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eugene3306on AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

Okay, AI now can write a poem or compose a song.

But can an AI construct Terminal Bench 5.0 or GDPval 2027 ?

Without this, there is just no path towards RSI.

eugene3306on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

easy! google "archwiki dd" scroll to 2.2

eugene3306on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

will it run on 2x 5060Ti with 16GB each?

eugene3306on Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

Do they train on their own data?

I mean, when Meta's engineer is creating some new DINOv4 or Segment Anything, with all the scaffolding around it, do they train on that?

eugene3306on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS

I tried to use Tailwind in a hobby project couple years ago. I havn't updated my CSS skills since 2010 or 2015 -- I certainly missed grid layout and some other new features.

Quickly, I realized Tailwind is documented on top on CSS, no way around. This makes you keep in mind both.

No idea why is Tailwind even a thing.

eugene3306on Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase

What harness do they use for testing?

Back in 2025 it was common to test models in a different harnesses.

I remember watching a guy on youtube, who was testing every new model in opencode, cline, codex, claude, etc.

Why did it come out of fashion ?

EDIT: ah, yeah. the point was that a harness would often affect results (task completion rate, I think) for more than 10%

eugene3306on GPT-5.6

note that ARC-AGI-3 has its rules changed.

before today all the contestants were capped at $10k

eugene3306on Muse Spark 1.1

> Model API is not available in your region.

Well, Vietnam is not in the list of restricted territories.

Anyway, what is "your region" ?

Is this where I am now, or is it where I activated my Oculus 2 five years ago ?

eugene3306on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

This billing cycle I was billed $20 three times.

I contacted my bank and got a reply (from a human) that all three payments are valid.

Emails from Anthropic state that the first two payments failed, but the third went through. Fin says that my question will be elevated to a human being, but so far I was not contacted.

eugene3306on All elementary functions from a single binary operator

This makes a good benchmark LLMs:

``` look at this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21852

now please produce 2x+y as a composition on EMLs ```

Opus(paid) - claimed that "2" is circular. Once I told it that ChatGPT have already done this, finished successfully.

ChatGPT(free) - did it from the first try.

Grok - produced estimation of the depth of the formula.

Gemini - success

Deepseek - Assumed some pre-existing knowledge on what EML is. Unable to fetch the pdf from the link, unable to consume pdf from "Attach file"

Kimi - produced long output, stopped and asked to upgrade

GLM - looks ok

eugene3306on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

spatial or not, arc-agi is the only test that correlates to my impression with my coding requests

eugene3306on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

why don't they publish at ARC-AGI ? too expensive?

eugene3306on Asterisk AI Voice Agent

I've created Asterisk Codex Skill, but turns out there is ten seconds timeout for scripts

eugene3306on A compact camera built using an optical mouse

Just in case the author is here: what's the FPS?

eugene3306on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

Too late. Browser-use local LLMs are already a thing

eugene3306on Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place

I think the proper way of estimating the cost is the cost of entire run of a test. Like in aider's leaderboard.

eugene3306on Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place

what's point of comparing token prices? especially for thinking models.

Just now I was testing the new Qwen3-thinking model. I've run the same prompt five times. The costs I got, sorted: 0.0143, 0.0288, 0.0321, 0.0389, 0.048 . And this is for single model.

Also, in my experience, sonnet-4 is cheaper than gemini-2.5-pro, despite token costs being higher.

eugene3306on U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams

Fizen

eugene3306on U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams

I use crypto often. I am Russian, I left Russia when Putin started the war. For me, it is quite hard to open a bank account. So I use crypto. I work remotely for a Singaporian company. Now I'm in Vietnam, I can pay for my groceries with crypto using QR code. I can cash USDT crypto with a rate better than paper bills.

I have two bank accounts in Kazakhstan. Both card credentials were stolen after I used a popular hotel booking website, which, by the words of reddit, shares my card details with hotels. Some money was stolen. Seems like 3D-security only affects my payments, and theifs have a freedom to choose a website without 3D. Now I have to keep that cards always locked. Unlocking them for a short moments, when I need to make a card payment. Like booking an hotel, or buying an airline ticket.

eugene3306on Freeaim VR Shoes

lol. That is too complex for the purpose of long-range movement in VR. Just make a controller with a control patterns of electric unicycle, or maybe "hoverboard".

eugene3306on Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

Is this material safe to handle?

It feels like this thing soon will start appearing all over ebay and aliexpress

eugene3306on Zenbleed

and how about playstation 5 ?

and also xbox and that thing from valve?

eugene3306on VPN use is at an all-time high – but are people safe?

Another example. Happened to me today. I was unable to pay online for a bus ticket until I set up VPN out of Cambodia to SG. I tried two cards by two different banks on three different ticketing sites. Without VPN all my payment attempts were rejected.

eugene3306on Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

None of above probably. Just buy a laptop which is known not to deviate from reference designs (from intel)

eugene3306on 700M users and Premium

Also, it shows proper dates and times for messages. Not that stupid «1 day ago»

eugene3306on USB Cheat Sheet

just curious. Can USB3 work without D+ and D- ?

eugene3306on Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half

but how will it affect ML applications?

eugene3306on Is the preprocessor still needed in C++? (2017)

> How can we replace nested comments?

you may use multiline string literals

eugene3306on The Russian vaccine for Covid-19

There are two vaccines on the final stages of development in Russia. One from Gamaleya center (Moscow), another from «VECTOR» facility (Novosibirsk). From my (layman's) point of view, Gamalaeya's vaccine is somewhat hurried in development. Also, Gamaleya is known for its lobbying power. In the past, it approved and popularized a number of controversial drugs like Kagocel and a few of «-feron» drugs. VECTOR's vaccine, on other hand, looks more trustworthy.