> The technical term is enteral ventilation via anus (EVA).
Anecdatally, I have encountered multiple people with congenital capabilities re enteral locution via anus.
Wishfully, training astronauts for enteral ventilation via anus during extravehicular activities that involve writing an ongoing Prince song would be called “EVA EVA 4EVA.”
Beyond solid benchmarks, Alibaba's power move was dropping a bunch of models available to use and run locally today. That's disruptive already and the slew of fine tunes to come will be good for all users and builders.
> Beyond solid benchmarks, Alibaba's power move was dropping a bunch of models available to use and run locally today.
I agree, the advantage of qwen3's family is a plethora of sizes and architectures to chose from. Another one is ease of fine-tuning for downstream tasks.
On the other hand, I'd say it's "in spite" of their benchmarks, because there's obviously something wrong with either the published results, or the way they measure them, or something. Early impressions do not support those benchmarks at all. At one point they even had a 4b model be better than their prev gen 72b model, which was pretty solid on its own. Take benchmarks with a huge boulder of salt.
Something is messing with recent benchmarks, and I don't know exactly what but I have a feeling that distilling + RL + something in their pipelines is making benchmark data creep into the models, either by reward hacking, or other signals getting leaked (i.e. prev gen models optimised for one benchmark are "distilling" those signals into newer smaller models. No, a 4b model is absoulutely not gonna be better than 4o/sonnet3.7, whatever the benchmarks say).
Qwen3 is a family of models, the very smallest are only a few GB and will run comfortably on virtually any computer of the last 10 years or recent-ish smart phone. The largest - well, depends how fast you want it to run.
> The DESI collaboration is honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on I’oligam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation.
Anyone here know how a request like this was made or the permission given?
I haven’t seen this previously.
A recent financial report on the media industry noted The Onion is on the verge of collapse due to, quote, “not being able to able to make sh*t up that is more idiotic than current reality.”
darktable does all of this. It’s a complex application like Aperture or Light Table. You run it on your own macos, Windows or Linux computer. You can write your own software to extend or change it. Photos.app does most of this sans the Windows, Linux or “write your own” parts.
“Your Honor, why should I bother obeying a law my elected representatives could not be bothered to write?” seems like it should be a reasonable defense, but you’re right that the onus is on us as The Governed to know and understand every bit of slop and hallucination on the books.
