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Comaps and organic maps are very similar (they forked very recently). The only difference I can think of from the top of my mind is that organic maps is not fully open source (map files and generator are proprietary) and has some kayak sponsored suggestions/reviews

Claude Opus 4.7 3 months ago

They might have further trained the model with these edgecases in the dataset

ChatGPT cannot do math. It can only string together words and numbers in a way that can convince an outsider that it can do math

What am I as a human doing when I "Do math" ?

1.I am looking at the problem at hand, identifying what I have and what I need to get

2.I am then doing a prediction using my pretrained neural net to find possible courses of action to go in a direction that "feels" right

3.I am using my pretrained neural net to find pairs of values that I can substitute with each other (Think multiplication tables, standard results, etc...)

4.Repeat till I arrive at the answer or give up.

As a simple example, when I try to find 600×74+42 I remember the steps for multiplication. I recall the associated pairs of numbers from my tables and complete the multiplication step by step. I then recall the associated pairs of numbers for addition of single digits and add from left to right.

We need to remember that just because we are fast at doing this and are able to do it subconsciously it doesn't mean that we can natively do math, we just do association of information using the neural networks we have trained.

Wouldn't there be a point where the mainstream approach is to just have compiled blobs write directly to the canvas, say a point where someone compiles a qt application and hosts it on their website.

What can you even modify there, when all the structure is flattened into a single layer

The community forked and created comaps because the organic maps maintainers were unwilling to listen to the community, taking decisions that the community disapproved of.

Comaps seems to be more active than organic maps today

Google Opal 7 months ago

How do I even know this is a real Google product? Okay I’ll trust the domain

it is not even the expected opal.google.com it is opal.google, you need to be 100% sure beforehand that google has the sole rights to the .google tld (which an average person wouldn't know)

The behavior also seems sketchy with it asking for permission but then rejecting any usage if all of the permissions are not approved (why even ask then, you are google)

after re-finding the link through a confirmed subdomain.google.com site I tried to sign in and got this error

``` An unexpected signin error occured.Error checking geo access ```

so I gave up