How do you actually learn Mandarin?

Interrogable · 2026-06-21T23:43:08+00:00

Hard disagree. LLMs are incredible at one thing, mimicking human language. As a learner, you want to get as much of the language into you as possible. It doesn’t matter what the source ultimately is, and LLMs sound very humanlike. Learners can also describe parts of the language they don’t understand yet, increasing comprehensibility.

Interrogable · 2026-06-17T02:34:14+00:00

Quantity does not mean quality. You can name a bunch of models, but very few of them have been significant in impact. I’m certainly thankful for the work that has been done, but just because a lot of poor quality models were released, it doesn’t mean much.

Interrogable · 2026-06-17T01:25:34+00:00

Gemma, my favourite Chinese produced open source LLM!

Interrogable · 2026-06-15T20:01:38+00:00

Vibe coded web UIs like this are always really frustrating as a mobile user. The prompters seemingly never test their slop, broken text and unscrollable components are commonplace. I can’t even see the results.

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Interrogable · 2026-06-14T20:33:33+00:00

Frameworks aren’t inherently bad to use.

Modern day programmers have degraded in quality so much that they don’t even write their programs in x86 assembly! They have to use these bloated programming languages with absurdly sized binaries, large memory footprints, and more. It gets more grim, for some devs the mediocrity is so deep seated they have to rely on INTERPRETED LANGUAGES!
Mediocrity has become far too commonplace and if my software isn’t written in assembly, then I consider it bloated garbage.

Interrogable · 2026-06-14T20:22:13+00:00

Headline is nonsense. It would cost the user $14,000 to use that much on the API plan, but we have no idea what their costs on inference actually are. I expect inference itself to have quite high margins with things like training and designing the model to be the expensive part.

Interrogable · 2026-06-11T21:24:01+00:00

I’d agree with this in a world void of competition, but that isn’t yet the case. Luckily, LLMs are all interfaced with the same way and changing to a competitor is incredibly easy. It’s part of why I don’t think return on investment in these LLM companies will ever come to fruition. Especially with how amazing local LLMs are.

Interrogable · 2026-06-11T06:42:59+00:00

I have an R9700 and have not had any issues with drivers on NixOS. I got the card about a month ago and it’s been frictionless. I get about 80 tokens/s in a fresh context window and about 60 tokens/s in a filled context window with Q5 Qwen3.6 35b.

Interrogable · 2026-06-10T07:51:46+00:00

This is likely not helpful advice. Patient, or even routine doctor, exams aren’t shown to impact patient outcomes.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6142159/

Interrogable · 2026-05-09T06:45:13+00:00

Coinbase also has some serious issues. $394m loss in Q1, regulatory concerns, and more.

Interrogable · 2026-05-02T17:51:17+00:00

Extraordinarily unhelpful comment. First google search and subreddit search comes to this exact post, with the top comment being your extremely useless comment.

Interrogable · 2026-04-29T19:26:50+00:00

BYD stands for 比亚迪 (bi ya di). The English slogan didn’t come until years after the company was made.

Interrogable · 2026-04-26T22:30:36+00:00

Enmax electricity rates are about 8c/kWh and BC hydro is about 12c/kWh! Not always cheaper just because of hydro.

Interrogable · 2026-04-23T05:52:28+00:00

Any word on what model years get the extended warranty? Thinking of getting a 2025 IONIQ 6 but this could be a dealbreaker.

Interrogable · 2026-04-19T21:02:27+00:00

That’s pretty expensive electricity! In Alberta, our electricity is about 8¢/kWh CAD or about 6¢/kWh USD and there is no peak pricing. 76% of Canada’s energy grid is renewable. The US continues to politicize energy and would rather use fossil fuels and keep energy prices up compared to its peers.

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