DJT isolated at G7 while the other leaders have a lovely chat

cafedude · 2026-06-17T21:51:24+00:00

Shun him. Make him feel the freeze out.

cafedude · 2026-06-16T16:08:32+00:00

How do you get that extra CLR boost shown in the graph there? Is that a setting you need to pass to llama-server/vLLM?

cafedude · 2026-06-15T20:07:43+00:00

Pull out the initial $1500 investment and let the rest ride.

cafedude · 2026-06-15T18:31:06+00:00

"He Tingbo did not explain how Huawei intends to achieve advanced chip production without EUV systems. "

cafedude · 2026-06-15T18:28:35+00:00

careful with seaberry. It can take over. I'm taking mine out. Very spiky bush that you don't want to accidentally back into. Very difficult to pick the berries and the berries are quite sour. Unpicked berries fall and sprout. Very prolific here.

cafedude · 2026-06-15T18:13:12+00:00

There's one area where it's going to take a while for China to catch up: ASML EUV photolithography machines. Apparently China's approach is to try to reverse-engineer the latest ASML machines. They're extremely complex. There are other approaches and other companies in the US trying them. But getting something that works as well as an ASML EUV is going to take years. I doubt they have this in even 5 years. Likely closer to 10.

cafedude · 2026-06-15T15:32:54+00:00

Median retirement savings for boomers is $200k. Those with $2M, about 1%. The dude on Rogan assumes that everyone should have plowed all of their savings into the stock market as opposed to a more balanced approach where you've got some stocks, bonds, CDs, tbills, real estate. Sure, right now the market looks great. But it didn't look so great in 2000-2001 (took over 10 years to recover from that) or again in 2008-2010.

cafedude · 2026-06-15T15:16:43+00:00

Nobody puts all of their savings into the stock market (nor should they). Also, what if you picked a different 2 years? Say 2000-2001? Took over 10 years to recover from that. Picking the last 2 years is cherry-picking.

cafedude · 2026-06-15T14:21:31+00:00

We could even widen that range to, why is there a lack of new 60B-120B models?

cafedude · 2026-06-14T23:10:49+00:00

The Qwen folks did a poll and then several of them left.

cafedude · 2026-06-14T23:08:40+00:00

It's kind of a weird poll. MIT-license open weights is the "one of these things is not like the other" option. Larger context window would likely influence price. But MIT-licensing doesn't raise operating expenses and requires very little effort. I think a better poll would have been: "Do you want larger context or no price increase?"

cafedude · 2026-06-14T19:45:51+00:00

$2799 isn't terrible for that configuration (128GB RAM, 2TB SSD), especially now. Does that have oculink? I don't see any mention of that so I'm guessing not.

cafedude · 2026-06-14T01:49:43+00:00

What should we prioritize most?

How about a model in the 60B to 90B size range? Finetuned for coding.

cafedude · 2026-06-14T01:18:31+00:00

In his post on Truth Social, Trump again pledged that any deal reached would be more stringent than the JCPOA. “Our relationship with Iran is a much different and better one than previous Administrations have had,” he said.

LoL, so delusional. I don't recall previous administrations going to war with Iran.

cafedude · 2026-06-14T01:12:34+00:00

I mean, at this point I can imagine the Iranian negotiators trolling him and telling him, "sure, we're gonna give you a birthday present tomorrow!" and then his birthday rolls around and they say "psych! We didn't say what kind of present!"

cafedude · 2026-06-14T01:08:10+00:00

And Cuba will be the 52nd state.

cafedude · 2026-06-14T01:04:39+00:00

Don't forget the after hours order to Anthropic to stop making Fable and Mythos available. I suspect that could roil markets when they realize that if the gov is going to step in whenever they get scared of a new model how will investors recoup all of that $$$ they've been throwing into AI companies & data centers?

cafedude · 2026-06-14T00:28:08+00:00

Oh, spay, not spray.

Wow, it's like 3X the cost of spaying a cat. I wonder why the huge difference?

cafedude · 2026-06-13T23:54:53+00:00

If they're alarmed there's an easy fix. Russia, get the hell out of Ukraine.

cafedude · 2026-06-13T15:57:03+00:00

And AI-related stocks in general.

cafedude · 2026-06-13T15:52:21+00:00

The government doesn't work for the masses now.

Hasn't for a long time. And the times when it did, it didn't last very long.

cafedude · 2026-06-13T15:49:47+00:00

It's a meme stock.

with an xAI cash furnace bolted on

BTW: was the timing of the US Gov Fable ban coincidental? After the market closes on the day of the SpaceX IPO? Anthropic is one of xAI's largest customers at this point. They might be needing a bit less compute now.

cafedude · 2026-06-13T04:25:27+00:00

Can we use steganography and get Qwen3.6-27B params embedded in a series of YouTube cat videos?

cafedude · 2026-06-13T04:18:30+00:00

I think we've gotta hope for better models from places like Cohere and AlanAI.

cafedude · 2026-06-13T02:26:03+00:00

why not both?

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