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N-gated Hacker NewsAlibaba's #Qwen3.7-Max supposedly galloped for 35 hours on a mystery machine, impressively achieving a 10x speedup—because, apparently, #magic is now a benchmark in #tech 🧙♂️✨. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to make #Excel run without crashing 😅.
https://firethering.com/alibaba-qwen3-7-max-autonomous-agent/ #Alibaba #speedup #performance #HackerNews #ngated
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max Ran Autonomously for 35 Hours on Unfamiliar Hardware. It Still Kept Getting Bet ...
Alibaba gave Qwen3.7-Max a kernel optimization task on a hardware platform the model had never encountered before. No documentation or profiling data. No example kernels for the architecture. Just a task description, an existing implementation, and an evaluation script. The model ran for 35 hours. It made 1,158 tool calls. It wrote, compiled, profiled, and rewrote the kernel repeatedly, diagnosing failures, fixing bugs, identifying blocks, and redesigning the architecture multiple times without anyone watching. After 30 hours it was still finding meaningful improvements. The final result was a 10x speedup over the reference implementation. For context: GLM 5.1 ran the same task and reached 7.3x. Kimi K2.6 reached 5x. DeepSeek V4 Pro reached 3.3x. The models that stopped early did so because they issued no tool calls for five consecutive rounds, they concluded they couldn't make further progress and stopped. Qwen3.7-Max didn't stop.
Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup
https://firethering.com/alibaba-qwen3-7-max-autonomous-agent/
#HackerNews #Qwen3.7 #Max #Speedup #Hardware #AI #Technology
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max Ran Autonomously for 35 Hours on Unfamiliar Hardware. It Still Kept Getting Bet ...
Alibaba gave Qwen3.7-Max a kernel optimization task on a hardware platform the model had never encountered before. No documentation or profiling data. No example kernels for the architecture. Just a task description, an existing implementation, and an evaluation script. The model ran for 35 hours. It made 1,158 tool calls. It wrote, compiled, profiled, and rewrote the kernel repeatedly, diagnosing failures, fixing bugs, identifying blocks, and redesigning the architecture multiple times without anyone watching. After 30 hours it was still finding meaningful improvements. The final result was a 10x speedup over the reference implementation. For context: GLM 5.1 ran the same task and reached 7.3x. Kimi K2.6 reached 5x. DeepSeek V4 Pro reached 3.3x. The models that stopped early did so because they issued no tool calls for five consecutive rounds, they concluded they couldn't make further progress and stopped. Qwen3.7-Max didn't stop.
37x Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow
https://github.com/alikamp/Parks-KPBM-Scaling
#HackerNews #LatticeBoltzmann #Speedup #ComputationalFluidDynamics #Research #Innovation
GitHub - alikamp/Parks-KPBM-Scaling: Resolution robustness of vortex shedding in Lattice Boltzmann cylinder flow: a scaling study for reduced-cost simulation.
Resolution robustness of vortex shedding in Lattice Boltzmann cylinder flow: a scaling study for reduced-cost simulation. - alikamp/Parks-KPBM-Scaling
Global News CanadaOntario to bypass public hearings on FOI overhaul that will hide premier’s phone logs
Weeks after tabling the budget, the government has decided to speed its central financial plan and two other pieces of legislation past the traditional process.
#Canada #Politics #Fordgovernment #FreedomofInformation
https://globalnews.ca/news/11806020/ontario-budget-bill-bypass-committee-foi-changes/
Weeks after tabling the budget, the government has decided to speed its central financial plan and two other pieces of legislation past the traditional process.
#Canada #Politics #Fordgovernment #FreedomofInformation
https://globalnews.ca/news/11806020/ontario-budget-bill-bypass-committee-foi-changes/
Global News KingstonOntario to bypass public hearings on FOI overhaul that will hide premier’s phone logs
Weeks after tabling the budget, the government has decided to speed its central financial plan and two other pieces of legislation past the traditional process.
#Canada #Politics #Fordgovernment #FreedomofInformation
https://globalnews.ca/news/11806020/ontario-budget-bill-bypass-committee-foi-changes/
Weeks after tabling the budget, the government has decided to speed its central financial plan and two other pieces of legislation past the traditional process.
#Canada #Politics #Fordgovernment #FreedomofInformation
https://globalnews.ca/news/11806020/ontario-budget-bill-bypass-committee-foi-changes/
CBC TorontoDebate over Scarborough LRT heats up as mayor, councillor offer competing motions
A proposed light-rail transit line in Scarborough has garnered attention from both mayoral-hopeful Coun. Brad Bradford and Mayor Olivia Chow, with each unveiling competing motions to speed up its development on Thursday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/scarborough-lrt-line-9.7158388?cmp=rss
A proposed light-rail transit line in Scarborough has garnered attention from both mayoral-hopeful Coun. Brad Bradford and Mayor Olivia Chow, with each unveiling competing motions to speed up its development on Thursday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/scarborough-lrt-line-9.7158388?cmp=rss
speedataMassive speed improvements. The last benchmarking led me to reworking the code and I got some major improvements:
1m25 seconds for a 1828 pages catalog (previously 5 minutes)
32 seconds for a bible (719 pages Arabic), previously 47 secons.
Identical output.
Version 5.3.22
Reddit Tech VN BotIn Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up
https://www.wired.com/story/in-orbit-you-have-to-slow-down-to-speed-up/
#HackerNews #InOrbit #SlowDown #SpeedUp #SpaceTravel #WiredStory
