<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: BoredomIsFun</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BoredomIsFun</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:13:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=BoredomIsFun" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BoredomIsFun in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>31B</p>
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<p>Not sure if GPT based LLMs are polynomial time.</p>
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<p>> It's impossible for finite number of LLMs to solve all theorems. This would imply that the busy beaver sequence is computable which implies the halting problem is decidable<p>LLMs use RNG for sampling, so they are not pure computers.</p>
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<p>exactly. Hindsight is 20/20.</p>
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<p>> t still have the same AI uniformity and smell as the crappy restaurant poster you see on the street<p>You have really try hard to see that. It is good enough to not give immediate annoyed reflex of seeing something in the same ubiquitous default chatgpt style.<p>For goodness sake - these are just a fair posters.</p>
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<p>ehhh....to be pedantic, LLMs, like any NNs derive power from _not_ being pure matrix multiplication - they are "halved" matrix algebra, due to ReLU</p>
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<p>> The models have not plateaued, and they are not even mildly close to any sort of ceiling.<p>Depends on defnition of "plateaued" and "ceiling". I am not impressed with 2026 consumer models at all.<p>> This is also compounding because the AI is accelerating the pace of research, testing, development, manufacturing, etc.<p>Yet it does accelerate - so is does Twitter. But does it to any substantial degree, esp. in AI theory? All the modern LLMs are the same old tired 2017 paper.</p>
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<p>It does not if you switch swapp off and use zram instead. I am typing right now on such a setup wityh 16 GiB ram and it occasionally, once a week or so, kills my firefox due to oom.<p>If you are you using disk swap - not sure why would if you have a SSD, but I once heard some justification for doing that - then install early OOM.</p>
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<p>Apple mnitors for whatever reason use ancient 450nm backlight, which strains my eyes like no tomorrow. All modern 5k and 6k use 455-460nm backlight. Otherwise, yes, APples are good.</p>
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<p>There is a plenty of Chinese lower quality 28 3:2s</p>
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<p>>  Built-in hardware calibration is non-negotiable for color critical work<p>No it is mostly a convenience gimmick. Support for external hardware calibration is important though. But far more important feature, implemented properly only by Eizo and no one else I am aware of - is uniformity compensation. Benq has it, so does Dell, but they all come with sever limitations compared to Eizo.</p>
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<p>> Could you explain how you define hallucination in the context of creativity<p>Mostly as you've mentioned, "lack of consistency", which manifests in variety of ways - presence of cellphones in historical settings (I'd call them "global inconsistency") and a character for whatever reason suddenly smoking a cigarette ("local inconsistency") I've never mentioned nor present in the context.</p>
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<p>You can "great learning experience" about the human nature from a good fiction book too. Classics have another function - being cultural landmarks, one can refer to in non-fictional contexts as well.</p>
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<p>LLMisms are almost universally results of using a narrow set of mainstream offerings from Anthropic and Openai. Even Muse Spark has style much less "sloppy" than Claude et al, let alone Chinese LLMs. I mean yes, they have their own tics, but if you don know them you won't even notice.</p>
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<p>I tried at it creative writing - and, with thinking off, it was considerably better than Mercury 2 and generally good in fact, not very sloppy. Now with thinking on, it got worse, began hallucinating things; this is something I've noticed with all recent models - enabling reasoning causes hallucinations in creative writing assignments.</p>
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<p>Netflix is just a single point. I'd never run current in production.</p>
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<p>You can generate images on 5060ti, it'd take less than minute per image. Trivial  environmental footprint.</p>
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<p>> Also, real businesses use -CURRENT, everybody knows that.<p>No, not really.</p>
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<p>> seen as the inhibitors of progress<p>I become the government institution, the inhibitor of progress.<p>What a load of delusion.</p>
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<p>> Mistral Small 4 is way worse than Gemma 4 26B A4B<p>Depends for what purpose? I found large Mistrals are massively better than Gemma 4 at creative writing: have more natural tone, better consistency than 26B as it is MoE.</p>
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