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New comment by iaw in "Midjourney Medical"

iaw — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:35:54 +0000

I have a friend who may be dying. It's not cancer but equally dangerous. They caught it early but they're powerless to do anything. We're just watching, waiting, and hoping.

New comment by iaw in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

iaw — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:12:25 +0000

vLLM supports "banning" certain tokens but I don't know if it can dynamically reduce them.

To my knowledge you can also "ban" with llama.cpp but it is passed in the API call rather than to the server at initialization.

New comment by iaw in "“Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?"

iaw — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:54:03 +0000

It's remarkable how capable GLM 5.1 is, what's amazing is the recent development of Qwen 3.6 27B being close in real world performance.

New comment by iaw in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

iaw — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:44:52 +0000

Can you back that up with.... you know... evidence? "regulation bad" tends to be a political talking point more than a valid argument when you're this vague.

Edited: to add, this speech talks a lot about the reduction in research funding from the US government which arguably has nothing to do with the regulatory environment.

New comment by iaw in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

iaw — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:33:06 +0000

This is a weird take. I get the desire to house people but someone choosing to rent rather than sell a home they own is not the crux of the issue. When there are corporations keeping swaths of housing empty to raise rent rates the real issue is market manipulation not small participants.

New comment by iaw in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

iaw — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:57:37 +0000

Thank you for this comment, there is no way I could eloquently explain my read on the comment you're replying to the way you did.

New comment by iaw in "6B Miles Driven"

iaw — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:12:59 +0000

Have you had to file a claim with them yet? I go with State Farm not because I can get a cheaper rate but because for their price they provide all of the services I expect from my insurance company when I need them.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Insurance/comments/1kji0bm/just_fil...

New comment by iaw in "6B Miles Driven"

iaw — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:10:54 +0000

7x fewer major and minor collisions!!!!*

* Compared to the estimated U.S. average.

They have a huge store of data on accidents in teslas per mile driven. Why don't they compare their actual data on accidents? Well, they would, but it probably is worse with FSD.

New comment by iaw in "Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)"

iaw — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:54:31 +0000

I wonder if that display is because they would give them out not why.

New comment by iaw in "Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)"

iaw — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:45:10 +0000

Not to be crude but everything they mentioned inside the bag was from a serious relationship. I really wonder if the outside of the bag was for the less serious relationships that were still candidates.

Or was it common for soldiers to give out pieces of their uniform to people they just met out?

New comment by iaw in "Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?"

iaw — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:06:02 +0000

For those curious like I was :

U+1F99C is a parrot

New comment by iaw in "Westjet is going to make you pay to recline your seat"

iaw — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:09:31 +0000

>According to a press release from the airline, economy seats on the retrofitted planes will have "back support with a fixed recline design," which in simpler terms means the seat will not have the ability to recline.

>The Premium section at the front of these planes will have "ergonomically contoured seat cushions, reclining seat backs and a large headrest with four-way adjustment capability."

So.. poor people don't deserve ergonomic seats?

New comment by iaw in "Remembering Steve Jobs"

iaw — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:07:25 +0000

I know this wont go over well but I think it's important to remember: Steve Jobs did not treat his pancreatic cancer when he was first diagnosed and it was treatable, he instead sought holistic/alternative medicine treatments[1]. He leveraged his vast wealth to get a replacement liver [2] that at the time was known to only extend his life. That liver could have gone to someone that did not have such a negative prognosis and possibly saved their life for a lot longer than it did Steve. He used a chunk of his remaining time to work on his last yacht.

He was a great product person but I don't think that excuses all of the horrible things he did as a human.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/food-for-thought/201...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.prior...

New comment by iaw in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

iaw — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:40:59 +0000

They have a well documented and known human slave trade for their laborers in the kingdom.

Maybe the narrative changes when their approaches towards human rights does?

New comment by iaw in "Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy"

iaw — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:12:04 +0000

> claude doesn't really know anything other than it's training data

I've seen cases where Claude demonstrates novel behaviors or combines existing concepts in new ways based on my input. I don't think it's as simple as memorization anymore.

New comment by iaw in "Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently"

iaw — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:54:42 +0000

The potential of fully miniature vacuum tubes was never realized

New comment by iaw in "My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)"

iaw — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:45:34 +0000

My routine is:

Prompt 1: Do not write any code yet. Ask any questions you need for clarification now.

Prompt 2: Do not write any code yet. What additional questions do you have?

Reiterate until questions become unimportant.

New comment by iaw in "Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study"

iaw — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:44:51 +0000

Oh! To clarify. I use fluoride in the morning and hydroxyapatite at night.

New comment by iaw in "Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study"

iaw — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:30:05 +0000

I recently started using a nano-hydroxyapatite based toothpaste. It can't restore enamel but does better at remineralization than fluoride, hopefully it will be a good intermediate for me until something regenerative is available.

New comment by iaw in "With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear"

iaw — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:09:06 +0000

Not sure I'm following. Is a 10 degree F increase in average summer temperatures over 25 years and a notably disrupted ecosystem 'summer'?