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New comment by sigmar in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

sigmar — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:46:37 +0000

>We are currently working closely with our inference partners and open-source maintainers to align the technical details and ensure the model can be reliably deployed across the ecosystem. The full model weights will be released by July 27, 2026. Further details regarding the architecture, training, and evaluation will be released with the Kimi K3 technical report.

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11 days is a long time. It does not take that long to implement inference at providers. In my opinion, seems like they're being pre-emptively cautious about government intervention/review

New comment by sigmar in "Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list"

sigmar — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:07:42 +0000

Most of what an LLM does "could have" been done by a human if you throw enough human hours at it. But the reality in this circumstance is that a new tool helped find this leak. Saying this could have happened in a "non LLM world" is analogous to "someone else could have discovered special relativity, let's not mention Einstein"

New comment by sigmar in "Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries"

sigmar — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:43:33 +0000

>Evaluators validate each tag individually — for example, protein, preparation, or health, individually rather than judging the item as a whole.

Am I reading this right that the jury is multiple LLMs each iterating through each tag and voting on each? Why wouldn't you tune one LLM to be really competent at a single tag? Like a single "spicy evaluator LLM" or "protein evaluator LLM"?

New comment by sigmar in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

sigmar — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:01:20 +0000

>I think it's reasonable for people to say, hey, if you're going to trash the reputation of Zig (in a pretend-objective way)

what specifically is this referring to? Not aware of any comments from Anthropic on this topic.

New comment by sigmar in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

sigmar — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:29:58 +0000

To me, this addendum makes it worse. Making small edits to a post like this makes it seem like you're doubling down on the original resentful points, especially with all the new justifications like "a trillion dollar company fired the first shot." Should have just deleted the blog post in its entirety imho.

>outstanding relationships with essentially everyone who openly uses Zig and talks about it publicly

Essentially everyone? more blogposts incoming?

New comment by sigmar in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

sigmar — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:17:27 +0000

>One, this constant bullshit about some window closing, or the perpetual underclass, or falling hopelessly behind. This is negative valence hype, not only is it not true, it’s mostly designed to make you feel bad about yourself and move to shitty San Francisco where everything really does suck like how these people claim.

It's possible to use LLMs without logging onto twitter to be exposed to the people spouting off about a "perpetual underclass." I love the internet, but it really feels like (now more than ever) you have to be intentional about what sites you visit.

New comment by sigmar in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

sigmar — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:29:23 +0000

Proven to be safe? Do you want a randomized trial? Do you demand that of every math tutorial video that goes up on YouTube?

New comment by sigmar in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

sigmar — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:11:55 +0000

How many years do you use them?

New comment by sigmar in "Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]"

sigmar — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:48:40 +0000

They don't make any specific claims about what conditions it will diagnose. At 16:30, he says they are only initially doing "body composition" because anything more would add 9+ months to the deployment timeline. I assume they mean they process the images to return an estimate of body fat/muscle mass. Which isn't difficult and it seems likely they could get the error bars pretty low just off estimating subq fat alone. He doesn't say the specific classification they received from the FDA, just that it is a class 2 medical device.

New comment by sigmar in "Fable 5 Is Back"

sigmar — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:43:46 +0000

that's an obsequious Altman, not their model being banned for being too good

New comment by sigmar in "CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3"

sigmar — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:16:19 +0000

I visited CERN last July. Was lucky enough to get into a group tour. The tour guide was a postdoc researcher who said the only times that public tours are allowed to take an elevator down is during long shutdowns. So while they do this work on LHC might be the best time to swing by for a tour (I might even try to return).

Even without the descent, my tour was great with showing the 70 year timeline, historical early particle accelerator equipment, and a cool view of the ATLAS control room. The facility is awe inspiring and a testament to Europe's willingness to make long-term commitments to furthering science research for the public good.

New comment by sigmar in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

sigmar — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:34:01 +0000

>publish these incredible papers explaining how they achieved their gains - something the American labs no longer do unfortunately.

Google is still releasing a lot of llm architecture research. They introduced speculative decoding of LLMs in 2022[1], then released the code to perform sceculative decoding for their Gemma 4 model this year[2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.17192

[2] https://github.com/google-gemma/cookbook/blob/main/docs/mtp/...

New comment by sigmar in "US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'"

sigmar — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:28:28 +0000

The ATF was created by an act of congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968

New comment by sigmar in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

sigmar — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:56:11 +0000

>the language in the docs is awfully indirect.

writes this^ and then proceeds to highlight a bold title from the docs that says "summarized thinking" that explains things clearly in the first sentence. lol

New comment by sigmar in "The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy"

sigmar — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:23:19 +0000

Qualified it with "100%" because claude4 models show the first few lines of the chain of thought:

>On Claude 4 models, the first few lines of thinking output are more verbose, providing detailed reasoning that's particularly helpful for prompt engineering purposes. Claude Mythos Preview summarizes from the first token, so its thinking blocks do not show this verbose preamble. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/extend...

New comment by sigmar in "The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy"

sigmar — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:16:11 +0000

Fable/mythos are the first models from anthropic that hide 100% of reasoning tokens. So it seems to me like we're about to get a lot more data about to what extent Chinese model progress has been a consequence of distillation techniques.

New comment by sigmar in "The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety"

sigmar — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:58:37 +0000

>Some administration officials have said that a resolution should include an acknowledgment on Anthropic’s part that its rollout of Fable and communication with the White House could have been improved, people familiar with the talks said.

>followed initial frustration Friday among some administration officials when they couldn’t immediately get Amodei on the phone, the people said.

That he didn't drop everything to talk to them seems like the major crux? But Dario doesn't even do the day-to-day operations Daniela does. Feel like Anthropic should just hire Dean Ball to be their liason or something

New comment by sigmar in "Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?"

sigmar — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:09:56 +0000

I should have contextualized the quote- "chat is dead" is from an openai employee which was describing how they're shifting focus to more agentic consumer products, and putting less focus on the back-and-forth chatbot interface.

New comment by sigmar in "Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?"

sigmar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:39:58 +0000

I like that "chat is dead" framing I heard recently because too many people are having interpersonal relations with these LLMs and want to tune their "emotions"/tone. Humanity would be in a better place if we thought of the LLMs as tools and not friends. (even though they are very good at beating a turing test)

New comment by sigmar in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

sigmar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:19:03 +0000

All science-based conclusions come with uncertainty. Only ideologues (and siths) write in absolute terms.