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Re:AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them
on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:54AM (#49318525)
If explained in a specific way and order, yes, it's likely.
Re:How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:15AM (#49241241)
He's talking about learning that makes you operational. If you can speak with someone, then you've learned language. If you can get a computer to do something, then you've learned some programming.
The equivalent for biology would be to grow a plant or a few plants and animals successfully. That's operational at a certain level, you could also be operational at a lower or higher level.
Re:Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth si...
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @04:57AM (#49229672)
Ok, I agree with the sentiment. You shouldn't solve for problems you don't have yet, especially since with AI it's easier to refactor.
Re:Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth si...
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:54PM (#49224741)
It's not about prettiness. It's about being harder to extend thus making future adaptations harder.
Re:Claude Opus 5
on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:10PM (#49039535)
I've had the same experience but at the same time I also find Sol's answers in conversation longer.
Re:Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:42AM (#48975929)
This helps because the ELI5 was too general. To me at least.
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:21AM (#48514841)
High Fast? I don't see that option in my Codex. I only have 3 models: 5.4-mini, 5.4 and 5.5, each with 4 levels: low, medium, high, extra high.
Re:Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:39AM (#48502829)
I've only had that happen with Chinese models until now. Interesting that Fable is doing it too.
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:33AM (#48502777)
Curious, which model do you use for Codex?
I'm very happy with the solutions '5.5 high' finds. It's like it understands exactly what I mean and it also anticipates all sorts of situations.
Before I used '5.5 medium' for some time and it was a bit underwhelming. It may sound funny but it's like it didn't care that much to do a good job.
Re:Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened
on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:46PM (#48067124)
That's a good salary, better than Romania on average. And if you also have lower prices (at least that's what I heard), even better then.
Re:DeepSeek v4
on Friday April 24, 2026 @09:45AM (#47890224)
I'm also unemployed. So far the models that I've used the most are Kimi and GLM. I haven't done that much agentic coding though, I've mostly used them for studying math and general conversations and I'm generally happy with their performance.
Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:31PM (#47818265)
There's DeepInfra. There's also OpenRouter where you can find several providers.
Re:Apple: Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Genera...
on Sunday April 05, 2026 @05:46AM (#47647735)
I thought it was determined (slight pun) that free will is not a thing. I'm referring to Sapolsky's book "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will)" as an example.
Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents
on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:42PM (#47618474)
In case you don't know, Gemini 2.5 flash is hosted on DeepInfra. They also have 1.5 flash but not 2.0 flash.
I have no affiliation with DeepInfra. I use them, because they host open-source models that are good.
Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents
on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:39PM (#47618428)
I use ChatGPT and Claude on OpenRouter, because it's just easier than buying credits on each platform separately.
Re:The Only Moat Left Is Money
on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @01:22PM (#47064308)
by keeping the how part a secret
Re:I’m joining OpenAI
on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:03PM (#47038097)
I wonder, how does a Julius perceive another Julius, as another competent worker? What about a non-Julius then?
Re:Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:56AM (#46836259)
* It's cheaper than proprietary models
* Maybe you don't want to have your conversations used for training. The providers listed on OpenRouter mention whether they do that or not.
Re:Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
on Friday January 30, 2026 @06:31AM (#46823179)
I had started using it again through Open WebUI. If it's gone, I'll probably switch to GLM-4.7 completely.
Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying a...
on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:54PM (#46557560)
I'm mostly the same, I don't watch movies twice. But there are exceptions. Some movies are just beautiful or I like how they make me feel, so I want to rewatch them. Groundhog Day is an example.
Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying a...
on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:28PM (#46517301)
Maybe you would, if you bought it.
How I interpret his comment about the distance:
The benefit of switching from C/C++ to Rust is higher than switching from C++ to Go (in the similar use-cases) or from Java to Kotlin.
Another argument offered for Rust is that it's high-level enough that you can also use it for the web (see how many web frameworks it has). So I think that Rust's proponents see it as this universal language that could be good for everything.
Re:Rust–: Rust without the borrow checker
on Thursday January 01, 2026 @02:19PM (#46457093)
When I started learning Haskell, it did feel like coding with a straightjacket.
Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @05:19AM (#46431629)
I would never expect a Western European country to not accept Visa and Mastercard. I say this as an Eastern European. But I do remember that in Germany (and Austria) it's not that accepted to pay by card.
Re:How Lewis Carroll computed determinants
on Sunday December 28, 2025 @07:27AM (#46410593)
I wasn't sure how encipher is in Romanian (it's not common), it's "a cifra". The infinitive in Romanian puts "a" in front of the verb, so it's very close to Spanish.
Re:How Lewis Carroll computed determinants
on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:59AM (#46400321)
In Romanian:
- cifru -> cipher
- cifră -> digit
Re:If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
on Monday December 22, 2025 @09:11AM (#46354237)
Another way to put it: don't focus on distance but more on behaving in tune with yourself.
Re:GPT-5.2-Codex
on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:04AM (#46334644)
Yeah, we now need to specify who wrote the tests, because it's important information.
Re:GPT-5.2-Codex
on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:29AM (#46323164)
Those tests were written by people. That's why they were confident that what the LLM implemented was correct.
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @06:40AM (#46311493)
They withdrew in WW1 after the revolution.