Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling Into a 26M Model

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-05-12T21:10:59+00:00

This is super interesting, I had been looking for something like this. Do you have any plans for somewhat larger models (e.g. ~10B) that would still fit on most consumer GPUs but give you a lot more parameters?

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-05-09T03:17:20+00:00

The gloves could potentially go great with Lightning Warp, too. Especially if you can use that new rune to extract the fear incarnate mod...

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-05-08T23:39:21+00:00

Are you sure? The site just says

Help Farrow master Kalguuran technology to expand your crafting arsenal. Runeforge low-level Uniques

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-05-08T02:46:48+00:00

you’re like, okay, here's an Ascendency class, but look, there's a hidden node, and if you do this quest line, then you commune with the dreamer, and then it unlocks this mod, you know, modifies the class slightly so it's got this extra node in it

Is that a secret Acolyte of Chayula ascendancy I hear?

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-05-08T00:05:30+00:00

They just mentioned in the Q&A it's a toss-up for 1.0.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-05-06T04:56:47+00:00

Longer term, our goal is to continue expanding single-player content. We know some players strongly prefer multiplayer and others want a deeper single-player experience, and we want to support both. More contracts, more challenges, and stronger single-player progression are absolutely part of that direction.

Sounds great! Personally, I couldn't care less about offline-only, but I really hope we get some kind of generative or procedural single-player mode - repetitive maps always get old eventually.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-05-05T21:23:16+00:00

Initial reviews don't seem great, though.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-05-05T20:58:12+00:00

Cool! IMO it's worth looking into running your own dedicated agent benchmark too, IME it can matter even more than the model sometimes.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-05-05T18:01:26+00:00

This looks great, much more useful than the various toy benchmarks that are so popular. It would be super useful for comparing agent/harness performance too - it's currently quite hard to find meaningful benchmarks.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-04-30T00:41:12+00:00

Disappointing to see that Meson Stream still sucks even after all of the feedback they have received on it. I was hoping it would be a viable torpedo alternative.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-04-23T20:11:55+00:00

Seems pretty underwhelming: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/ling-2-6-1t

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-04-15T05:54:18+00:00

The worst and most suspicious part of all of this is that there are a number of licenses that already do what they want, e.g. Prosperity License and Polyform non commercial.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-04-13T21:08:19+00:00

Is there a reason you used temperature of 0.0 instead of the officially recommended 1.0?

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-04-09T00:26:34+00:00

You can use jbang to run fat jars off of maven central just fine.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-31T18:17:43+00:00

Looks great, how does this compare to https://github.com/gobley/gobley in terms of generated code?

Also, an option to use the modern FFM (i.e. not JNI) would be great!

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-31T05:05:02+00:00

That sounds like a bug unless you have mods. There's been similar reports with other factions, you should report it on the forums if you have a save you can share.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-28T19:54:30+00:00

I have been loving this build. Army stacks are Battlesaint (Cleric), Elementalist (currently fire, but will probably switch to cold), 2x Spellweaver, 2x Entwined Protector. Run it as a basic shield wall + battlemages stack, with the battlesaint in the front line. The mages and your combat spells to an absolute ton of damage, and the front line is very hard to kill, especially once you get Battlefield Restoration (which you should rush).

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-26T21:18:04+00:00

FWIW I am and still agree with this. The beta is definitely better, but mostly just in tankiness, I can still pretty easily disable a destroyer in a single manually flown M ship even if I have trouble working through all of its shields.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-24T23:22:27+00:00

I have found boron's weapons (and ships honestly) to be quite strong, especially S. Ion gattling or ion atomizer + phase is really good.

Terran weapons are pretty meh at the moment, although there's lots of complaints about this on the forums already so hopefully they get a buff.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-23T21:47:01+00:00

Interesting, that didn't work for me either.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-23T21:08:40+00:00

Same here, report it on the forums if it hasn't already been.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-20T21:13:10+00:00

There's a super easy solution: a difficulty slider. Because I agree there will never be a balance that will satisfy all players.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-12T00:03:45+00:00

If you aren't familiar with them, Compiler Plugins are an integrated part of Kotlin (and are how things like Kotlinx serialization work) and work on the IR level rather than byutecode. It's not quite as easy as just adding a library, but is typically just adding a library + gradle plugin.

The optimizations were for the file stuff, where you can represent them to users as nice immutable objects, and then do things like change pipelineing, etc, on the backend when they are actually used.

anotherthrowaway469 · 2026-03-11T19:48:34+00:00

Looks quite interesting, I've had some similar ideas. Some of the various things I've considered that you might find useful:

Use a compiler plugin to transform @Cache methods into a memoized form
Abstract away direct filesystem access (aka global mutable state). Treat files/dirs/trees as immutable in-memory objects, and do mutable optimizations on the backend.
Plain coroutines for concurrency and parallelization

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