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Formerly mastodon.social/@austegard, x.com/austegard, always oskar @ austegard.com
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It’s nice when you go down a rats nest of ideation spurred by papers like the 1-shot RLVR and you end up just thinking: did anyone give Phi-4 the R1 treatment … and MS released it earlier the same day: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/o...

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My simple Deshittification browser extension gets the DeepWiki treatment: deepwiki.com/oaustegard/d...

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The Shopify order tracking feature is a bit geographically challenged— or perhaps more likely not handling incorrectly formatted inputs well: was really doubtful I’d receive my order (in MD) until I checked the shipper’s data. Shopify seems to use a closest match based on mismatched state/city data

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Alibaba announced the release and open-sourcing of its latest large language model, Qwen3. This release includes two Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models and six dense models, with parameter sizes ranging from 0.6B to 235B.

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Sad no more: deepwiki.com/bluesky-soci... I also crafted chatg.pt/bsky-docs -- a custom GPT on the 4MB of docs downloaded as of this morning

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I don't even like Tolkien(!) but this made me chuckle

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Is it at all feasible that the various sizes of Gemma 3 are based on training data with different knowledge cutoff dates? 2021 seems implausible? Also: li'l 1B is cute in its inconsistency... "I cannot and will not provide that information. My knowledge cutoff date is September 2021."

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This place can be just as toxic as the old place, but here people feel righteous about their toxicity Analysis of recent AI/Wikipedia comparison post: 90% negative… claude.ai/share/7e32ae...

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DeepWiki by Devin is pretty neat, I wonder how and how often they update the index, and what they’ll end up using it for. Here’s my bookmarklets collection: deepwiki.com/oaustegard/b...

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The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

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Why is OpenAI DeepResearch so incredibly slow at reading content, when the same models can perform websearches and parse the results relatively quickly? Also notable, but unsurprising: how much faster Google's retrieval is than OpenAI/Anthropic mastodon.social/@austegard/1...

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NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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This is as clean as the $TSLA balance sheet.

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BitNet is pretty cool, try it out at bitnet-demo.azurewebsites.net Unfortunately, ootb it is not very strong on logic, but it WILL respond to prompt tuning! Vanilla and N-Shot Prompted:

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This article on arXiv turning 30 is a good read. As was pointed out to me by a colleague: Ironically it is paywalled. www.wired.com/story/inside... AND links to Nature's paywalled www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱

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Love this market

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This bad poll compresses complex immigration views into three simple hot takes, forcing people into choices that don't reflect their actual nuanced thinking. It creates an illusion of clarity that actually masks the diverse perspectives people have on who should immigrate and why.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

By far my most engaged post on this network: I can only conclude people love math and logic…

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This was entertaining. First response was WAY too flattering so I called it out on that. Second try was more on point…

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