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UK cinemas look at banning Meta smart glasses over piracy fears

Not that bootleg videos are really even watchable in the first place. Anyone who has ever misconfigured Radarr and got excited that a movie showed up earlier than expected, only to find out it’s a shitty hdcam release knows the disappointment.

A screen recorded with Meta spy glasses would be worse. Hold your head still, damnit—no, look at the screen, not your popcorn, and chew quietly for fuck’s sake.

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Low to midrange systems (8-32 GB) vs. free cloud tiers

Qwen 3.8 27B is about on par with Sonnet 5 for coding according to benchmarks and anecdotally.

I had a 3070 that I traded in for a new 7900 XTX at a final price of around $730. It’s about the most sanely priced 24GB GPU available in 2026 and runs Qwen 3.8 27B at around 30 t/s decode with MTP on llama.cpp for me.

Otherwise, 3.6 35B worked fine in my 3070, though it made quite a bit more mistakes than 3.6 27B. Guess it’s more like Haiku.

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LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada

Andrew Ng said artificial neural networks are like a “cartoon brain”, which I think is pretty apt. It’s cool that having billions of parameters (cartoon “synapses”) can result in emergent behavior where a machine can “reason”. That was the original idea from as far back as the 1940s, and now we have the compute and have found a transformer architecture that can achieve the original vision. Very cool indeed. What’s not cool is the tech bros turning the tech into a large scale game of blackjack.