Rio de Janeiro's city government’s municipal IT company (whatever that means) just dropped an excellent AI model.

reminder

Just how good was fable ? I could not get it to run even once because of the stuff I have been working through on.

Fable keeps bumping me down. Decided it was because I am doing something important enough to be dangerous. Hmph

The bull seems to be the Genghis Khan of bulls

Gemma 4 dropped a 12B. I put it on RTX 5090 against its 31B sibling. when you cut a model from 31B to 12B, what do you actually lose? ~ reasoning barely moves GSM8K (math) 97.5 > 96.4 (−1.1) ARC-C (sci reasoning) 97.6 > 94.0 (−3.6) ~ knowledge falls off a cliff MMLU (world knowledge) 87.8 > 78.9 (−8.9) HellaSwag (commonsense) 92.0 > 81.6 (−10.4) ~~~ parameters store facts, not thinking. the 19B you delete is mostly where the model kept its trivia and world-priors, cut it and recall collapses, while the reasoning machinery stays nearly whole. a 12B reasons almost like its big brother. It just knows less. 122 tok/s vs 53 (2.3x faster generation), ~10GB instead of ~24, meaning that you get 20GB free on a 32GB card for long context or a second model. so it depends of your workload: reasoning / math / agentic loops = the 12B is nearly free broad-knowledge Q&A with no retrieval = that's the one job worth paying for the 31B.

mind your own fucking business

Somehow reminded of Ratatouille here.

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You Know a Film is Going to be Masterpiece, When Matt Damon Wants to Go Home!

Something that is obvious in hindsight but wasn't at first (to me): CTOs operate in a high-trust universe, CEOs operate in a low-trust universe. A reductive framing: CTO = epistemic environment CEO = narrative environment

How would a person carrying a powered screwdriver or drill carry the thing while flying ? Bits in check-in and the main part in carry on ?

wth is consulting the rubber duck now

Feel super happy to see all the love Obsidian gets :). Been my tool of choice from early days. Such a clean product.

This is how fiber optics work basically

This is so good.

Egmore represent

'I'm aghast by the jnanpith decision.' 'Me too.' 'Me too.' 'Me too.' 'Me too.' 'Me too'. 'Me too'. Me too.' 'Me too.' 'Me too.' 'Me too.' 'Me too'. 'Me too'.

made a hook that adds a bouncing dvd logo to claude code whenever it's thinking

Agree