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In computer science, one definition of algorithm is basically any program that runs on a turing machine. By that definition, any LLM is an algorithm.

Absolutely do not pay for the kimi plans thinking they will be cheaper. If you sign up with a Chinese phone number, you can get the same plan for 200 yuan instead of 200 usd, it also only accepts Chinese payment methods iirc. So the plans are really made for Chinese userbase.

This was extremely impressive to me. AtCoder has the hardest problems these days, usually the human onsite final round contestants can't solve more than 2 or 3 problems. This year the problem setter sets the round in a way that maximizes humans chance of winning. Then OpenAI just comes in and solves all problems..

No point for them to even go to IOI or ICPC this year anymore, those are all much easier than this Atcoder contest. And given the mathematical nature of AtCoder problems, not sure if there's any value to do IMO either, except for publicity of course.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

Mythos probably wouldn't, otherwise they'd have included it in their release. Next version of Mythos probably will though.

And yeah.. Reality has not been kind to LeCun.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

SWE-bench series just aren't that great by today's standard, even Anthropic previously stated Claude had memorized solutions for the non Pro version of the benchmark, I suspect the recent increase in the score for the Pro version probably also had similar behaviors.

But anyway, I think it's pretty useless to look at SWE Bench's now when other way better benchmarks exist.

Grok 4.5 13 days ago

Huh so that's why it's hard to find. They probably haven't properly optimized their caching, or they are just trying to make more money from there.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

And they'd be right, it's an almost saturated benchmark where even some subpar open source models score very well on. And most models are clustered within a small range so it really doesn't tell you much.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

SWE-Bench pro is pretty much useless now even though many ppl still look at it. OpenAI published a report yesterday saying so as well. Only look at DeepSWE and FrontierCode right now for coding imo.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

GPT usually performs better on DeepSWE while Claude does better on FrontierCode. These two coding benchmarks are pretty much the only ones right now that's still worth taking a look at imo.

Most programming is that, but most music and literature are probably uninspired junks as well. But there are many beautiful algorithms (such as the ones in Knuths books) that are more beautiful than any music for me personally.

I think at the current stage of LLM, it just doesn't make sense to ever have an annual sub. Things change too quickly that you really don't want to be stuck with one model.

Hmm your last sentence seems to exactly agree that it's a class of algos that parallelize well? What does sped up arbitrarily mean? It's still polynomial speed up right?