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This blog
I'm writing the blog in English because I type twice as fast this way than in Russian (yes I am improving...), and 90% of my friends and friends can read English any way. I answer comments in the same language they are posted ( Read more... ) -
Резиновая бомба продолжает сеять разрушения
Recent (end of 2024!!) social media discussion ( Read more... ) -
New author
Maybe I am a bit too late, but I just discovered this guy
Not a great literature, but OK.
1. "Кровь на воздух" - LLMs in space opera setting. Darkness - 5/10
2. "Седьмая мапа" Cyberpunk world - high tech, low life. Interesting setting - a cyberpunk city. Darkness - 7/10
3. "Хранители Мультиверсума ", Darkness - 8/10
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Exams and big tech interviews.
Back in university, my friends and I had a trick when it came to exams in advanced physics and math courses: we’d try to sit exams with a postdoc or, better yet, a PhD student rather than a seasoned professor. Professors, with decades of experience, could gauge a student’s depth of understanding after just a few questions, accurately assigning ( Read more... ) -
Flux model works great on Macs
After Black Forest released the Flux model, I think everyone started trying it and comparing with DALL-E3, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion 3. I am cancelling my Midjourney subscription. (Not that I used it a lot, local SD-3 was mostly good enough for me ( Read more... ) -
Lufthansa adventures
4:50pm your flight to Munich is delayed by 20 minutes. (Me - I see on the flightradar, thunderstorm on incoming flight route was not your fault ( Read more... ) -
Три главных графомана рунета 2010-х и теория подковы
Интересно сравнить творчество трех самых плодовитых графоманов рунета. Если что, здесь я использую слово "графоман" отнюдь не как ругательное. Просто они очень любят писать, и публикуют в сети мегабайты и мегабайты своих художественных текстов ( Read more... ) -
At last: Russian LLM fine-tune
For a long time, there was no decent local LLM that understood and spoke Russian well. I've tested many fine-tunes, and they all behaved significantly dumber when answering in Russian than their respective English originals ( Read more... ) -
Слово чушпана: conspiracy theory
Let's imagine, for a moment, that the late Soviet KGB was not simply a group of bureaucratic careerists, resembling characters from "Our Man in Havana." Instead, consider it as an omnipresent and possibly self proclaimed benevolent force that started working to counter the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union ( Read more... )