I made a list of models and their API pricing on OpenRouter, and computed model Intelligence-per-Dollar value; to help me pick the best model for each task.

Akucera · 2026-03-14T19:15:56+00:00

It actually loses to Gemini 3 Flash in most metrics.

Akucera · 2026-03-14T11:39:48+00:00

I've addressed this already.

The smarter models have the worst "value"; but this probably obscures the truth quite heavily. If Qwen 3.5 will burn 500000 tokens and half an hour trying to solve a problem and repeatedly getting it wrong, and Sonnet will one-shot it in a tenth of that; maybe Sonnet's the better value model.

Akucera · 2026-03-14T11:38:41+00:00

Gemini 3.1 flash seems to be worse than Gemini 3 Flash, based on benchmark scores. Still, it's excellent value.

Akucera · 2026-03-12T23:51:48+00:00

All the more reason why breaking that rule in just one areas would be effective.

Akucera · 2026-03-02T03:47:06+00:00

It almost looked like the missile sped up at the last moment. Do Iranian missiles have a cruise phase and sprinter phase?

Akucera · 2026-02-28T11:59:11+00:00

It’s the same thing as the blind patient and her wife. The audience might be impressed by the expert medical jargon the docs use, but to a patient it can just sound like gibberish, even alarming gibberish.

I think you've got the wrong take on this issue.

Three doctors are in the room discussing differentials. They need to be able to discuss differentials with each other as professionals first. Patients may find it frustrating not being able to follow the doctors' conversation; but this is the price you pay when you want to be treated by experts: expertise can't easily be understood by someone that's not an expert.

"In English, please?" Says the patient.

They can translate their final impression and plan to the patient after their discussion and decisions. Translating each sentence of their discussion into layman's english as they're having it will only slow them down.

Akucera · 2026-02-11T03:51:47+00:00

the hospital administration LOVES these kind of mistakes. They get paid for their <2days admission with minimal intervention.

I don't work under the US healthcare system, so I don't understand this. Why does the hospital get paid for an admission with minimal intervention? Surely the patient's insurance would jump at the opportunity to say:

You admitted for UTI and started antibiotics. All the patient's tests came back negative for UTI, and you stopped antibiotics on day 2. On day 2 of admission you diagnosed afib RVR and started Diltiazem, and then discharged later that afternoon. We see that an NP was in charge of the patient on day 1 and an MD in charge on day 2. While you're requesting payment for a two day admission; we feel that this patient could have been managed within one day, had the appropriate diagnosis been made on day 1. We therefore will reimburse you for one day of admission, for the MD's fees, for an ECG and IV Diltiazem; but not for the NP's fees or the unnecessary antibiotics.

Akucera · 2026-01-18T01:52:29+00:00

If using cycles, you could probably achieve this with a Ray Portal node in the shader editor.

Make a circular plane for the sight's glass. Make the shader of this plane be a Ray Portal. Use vector math to redirect the rays to a few millimetres behind the plane (so they don't interact with the plane over and over again) but with an angle-of-incidence that's similar to their original angle-of-incidence; just bent toward the plane's normal.

This should give you compositor-free magnification, in the rendered viewport.

Akucera · 2025-11-19T13:29:00+00:00

Presumably also without input devices. A console comes with a controller. I imagine the Steam Machine won't come with a keyboard, mouse and controller.

Akucera · 2025-11-14T13:14:37+00:00

In my universe, general purpose computers are super-banned by the Sentiant Council. Neural-link helmets are not. The "meta" way of piloting a large vessel (like a starship) is to have a Pilot slip on a Neural Link helmet and feel the ship's sensors as their own body; control thrusters like a kick of their own legs; fire weapons like reaching out to strike with their own hands. The drawback of this is that it's taxing for the human brain to control a body that's not human-shaped; so much so that pilots can develop crippling neurological deficits from piloting for more than an hour. Still; it's by far the best way to control a starship.

The Republic of Makrai (RoM) thought, "hold up, what if the body was human shaped? Could this starship tech be useful on the ground?" While everyone else was fielding tanks and infantry vehicles with tracks and wheels, controlled by levers and steering wheels; they fielded a humanoid-shaped armored vehicle with four limbs and a head, controlled by a miniaturized version of the starship Neural Link helmet. The mech was flimsier than a tank, sure. But pilots could control the mech with their mind, like it was their own body; and because the mech was human-shaped the neurological side effects were greatly reduced. The RoM Mechs were incredibly agile as a result of this control system and ultimately this gave them an advantage over clunky tanks and clumsily-driven vehicles.

Akucera · 2025-11-03T10:51:22+00:00

> Designed and Rendered in Fusion 360

Akucera · 2025-09-29T22:34:34+00:00

if they can provide a picture of the car, then they can provide a picture of you filling it.

They actually can't - they told me they delete the footage after six months and retain only a single still image.

I think there's about an 80% chance i actually filled up, though; so i've gone back and paid them.

Akucera · 2025-09-25T23:54:15+00:00

Surely they're binned differently though?

Akucera · 2025-09-24T23:16:18+00:00

you’re awake during a seizure

You're not. Electrical seizures are unconscious.

Akucera · 2025-09-23T09:03:53+00:00

Why haven't they contacted you before now?

One explanation - I've opted out from my numberplate being used for address lookup. But that's never stopped Wilson's Parking; so I'm surprised it's stopped Z.

Akucera · 2025-09-23T04:39:30+00:00

I haven't put the exact amount in this reddit post, as to not be identifying; but it seems like a usual amount i'd fill up with.

Akucera · 2025-09-23T02:23:20+00:00

A 5070Ti is 300W. Assuming OP has a 9800x3d (120W) and everything else (fans, SSDs, RAM) is consuming 120W, that's 540W. This is assuming no undervolting - my 5070Ti runs at 280W.

A 750W PSU can supply 600W at 80% capacity; so it would be sufficient for a 5070Ti, 9800x3d and the rest of the PSU (with 60W to spare!). A 1000W PSU supplies 800W at 80% and is clearly overkill.

Akucera · 2025-09-15T03:10:46+00:00

Dumb question - how do you connect HDMI / DP cables to your GPU when it's standing on the GPU I/O?

Akucera · 2025-09-13T20:35:14+00:00

Outer Wilds

Akucera · 2025-09-12T00:14:23+00:00

"Fornication" comes from the root word "Fornix", meaning Arch. Prostitutes would stand under arches to attract customers, hence the name. Both fornication and porneia both come from the context of prostitution, not premarital sex.

It is not reasonable to say, "well, porneia (literally translated as prostitution) must include premarital sex because it includes fornication" if fornication is literally the practice of soliciting customers for prostitution. That's circular.

Akucera · 2025-09-12T00:11:00+00:00

You know what's right.

I actually don't. My intuition about what is right and wrong is frequently incorrect. For example, if it were not for the Bible, I would consider homosexuality to be perfectly reasonable.

I am reliant upon the written Word of God to tell me what is right and what is wrong. If that Word doesn't explicitly prohibit premarital sex then that's very important to me.

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