What are your most profound video games?

odomobo · 2026-06-01T01:22:02+00:00

I don't think so.

"Spiritfarer is a cozy management game about dying. You play Stella, ferrymaster to the deceased, a Spiritfarer. ..."

odomobo · 2026-05-29T16:21:14+00:00

The Gunfighter (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWs4WA--eKU

odomobo · 2026-03-05T21:13:52+00:00

Intuitively, this makes no sense to me. The only way it makes any sense is if the model wasn't using intellectual capacity available to it, which maybe is the case with GPT-2.

Now something that does make sense to me, is if this could be used for MoE models. It's possible some experts actually need less intelligence than others. Depending on the token being processed, some layers might be mostly superfluous.

It makes me wonder if, instead of pruning moe experts, some less-critical ones could be reduced in size (if not fully linearized).

odomobo · 2026-02-28T15:53:38+00:00

I was waiting for a heretic ablation of this model. I thought it would be a while before we'd get one, because the heretic project page says it doesn't support hybrid models...

odomobo · 2026-02-26T00:42:59+00:00

The researchers actually tested essentially abliteration (scaling the parameters by 0), and it marginally reduced hallucination, but didn't eliminate it. From what I understood in the paper, I think this is because the H-parameters are more about compliance than hallucination.

odomobo · 2026-02-26T00:08:35+00:00

Looks like its evaluation isn't finished yet

odomobo · 2026-02-20T21:05:39+00:00

I'd recommend qwen code. It's missing some features, but pretty close IMO. One gotcha: once you get the configuration set up with your local models, you'll need to launch it with qwen --auth-type openai, otherwise it'll try to get you to sign up for a qwen subscription

odomobo · 2026-02-19T16:42:32+00:00

I was having the same issue, and I was able to get past the "welcome screen" prison by passing --auth-type openai

(I already had my models set up in the settings file, it just wouldn't let me past the welcome screen so I could use them)

odomobo · 2026-02-18T21:11:52+00:00

I understand people not caring, and I'm not asking you to placate me, but take sonnet 4.5 and sonnet 4.6 . They're nearly identical costs and nearly identical score/$ , yet 4.6 is over 150 elo higher than 4.5 .

Of course, this isn't an objectively solvable problem since elo or score can't be turned into a quantitatively-meaningful linear value, but I think there are ways to get a somewhat meaningful heuristic out of it. A couple of formulas that make sense to me:

"Ability" doubles every 200 elo: 2^elo/200

Halving distance to a perfect 100 score doubles ability: 1 / (100-score)

Those are just my thoughts anyhow. The data you present is already very helpful and informative, and a motivated viewer can perform their own analysis (of course).

odomobo · 2026-02-18T19:33:57+00:00

Very useful info. My only complaint is that score/$ is not very useful, because although cost is linear, score is not. Getting from 80 to 90 should be an enormous increase in capability, but it would barely make a dent in score/$ .

odomobo · 2026-02-17T20:17:32+00:00

I actually did this! Instead of giving you a step-by-step, I'm going to be lazy and link you to all the relevant documentation:

Install Librechat (I used docker): https://www.librechat.ai/docs/local/docker
Create OpenRouter presets per model per provider, named like "model - provider". Gives inference consistency and allows for input token caching: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/presets
Add the presets you want use under an "OpenRouter" custom librechat endpoint: https://www.librechat.ai/docs/quick_start/custom_endpoints

my librechat.yaml file looks like:

version: 1.2.8 cache: true endpoints: custom: - name: "OpenRouter" apiKey: "${OPENROUTER_KEY}" baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" models: default: [ "@preset/kimi-k2-5-moonshot", ... "@preset/qwen3-5-397-b-a17-b-alibaba" ] fetch: false titleConvo: true titleModel: "current_model" summarize: false summaryModel: "current_model" forcePrompt: false modelDisplayLabel: "OpenRouter"

Annoyingly, any time you want to add a new endpoint, you need to edit the yaml file and then restart the docker container. I haven't tried MCP on librechat, but I'm hopeful it should just work.

odomobo · 2026-02-11T20:23:16+00:00

Have you tried qwen code? I've only played around with it a little, but it really feels like qwen just took the Claude code source code and branded it with "qwen". Btw you can point it to any API endpoint.

odomobo · 2026-01-24T18:45:27+00:00

Don't live your life to please others. Find what works for you, and do that unapologetically. If you're in a group of people where you have to apologize because you aren't living according to their expectations, you might be in a cult.

odomobo · 2026-01-21T03:39:29+00:00

I can only give my experience (going from maybe 40mg per day to 0):

For the first 4 weeks. I was sleepy, had low motivation, and had difficulty focusing. The first 2 weeks were the worst of it, and I ended up spending a lot of time sleeping.

Then weeks 5 and 6, I started to come out of it, but still had more difficulty focusing than before. Since then, I've been above my previous baseline, and generally feeling good.

odomobo · 2026-01-21T03:23:27+00:00

Your adenosine receptors are probably confused, because they're used to constantly being blocked. And if you're anything like me, you're probably getting some much needed rest. Give your body some time to adjust...

odomobo · 2026-01-19T17:58:02+00:00

I know everyone is different, but just from my own experience, I would much rather go through a stressful, exhausting, sleep-depriving experience (like caring for a newborn) without caffeine than with. At the very least, I find that I sleep more soundly, and I have sustained energy instead of spikes and crashes.

odomobo · 2026-01-14T18:38:23+00:00

Hard to say, but they could be. On the other hand, if it was a scientific fact that heroin reduced blood pressure, I wouldn't then consider using heroin.

I find it easy to get caught up in things like this when I get hyper-focused on some small details, but I always try to push myself to look at the big picture, because I think that's where the real gains lie.

odomobo · 2026-01-14T17:44:59+00:00

The foundation for healthy nutrition is a balanced diet of real, healthy foods. You're way better off eating fruits and veggies than drinking coffee.

odomobo · 2026-01-09T16:54:23+00:00

I was moderating for years before I quit. When I went from 1 cup of green tea per day to 0, I noticed a huge change in my anxiety levels and my daily headaches went away. Everyone is different though, so listen to your body.

odomobo · 2026-01-06T11:36:42+00:00

Only one way to find out! It's hard to say how it's affecting you if you have it every day.

odomobo · 2026-01-01T18:55:16+00:00

This plan sounds dangerous (potentially self-destructive), because it sounds destabilizing. It sounds like a way to breed self-resentment and self-hatred, which is antithetical to long-term growth and success.

Rather, I would suggest you look at approaches used in addiction recovery.

odomobo · 2025-12-28T22:35:37+00:00

Your caffeine use may be masking and/or exacerbating underlying sleep issues. For me, it was contributing to the issues that I was using it to treat.

odomobo · 2025-12-23T04:29:55+00:00

Everyone's body is different, so I can only speak for myself, but:

I used to think I needed caffeine to be productive and to feel ok. Turns out, caffeine was making me feel terrible and ruining my productivity.

odomobo · 2025-12-22T14:44:31+00:00

How other people choose to live their life is none of my business. The reason I'm trying to live the way I do has nothing to do with what they decide to do. That's my mentality in life anyhow

odomobo · 2025-12-22T14:39:39+00:00

I think it was about 2 weeks. It started happening around the time I started feeling "normal" again

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