Comment by refulgentis
14 hours ago
Because I want to read about Qwen, not someone's one-off vibe test followed by 1:1 conversations. (case in miniature here: which is the last comment in this thread that says something about Qwen? The root post. Is that fun policing? Yes, apologies.)
There's a bunch of useful information in my comment that's independent of the fact that it drew a pelican:
1. You can run this on a Mac using llama-server and a 17GB downloaded file
2. That version does indeed produce output (for one specific task) that's of a good enough quality to be worth spending more time checking out this model
3. It generated 4,444 tokens in 2min 53s, which is 25.57 tokens/s
Right, that is exactly what I meant by "the root post [had info about Qwen]" - you shouldn't feel I'm being critical of you or asking you to do anything different, at all. I admire you deeply and feel humbled* by interacting with you, so I really want that to be 100% clear, because this is the 2nd time I'm reading that it might be personal.
* er, that probably sounds strange, but I did just spend 6 weeks working on integrating the Willison Trifecta for my app I've been building for 2.5 years, and I considered it a release blocker. It's a simple mental model that is a significant UX accomplishment IMHO.
I like the pelican-bicycle test because it's pretty predictive of how the model does helping me with TikZ. And I hate writing TikZ.
Somewhat ironically - as of when I write this this tangent is dominating the size of this topic.
I think it's to help drive traffic to his blog now that he's accepted sponsors in the header of every page. I do see this pelican thing come up from him on every model post that gets released.
The traffic I get from a comment with a link to a pelican is pretty tiny.
"Create me an SVG to drive MAXIMUM ENGAGEMENT for my sponsors".
Missing an opportunity here, lol.