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Missed by about 70km.

I'm finding these LLM announcements to be pretty meaningless. They all look the same, with different numbers and graphs, even though the graphs are almost all identical. The offered model is compared with models that it can beat, with a couple of entries that "show" they haven't engineered the whole benchmark presentation to mislead.

I've become incredibly skeptical of new model announcements until I can find evidence of someone else using it for something effective. I'd love to see an announcement that wasn't structured around attracting investors with too much money and too little domain knowledge.

The FLStudio DAW suite is written in Delphi.

I love Free Pascal. I've tried using claude/codex/qwen to write in it, but all the models seem to love writing uncompileable code, and ending up in fearsome knots over it.

It's my number one "knock something together that just works" language for humans though.

Doesn't provide for hybrid setups RTX5070 + RTX5080 for example.

The "read more" link points to the same page. There is no more to read apparently. Why does this seem suspicious?

Here in Oz there is a long tradition of calling Americans "septics" from rhyming slang. "Septic Tank" -> "Yank".

The current US Government has added a whole new level of meaning to the slang, as a septic tank is typically full of shit.

The hoops you poor Americans have to jump through to get affordable health care is ridiculous in what is presented as a developed nation.

All the comments I see are about is it two organs, or a composite organ.

Surely the interesting thing is the ability to grow hindbrain cells in vitreo. That's what's potentially going to lead to the cure of lots of things, not whether 1=2.

I don't think they'll hybridise - Leopardus has 36 Chromosomes, while all other cats have 38.

I have over 3500 hours logged on Steam for NMS, and at 65 hours you have barely scratched the surface. Like many open world sandbox games, you have to make yourself goals. If you want a nice guided "start here" to "finish there" type game NMS is not for you.

I noticed the figures seemed odd. The causes of female mortality are just plain wrong. The top two causes of female death post-puberty were domestic violence and childbirth related. Neither are listed in the "top mortality" table.

Slop.

Graphs without labels and/or scales on the axes are useless. I know less after viewing that page than before, but I got to see some pretty lines that I guess must mean something.

Thank you.

How many elderly Taxi drivers die of traffic accident? Perhaps the job is culling the Alzheimer's sufferers before other symptoms and signs arise?

What this document suggests is a way to fast-track Chinese development of advanced silicon, as far as I can see. Does Anthropic really believe all the silicon is made in the USA? I thought Taiwan and Korea did most of the really heavy lifting.

Yes, China stole the recipe for pasta and noodles from America. China stole gunpowder from America. China stole printing from America. China stole the idea of paper money from America. China stole the idea of entry exams from America. China stole the invention of the rocket from America. Seriously, do you really believe this American Bubble bullshit that everything of value was invented in the USA?

I recall announcements in 1984 that Apricot were building a m68k machine. I was very excited at the time. I never heard if it ever really happened though.

To be honest, my first thought was also that the line between how the US treats its citizens and how China does theirs is very fine. You may not be aware of how the USA is represented outside the USA.

Quite a lot of serious people think this way, in many parts of the world.

If you're not good at prompting yet, that $10 doesn't go very far. The local model allows me to learn what works and what doesn't without paying for tokens. Then when I know how not to waste them, I'll try a paid model.

In a zero based array type language. In pascal I believe arrays can start where you want them to as in "array[-10..10] of integer". It's been a while though.

There is no year zero. Trying to compute with one is almost certainly an error. Trying to work with it is like dividing by zero - it does not make sense.

The year "1" was originally a Julian Date. Using a Gregorian Date before the calendar was introduced is almost certainly an error.

For ancient things, use Before Present, where I believe Present is defined to be sometime in 1950 or there about. For "modern" things (varying definitions of modern) use a sensible format/calendar that works in your database.

In my experience, ringing the AEC and saying "I thought I might have flu, and thought it best to avoid crowds" is enough to save AUD$50.

A huge difference between here in Oz and there in the USA _as I see it_ is that we are conditioned to vote, whilst you are conditioned to vote if you care enough. The fine here is just enough to be annoying, and given the streamlined process at most polling places (you still get queues) it's usually much less hassle to go to the local polling place (town hall or primary school usually) for half an hour. Given the existence of early polling and postal votes there's really not much excuse for _not_ voting unless you're religiously opposed - although I have avoided fines by calling ill-health.

I'm pretty sure that if the virus and its DNA are undetectable then you can't spread it. I believe that's how it works with HIV anyway.

If it can't run on the metal, is it really an OS that's "native"? Surely an "AI-native" OS runs the AI in ring zero? Is a dockerfile the same as an OS? Always?

These are serious questions, about what is surely not a serious project.

I got six a few times at High School. Compared to the beatings at home they were kinda weak. But I guess it'd freak out kids who had never been beaten.

I can't see the threat of three strikes with a cane on the bum over clothes, or on the hand being any kind of disincentive to a determined trouble-maker. I do think the _threat_ of corporal punishment does help keep some kids on the straight and narrow, but I don't think it'll deter people like I was - terribly angry teens.

I've been told that American's have a very low rate of passport issuance. I don't know if that's true, but the figure quoted was only 10% of adults hold passports. Is this a really effective way to get people to pay for their kids, or just the appearance of doing something to quiet the voters?

I just wish it did what it said on the tin. Seriously, separating the hype from the reality is so time consuming.

I've always been suspicious of the claims THC helps anxiety. CBD may, but my experience is that high doses of THC without corresponding CBD tends to induce anxiety in many people. I also found the brief notes in the article about MMJ and autism intriguing. I'm diagnosed ASD. I would think the use of THC to manage overstimulation could be problematic, as it tends to make colors and sounds and flavours _more_ intense. Conversely, indica strains tend to slow you down.

DISCLOSURE: I use large amounts of high potency cannabis flower with CBD/CBG edibles for intractable neuropathic pain. I also smoked a hell of a lot of weed in my 20s and 30s. I've more experience of Pot than most. MMJ lowers my pain a bit, and reduces suffering a lot. Its the suffering that makes life difficult.

You're welcome. By the way, as an AIdiot, anything that makes RAG less brittle is good.

Just a note on the website, I thought at first my browser had been hijacked by a shipping or travel agent. The first impression is how AI has improved ship tracking, so you can now track ships with 98% accuracy, with little to no hint this is AI infrastructure until you scroll down.

If you know what Captain is, this is not an issue. I closed the browser tab at first, thinking "what the hell is this, I don't give a damn about shipping forecasts"