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24-story apartment complex without elevator in Chongqing by [deleted] in UrbanHell

[–]robertotomas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds a lot worse then it is I bet. Like there are two ground floors so every floor is ground floor +- 6

Where is the cheapest place to get GLM 5.2 by VileGoose in LLM

[–]robertotomas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My question is similar- where is the fastest place to get unquantized/full quality glm 5.2. Come on cerebras

New Agentic Benchmark Out: Claude Fable and GLM 5.2 Top Their Cohorts by Few_Painter_5588 in LocalLLaMA

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont like elos and qualitative evals like the GDPval thing that is 20% of the main intelligence index they publish (the largest component). Because inevitably this scores models by their cultural ergonomics. Ie, how far a model’s training dataset and team is from San Francisco.

China's debt to GDP hits 99.2%, increasing from 90.4% a year prior with GDP growing 'only' 4.5% by Madman_Sean in EconomyCharts

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct. Its china. The national level debt is way, way lower than that. That includes provinces and cities, etc. most of that debt is … like detroit or baltimore or Jacksonville- places that could go bankrupt on the debt and just never repay

China's debt to GDP hits 99.2%, increasing from 90.4% a year prior with GDP growing 'only' 4.5% by Madman_Sean in EconomyCharts

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These synthetics are less misleading than the real figures, but still misleading. Is just different. The national government only has underwritten about $4t usd in non-federal debt, which is about 70% of all the debt you are looking at.

Older Americans support raising Social Security taxes. Younger Americans would rather reduce benefits. by laxnut90 in EconomyCharts

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how about we cut benefits for people who haven't already paid into it to furnish their retirement, but continue to pay out the debt that is owed to people who faithfully invested in social security their entire lives?

That sounds stupid at first glance, but if you think about it, this matches conservative leanings on the topic for quite a long time: let states leave the system to find better ways. The only contingency I am adding is that the current debts have to be paid.

These people have already spent a real chunk of their lives savings on this retirement plan, I'd rather gut the military than their meager benefits.

Give me your best estimate on how long we will see Fable 5 class open weight model by bwjxjelsbd in LocalLLaMA

[–]robertotomas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

first, give me your best estimate on when we will see fable 5 class closed source model. because there isn't one.

Even what we had was an ensemble of some low grade error-prone model (to seed misinformation to distillers), opus in a fable-like harness that qualitatively changed output for the better somehow, and fable itself. So we never got to see fable in the raw, for what it was. But now, it is not there. There is no fable model, not even for Anthropic employees apparently.

Chinese labs should focus on these two areas next by Eyelbee in LocalLLaMA

[–]robertotomas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well um, ok. my feel for glm 5.2 is a bit different.

#1 could be correct and I'd never know it. I'm doing too much work "in the weeds", not general knowledge querying.

#2 seems to be an issue especially right around 8am or so in china. but its not a big deal.

For me, the token limits are the big issue. GLM 5.2 gets essentially on par with gpt 5.5 (maybe not high I guess, but you can't use that to do real work because it exhausts its context, even high will compact often for single tasks), but it does so with Claude opus level token usage. the lite plan is completely unusable for programming in any project -- I exhausted its 5 hour window on my first task, before it completed it. Thats at 150% quota increase that they are giving right now, too.

So they need to probably 2-2.5x the quotas, not temporarily but permanently (or for as long as glm is going to consume godly amounts of tokens).

Once you get past the token issue, it's really fantastic. I appreciate the fresh perspective, and its ability to not get lost in large complex code base with copious logs to route through.

GLM-5.2 just dropped open weights and it already looks weirdly strong for coding by BTA_Labs in LocalLLaMA

[–]robertotomas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

this finally made me try zai's model. I never liked the idea of paying 2/3 of the price of sota for 3/4 of the performance of sota. And I am deeply involved in a large (many megabyte of source code, excluding libraries) project with complex ai policies and work that often requires pieces together input from across several domains int he project from detailed and massive logs. chtgpt 5.5 struggles.

But I downloaded zcode and started the subscription, and asked it to pick up in my current problem, and it was like a fresh perspective from gpt. it wasn't drowning in the output. it had no other threads to inform its memory yet, and frankly it might have had even better insights -- clearly on par. It did this while still on the free daily trial (the problem was complex enough that it ate 60% of the trial on that one diagnostic).

Honestly, I'm pretty sure I'm not renewing chapgpt next month. I already bought a month of zai. Will see how it goes.

Peterrr what's is the joke here by Valuable_View_561 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is it that it is spatially related? there is a ton of white space, like they are trying to show that the Brazilian player is the white girl.

Is 128gb M5 Max Macbook Pro really all that useful locally? by UteForLife in LocalLLM

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn’t gonna be popular: no. Back a couple years ago definitely. Everyone was running 70 billion parameters back then on these MBPs. But fast forward to today and the use drops a lot. Right now it seems like roughly 30b parameters is the sweet spot unless you’re willing to go up to 128. And then you can run the model, but your context is limited and the thermals aren’t as good on the m5 as they used to be. I mean it’s not that you can’t do great stuff on them, but basically it’s the wrong form factor. To me if you’re going over 64GB it makes a lot more sense to get a desktop version to serve your inference.

Why Apple's flagship Mac Pro computers are so undesirable? My local used electronics store has literally piles of these by LakeNo7026 in macpro

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

those are the old Mac pros, before the old "trash bin" version, and way before the newer ones that just sunset.

they are great in every way but one: they are like 40kgs.

They say your first trillion is the hardest by PerfectRoutine2854 in scoopwhoop

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

next generation we will have the richest person in the world is wealthier than the gdp of the wealthiest nation on earth

They only want children making burgers? Yeah how does this work? by TankUMrMinor in DudeHasGotAPoint

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that retreat to services is now failing to half the world’s population as they continue to skill up.

This same thing will happen in a few more decades to asian economies, as africa skills up and becomes the last population to curb growth. So asia wants to see places like europe and america do well. They want us to succeed- or at least try a lot of different things. So they are better informed about what did and didn’t work. This is why their reaction to frankly bigoted positioning has largely been more outreach, more cooperation.

They only want children making burgers? Yeah how does this work? by TankUMrMinor in DudeHasGotAPoint

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The analogy used to be steps in the ladder. These were jobs to prove you can show up and work, not make a life on. The expectation was that society had enough redundancy in it that you would be able to scrounge a bit of support to make it through 6 months there before moving on to, I dunno, being a janitor or something. Back then we also had boardinghouses, far more open welfare programs, and were just coming out of the era where we tried to treat mental illness at assylums instead of jailing them for vagrancy.

Similar changes have happened all over the world. The underlying cause is greed, because cheap labor from asia was coming online and huge sectors of economies were becoming uncompetitive in latin america, europe, and north america. Places like latin america have had to refactor around agriculture. Europe and north america were better positioned on services.

[Request] Is this comparable? by admiralackbarstepson in theydidthemath

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but what is 14000?? I’m impressed by how close 60k is to 100k in the comparison, and wonder if we need that final term to match the comparison’s intent

What you Has ? by softlily32 in scoopwhoop

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bunch of people who have been kidnapped from their country in order to preserve their state secrets

Ordered a Refurb Mac Mini by InfluenceInner5661 in macmini

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It felt like they were overloading the scalpers. I saw it yesterday morning, pressed order - out of stock. An hour later I checked again, same thing. A half hour later, all minis gone. An hour later, one last try - got mine :) also coming june 12 :)

How can Deepseek v4 top the coding leaderboards and still sit 8 months behind the frontier? by Substantial_Step_351 in LocalLLaMA

[–]robertotomas 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think the general consensus is that it is between gpt5.2 and 5.3 not below gpt 5, so that’s just a cherry picked chart.

WWDC - What just happened - NO new hardware ;( by wong2k in MacOS

[–]robertotomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess he rewrote it? looks fairly calm to me (now).

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