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Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:06PM (#50276865)
seriously "big if true"... looking forward to seeing non benchmark tasks and seeing if this actually outperforms opus 5.5
Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:59AM (#50261225)
If you take antibiotics so you don't die are you part of the ruling class?
Re:Leaving Tech on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:51PM (#50065966)
"Applied to 36 and been rejected by 24" as in interviewed with 24 (which would be incredibly good) or been passed on by 24 which is frankly totally normal?
Re:Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:42PM (#49980946)
Yes because now it opens the door for future algorithms to chip away at that exponent where as in the past it may have seemed that an exponent of 2 was the floor.
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:34PM (#49806045)
there are still competitive market forces for co's post IPO
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:30PM (#49805985)
1. you can have luna clean up after itself and improve code 2. you might be doing something like video-editing, cad modeling, artistic direction, pcb routing, etc. that need to run a long time to "converge"
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:28PM (#49805955)
and to squeeze anthropic, and other research innovations, not just chinese models but those help bring price down
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:27PM (#49805936)
cost is dominated by non cached reads
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:26PM (#49805918)
It wasn't really used enough and it sat in an awkward middle space between luna and sol where either luna high/xhigh or sol med were better cost/perf wise
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:23PM (#49805874)
It's before and after following the arrow. 6 is the cheaper one.
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:23PM (#49805868)
Of course they'd charge more if they could... Of course they're pricing to outcompete their competitor...
how would you even derive that conclusion from the headline/article?
There are plenty of Jews that support Zionism and consider themselves Zionists that live in NY. You’re speaking from ignorance.
Re:Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:59PM (#49717172)
Great tech but the voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me
Re:METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:26PM (#49544449)
Did you read any of it? The investigators call this out
One anecdote for a datapoint: Not sure if it's better now but I've lost a phone in an InDrive and I've lost an expensive bag in an Uber and it was significantly easier and less sketchy to get the bag back. I'm not a price sensitive rider so the insurance of a reputable 'comfort' tier Uber driver paid off. The InDrive driver made me get another ride to him then demanded $1000mxn (~$55usd) to return my phone. The Uber app had me pay ~$250mxn if I remember correctly and the driver promptly returned the bag.
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:15AM (#49460051)
The laws should produce friction but the right friction in the right places. There are too many arbitrary and difficult processes in the US immigration system that keep great people out of the US.
Re:Cerebras CS-4 on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:04PM (#49355652)
TPUs and ASICs run in data centers too. Your argument only holds true if there's some satisfied limit to demand for inference. If not, data centers will continue to spring up to host more and more agents. Even if agents were running on hardware and software as efficient as the human brain, its conceivable we want trillions of them running at any given time which would require data center scale.
Re:Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:26AM (#49341242)
they didn't plateau, the hardware was effectively saturated and it wasn't until later in 2026 that newer hardware came online to provide enough capacity to keep scaling up the models efficiently
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:15AM (#49341182)
As a company... but that includes things like research costs, model training etc. to determine if they're selling electricity at a loss you should look at inference costs bc that's the "thing" they're selling
what is it?
Re:Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index on Thursday August 13, 2026 @10:27AM (#49286492)
The underlying idea is that AI capabilities will become so advanced that only AI will enable us to monitor/correct/understand behavior. Obviously this is not without issue and I don't want to try to defend their position right now. But that's what they mean
You can drop react into an html page with a script tag. You don't need a build step. The build step is only requisite if you'd like the full benefits of react, which personally I find worth it. Cached builds are quite fast. All build steps/compilers/etc. exist to add some devex upgrade on top of some lighter-weight thing that many devs find useful.
a 15% improvement at a trillion dollar scale company is massive
Re:How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:59PM (#49118191)
mexican presidents serve a single term... I'm sure you mean well but you have lot of reading to do about mexican politics :)
Re:How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality on Thursday July 30, 2026 @08:33PM (#49117674)
no... Mexico is in north america

and if you follow Mexican politics, her politics are almost entirely a continuation of the last president who was her political mentor so it's reasonably well understood what trajectory her term is on

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:33PM (#49117200)
it's kind of hard to save a company billions in operating costs via software without it being part of Silicon Valley (culture)...
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:20PM (#49117080)
Absolutely true although at some point it's not just raw numbers but also the kernels that run matmuls and there seems (from outsider perspective) to have been more optimization in the cuda kernels
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:15PM (#49117037)
what do you mean "if"? of course we will, and the models will be smarter as well
Re:How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:56PM (#49115660)
Thank you. Not to go against site rules and veer into meta-discussion on other posters but it strikes me as very odd that a foreigner is just repeating govt propaganda to people who live here.

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