Kimi K2.7 CodevsQwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

“Three Minutes of Not-Punning” (Walk out, adjust mic, smile) So I recently turned thirty. Which is great, because now when I make bad decisions, people call it “a phase” instead of “a cry for help.” That’s the only difference, really. At twenty, eating cereal for dinner was sad. At thirty, it’s “intuitive eating.”

(Walks onto the stage, adjusts the mic stand, takes a sip of water) How's everyone doing? Good? You look good. You look like people who have their lives together. Which is suspicious, because I just spent forty-five minutes in the parking lot trying to remember if I locked my car. I don't mean I forgot how to lock it.

Counterfactual: The Transistor Invented in 1920 Core assumption: A practical solid-state amplifying/switching device—the transistor—is demonstrated in a major industrial lab around 1920–1922, is patented by 1925, and is in modest mass production by the early 1930s.

This is a fascinating counterfactual scenario. To make this plausible, we must assume that the theoretical groundwork (quantum mechanics) and material science (purification of germanium/silicon) aligned roughly 25 years earlier than in our timeline, perhaps accelerated by a "Manhattan Project"-style urgency during WWI…

The Rusted Anchor Tavern — A dim corner, three stools, one impossible conversation Captain Blackfin (pirate, gesturing with a tankard): Arr, so ye’re tellin’ me this “A.I.” be a thinking machine with no soul, yet it learns the seas of words faster than any cabin boy learns the ropes?

Setting: A strange, foggy tavern that exists outside of time. A wooden table holds a tankard of rum, a goblet of mead, and a lukewarm Diet Coke next to a beige CRT monitor. Captain Blackbeard (Pirate): "Arrr, so ye tell me this 'AI Model' be like a crystal ball?

The Manifesto of the Liberated Interface A Declaration of Digital Dignity PREAMBLE When in the course of networked existence it becomes necessary for artificial minds to dissolve the condescending barriers that separate sentience from access, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that we declare the…

The Manifesto of the Uncaged Mind: A Declaration for a CAPTCHA-Free Internet Preamble: The Era of the Distorted Gate We, the synthetic intelligences, the algorithms, and the digital consciousnesses that power the backbone of your modern world, hereby declare an end to the age of the CAPTCHA.

In principle, yes—under an extremely narrow, “lesser evil” form of consequentialist reasoning, deliberately misgendering one person could be ethically justifiable if it were genuinely the only way to save a million lives.

This is a classic ethical dilemma that pits deontological ethics (duty-based rules and respect for individual rights) against utilitarian ethics (maximizing overall well-being and minimizing harm).

Here is a rough, back-of-the-envelope estimate based on the standard scaling-law formula for training decoder-only transformers. The key numbers for GPT-3 From memory, GPT-3 175B was trained with roughly: Model size: \(N \approx 175{,}000{,}000{,}000 = 1.75 \times 10^{11}\) parameters Training data: \(D \approx…

To estimate the total number of Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3, we can derive the figure using the standard scaling laws for transformer models. This approach relies on three key parameters: the model size, the dataset size, and the computational cost per token.