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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Lynn Cherny, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Social Media Lab
“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com” evidence ↗
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Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Sasha Costanza-Chock Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich +4
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“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

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“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B · Hugging Face

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...” evidence ↗
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Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Julien Chaumond Evangelos Kazakos Chubby Isaiah Bishop austin

“Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

“Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B (open-weight) huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Tim Kellogg: Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Do they have a paired speculative decoding model for max performance?
Tim Kellogg: i don’t see an official one, it’s also not even an MoE (so seems like there should be an official draft model)
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15 experts · 36 posts · 12h ago
Mike Masnick Scott McGrath Grace Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Dan Hon Doll Alex Rubinsteyn
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“You released a surprise project that spread a lot of joy and humor, and people drag you for HOW you made it? There are conversations that are needed about appropriate AI usage, and finding the bala…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 2 Policy & governance · 1
Grace: He's upfront with when he uses AI, so you can trust he's upfront with when he doesn't
mackuba.eu: Please just stop…
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7 experts · 39 posts · 14d ago
Olivia Guest Ali Alkhatib Eli Sennesh SE Gyges tweety fish austin mackuba.eu
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“"Gretta, pictured here, is Eliezer Yudkowsky's primary partner, and draws a salary from his AI research nonprofit while also doing this. All events are held at Lighthaven, the Home of the Rationals…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: oh there's lore. you have only begun to see how weird this is. would you like to know more
SE Gyges: "Gretta, pictured here, is Eliezer Yudkowsky's primary partner, and draws a salary from his AI research nonprofit while also doing this. All events are held at Lighthaven, the Home of the Rationals…
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3 experts · 58 posts · 14h ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Doll austin
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“yeah. I would def be evaluating alternate models if my org let me, but right now my spend is an assumed part of our Anthropic commit” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): for an engineer like me who is maximally using Sonnet, and hasn't yet switched to a local model, it's about $6k a month, or $72k a year. it is a very very hefty fraction of the salary, & is going t…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): this is definitely not technology that, at the moment, you want put in the hands of the average white-collar worker right now, you'd be better off just hiring more workers, rather than pay for the …
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4 experts · 26 posts · 8d ago
Hypervisible VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin Teresa Heffernan
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“Models are fucking awful at consistently following “directions” —for the precise reason that to the model they _aren’t_ directions but an input for inference, i.e. conducting a routinized predictio…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Something I notice watching top trending github repos and the eng discourse on bsky (on an alt acct) is that a significant amount of the popularly socialized software engineering behavior now is fu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: That’s pretty much what a lot of skills, agent frameworks, harnesses, etc amount to at the end of the day. And it’s not that these sort of artifacts do nothing at all — I have enough hands on exper…
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4 experts · 11 posts · 18d ago
Ted Underwood SE Gyges Colin austin
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“so many of the pathologies of this thing can be explained if we assume the original SFT dataset came from a bunch of Bayesian statisticians who were herded into a Severance-style basement and told …” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: > Tell Fable you'd prefer a simple bootstrap model of uncertainty, not "a Bayesian meta-model." > It replies with a bootstrap loop ... that makes draws from Bayesian models. > JimHalpertLooksAtCame…
Ted Underwood: so many of the pathologies of this thing can be explained if we assume the original SFT dataset came from a bunch of Bayesian statisticians who were herded into a Severance-style basement and told …
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3 experts · 12 posts · 6d ago
VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin Abstract Tesseract
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“I think you are both right that finding/doing this would help shift my attitude. I’m so tired of all this.” evidence ↗
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I had lately found my anger about technofascism to be so much that it was making it hard for me to feel in community with other tech people—just in general, not even ones who support fascism—so see…
Abstract Tesseract: yeah I get that it's not sustainable for everyone to be angry about everything all the time, but given how much these communities have historically been willing to overlook, it does make me feel be…
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2 experts · 23 posts · 15d ago
Phillip Carter austin
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“yes! every field supports a description; you can use the API to attach it (and iirc for otel metrics we grab the description automagically)” evidence ↗
austin: saw someone say AI can’t write SQL some data for anyone that cares - @honeycomb.io offers agents a query tool against our datastore; it’s a custom JSON schema, which means it’s very unlikely to be …
austin: the upshot of this is that the tool basically gives the agent some docs on how to use it, and the schema itself. maybe 3 examples, but a lot of the “how do you use this” comes from interpreting the…
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3 experts · 7 posts · 5d ago
tweety fish austin Matt Darling
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“it's not any one experiment, there's converging evidence that the localization of evidence accumulation for different kinds of decision-making is pretty distributed in the brain, not in general dep…” evidence ↗
austin: human narration of their own chain of thought is also not reliable 🫨
Matt Darling: human narration of their own chain of thought is also not reliable 🫨
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2 experts · 17 posts · 17d ago
Phillip Carter austin
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“for as much as people complain about AI de-skilling people, I would present “thread full of people who equate ‘do research’ as ‘have AI summarize things and blindly trust it’” three cueing ass website” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
austin: for as much as people complain about AI de-skilling people, I would present “thread full of people who equate ‘do research’ as ‘have AI summarize things and blindly trust it’” three cueing ass website
austin: you know what the word “research” means, right?
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