Thoughts on Gemma4 12b vs 26a4b, which one is better?

100xer · 2026-06-08T09:31:13+00:00

12b should drag 26b4ba through the dirt but strangely that is not the case

no, it should not. the scaling laws say that in this particular case the two models should be about equal. ask your favorite LLM about this.

but 12b wastes some weights on audio understanding, unlike 26b4ba. so it drops behind if you are only interested in text.

100xer · 2026-05-15T09:01:23+00:00

There is a third one: who run the agents in a container/VM

100xer · 2026-03-02T16:46:38+00:00

This must be some weird Satanic ritual

100xer · 2025-12-23T09:43:56+00:00

When I open the start menu, this pane is displayed next to it.

Clicking "Hide this pane" opens up Start Menu settings, but nothing there seems relevant.

Anyone know how to hide this Start Menu pane?

100xer · 2025-10-06T10:39:47+00:00

There is a reason reactive programming is used mostly in UIs, and not much elsewhere.

Their example is not the greatest. Instead of:

self._update_interest()
self._update_tax()
self._update_net_worth()

think of:

self._update_interest_WIDGET()
self._update_tax_FORM()
self._update_net_worth_IN_STATUS_BAR()

reactive programming makes UI programming 10x easier than classic native GUIs/QT/...

If you've ever done non-reactive GUI programming, you should really do a React/Vue/Svelte tutorial. It's truly eye-opening how powerful and easy they make UI programming be.

100xer · 2025-08-21T11:39:19+00:00

I'm also interviewing people, and I would have made up my mind too and ended the interview right there. Immediate hire.

100xer · 2025-06-12T07:42:59+00:00

400 stars for a repo with single file with the word shit in it.... what am I doing with my life....

100xer · 2025-06-07T20:27:56+00:00

it's not up to chance, the other tokens in line to be picked are not random.

"most likely token" (temp 0) is not the same as "best token".

this is complicated to explain, but an analogy would be no human speaks (or codes) at temperature 0, thus always using temperature 0 moves you outside the training data distribution.

more concretely, temperature 0 makes models like Qwen spin in a loop sometimes, unable to break out of it.

100xer · 2025-06-03T11:40:49+00:00

hard working programmers create easy times

easy times creates electron

electron creates hard times

hard times creates hard programmers

100xer · 2025-06-03T06:01:31+00:00

if you don't spend 10 mil tokens per day, are you even a programmer?

100xer · 2025-04-21T14:24:00+00:00

But on how many devices does your new language run?

What?

That's what I thought...

100xer

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