but we had the same thing with Alpaca, Llama2, Llama3, 3.2, Mistral, Phi…

I don’t believe so, or at least, them all getting smaller and/or more intelligent isn’t the point, it’s how they did it

I noted above that if DeepSeek had access to H100s they probably would have used a larger cluster to train their model, simply because that would have been the easier option; the fact they didn’t, and were bandwidth constrained, drove a lot of their decisions in terms of both model architecture and their training infrastructure. Just look at the U.S. labs: they haven’t spent much time on optimization because Nvidia has been aggressively shipping ever more capable systems that accommodate their needs. The route of least resistance has simply been to pay Nvidia. DeepSeek, however, just demonstrated that another route is available: heavy optimization can produce remarkable results on weaker hardware and with lower memory bandwidth; simply paying Nvidia more isn’t the only way to make better models.

https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/

they are building a plant in Arizona, but i doubt it’ll ever be as good as Taiwan can do, not just because Taiwan has the skills but if Taiwan doesn’t have this then what’s the point of protecting it? It’s sort of a way to say, if you want to to continue to access the best chips in the world you should protect us from China

Hard to tell at this stage but models may get a hell of a lot bigger if the hardware required to train them is much smaller or it may plateau for a while while everyone else works on training their stuff using significantly less power and hardware

Using mistral to calculate this but looks close enough

1921 + 1673 + 242 + 85 + 84 + 84 + 83 + 82 + 81 + 80 + 79 + 77 + 77 + 75 + 74 + 73 + 72 + 71 + 70 + 69 + 68 + 68 + 67 + 66 + 65 + 64 + 63 + 62 + 61 + 60 + 59 + 58 + 57 + 56 + 55 + 54 + 53 + 52 + 52 + 51 + 50 + 48 + 48 + 47 + 46 + 45 + 44 + 43 + 41 + 21 + 18 = 7264ms

So, the total sum of all the time values is 7264 milliseconds, or 7.264 seconds

Removing the snapd services: 7264ms - 3836ms = 3428ms

Not really noticed it tbh:

1.951s snapd.seeded.service

1.673s snapd.service

Seems to be a lot longer than the mounts themselves but even then pretty minimal impact:

$ systemd-analyze blame | grep snap | grep mount
   86ms snap-bare-5.mount
   85ms snap-blanket-49.mount
   84ms snap-btop-813.mount
   83ms snap-btop-814.mount
   82ms snap-chromium-3010.mount
   82ms snap-chromium-3025.mount
   80ms snap-core18-2829.mount
   79ms snap-core18-2846.mount
   78ms snap-core20-2379.mount
   77ms snap-core20-2434.mount
   76ms snap-core22-1663.mount
   76ms snap-core22-1722.mount
   75ms snap-core24-609.mount
   74ms snap-core24-716.mount
   73ms snap-cups-1067.mount
   72ms snap-firefox-5600.mount
   71ms snap-firefox-5647.mount
   70ms snap-firmware\x2dupdater-127.mount
   69ms snap-firmware\x2dupdater-147.mount
   68ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-198.mount
   67ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d38\x2d2004-140.mount
   66ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d38\x2d2004-143.mount
   65ms snap-gnome\x2d42\x2d2204-172.mount
   64ms snap-gnome\x2d42\x2d2204-176.mount
   63ms snap-gnome\x2d46\x2d2404-66.mount
   62ms snap-gnome\x2d46\x2d2404-77.mount
   61ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1534.mount
   60ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1535.mount
   59ms snap-libreoffice-330.mount
   58ms snap-libreoffice-334.mount
   57ms snap-mesa\x2d2404-143.mount
   56ms snap-mesa\x2d2404-44.mount
   55ms snap-nvtop-171.mount
   54ms snap-pinta-33.mount
   53ms snap-pinta-37.mount
   52ms snap-snap\x2dstore-1244.mount
   51ms snap-snap\x2dstore-1248.mount
   50ms snap-snapd-23258.mount
   49ms snap-snapd-23545.mount
   48ms snap-snapd\x2ddesktop\x2dintegration-247.mount
   47ms snap-snapd\x2ddesktop\x2dintegration-253.mount
   46ms snap-surfshark-51.mount
   44ms snap-telegram\x2ddesktop-6489.mount
   43ms snap-transmission-100.mount
   42ms snap-youtube\x2ddl-4630.mount
   41ms snap-youtube\x2ddl-4806.mount
   40ms var-snap-firefox-common-host\x2dhunspell.mount
   24ms snap-telegram\x2ddesktop-6495.mount

Why not? That was 10 years ago and they’re trying to be profitable in a space that is extremely difficult to make profit.

each snap installed slows down your boot time

How so? How much impact are we talking? First I’ve heard of this

10+ year Ubuntu user here, how have I been screwed again?

https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/gpt4all-scaling-test-time-compute

This release introduces the GPT4All Javascript Sandbox, a secure and isolated environment for executing code tool calls. When using Reasoning models equipped with Code Interpreter capabilities, all code runs safely in this sandbox, ensuring user security and multi-platform compatibility.

I use LM Studio as well but between this and LM Studios bug where LLM’s larger than 8b won’t load I’ve gone back to gpt4all

that’s interesting, in gpt4all they have the qwen reasoner v1 and it will run the code in a sandbox (for javascript anyway) and if it errors it will fix itself

Ukraine is no less European than Norway or the UK

I think in the context of Europe sure, in the context of integration into the wider Western European ecosystem no.

If Russia had invaded Norway or the UK NATO would have been engaged from minute 1 and Russians would have been exterminated like cockroaches on day 1

Poles and the Baltics have been shouting “you’re idiots” from the top of their lungs, we ignored them, considered their shouting to be the result of PTSD. Which yes I mean it is but also they were right.

Yep there were plenty of warning signs, and this is probably one of the few times (as much as it fucking kills me to say it) that Trump has been spot on:

Word for Word: President Trump Strongly Criticized Germany at Start of NATO Summit (C-SPAN) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqZf72pAhk

If a fucking moron like Trump can spot a problem (and end up being right about it) then I think the EU is making some serious mistakes.

EU may consider replacing Russian LNG imports with those from US, von der Leyen says November 9, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-may-consider-replacing-russian-lng-imports-with-those-us-von-der-leyen-says-2024-11-08/

This is a joke

tbh Ukraine was almost in a different era before Euromaidan, once they did that it cemented them as pro-west not potentially pro-west, and it’s unfortunate that as soon as it cemented it was moving away from Russia it was attacked by it, this timing was precise by Putin, it leaves it open to the fact that Ukraine hasn’t had enough time to fully integrate into the EU meaning that Europe doesn’t see it as one of its own, in the same way an attack on Italy would be seen.

For those who haven’t seen this is a bit exaggerated American style but still really good movie:

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom | Full Feature | Netflix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNxLzFfR5w