Three times in a row I've had to play against a bot in the Showdown BO3 ladder. Three in a row, and probably even more during the span of this evening It's worthless gameplay, unusable to get practice for a regional, a pure waste of time. @SmogonU it can't keep going on like this

So Anthropic claimed it ran a 26B AI model across fifteen $55 Android TV boxes. Setup 📺 15× off-brand Android TV boxes 💾 4GB RAM each 💰 ~$55 each 🧠 Gemma4-26B-A4B ⚡ ~0.39 tok/s Total hardware cost = ~$825. The model was sharded across the boxes using pipeline parallelism, so each tiny machine only had to hold and execute part of the network. Yes, 0.39 tps is sloooooooow. But, that 26B model was actually running across a pile of cheap consumer boxes that were never designed to be AI servers. 🎯And Anthropic also said that Qwen3.5-9B agents managed to set up inference successfully on 8 of 9 hardware types they tested, including Macs, Jetsons, and RTX systems. Source: Anthropic Frontier Red Team ⚠️Note that the 15-box demo was distributed inference. The self-replication experiments in the paper were separate.

Anyway the bot is a little expensive to run at ~$150/month, but I wanna keep them as a practice tool. So I'm thinking about ways to make it cheaper or just a Twitch stream of the bots battling themselves with team requests for channel points 24/7 just to cover these costs.

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Sucker Punch Endgames. How do you play them, and when do you click it? Do you spam it every turn?

Underrated moment in history is when Mussolini asked why Horthy (dictator of Hungary) was still called "the admiral horthy" even though his country was landlocked, to which Horthy responded "Why does Italy still have a finance minister".