GLM5 also had this issue. When it was free on Openrouter / Kilo the model was rock solid though did degrade after 100k tokens gracefully. Same at launch with Zai aside from regular timeouts.

Somewhere around early-mid March zai did something significant to GLM5 - like KV quanting or model quanting or both.

After that it's been russian roulette. Sometimes it works flawlessly but very often (1/4 or 1/5 of the time) thinking tokens spill into main context and if you don't spot it happening it can do real damage - heavily corrupting files, deleting whole directories.

You can see the pain by visiting the zai discord - filled with reports of the issue yet radio silence by zai.

Tellingly despite being open source not a single provider will sell you access to this model at anything approaching the plans zai offers. The numbers just don't work so your choice is either pay per token significantly more and get reliability or put up with the bait and switch.

- The entire SOTA ML algo is 'how to min(cost) while just avoiding churn' - not play what you actually want. Just don't annoy you enough that you quit

- This means serving endless covers of hit (real) songs that cost them pennies on the dollar given cover artists don't get custom negotiated deals

- This means producing their own drivel in key categories[1] to avoid royalty payments outright

- It is not a huge leap from producing drivel to producing genAI drivel if it satisfies the equation above

[1] - https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-is-creating-i...

1. https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

2. https://chat.qwen.ai/

Beware sellers selling scraped Yelp data as their own. Yelp puts honeypot records and have been known to litigate those caught calling / caught using sets with these records in them.

Ordinary people who funded, in small amounts, a grassroots non-violent protest that the ruling political party disagreed with and found inconvenient had their bank accounts frozen.

They could not access their legally obtained funds, nor have additional legally obtained funds deposited.

There is no precedent for an action like this.

It is a good reminder of exactly what can and will happen with digital money - much like cloud video games, movies and music it is not actually yours - it can and will be revoked at any time by the platform for any reason.

This term was coopted by the MAFIAA because literal descriptions such as file sharing or unauthorized copying are not objectionable to the general public who see them as minor / insignificant and thus are not sensational enough to draw the outrage needed to enact disproportionate criminal penalties(3) and thus preserve their monopolistic(2) profits.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy

2 - By way of ridiculously long copyright terms or distribution oligopolies / monopolies

3 - See 'conspiracy to commit' charges carrying de-facto life in prison penalties

It has resulted in at least one new monthly contributor and hope others do the same.

I wonder if the decline in donations has anything to do with Prusa refusing to properly support Octoprint in favor of their own half baked, awful competitors that are no doubt in furtherance of their quest for SaaS rent seeking (BambuLabs fear? jealousy?).

The MK4 and XL are barely functional with Octoprint and Prusa has indicated they intend to keep them this way, as they did with the Mini. That's a large and growing market now not really supported by Octoprint.

They instead want you to use Prusa Connect, their currently free farm management software that requires internet access and all of your data to manage your local network of machines. No doubt this goes non-free the second any momentum is achieved.

I say 'want you to use' because their local network solution, PrusaLink, is a barely maintained skeleton of a project that replicates a tiny portion of Octoprint's functionality, poorly (4kb/s uploads! 27 char file name limits!), while missing many critical features, has no plugin support and many many bugs. No doubt the prioritization within Prusa is Cloud and not the local functionality you actually need and your machines are capable of.

By reducing Octoprint functionality to the level of their own rudimentary offerings on their newest flagship printers they certainly make the case for using Octoprint far less compelling and paying for it even less so.

Octofarm shutting down also probably didn't help things either.

The goal was to balance supply and demand of restaurants and orders.

Eats product didn't have any demand shifting levers at that time yet restaurants were getting blown up with demand at peak times (ex. top pizza restos at 7pm on a Friday).

The product did however allow ops teams to manually set a delivery radius for a given restaurant.

Clever ops teams scripted shrinking / expanding this delivery radius to encourage demand at non-peak times and reduce it during period where restaurants were overloaded and likely to ignore / cancel orders.

This laptop ran scripts for all cities in Canada to adjust delivery radii for each restaurant until a few different levers were built into product.

Ian (who is a _super nice_ guy) owned this process which kept things working smoothly while Eats was experiencing explosive growth.

Another fun fact - Eats Marketplace, which is the current Eats you see today, was built and launched in Toronto - SF engineers / product / design supported by Toronto ops teams. Quickly eclipsed the Instant Eats product which was the 3rd (and most successful to date) try by Uber at food delivery.