7.9B total parameters, with only 1.3B parameters activated per token. Here is the result https://coolthing-ling-3-tiny.tiiny.site (sorry for the weird hosting, first I found that worked)

(it cost me almost 0 cents and done in 49 seconds)

Kayou··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
The dense 27b Qwen on M4 Pro has a prompt processing speed of around 125tok/s which makes it ok to ask a quick question but impossible to use in an agent, as processing the first prompt of the agent with the tools and instruction can easily be 10 000 tokens

In this case the 35b a3b makes sense as it has a PP speed of around 800tok/s

Kayou··on Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
I agree with OP that the name, while maybe not deliberately, is really confusing in 2026. I thought that was a wind turbines or a solar panel technology, definitely not gas.
Kayou··on Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs
Wait, the Q4 quantization which is more than 20GB fits in your 16GB GPU ? I didn't know that was possible, I was always restricting myself to smaller model than the VRAM I had
Kayou··on [dead]
If you're going to use a lib like pLimit to limit the concurrency of a map, just use pMap which accepts an argument to limit the concurrency and makes it more readable and straightforward

https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-map?tab=readme-ov-file#usa...

Kayou··on Unfortunate things about performance reviews (2021)
I have thrown people under the bus while under pressure from my manager to explain why reviewing a Pull Request takes me several hours or days while other members did it in a few minutes. It was the wrong thing to do but the pressure was unbearable.
Kayou··on The world’s first hydrogen trains started passenger service in Germany
Thanks for the article on energy storage with hydrogen to resolve peaks on the grid. Seems like a nice solution on paper, although ineficient according to this article citing someone from the MIT, round-trip efficiency of 18%-46%.

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

Kayou··on The world’s first hydrogen trains started passenger service in Germany
In that case what prevents us from building energy storage facilities that produce hydrogen at night and release the electricity back into the grid during the day? Wouldn't it be more efficient than transporting the hydrogen by truck and transporting the hydrogen battery on every train?
Kayou··on RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
Same on MacOS and Firefox with a 4K screen ans same on Firefox and a Pixel 6, scrolling lags hard on the section with pictures. Making a bad first impression of this new OS.
Kayou··on How does perspective work in pictures?
What lense do you have to take your picture ? You might want to zoom a bit to make it look like you see it, at least a 100mm equivalent I would say.
Kayou··on New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less confusing
Yeah, back in the day I would always be afraid to fry my device when plugging a 3rd party charger, because of the polarity or voltage. Now worst thing that can happen is... nothing. For me that's an improvement.
Kayou··on Self-driving Citroën Skate carries swappable pods for inner-city travel
Inner city Paris is limited to 30km/h, I don't think going 25 km/h would be a problem.
Kayou··on There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives
Sure enough for the power consumption of the modems, but I don't think the 5G networks are solar powered in Australia. Using multiple networks at the same time will use more power than using only one.
Kayou··on Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps
Yeah, and I think it really shows that WhatsApp, which wasn't developped by Facebook originally, doesn't benefits from the compression. The app seems very optimized originally, but maybe I'm wrong.
Kayou··on Trolls break into meetings on Zoom
Yes, and don't forget to shutdown Discord too! They will never be able to use another tool to organize these raids, this is genius. (this is sarcasm, of course)
Kayou··on Age of Empires 2 Scenario Editor Is Turing Complete
Why did you copy paste the first comment on the youtube page? Video is funny though, worth watching.
Kayou··on Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack
Are you sure it's not only a problem with Linux? No issue with my QC35 and macOS, Windows 10 and Android, always connects to my devices, albeit a little slow to connect sometimes.
Kayou··on Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive
But do you need sugar? Or you don't need either sugar nor carbs? It seems strange to me. EDIT: it seems that if you use only your fat, you'll end up producing too much Ketones which leads to Ketoacidosis. Doesn't sound good.
Kayou··on Worked for 52 Years, Still Running: 1912 C-T 4WD Electric Truck
Where I live (european country) people used to throw away things in a big dump and then it would be burned or something, but now you have to separate things. I don't have any evidence of it though. Maybe they were recycling it themselves for all this time!
Kayou··on Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive
Then they should come with an explanation as to why I want to throw up and can't do anything when doing sport with no insulin to use my carbs.
Kayou··on Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive
You still need to have carbs in your diet, it wouldn't be healthy otherwise. Especially if you practice a sport.

I eat whatever I want (mostly pasta usually) and I need 20 units a day at most. (100 units/ml dosage).

Kayou··on Worked for 52 Years, Still Running: 1912 C-T 4WD Electric Truck
What I meant was that back in the old days, people didn't bother as much to recycle things, so lead batteries ended up thrown away in the nature. Of course today we recycle a lot more, so it would be less of a problem.
Kayou··on Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive
Thanks for the apology, but you got me quite irritated with your first comment. It was like saying to a paraplegic in a wheelchair to man up and hit the gym because there is only so much you can do with a wheelchair... Dreadful.
Kayou··on Worked for 52 Years, Still Running: 1912 C-T 4WD Electric Truck
Honestly, if all car today and in the last 70 years had huge lead batteries, I don't think it would be a good thing. Battery recycling is a fair problem for today's electric cars and people at the time used to throw away anywhere what they didn't need any more, including their car batteries.
Kayou··on Show HN: 2D multiplayer battle royale game
It's a feature in your touchpad driver. You should be able to disable it. It's palm rejection to prevent you to move the mouse while typing text.
Kayou··on China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ and it seems to be working
I thought it was a central source of coal heating, but if it's in every home, it's probably too difficult to filter then.
Kayou··on China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ and it seems to be working
>Xian can experience heavy pollution in winter, with much of the city’s heating relying on coal.

Have they tried to filter directly the air at the source of pollution? For instance, placing filters on the coal heating facilities. It should be more efficient, as you wouldn't release as many particles in the air in the first place.

Kayou··on Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record
Yes, but isn't the Model 3 supposed to sell for around 35 to 40k $ when it reaches a bigger production? That was my comparison.
Kayou··on Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record
>For the Model 3, the only true competitors are the i3 and Chevy Bolt

More like the Chevy Bolt / Opel Ampera e, the i3 has very limited range while the Chevy/Opel offers between 300 and 500km of range thanks to its much bigger 60kWh battery. The BMW i3 only has a 33kWh battery in the newer version, previous one was even less than that... The Leaf 2018 goes in the right direction, but 40kWh is still no enough to do 3h+ road trips.

Also, you make a very good point by saying that the Chevy Bolt/Opel Ampera E is a much better choice (ignoring the design). Same pricing as the Model 3 but the range seems much better. Given the experience of Chevy, I think that they can reduce the price and mass produce the Bolt much faster than Tesla can do with the model 3.

Kayou··on Best CPUs for Workstations: 2017
Sure, but as you say yourself, the 8180 isn't the same budget at all, so I excluded it from your price comparison. Also, it's not a competitor to the 1950x. I guess in the end it all depends on what you need to do. Your need seems to be maximum performance, why go for the best "compromise" CPU and then criticize their choice? Clearly you should go for either of the 3 recommended CPU for performance. (which are also better for PCIe lanes and memory, but have a poor performance price ratio).
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