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Deepseek-r1-0528-Qwen3-8b doesn't know what a Sigillaria is.. Gemma3 same.. I guess they did not speak American English, or Chinese Mandarin, 300 million years ago.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sigillaria is a genus of extinct, spore-bearing, arborescent lycophyte, known from the Carboniferous and Permian periods. It is related to the more famous Lepidodendron, and more distantly to modern quillworts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigillar

Addendum: Gemma3 4B. 27B can answer correctly.

#prehistory #plants #LLM #Deepseek

It started churning out an endless string of zeros after the first 50 digits:
Pi sayısı: 3.14159265358979311599796346854418516159057617187500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000......
It was still going on printing the zeros when I started writing this post.
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#python #Deepseek #Pi

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

technologyreview.com/2025/05/2

Paywall Free: archive.is/mnHb8

MIT Technology Review · We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.By James O'Donnell