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GLM 5.2 Is Out 1 month ago

It’s just Occam’s razor since it specifically references “ Today, the sudden restriction of certain frontier models is deeply regrettable.” in the tweet.

[dead] 8 months ago

If Waymos do not use local models it would be a horrible decision.

Different tax loopholes depending on region etc, but basically like this:

I’m a billionaire earning $100M this year.

I owe $40M as taxes for that. (Too much!)

I find a dumb banana painting by a starving artist.

I buy it from him for $1000.

I wait 6 months.

I go to a museum to get it appraised by “professionals”.

I pay the professional appraiser’s wife $50K as a gift.

The appraiser says the painting is now worth $30M!

Wow that’s awesome, I have such a keen eye for art.

You know what, I’m gonna donate this painting to a museum instead because I’m such a patron of art and culture.

Oh, look at that, I get a tax rebate for the value of my donated painting ($30M)

Now I only have to pay $40M - $30M = $10M in taxes on my $100M income.

There’s more nuance to it in practice, but that’s the gist of it.

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Edit: For some reason I can't reply to the comments below so I'm gonna do it here.

That wouldn't explain the price here, since in your scam the whole idea is to buy cheap and donate dear. not buy for 139M

Now we're getting in the details but it's very suspicious for an appraiser to appraise a work of art from an unknown artist at millions. But it's not that suspicious if they take Van Gogh's Starry Night which was previously appraised at $500M to now be valued at $1B. this way the deca-billionaire still gets to save his taxes while appraiser avoids suspicion.

As far as I know, that's not how taxes work. You can't get a rebate for the amount of taxes you would have paid, you can get a deduction for the amount of money you made.

There are a lot of loopholes in the complicated tax system for the ultra-wealthy, not for us. This video (still a simple explanation in an animated way) covers a few more of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHy07B-UHkE

Nano Banana Pro 8 months ago

Interesting they didn’t post any benchmark results - lmarena/artificial analysis etc. I would’ve thought they’d be testing it behind the scenes the same way they did with Gemini 3.

Dark Pattern Games 8 months ago

The website does label some relatively harmless elements as ‘dark patterns’, but out of your ‘really bad ones’, I don’t see ‘Competition’ as being a dark pattern.

Competition is a fundamental part of Play. Humans (and other animals) are social creatures and learn via playing and competing with others.

Can people play games by themselves? Yes.

Is competitive play bad or a dark pattern? Not at all.

Blender Lab 8 months ago

The top navigation definitely put me off, I immediately came back without even scrolling down.

Counterpoint: Humans visualize stuff in their minds before trying new things or when learning new concepts. An AI system with LLM based language center and a world model to visualize during training and inference would help it overlap more of human intelligence. Also it looks cool.

Edit: After seeing your edited (longer) comment, I have no idea what you’re talking about.

I would assume the next iterations/fine-tuned variants of current models would reach similar accuracy for TOON as they do for JSON.

The current models unfortunately do not have TOON in their training set, so they would probably require additional input tokens to grok the notation, and even then probably won’t have the same accuracy as they do for JSON.

android (in an economic sense) is dead weight

Well it depends on your business model. Android has much smaller user LTV in most cases (especially in apps with no ads and only IAPs/Subscriptions), but the CPI is also smaller, so the economies of scale are different. In certain situations it happens that iOS is not profitable but android is.

ChatGPT Atlas 9 months ago

Duh? It just launched. That’s like saying there are way more people using vscode than cursor on the day cursor launched.

ChatGPT Atlas 9 months ago

Can’t believe the top comment to this post is an ad of a competitor. No offense, your extension seems fine, but realistically how are you planning on surviving given OpenAI has moved to this space?