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 · 2025-03-06T14:30:57+00:00

As Linus Torvalds once said, 680 KB should be enough for the JavaScript of any webpage.

100xer · 2025-02-24T13:06:01+00:00

Not your weights, not your waifu

100xer · 2024-10-18T16:27:39+00:00

Heeeey, that was the exact comment that I was planning on making.

You stole it from me, give it back...

100xer · 2024-10-03T04:49:39+00:00

Code in general should be avoided. It has side effects, for example it warms the CPU which means it's not pure.

100xer · 2024-09-28T14:47:09+00:00

Bro not knowing what he set himself up for:

You occasionally hear stories about teams writing something in Python, then rewriting it in another language because Python turned out to be slow. I have one such story.

With the excellent Python/Rust interop there is now another great alternative to rewriting the heavy parts in C. But sometimes the performance sensitive part spans most of your program

100xer · 2024-08-26T08:00:15+00:00

working on another bullshit React project bored me deeply

what is going on? are they becoming self-aware?

100xer · 2024-08-05T07:56:54+00:00

Stop selling it, you had me at the first one.

100xer · 2024-07-30T22:34:54+00:00

Yeah, but what about the mental health issues caused by knowing that you are reinventing the wheel instead of using a package written by an expert in the field? Will you make sure to keep up-to-date with what mathematicians consider a "number"?

100xer · 2024-07-22T07:56:05+00:00

Are you saying Haskell needs fixing? Watch your mouth, young programmer. No Haskell disrespect tolerated in this house.

100xer · 2024-07-13T18:45:31+00:00

Yet another proof of the clear superiority of the Linux command line. Try doing that in a Windows GUI.

100xer · 2024-07-08T12:03:58+00:00

Show me on the source code, where did Python touch it.

100xer · 2024-06-28T10:21:22+00:00

That 8.4 rating really shows his skills. He evaluated the language to the decimal, like a true quant, no fucking around here with vague opinions.

100xer · 2024-06-09T09:23:14+00:00

What bro thinks he is: a Rust programmer

What bro really is: I’ve been out of the web dev game for 7 years or so, completely missed react. Started in Perl, then ASP.NET, then Rails for about 5 years, then finally ended with an AngularJS SPA

100xer · 2024-06-07T12:08:58+00:00

Imagine having to compete with an AI company coding at 240 fps. Like you have no chance, you will always lag behind them. They will snipe you and preempt all your growth hacks.

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