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pertymcpert··on Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
It's pretty painful to have speeds < 30 tok/sec though. Especially if you're used to API providers at higher speeds. It makes any interactive work almost impossible to do efficiently because you have no choice but to context switch after every request.
pertymcpert··on Codex Security
If you didn't already know, jobs at highly competitive companies tend to have vague job requirements because they expect to be able to apply your raw intelligence to changing demands quickly. There's no point being hyper-specific about the exact software packages because that's not what they want. What they want is someone who, after talking to an interviewer for 30 minutes, leaves them with the thought "Wow, this person can do anything we need of them. They can probably tell us what we need too and take ownership of large projects. Hire!"
pertymcpert··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
Well put, great article.
pertymcpert··on A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
Yeah this Tao guy is just your average scrub. You would be able to tell the difference, right richard_chase?
pertymcpert··on A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
I think you’re just speculating.
pertymcpert··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
The training costs are well below the profits for each model.
pertymcpert··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Yeah, they're lying. The model didn't do any of that, right?
pertymcpert··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
No one cares about wrinkles anymore. Come on let's be real.
pertymcpert··on Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
Problem with that is that if the agent starts to browse the contents of the repo, it may read both AGENTS and CLAUDE.md.
pertymcpert··on CarPlay Is Additive
What do you want the regulators to do to Apple in this case? What have they done wrong?
pertymcpert··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
I dont necessarily disagree with you on your other points, but the population argument sort of shows a lack of understanding of how China works. It’s not guaranteed at all that they will ever overtake the US.
pertymcpert··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
Why would they allow Mythos but not Fable? Fable is the one with more guardrails.
pertymcpert··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Yeah but one is supported by science and the other isn't. It's nothing to do with internet access. The fact is that computers/ipads in classrooms are negative regardless of whether they're connected to the internet.
pertymcpert··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Yes, there's also a push to ban all computers in classrooms because data is showing that it's of no benefit and if anything is a negative effect on education.
pertymcpert··on Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)
Evidence?
pertymcpert··on I hate compilers
If Clang generated non-deterministic output due to pointer addresses then that's a bug (happens regularly) that should be fixed. The most common way this happens if it some code path is iterating over a DenseMap which is non-deterministic. Sometimes that's fine and sometimes that's not depending on how that map is used. The common way to fix that is to switch to a MapVector which pays some additional runtime/memory cost to guarantee deterministic iteration order.
pertymcpert··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
I read their post in the way they intended. Regardless of whether they can, the fact that they fail to cover all the bases makes the legislation almost useless.
pertymcpert··on Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
Football really doesn't have control over politicians. There are only 20 premier league teams and most of them aren't very influential, only a few big clubs. In terms of scale they are dwarfed by the financial services industry in the UK. Arm for example could buy all of the premier league teams (with their own equity, not cash on hand).
pertymcpert··on US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
Most of the cost of batteries is in labor? So why not outsource them out of China where labor is quite expensive vs developing countries?
pertymcpert··on US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
Small steps taken many times gets you far. At some point the scaling will kick in and ramp up even more.
pertymcpert··on Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
Because?
pertymcpert··on Expanding Project Glasswing
> Thats a really deep thought for a 12 year old.

This was completely unnecessary. I understand why you say it, you like to make people feel bad. But it was being an asshole, regardless of how you try to justify it.

I'll invite to you our ethical sociopaths group if you want to join.

pertymcpert··on Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
From a biomechanics point of view, I think there is a point where it becomes a disadvantage.
pertymcpert··on Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
I really have to disagree with you there. Football's damage to society, which I no doubt does exist, much less than the damage due to class divide and capitalism as a whole.

Football in England is sometimes demonized by the media, but specifically footballers. Footballers have historically been the punching bag of the low brow media. "Rio Ferdinand on 150k a week does something bad". "Wayne Rooney caught in latest scandal, 200k a week ace in shambles" etc etc. They love to mention how much they earn, but they never talk about how football is one of the very remaining professions which are purely meritocratic. The few professions where talent is enough and offers social mobility. Most footballers are working class and yet they're blamed, and football is blamed too.

But what's so bad about something that brings people together to bond over a game? Hooligan violence isn't really a thing anymore. Gambling is a separate issue. It's not football's fault that people like to gamble. The politicians could make it illegal.

pertymcpert··on Expanding Project Glasswing
No they're right. Regardless if one agrees with you or not, doesn't change the fact that your behavior was that of an asshole. I would know since I'm one too.
pertymcpert··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
Agreed. Nothing wrong with charging for a product.
pertymcpert··on Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
Even in public?
pertymcpert··on Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
$400 a month is a lot to you?
pertymcpert··on Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
> Mozilla found and fixed 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 while testing Mythos Preview—over ten times more than they found in Firefox 148 with Claude Opus 4.6

4.6 but close.

pertymcpert··on Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
Universities...for a data center?
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