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Do frontier labs not distill their own bigger models into the smaller/cheaper variants? I thought that’s been the case for a while

GPT‑5.5 Instant 3 months ago

Looks like it gives more readable answer, hopefully it does, the regular free ChatGPT modal right now is insufferable.

That's a matter of changing a law, it's all up to the people and their representatives. We talk as if everything is set on stone but if there really is a will, there is a way.

I remember my father showing me one of those articles when I was a kid about a postal stamp size, thin and lightweight new memory system. I remember we were as doubtful then as you are now. A few years later I remember that moment while switching the micro SD card of a camera… Sometimes this breakthroughs turns out to be exactly as they are told

Building a C compiler is definitely hard for humans, but I don’t think it’s particularly strong evidence of "intelligence" from an LLM. It’s a very well understood, heavily documented problem with lots of existing implementations and explanations in the training data.

These kinds of tasks are relatively easy for LLMs, they’re operating in a solved design space and recombining known patterns. It looks impressive to us because writing a compiler from scratch is difficult and time consuming for a human, not because of the problem itself.

That doesn’t mean LLMs aren’t useful, even if progress plateaued tomorrow, they’d still be very valuable tools. But building yet another C compiler or browser isn’t that compelling as a benchmark. The industry keeps making claims about reasoning and general intelligence, but I’d expect to see systems producing genuinely new approaches or clearly better solutions, not just derivations of existing OSS.

Instead of copying a big project, I'd be more impressed if they could innovate in a small one.

Gemini 3 8 months ago

The point of benchmarking that is checking for hallucinations and overfitting. Does the model actually check the picture to count the legs or does it just see it's a dog and answer four because it knows dogs usually has four legs?

It's a perfectly valid benchmark and very telling.

I've noticed my iPhone get hot the most while using the camera. Especially while taking video, but after a few photos it gets hot as well. I was on vacations last week in a tropical country and took a lot of photos with my 16 Pro and it gets so hot after just a few photos that it starts lagging A LOT due to the throttling.

I'm sure this is handy for LLM usage, but this was a problem before those were a thing I'd say.

No Calls 2 years ago

“ No sales calls, except for a short 'discovery call' if absolutely needed.”

But it’s the default call to action for bigger inquiries

No Calls 2 years ago

I even went back to check the post date, but it’s from today and yet they do have a “book a call” button. I don’t get it. Is this just marketing?

I didn't know about `taskpolicy`, I'll add it to my list. It will be handy now that it's getting hot around here for long running commands that I don't mind waiting for, Apple Silicon Macs run cooler than Intel's but they can still get very hot when maxed out.

I switched to WezTerm a few months ago after setting up a new computer and missing an easy way to share the iTerm2 config between my computers just like I do with most of my other tools that use dotfiles.

It’s a very nice application, easy to configure, very customisable, stable. I’ve only have experienced one bug with app, I opened an issue in GH and Wez had a nightly version with a fix in just a few hours.

If you haven’t check it out yet, I highly recommend it.

When I was a teenager, my friends and I played this free MMO game online. A friend was told by another friend of him about a bug in the game. This bug would let you receive the reward of a certain mission without marking it as complete, so you could get the reward as many time as you wanted.

Me and my friend started exploiting the bug like crazy, spending hours literally just doing that. The problem was that the process to exploit this bug was very convoluted and a pain to do manually.

I had no experience of programming nor anyone around who knew anything about it, but I felt that there must be a way to do the whole process automatically. Computers are meant to automate stuff, right? Anyway, I started investigating online and found AutoIt, which is a BASIC-like scripting language that allows you to automate GUI stuff.

I then began building a script that did literally what I had to do manually to exploit that bug. And literally means literally. The way I made it work was by scanning colors in coordinates (to check whether a window it's opened, etc), moving the mouse and clicking. The script was full of duplicate code. I didn't knew about loops. All I knew was if conditions and mouse actions. I even remember having to go to a forum and asking for help (in super broken English) because I wanted to keep the program running indefinitely (they told me to use `while true`). But it worked.

Anyway, I spent about two weeks of after school afternoons building this bot. Then, when I had it working, got banned in a matter of days :^)

This might not seems like much, but I remember it fondly as this was my introduction to programming and the reason this became my career. I'm still holding onto the (terrible, terrible) script.

Have you tried using EquatableViews? That would let you customize if you want the view to get updated when the diffing occurs. Seems like a perfect fit for your issue.

Of course it is comparable. They are not quite the same thing, sure, but for many people they are definitely comparable and more often than not, VSCode is the better option. It may not support some things, but the same can be said about the “full blown IDE”.