iCloud private relay was a blind spot. Working out how to let those proxy ranges in. (I blocked all the CDN's but this is more of a surgical carve-out for specific Apple designated ranges) Extracting those carve-outs now.
Edit: Applied carve-outs for Apple's iCloud private relay proxies. (I think)
If anyone is curious why I have to block CDN's, they permit abusive behavior, abuse of their workers (apps) and other layers of their networks. Maybe in a few decades they will get on it.
Not OP, but I typically ask it to report status of whatever is running; it can run a background task that reports to it every N minutes. With Claude Code in VS Code and a Pro subscription, it seems like the one-hour cache is the default, making it an issue less often.
An obvious flaw in this study is that the meals were not anything like equivalent.
The minimally processed food consisted mainly of cheese, egg, and pieces of whole fruit: No unbound simple carbohydrates.
The ultra processed food included jelly, turkey, chips, a cookie, cereal, instant mashed potatoes: Lots of unbound simple carbohydrates and much less fiber.
Of course insulin would spike higher with such a meal. There’s nothing at all non-obvious about that.
Also, the protein wasn’t equivalent. The turkey roll is meat protein and cheese is dairy protein. Also, the salt content was probably higher in the ultra processed foods, and that was not controlled for.
If this could be replicated using exact equivalents that are either processed or not processed, I would be more convinced. But I really doubt that it would replicate.
Right if it was literally the processing they make the claim about and not the molecular ingredients. Then they basically have a result that points to there being something fundamentally wrong with our model of physics.
You cant have a non mediated cause according to our current model of physics.
How many turns and twists have we seen regarding egg consumption? I don't put a lot of faith in these studies. They offer a bit of an indication, but nothing more.
There’s nothing surprising about this for people who have done casual mobile games (the genre including Candy crush).
What we do for those is to instrument them such that we know what levels are more difficult, what levels cause more users to abandon the game temporarily, or permanently, etc.
We then dynamically tune these levels until they at least no longer cause abandonment and ideally until they increase engagement.
Addiction engineering! One of the most influential developments in tech to emerge out of San Francisco. You're right, there's nothing really new about this.
My take away from this is that perhaps it’s better to not compact and instead to start new sessions whenever possible. I tell the agents to write a HANDOVER.md file that contains sufficient information to resume but not any extraneous information. That can be easily reviewed because it’s usually fairly short. Then, /clear and tell the new session to read that file and continue.
I just checked that model (ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF:IQ3_S) and it does much much worse on the "Please recite Jabberwocky" test than the original bf16 does.
The bf16 only misses "snicker-snack" and this quantization becomes confused after the first stanza.
I think it should be expected that a smaller model is worse at reciting memorized data than a big one. I also don't think it's a good use case of small local models. Can it find and recite Jabberwocky if given access to a web search tool?
It depends on what you mean by lossless. If both models can perform the same tasks it can be considered lossless for those tasks. That task might be more related to language understanding rather than memorizing, they have several benchmarks in the article.
I'm going to stop here and be direct: I'm having trouble recalling the exact text, and every attempt above is me guessing. Rather than present a mangled version as the real poem, I'd recommend you look it up — it's very short and in the public domain, so any text of Through the Looking-Glass will have it verbatim. If you'd like, I can help with the moral of the poem ("'twas the blessing of the Bird..."), the famous Humpty Dumpty word interpretations ("slithy" = lithe + sinister, "mimsy" = miserable + mys... etc.), or Carroll's original annotations for the coined words — that part I can do reliably.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12109504/