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Incentives to optimize cache-usage are only aligned between anthropic and you, dear user, when there is not enough compute available to serve the tokens fresh. Apparently enough compute is now available that frugal usage is no longer a requirement and user cost/profit maximization is now the name of the game. I would expect to see more and more "cache-busting" strategies implemented in order to both eek out marginal performance increases and to heavily increase profit.

Did you try the claude reasoning traces finetune for qwen3.6? I find that it works muuch better. I assume the same 3.8 finetune will be released at some pointas well.

Edit: link - https://huggingface.co/rico03/Qwen3.6-27B-Claude-Opus-Reason...

This kills the isolation.

You let the smarter model explore the traces and figure out where the current harness' bottlenecks are for the current LLM. Then you can adjust prompts or tools to fix those.

Exactly! I am not opposed to cloud-based models, but I do only stick to open-weight models because I know I can move my whole stack to local (given enough hardware) and continue development without any of the LLM interaction contracts being broken.

I would like to see some development where proof of authenticity certs are generated alongside the actual output of the model. Prove to me (or at least claim to me liable to breach of contract) that this output was generated by FP8 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813. Not some cheaper quantization of the model.

This would suggest they'd need to control for method by which the alzheimer's was discovered. A quick glance seems to indicate they did not do this. This is not information available I guess..

I would suspect this would eliminate a lot of the experiments participants, as only people who go for regular cognitive check-ups might be eligible?

I cannot imagine there would be many people left who'd be eligible. I can only think of 1 person that does it.. and he obviously does it for the pure satisfaction of acing those cognitive tests, and not because he is showing worrying amounts of decline in his mental faculties.

What if the AI has discovered some new function F that allows it to generate (insanely large) proofs for a ton of theorems in a ton of different fields. Wouldn't you like to know more about this `F`? That seems to be the real innovation in this case. How much about it could be gleaned from the individual proofs themselves? What if this `F` is actually simple enough to be digestible by humans?

It also explains the UK representatives for Eurovision in the last.. say 25 years (except Sam Rider in 2022). I've wondered if e.g. this year's very very naff send-in (Eins, Zwei, Drei (although, that was not an R)) was a deliberate attempt at an FU to the eurovision, or rather a genuine attempt that would speak to the populace. I'm leaning towards the latter now.

Thank you for the additional background! For me as a foreigner coming into the raffle culture, I have no such community associations with the raffles and consider the "naffness" rather more obnoxious. Once I found out that it basically was a staple at these social events, I would act British and leave early ;). That it is related to Church Fete makes the conversative party <-> lottery link all the less surprising!

Not surprising. Brits loooove lotteries. On every scale. My year abroad in the UK, in every social event I attended organized by a student society there would inevitably be left-over budget, which would be taken care of by.. a raffle. Some of these raffles could take 30 min (on an event that lasted ~3 hours). And people would be incredibly excited about it.. Really boggles my mind

Which I do (actually a fork of firefox - waterfox), but it is still worrying as the viability of chromium-base browsers is what's keeping us having "merely" a chromium-monoculture (with viable ad blockers e.g. and website operators that check compatibility with more than one browser), rather than a chrome-monoculture (where ad-blockers surely would have been killed by now).

Worrying. Extrapolating a (speculative) future, this means (Google will feel) that soon the chromium base will no longer need the crowd-sourced bug hunting that is open-source. I expect Google to eventually stop working on chromium (in the open) and all current chromium-flavours will become de-facto forks of the last published version of chromium. These forks won't be equally easy to maintain given that the groups running them do not have access to the same level of subsidy as Chrome does with Gemini.

You are confusing a lot of different lines of argument, and in the end I'm not even sure what you are arguing against. I think you are mostly agreeing with the proposed solution by echelon?

You mentioned AB1856 which seems waaaaay broader than emitting an age bracket header based on user settings. It puts the onus on the website operator to not only prevent presenting content to wrong age bracket users, but also to determine the age bracket of the user.

Websites are shutting down wholesale because they cannot reasonably afford the CYA, or dont want to out of principle.

In echelons scheme the parent would be voluntarily setting the age bracket on the childs device right, so if a 12 year old is more mature, then go ahead and set their device to emit the 13-16 age bracket header. If you as a parent dont believe in this, then leave the bracket unset.

For a website operator it would be trivial to block the user from accessing the site if the suggested age bracket is too low (as long as we can agree on a single way of doing things, of course). Larger operators can do more heavy content moderation and present a filtered view to those same age bracketed users.

It is true you are adding more tracking signals, and I am sensitive to the free speech issues, but children are not fully emancipated members of society yet and parents need tools to deal with the difficulties of raising children in a digital society. The alternative now seems to be OSA-like, which is even more intrusive and a risk to privacy and perhaps free society as a whole.

Of course, OSA is really the goal and not the method, and we have to remember it is never about the children. Would children have been protected from e.g. andrew mountbatten if OSA had been around at that time?

It reads like AB1856 needs website operators to prove they didnt serve their content to the wrong age bracket, which requires way heavier methods than simply trusting the emitted "user is child" header (or rather, trusting that the lack of such header is not a false negative)

Safe to assume I reject things on my first visit as well

Malicious compliance. You do not need a cookie to "store" the fact you have rejected them. They can simply assume you have rejected them from the lack of cookies. They can store a cookie once you (have gone out of your way to) accept them.

> Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner.

So lawmakers do know how to make legally binding preferences based on device settings? What a crazy innovation.. now if only parents were given these options to indicate their child is using a device.. we could do away with all this Online Safety Act nonsense...

Clearly, NOBUS can work at multiple levels. DJB previously posted about DES (besides it being weak enough): NSA wanted DES to "drive out competitors", to "reduce the field that NSA had to be concerned about".

Simply reducing the complexity of the standard to "pure ML-KEM" could already be considered enough "NOBUS" to be workable, such that the focus of attacks can be only on it (and bonus NOBUS if weaknesses are already known).

Sure, it's not completely free, but the hardware and implementation points seem relatively minor. Once CRQC exists the capacity will certainly not be unlimited, so there will surely still be use for encryption using ECC and "dragging it around" is not so bad.

How much relative to 70K is this 12L? Sorry, I am not Indian.

Indeed, a clear Freudian slip. The one where you say one thing, but you mean your mother.

I wasn't familiar with Unclothe, so I had to look it up..

Are you sure you did not mean Unsloth?

If an agent makes a tool call, the LLM provider will receive the full context again after the result of the tool call becomes available in order to decide the next move. Everything up to the point of the tool call being made will no longer change and could thus in theory be cached. If the agent makes a ton of tool calls, then for every tool call one should be hitting the cache an equal amount of times.

A new instruction by the user will be appended at the end if it done in the same conversation. Thus only has influence on the cacheability of the original agent prompt, but not of subsequent tool calls.

Left-handed people are often excluded from participating in MRI studies. To my personal dismay, as these studies often paid 25 euros per hour ~20 years ago, a significant sum for my student self that I could not partake in. It has however given me significant doubts about any strong lateralization claims...

Or if you've seen Ted Lasso

Nice! I also found this page very helpful:

https://www.nayuki.io/page/creating-a-qr-code-step-by-step

This is an interactive guide that will break down the process for your specific QR-code.

I meant the ones you see on those infotainment systems in museums that are super durable, but have terrible ergonomics. The show props those up way too much.

The TV Series Devs explores this concept as well. It is decently executed, but it is a bit too cringe for my liking (supposedly world-class "devs" working on those keyboards you often see in museums, the protagonist having a fibonacci-off to establish engineering creds). Anyway, might be fun!

A triple "It's not this... it's that"...

The relations are bi-directional. So you can change AAA -> BAB and BB -> BBB as well.

> Not mandatory and at your own risk IMO

In the basis we seem to agree. Note that I am not trying to discourage helmet wearing (nor for governments to do it), just arguing against making it mandatory or even officially advised (for healthy adults) to wear them. Actual cycling safety is in numbers, more than in individually taken measures. This is all discussed in way more depth on reddit btw [0].

> but as a simple thought exercise on your argument

I realize could have written the sentence you respond to better, I should have written "and [mandatory helmet wearing] reduces perceived safety", also I said "should" in the sentence preceding the one you quoted, but I should've said that the NL ones ARE against making helmets mandatory for exactly the reasons I specify (and that my opinion is that other rights' organizations SHOULD be against it). Quoted directly from tbe website of the, quite well-regarded and not off their rocker, Fietsersbond [1] (under the header "Veilig gevoel?", translated by kagi):

    The Fietsersbond (Cyclists' Union) isn't against wearing a bike helmet. If you feel confident, you cycle more safely. It can be wise to wear a helmet in high-risk situations, for example, for seniors on e-bikes. Unfortunately, it has been proven multiple times that forcing people to wear a helmet actually backfires. People start cycling less.
    A helmet mandate makes cycling feel more like a dangerous activity—something you should be afraid of. Getting around by bike also becomes more complicated. After all, what do you do with that helmet when you're not wearing it? And what happens if you forget the helmet or if it gets stolen? These are all factors—whether justified or not—that make choosing a bike less convenient.

So yes, given that you got into an accident, it is very obviously better if you had worn a helmet (and knee, elbow and wrist pads). However, we don't want only to reduce mortality rates on accidents, we actually want to reduce the amount of accidents wholesale. The above point (and the point in my previous post) is that given mandatory or officially encouraged helmet wearing, you are more likely to get into an accident in the first place, further reducing the number of people willing to cycle, and thus safety for all those who still are willing.

I wanted to react to your car/seatbelt point, but I realize now you are the same person arguing about what constitutes starting points in the sibling thread. I don't mean to spread FUD and I also disagree that this is indeed FUD. I'm sorry that Austria is not as nice a place for cyclists as you would like it to be. I hope with this oil crisis you will find a way to foment some change re the emancipation of cyclists in your locality or even country.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/ut5fcx/why_is_thi...

[1] https://www.fietsersbond.nl/helmplicht/