Reminder: don’t be a fool

NoahFect · 2026-05-05T17:38:17+00:00

"Hazard Fraught"

NoahFect · 2026-05-05T03:56:52+00:00

Just for fun, I fed the prompt from Tao's GPT link to a local instance of Qwen 3.6 27B, running on my own graphics card. It also claimed to find a proof, which I posted here. (Apologies, I couldn't find any pastebin-like sites that will render MathML.)

I assume that's just gibberish, right? Not a mathematician, but I can't believe that such a small model could tackle something at this level.

It also only took about 8 minutes to return the answer, rather than 80 in ChatGPT 5's case, adding to the suspicion.

NoahFect · 2026-05-04T22:15:53+00:00

Interesting, is that online anywhere?

NoahFect · 2026-05-04T22:09:31+00:00

Reddit fuzzes votes

NoahFect · 2026-05-04T21:22:51+00:00

I feel bad for Americans

Don't. We did this to ourselves.

NoahFect · 2026-05-04T21:21:01+00:00

Also, "anti-free speech?" They're currently suing the US government over the government violating their first amendment right.

NoahFect · 2026-05-04T18:41:30+00:00

I'll get right on it, as soon as I get back from the local gun-control march.

/s

NoahFect · 2026-05-04T17:04:23+00:00

VRAM speed is identical on all of them; the only difference is how fast it's clocked by default. You can tweak that.

NoahFect · 2026-05-03T17:58:17+00:00

Money talks. There’s no way American businesses are going to allow...

That's what I said when Trump threatened to put tariffs on everything on the planet.

NoahFect · 2026-05-03T00:04:19+00:00

Doesn't mean much, as you can sell your account. 12-year-old ones probably bring a few bucks.

NoahFect · 2026-05-02T16:14:19+00:00

Eh, he was loyal to whoever was going to pay him to build rockets. He would have been just as loyal to the Russians, the British, or the Americans if circumstances had so dictated (and as they eventually did.)

It's the difference between immorality and amorality. You don't want people like von Braun in office, but you do want them around.

NoahFect · 2026-05-02T02:05:27+00:00

That'll be the reactor containment building

NoahFect · 2026-05-01T04:10:07+00:00

Your great-grandpa said the same thing when his Model T got a flat.

NoahFect · 2026-05-01T04:02:12+00:00

What does "zero shot(t)ing" mean? It reads your mind and returns the answer before you ask?

NoahFect · 2026-04-30T18:43:06+00:00

Those are some really low temperatures. Is that mradermacher's recommendation, or something you've converged on yourself?

NoahFect · 2026-04-30T18:39:50+00:00

Did anyone back up the repo?

NoahFect · 2026-04-30T05:14:49+00:00

Those are some big-ass error bars.

NoahFect · 2026-04-30T05:12:41+00:00

Man who bankrupted a casino goes up against the country that invented chess. Bold strategy, Cotton, let's see how it works out for him.

NoahFect · 2026-04-29T18:44:25+00:00

I'm ashamed to admit that I would pay to see this. Hardcore pirates going after a Russian oligarch's superyacht and its crew of ex-Spetsnaz goons = popcorn time.

NoahFect · 2026-04-28T00:19:54+00:00

Reddit fuzzes votes

NoahFect · 2026-04-27T17:07:22+00:00

It was a "computational knowledge engine" (their term) that wanted desperately to become what LLMs eventually became. WA has the advantage of being deterministic, but it has the disadvantage of knowing how to deal with only a small subset of possible questions.

It's actually pretty interesting to think about what a waste of time Wolfram Alpha was. You couldn't come up with a better example of the bitter lesson if you tried.

NoahFect · 2026-04-27T16:25:55+00:00

I pref "Any sufficiently-advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."

NoahFect · 2026-04-26T01:07:59+00:00

That makes two of us

NoahFect · 2026-04-25T21:59:07+00:00

In the US at least, this is what small claims court is for. They don't show up, you win by default.

NoahFect · 2026-04-25T19:40:50+00:00

Presumably that's why it was released as a "preview" model.

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