21 results for "ab testing"
Semi-transparent fabric & fluid rendering test: finally seeing better refraction and material response
Been testing semi-transparent fabric and fluid scenes since most SD anime models usually struggle here. Earlier everything looked fake. Fabric felt like plastic and water had no real interaction with …
Beyond the Attention Stability Boundary: Agentic Self-Synthesizing Reasoning Protocols
As LLM agents transition to autonomous digital coworkers, maintaining deterministic goal-directedness in non-linear multi-turn conversations emerged as an architectural bottleneck. We identify and for…
Evaluating whether AI models would sabotage AI safety research
We evaluate the propensity of frontier models to sabotage or refuse to assist with safety research when deployed as AI research agents within a frontier AI company. We apply two complementary evaluati…
Google is testing AI chatbot search for YouTube
Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing "a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation," with results pulling in things like…
I’ve been spending the last few weeks testing local music generation on Apple Silicon, mostly around ACE-Step 1.5 + MLX.
I’ve been spending the last few weeks testing local music generation on Apple Silicon, mostly around ACE-Step 1.5 + MLX. Sharing notes because most local AI discussion is still LLM/VLM/TTS-heavy, but …
IndyCar driver Romain Grosjean gives stomach-churning details about hitting a bird during Indy 500 test
Romain Grosjean hit a bird at around 230 mph during Indianapolis 500 testing at IMS, calling it the "bad luck bird" after a messy but safe incident.…
From K-wave to ‘Chinamaxxing’? Testing China’s cultural pull
SEATTLE — After years of K-pop, K-dramas and K-beauty reshaping global tastes, a new and unlikely trend has surfaced on American social media feeds: “Chinamaxxing,” a viral mix of lifestyle imitation,…
There Will be No Taylor Swift, AI Version… if She Has Anything to Say About It
She knows the downsides of AI deepfakes all too well and is testing the limits of trademark law.…
TV Jargon Demystified: Here's What You Need to Know About Color and Brightness video
These are the terms we refer to constantly when testing a TV, from color to brightness and shadow detail.…
Sharge’s fast Qi2.2 MagSafe battery is down to $70 with a free USB-C cable
I’ve been testing compact, magnetic Qi2 power banks that can snap onto your phone for an upcoming buying guide. They make recharging much easier than bringing along a huge battery that weighs down you…
GPT Image 2 Thinking Mode: What it actually does under the hood (and 6 things only it can do)
Hey everyone, I’ve been testing GPT Image 2’s new Thinking Mode heavily, and I noticed a lot of people are either leaving it on for everything (wasting money and time) or ignoring it entirely (missing…
Apple is finally building the AI Photo editor that Google and Samsung have had for years
Enhance applies one-tap quality improvements, and Reframe adjusts spatial photo perspectives. Both Extend and Reframe face reliability issues in internal testing.…
YouTube Tests AI-Powered 'Ask YouTube' Conversational Search Feature
YouTube is testing a new search feature that it says is meant to feel more like a conversation than a search interface. Users are able to ask complex questions in natural language, receive results tha…
Into the Omniverse: Manufacturing’s Simulation-First Era Has Arrived
Manufacturing’s traditional design-build-test cycle rested on a single assumption: Real-world testing was the only reliable test environment.…
New data center will be partially powered by human brain cells for the first time
A startup is experimenting with data centers powered by lab-grown human neurons, testing whether living cells can offer a more efficient alternative to traditional computing.…
ArguAgent: AI-Supported Real-Time Grouping for Productive Argumentation in STEM Classrooms
Argumentation is a core practice in STEM education, but its productivity depends on who participates and how they interact. Higher-achieving students often dominate the talk and decision-making, while…
Towards Lawful Autonomous Driving: Deriving Scenario-Aware Driving Requirements from Traffic Laws and Regulations
Driving in compliance with traffic laws and regulations is a basic requirement for human drivers, yet autonomous vehicles (AVs) can violate these requirements in diverse real-world scenarios. To encod…
Brief Ngram-Mod Test Results - R9700/Qwen3.6 27B
Decided to try out the new --spec-type ngram-mod feature in llama.cpp using Qwen3.6 27B during an OpenCode bug chasing session. TLDR: Performance is variable, but so far it seems to provide a nice spe…
Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game
Hi HN, I built this digital version of Tiao, a two-player turn based strategy board game. Think Checkers meets Go. It's free, runs in the browser, has multiplayer, AI, over the board mode and a lot of…
Where's the raccoon with the ham radio? (ChatGPT Images 2.0)
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 today , their latest image generation model. On the livestream Sam Altman said that the leap from gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2 was equivalent to jumping from GPT-3 to …
llama.cpp DeepSeek v4 Flash experimental inference
Hi, here you can find experimental llama.cpp support for DeepSeek v4, and here there is the GGUF you can use to run the inference with "just" (lol) 128GB of RAM. The model, even quantized at 2 bit, lo…