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granitepail | 2 days ago | on: Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL

"Just" Kimi K2.5 with RL—people really misunderstand how difficult it is to achieve these reults with RL. Cursor's research team is highly respected within the industry, and what they've done is quite impressive.

Before people go jumping to conclusions about model theft, it's worth considering the possibility that they did reach an agreement with Moonshot which their researchers were not aware of. That would certainly explain the deleted tweets. Until Moonshot makes an official statement, I'm not particularly concerned.

granitepail | 2 months ago | on: Dead Internet Theory

To me, it’s very obvious that the problem is social media. To social media, AI slop is peak efficiency. The affordances and incentives of the network encourage its creation. I don’t care for the media slop, but eg television media has more or less been producing crap like this for a while.

I don’t think LLMs and video/image models are a negative at all. And it’s shocking to me that more people don’t share this viewpoint.

granitepail | 7 months ago | on: OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face

In my case, I’m paying for inference on the original models from e.g. Fireworks. So it’s not a quantization problem. The Qwen3 I was using was the new 458B (i think that’s the size?) model that was their top performer for code.

I agree with other comments that there are productive uses for them. Just not on the scale of o4-mini/o3/claude 4 sonnet/opus.

So imo open weights larger models from big US labs is a big deal! Glad to see it. Gemma models, for example, are great for their size. They’re just quite small.

granitepail | 7 months ago | on: OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face

While the benchmarks all say open source models Kimi and Qwen outpace proprietary models like GPT 4.1, GPT 4o, or even o3, my (and just about everyone I know's) boots on the ground experience suggests they're not even close. This is for tool calling agentic tasks, like coding, but also in other contexts (research, glue between services, etc). I feel like it's worth putting that out there--it's pretty clear there's a lot of benchmark hacking happening. I'm not really convinced it's purposeful/deceitful, but it's definitely happening. Qwen3 Coder, for example, is basically incompetent for any real coding tasks and frequently gets caught in death spirals of bad tool calls. I try all the OSS models regularly, because I'm really excited for them to get better. Right now Kimi K2 is the most usable one, and I'd rate it at a few ticks worse than GPT 4.1.

granitepail | 1 year ago | on: Journal retracts all 23 articles in special issue

From the individual article summaries:

"The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation’s findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article."

granitepail | 3 years ago | on: New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO

More, I think, preying on the public's interest in UFOs to justify another massive military budget. All of the wild PR around UFOs with absolutely nothing of substance to back it seems to be a very effective PR campaign.

granitepail | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

I haven't updated my LinkedIn in around five years. Definitely not a requirement. I do keep an up-to-date CV and just pass that along. Could always try putting n/a in the field and writing a note, or finding a hiring manager or someone in HR to mail directly.

From the hiring side--I've done quite a bit--I never thought twice about whether someone had a LinkedIn or CV. I do think it's lazy not to provide anything on one's background, though. It helps me guide the conversation towards a candidate's strengths.

granitepail | 5 years ago | on: The Haskell Elephant in the Room

Exactly. A cryptocurrency is driven by speculation. A treasury system helps manage flows of capital in and out of a business. Said company pays to use the proprietary system. Sure, they're both backed by a ledger, but Adjoint isn't turning profit by encouraging or even allowing people to speculate on the future value of their platform. They're selling a service.

granitepail | 5 years ago | on: Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable?

I played a lot of M:tG at various times in my life, and games like Magic teach you a lot about these concepts. I would have never thought about it has I not had that experience! No shame in learning about the meta game!

granitepail | 7 years ago | on: If San Francisco is so great, why is everyone I love leaving?

agreed. living in NYC, i’ve seen how extensive the problem is. we have lots of housing being built over a much broader area than san francisco and yet we still have the same problem. the number of people moving in to the city and getting high paying jobs (i’m a part of this problem) is so great that basically anyone else is pushed out. our affordable housing program has the right idea, but is so limited in its scope as to hardly make a dent. developers keep making luxury buildings with minimal affordable units and flipping them for big money. we need more regulation, more affordable housing.

granitepail | 10 years ago | on: Gitfs

interesting to see this! the first thing that came to mind was irmin, from the good folks at MirageOS. unikernels provide an interesting opportunity to rethink block storage, as you're no longer bound the rest of your operating system.

curious to see how gitfs and irmin develop.

https://github.com/mirage/irmin

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