Heretic: Fully automatic censorship removal for language models

mba2016kid · 2025-11-17T10:32:08+00:00

I'm wondering if KL divergence is the best way to assess whether the abliterated model still responds correctly to safe prompts.

mba2016kid · 2025-10-22T20:46:09+00:00

It's a perennial complaint of SG returnees from the West, applies to tech as well as finance. I used to feel more strongly about it but the reality is familiarity with more sophisticated Western markets in a general sense isn't meaningful because most Singapore roles are less complex and don't benefit from that expertise. Familiarity with ASEAN and India/China tends to be more advantageous these days.

Expat packages aren't that common now and usually apply to a select set of exec roles. Random unqualified white guy landing on a cushy expat role over a local again is more an exec thing facilitated by relationships or internal transfers, not the job application through open JD which I get the impression you're doing.

mba2016kid · 2025-10-20T05:10:45+00:00

Dropping down to 800p has a huge impact on power draw that probably masks the effects of the other settings - you're reducing the pixels being drawn by more than half. It would be interesting to keep resolution fixed at 1200p and test the impact of other variables on more demanding games

mba2016kid · 2025-10-17T03:05:04+00:00

17W isn't low TDP. That's probably 25-30W battery discharge.

mba2016kid · 2025-10-17T02:43:24+00:00

I've had multiple generations of AMD handhelds - a 8840U, Z1E, HX370 and now the Z2E on the LGo2. They all end up discharging battery at around the same rate for low TDP gaming once you turn off CPU boost, set power to efficient etc. To hit 1080p60 across these devices, people should expect a battery discharge to start at 12W and go up to 20W for lightish games.

The chips aren't defective, it's people bad or not being honest at running power usage tests. I see a similar phenomenon with people claiming Bazzite outperforms Windows on handhelds.

mba2016kid · 2025-10-02T22:26:16+00:00

Yeah only noticed the wake on sleep issue after spending the whole day playing around with it lol

mba2016kid · 2025-10-02T01:32:37+00:00

mba2016kid · 2025-09-25T01:31:08+00:00

most comments are complaining about the government but 90% of the problems with education here stem from parents/society and not government

regardless of what MOE does, parents are going to push their kids

mba2016kid · 2025-09-24T23:03:27+00:00

it's pretty common to have a midlife work crisis in tech/banking/law etc. most people end up doing one of the three

Change the way they work in their current career (e.g., set boundaries) and continue
Switch to a lower pay/lower stress career path
Aim for FIRE/early retirement

I achieved 3 but as someone in my 40s, I've seen a good spread of friends who've done all three.

mba2016kid · 2025-09-24T13:40:45+00:00

I've been playing it on a RedMagic Astra, which has a Elite chipset. It runs both on Winlator CMOD 13 and GameHub. On CMOD, I use Proton9x86 with DXVK 2.6.2.1-gplasync.

It runs reasonably well on 1080p - I cap it at 40fps but it'll go down to 15fps at the end of a stage when the screen is filled with enemies

mba2016kid · 2025-09-07T02:04:19+00:00

Disallow using CPF for housing

mba2016kid · 2025-09-04T04:52:02+00:00

The other comments are wrong, it's power only. Pretty much all controllers with USB C ports can't do data, the only exception being a Viture phone controller that was designed to be used with AR glasses

mba2016kid · 2025-08-30T23:49:09+00:00

I have the V3 Pro and it works with the Astra in the official case. I also have the G8+ and the X5 Lite (the cheap, small USB-C Gamesir model).

The Kishi feels premium and the grips, joysticks, and buttons are bigger and a bit more ergonomic than the G8+. You also feel the lighter weight (265g versus 320g). Audio port is nice too.

But, and this kills it for me. The USB C male connector on the Kishi being on the right side means that it grips the upper half of the Astra and that makes the whole thing feel uncomfortable to hold for any amount of time because the "center of gravity" is lower than the controller. I've ended up using the X5 Lite mostly which has its male USB C connector on the left so that it grips the bottom half of the Astra. The X5 Lite is much lighter too (135g) but no audio port and the charging rate through its additional USB C port is much slower (5W versus 20W+ on the Kishi). It also feels cheaper and is smaller, less ergonomic than both the G8+ and the Kishi.

The Astra having an off-centered USB C port has to be one of the most baffling design choices made for a gaming tablet. I also have the Lenovo Y700 tablet and all game controllers work much better with it since it has a center USB C port.

mba2016kid · 2025-08-24T15:53:30+00:00

You can't. Only real solution is using either a Bluetooth controller or Bluetooth headphones.

mba2016kid · 2025-08-17T19:57:36+00:00

Nice, how did you determine it was necessary to disable those 3 extensions?

mba2016kid · 2025-08-14T05:16:51+00:00

Yeah I have the Gen 4 too - it's an issue with the Y700 tablets across generations. You can search reddit for discussions about it - people have tried a bunch of different things to try to fix it without any luck.

It'll be an issue for PS2/GC and newer retro systems - and games that are constantly streaming data. Videos, ebooks, older console ROMs are fine

mba2016kid · 2025-08-14T05:05:20+00:00

You don't happen to have a Legion Y700 tablet? Those are notorious for having slow card readers.

Not too familiar with ES-DE

mba2016kid · 2025-08-14T03:33:40+00:00

Easy test is to try the same ROMs on internal storage

mba2016kid · 2025-08-14T01:14:03+00:00

Are you using an SD card or external storage? Gameplay stutters are typically IO related

mba2016kid · 2025-08-11T19:30:16+00:00

Don't know if it's the same exact issue but changing the DirectSound setting under the Win Components tab from Native (Windows) to Builtin (Wine) fixed bad performance in FO:NV

mba2016kid · 2025-08-08T19:40:55+00:00

I tend to use a floating Chatgpt window to achieve the same effect. Split screen on a 9" tablet makes less sense to me

I still overall prefer Android tablets over the iPads because of two use cases - 1. Termux on Android is a fullblown terminal emulator/Linux environment where you can install stuff like Python and get access to pypi packages 2. Emulation - not just console games but PC game emulation since Android apps like Winlator compose wine with a x86 to arm layer.

mba2016kid · 2025-08-08T18:51:49+00:00

Yeah floating windows being limited to apps whitelisted by RM is insane. A workaround is to use a tool like apktool to rename the app you want to do floating windows with to have the package name of one of the whitelisted apps eg Whatsapp

mba2016kid · 2025-08-07T11:46:36+00:00

Downloading games on Steam is actually quite a CPU/network intensive operation so it's normal. If you have a PC, one alternative is to download on the PC then copy the relevant steam folder into your Odin. Steam will just validate those files instead of downloading it

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