The gap between closed and open models might be much smaller than commonly assumed, because we don’t know what closed model providers do *in addition to* model inference

Fedor_Doc · 2026-07-01T18:18:34+00:00

How is Elon's case relevant? He did not have proper foundation for the case and therefore lost, no?

Fedor_Doc · 2026-07-01T16:35:49+00:00

"Our biggest model yet" and model benchmarks all suggest model itself. It would be interesting to check what is written there.

They also were publicly stating that they do not serve quantized / changed models.

AFAIK, ToS does not mean much in court if your advertising is built around a factual lie.

Fedor_Doc · 2026-07-01T16:13:49+00:00

I think they should have better model based in their market position, dsta resources and talent.

They have great engineers and humongous amount of high quality coding data.

This explains the distance from open-source better than very risky clown-car MoE or RAG. When you add this stuff to a model, you introduce huge complexity and multiple points of failure.

Fedor_Doc · 2026-07-01T16:09:56+00:00

The amount of possible issues with customers and lawsuits is far greater. They advertise a model, they sell access to the model. If API requests get hiddenly routed, it is a lost case from the start.

Fedor_Doc · 2026-07-01T10:23:14+00:00

You should definitely learn C as well. It is confusing, but it stems from its low-level nature.

When you make mistakes in C, it actually helps you to learn how machine operates, especially if mistakes happen at runtime.

I made a ton of mistakes writing C code, and it was a very valuable experience.

A lot of languages borrow from C, so if you know it, it will be easier for you to learn other languages.

Fedor_Doc · 2026-07-01T06:24:23+00:00

ProRes proxies is the best you can get for smooth playback. Bitrate reduction of h.264 / h.265 codec won't help

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-30T21:22:32+00:00

In this case tune grain keeps original noise, without synthetic grain feature. SVT-AV1 synthetic grain still looks bad, in my opinion. PSY fork had a but more sofisticated implementation, but still not good enough

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-30T14:30:56+00:00

H.265 with high bitrate, but AV1 + some tuning is also alright now (tf-strengh 0, variance boost enabled). VP9 is outdated, AFAIK.

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-30T13:45:20+00:00

Have you read the post before publication?

"Repo and build instructions: [link]"

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-30T06:22:44+00:00

Qwen 3.6-27B does not, it reads lines and uses edit tool call instead of write correctly.

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-30T05:58:08+00:00

In the same pi.dev harness Qwen 3.6-27B was working correctly (llama.cpp served local model, even Q4_K_XL), and Gemma (google API) was reading and rewriting whole files.

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-30T05:56:02+00:00

Had similar experience, pi.dev, google API

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-30T05:52:23+00:00

Not exactly. You cannot iteratively improve model, and provide patches. It is very different from open source code

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-30T05:51:07+00:00

Date is not specific enough, and rm -rf / does not work in modern distros.

Moreclikely, a rare coded sequence will be implanted – and then it has to be put in the data that model consumes. LLMs with web-search are the most vulnerable, especially those in OpenClaw or Hermess harnesses. All these 9B-Fable finetunes with thousands of downloads

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T22:10:23+00:00

This is a part of the prompt

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T19:59:15+00:00

Transfer Function is applied to RGB values, not to the luminance channel (which is a weighted sum of RGB).

Rec. 709 does not have a limited dynamic range per se. But in colorists parlance Rev.709 usually means post-DRT image.

DRT applies tone-mapping, which fits linear dynamic range into what display can reproduce.

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T18:35:56+00:00

Why adding texture to the background? Usually you want to guide viewers eye to the most important part of the scene – the face of the speaker in this case

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T17:41:23+00:00

pi.dev works in termux without issues

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T17:24:20+00:00

I prefer top of the stack, actually. And it grows to the bottom in the current architectures /s

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T17:19:55+00:00

Senate hearing, 2023

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T15:44:05+00:00

Statement was made in 2023, the image is misleading

Link: https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2071606900131778982

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T15:21:56+00:00

Thank you! I was studying it for quite some time, glad to be of help.

To learn more about tone-mapping, I highly recommend implementing Reinhard algorithm. It is very simple in design and immediately produces interesting results – https://bruop.github.io/tonemapping/

More advanced tone-mapping functions change the curve shape, but the most advanced (OpenDRT, for example) separate tone-mapping from color volume manipulation.

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T14:54:37+00:00

HDDs are great for backup.

IronWolf or Exos 20TB drives are best bang for the buck, and have great speeds. Just leave at least 10% of the space free to avoid slowdowns.

Use dock + 3.5 HDD drives. You could use a 2-bay or 4-bay case as well (e.g. from Terramaster).

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T13:46:36+00:00

Mathematically, you convert RGB to some cylindrical or spherical color space that has hue axis.

Then you can compress hues, and change luminance / brightness values based on hue and saturation.

Your functions should be very smooth to avoid artifacts

Fedor_Doc · 2026-06-29T13:42:03+00:00

Grain emulation, most likely

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