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New comment by aetherspawn in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

aetherspawn — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:33:34 +0000

Can’t wait for the day Altman goes to run payroll or whatever and there just isn’t enough liquidity there, full stop.

That will be the start of the world healing from a very severe psychosis and ailment, slop leaving the internet, and the future being certain and stable again for kids and such.

It’s optimistic I know.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

aetherspawn — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:12:07 +0000

For me, Powershop day rate was only 32 cents or so, which made it cheaper overall. We have solar but we use the induction a lot in the evening, so not having a separate higher “on peak” pricing helped us save.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive"

aetherspawn — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:10:08 +0000

I’ve bought Minecraft like 5 times in my lifetime at this point if you could the multiple times I bought the OG version and lost access, then Microsoft accounts, then console versions… probably spent $150 buying Minecraft over and over

New comment by aetherspawn in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

aetherspawn — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:57:11 +0000

I’m with Powershop currently, but it was a hard toss-up between Powershop and Ovo. Sorry you’re right, it’s not “free” with Powershop (4.99 cents per kWhr), but it’s cheap enough that it’s basically free compared to the cost of living and what we were spending before.

New comment by aetherspawn in "The Definition of Done"

aetherspawn — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:05:44 +0000

The biggest trap is thinking something has to be perfect to be done. Imperfect or untested things can also be done. Call them AS-IS if you need to label it.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity"

aetherspawn — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:04:17 +0000

We already get free power between 0am and 6am, so with free power between 11am and 2pm we’ll have a whopping 9 hours of free power to charge our car and heat our water storage.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

aetherspawn — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:41:12 +0000

If you lend without expecting repayment, it’s charity. Here he encourages people to lend money to people who cannot pay them back (ie to poor people to clear their debt) and he will personally pay you back. Luke 14:12-14, Matt 25:34-46; the latter explains someone’s obligation to help someone in dire need.

The law against charging interest was under Moses’ law so it was abolished along with the rest when Jesus died. Useful principles added, covering not interest specifically, but condemning greed (which is foundational to late stage capitalism…); 1 Tim 6:10, Matt 6:24

New comment by aetherspawn in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

aetherspawn — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:43:22 +0000

It’s not like people don’t know the references, they just don’t want to engage in a public argument with you.

Old Testament: Lev 18:22, Gen 19:1-7, Judges 19:22-23, Jude 7:7

New Testament: 1 Cor 6:9, Romans 1:26-27

And your accusation about Hypocrisy in eating pork etc:

Laws of Moses superseded: Gal 3:23-25, Romans 10:4, Col 2:14, Col 2:16-17, Romans 6:14-15

by New Testament principles: Acts 15:28,29 and Acts 10:9-16

New comment by aetherspawn in "Cloudflare Drop"

aetherspawn — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:22:30 +0000

Hey stranger, welcome to 2026. It’s somewhat different to what you’re used to in 2035. We do things differently here.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

aetherspawn — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:49:36 +0000

This stuff is a nightmare for new manufacturers and is usually lobbied-for by large OEMs or to keep startups out of the market or as a patent trap

The most recent regulatory disaster that blew up a bunch of startups was mandatory lane keep assist for trucks in overseas western markets, which meant all new startups needed fancy steering racks which are very much not off-the-shelf, and it virtually tripled the cost of the software stack too

New comment by aetherspawn in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

aetherspawn — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:10:27 +0000

I don’t think this is true. All the models prior to Fable were honestly dumb as rocks, and Fable is too sometimes, but at least it’s helpful now and not a hindrance.

The future of AI most definitely involves making something twice as good as Fable that is virtually its own employee, and not on reducing inference costs because to be honest Fable isn't actually that expensive.

The real utility behind an AI model (imagining that it can be made twice as good as it is now) would be being able to scale a small business up and down instantly without hiring (to implement a new feature or whatever), which is costly and time consuming these days.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)"

aetherspawn — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:58:15 +0000

Can the 30 second embedding time be done beforehand and sent to the browser?

Inference is nice and quick after that.

New comment by aetherspawn in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

aetherspawn — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:32:23 +0000

Is it as good as Fable..? Fable is the first model that mostly writes without the AI slop format for me, and so I can comfortably actually copy and paste most of what it spits out.

OpenAI models have always been the worst in my experience for verbose, slop formatted responses, with each generation increasing in sloppiness.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)"

aetherspawn — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:19:05 +0000

Just because something doesn’t perceive to be lightweight doesn’t mean that it isn’t. Many modern web frameworks are extremely lightweight (ie Svelte), but it’s complicated how they achieve it, and the source code looks like sludge.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)"

aetherspawn — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:15:23 +0000

Mr. Robertson: That's the way it has to be. That's the way it's always been. You should understand that better than anyone.

Temporal GPT: The snake that trains on its own tail, forever and ever?

New comment by aetherspawn in "Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work now leading Mars exploration"

aetherspawn — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:07:28 +0000

I imagine not just anyone gets to clean a million dollar toilet.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Better Models: Worse Tools"

aetherspawn — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:22:12 +0000

Surprised models still output tools as text when for ages we’ve been able to constrain the output at the inference engine level and constrain the model what tools, parameters etc are available

Edit: found it, it’s called Grammar-Constrained Decoding (GCD)

New comment by aetherspawn in "Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models"

aetherspawn — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:33:34 +0000

It makes sense to me that distributing across more parameters results in models that can be quant more heavily (information theory - more bits available)

I wonder if anyone has figured out how the information is compressed and calculated the amount of information an LLM can hold depending on its size

New comment by aetherspawn in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

aetherspawn — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:18:09 +0000

80 tok/s which is kind of a lot for GLM. My experience running 80 tok/s on other LLM is that it ~seems faster than cloud inference, but that obviously depends what you use, in my case ChatGPT.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Half-Baked Product"

aetherspawn — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:45:40 +0000

Disagree, I assumed it was a 10 year old story because it was written in the personable style of the old internet…