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New comment by georgeven in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

georgeven — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:54:14 +0000

I have a 1500 dollar machine that can run it at 50 tok/s (3 V100s)

New comment by georgeven in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

georgeven — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:07:38 +0000

innovation requires monopoly is a Theil one liner -- probably true too

New comment by georgeven in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

georgeven — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:07:58 +0000

I wonder if you can sue him in civic court, could teach him a lesson.

New comment by georgeven in "The Eternal Sloptember"

georgeven — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:22:37 +0000

The issue then becomes it writes insane one liners that are impossible to read. Would be difficult to set up an RL environment where the goal is correctness and readability.

New comment by georgeven in "Cursor 3"

georgeven — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:37:29 +0000

the codex limits are actually pretty high too. You might want to check it out.

New comment by georgeven in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

georgeven — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:32:26 +0000

I have known about TBPN since early summer last year. They are widely known about in Cali startup culture at least.

Learning representations of canary song with self supervised transfomers

georgeven — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:06:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(25)00339-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47280388

Points: 2

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New comment by georgeven in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

georgeven — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:11:59 +0000

its probably not even a conscious decision from dwarkesh to be hyperbolic. pod casters who are hyperbolic are just simply watched more

New comment by georgeven in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

georgeven — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:09:41 +0000

he was not sure, but if i recall correctly, he put the probability at something like 90 percent of being able to do non verifiable tasks.

New comment by georgeven in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

georgeven — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:58:48 +0000

it's 20,000 in 2026, with the price of tokens halving every year (at a given perf level), this will be around 1,000 dollars in 2030

New comment by georgeven in "Claude Opus 4.6"

georgeven — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:04:20 +0000

Interesting. Everyone in my circle said the opposite.

New comment by georgeven in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

georgeven — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:18:55 +0000

It was actually nearly 5 years ago!

New comment by georgeven in "Unrolling the Codex agent loop"

georgeven — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:44:50 +0000

dude you are spinning up my models! Emailing you!

New comment by georgeven in "Unrolling the Codex agent loop"

georgeven — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:59:54 +0000

I found codex cli to be significantly better than claude code. It follows instructions and executes the exact change I want without going off on an "adventure" like Claude code. Also the 20 dollars per month sub tier gives very generous limits of the most powerful model option (5.2 codex high).

I work on SSL bio acoustic models as context.