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New comment by jliptzin in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

jliptzin — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:51:45 +0000

No, I haven’t, I could theoretically try a new brand and see what happens

New comment by jliptzin in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

jliptzin — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:58:33 +0000

It’s not completely harmless, for me it causes heart palpitations that are so bad my watch tells me I’m in atrial fibrillation. Yes I know this sounds crazy. I’ve ruled everything else out. No, it is not creatine mixed with caffeine or whatever. Just pure creatine. No, I don’t have any other heart issues. I can give myself an irregular heartbeat just by having some creatine. It doesn’t happen otherwise. I have seen a cardiologist, he said it’s rare but it is theoretically possible.

New comment by jliptzin in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

jliptzin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:35:00 +0000

If it doesn’t fit, then you must have gained weight while the item was in transit

New comment by jliptzin in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

jliptzin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:28:10 +0000

Management is just responding to idiot end-users. I have been on plenty of sales calls where customers ask if features X,Y,Z are available, knowing that there’s a 99% chance they’ll never need them, but they ask anyway just because they’ve heard that someone else used a feature like that at some point in the past. If it’s not, they just assume the software is inferior.

New comment by jliptzin in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

jliptzin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:39:34 +0000

My brother had it when he was 17

New comment by jliptzin in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

jliptzin — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:42:14 +0000

Yea as far has hobbies go, I feel like this is on the low end. I know people who collect watches and corvettes, that's way more expensive and functionally you can't really do anything special with them.

New comment by jliptzin in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

jliptzin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:21:27 +0000

Blackwell 96gb + 128gb system ram. Not powerful enough for GLM 5.2 but I may upgrade.

New comment by jliptzin in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

jliptzin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:23:33 +0000

Yea not sure who would put money into an OpenAI or Anthropic IPO at this point. After this episode I promptly bought the hardware I needed to run local models (~$25k) and am extremely impressed. The price tag alone is worth the peace of mind knowing I will always have a locally running LLM that nobody can take away. I don't need Mythos-level intelligence to do 99% of my day to day work; Opus 4.8 was more than enough and I am pretty close to that with the open source models. So what happens when this hardware inevitably gets cheaper and cheaper and people realize they can run the models they actually need locally and without handing all their data over to these companies?

Only if you're doing cutting edge research or some highly, highly niche project would you need the frontier models.

New comment by jliptzin in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

jliptzin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:15:00 +0000

I already have

New comment by jliptzin in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

jliptzin — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:59:07 +0000

RAM prices won’t stay like this forever. If demand keeps up, suppliers will just start producing more.

New comment by jliptzin in "Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6"

jliptzin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:11:00 +0000

It depends what you’re doing. I have no problem using an open source model to build a static website or other simple tasks. And of course, open source is catching up and the things you can trust it with grows every month.

Not to mention the way the proprietary models patronize you if they think you’re up to no good. The other day I was trying to use Claude to transcribe a song on YouTube to sheet music; the link was broken and it had not been available for purchase for years. Of course I first had to prove to Claude that I was not just being cheap and trying to get around paying the $5 for the download, which I would have had no problem with. “I am going to be up front with you —- my research raises some red flags with your initial premise that the sheet music is no longer available…”

I think in the next 5-10 years inference costs will come down substantially and the open source models will get so advanced that only someone in an extremely niche, cutting edge field will need a frontier model. Everyone else will have a dedicated box somewhere on their network that runs their LLM of choice. No tokens, none of your data getting sent to a third party, no arguing with it over whether or not a link is actually broken or if you’re just trying to be cheap.

I think OpenAI and Anthropic realize this which is the reason they’re in a rush to go public.

New comment by jliptzin in "Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6"

jliptzin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:59:08 +0000

88.888% uptime

New comment by jliptzin in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jliptzin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:45:54 +0000

They'll settle for an unregulated market. What they really want is a free market for them and their friends, and crippling regulation for their competitors.

New comment by jliptzin in "European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)"

jliptzin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:22:09 +0000

Existed*

New comment by jliptzin in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

jliptzin — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:59:31 +0000

Pure creatine

New comment by jliptzin in "Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%"

jliptzin — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:30:24 +0000

No but every time I try to take creatine supplements I get heart palpitations. Everyone says I am crazy and that it’s impossible but I have proof from my Apple Watch, one time it was so bad it said I had atrial fibrillation. I went to a cardiologist and he acknowledged it is a possibility but he hasn’t seen it before.

New comment by jliptzin in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

jliptzin — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:03:32 +0000

If 0.01% of people engaging in insider trading are caught and prosecuted, it is effectively unregulated.

New comment by jliptzin in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

jliptzin — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:20:01 +0000

Not just the workforce, my parents still barely know how to use a computer because any time they hit the slightest snag, they immediately call me for help.

New comment by jliptzin in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

jliptzin — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:43:35 +0000

That just delays the problem a couple years

New comment by jliptzin in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

jliptzin — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:26:08 +0000

That’s been my strategy as well