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New comment by bugglebeetle in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:59:50 +0000

I’m old enough to remember the heavenly times before people repeated phrases like “the taxi cartel” as if they were original thoughts vs. cooked up by Uber’s comms team.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

bugglebeetle — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:58:39 +0000

I forgot this was in effect. I’ve been hitting my weekly rate limits two to three days in because of needing to steer Slopus 5 with Fable. Absurd that they’re being cut further in the face of steep competition from open weights models.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

bugglebeetle — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:26:44 +0000

The datalab models are the best ones.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

bugglebeetle — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:54:26 +0000

Not exactly. See:

https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2026/mgh/

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Nvidia's Risky Business"

bugglebeetle — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:44:03 +0000

Undoubtedly, the frontier labs are already doing something akin to this as part of their new chip design endeavors.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

bugglebeetle — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:01:50 +0000

I haven’t used their platform so can’t speak to this, but super brilliant team and big fans of their work overall!

New comment by bugglebeetle in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

bugglebeetle — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:58:01 +0000

Tinker is pretty cheap. Prime Intellect if you want more flexibility.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB"

bugglebeetle — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:44:17 +0000

It’s not “deeply weird” but was intentionally legislated to prevent labor from obtaining similar sectorial bargaining power and political influence as they had in Europe. Some entertainment industry unions had already achieved similar stature pre-WWII and were grandfathered in, but the US learned their lesson here and explicitly sought to atomize at the workplace level.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:33:48 +0000

See OpenRouter’s recent announcement on a model fusion setup, which they now support via API:

https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-fronti...

New comment by bugglebeetle in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

bugglebeetle — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:56:05 +0000

Use their API directly, this is an openrouter issue. I ran something like 5 billion tokens through them directly recently without any bumps in the road.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:44:48 +0000

Anthropic serves quantized versions of their models and you can run q8 locally.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:30:30 +0000

The frontier Chinese open source models are already at this level, GLM-5.1 and Kimi K2.6 specifically.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

bugglebeetle — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:56:54 +0000

Deepseek has demonstrated that there is no reason for it to actually lose money. The awful business practices and monopoly tactics of the frontier model labs in the US are the problem.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

bugglebeetle — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:52:45 +0000

As Benjamin noted, “Christianity’s history is essentially that of its parasite […] capitalism.”

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:28:55 +0000

If you ever heard them talk about each other, you would definitely assume as much.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

bugglebeetle — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:26:02 +0000

>homogenous country

Tell me you know nothing about Switzerland without telling me you know nothing about Switzerland. Try asking a German Swiss what they think about a French Swiss or either about the Romansch.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)"

bugglebeetle — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:28:00 +0000

Bacurau is one of the best movies I’ve seen in recent memory and Pictures of Ghosts tells an amazing story about the history of Recife’s relationship to cinema.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide"

bugglebeetle — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:40:30 +0000

Unfortunately, this looks to only cover the larger MoE models. I imagine the smaller models are what most people would target. 9B just dropped two days ago, so not surprised it’s not explicitly documented, but does use a hybrid mamba architecture that I expect needs some special consideration.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

bugglebeetle — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:17:52 +0000

Ireland’s affordability problems are almost exclusively centered around its housing crisis and they need to just commit themselves to over-supply induced wealth destruction for the landlord class and older generations. Thankfully, there demographics also support such a move.

New comment by bugglebeetle in "GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding"

bugglebeetle — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:50:43 +0000

I tested this pretty extensively and it has a common failure mode that prevents me from using: extracting footnotes and similar from the full text of academic works. For some reason, many of these models are trained in a way that results in these being excluded, despite these document sections often containing import details and context. Both versions of DeepseekOCR have the same problem. Of the others I’ve tested, dot-ocr in layout mode works best (but is slow) and then datalab’s chandra model (which is larger and has bad license constraints).