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Re:Lobbying on Saturday October 10, 2026 @01:19AM (#50029806)
I think in Canada lobbying is much more limited, so it's probably not due to democracy that we get lobbying.
Re:Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can't Develop for You on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:49PM (#50001400)
Yeah I know a principal engineer at AWS who's deaf. Every meeting there needs to be an interpreter present.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:54PM (#49987004)
It's math, the result shouldn't be different just because it's a different sim.
Awesome, I will read this carefully later today. I'm always excited by AI research applied to games.
Wait, wasn't there that strong stratego bot that came out from deepmind in 2022?
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:17PM (#49913770)
Google employees do.
Re:Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer on Friday September 25, 2026 @12:13PM (#49846509)
Yup, this thing is basically useless. I just did /goal optimize the cuda kernel, and ai agent just proposed and tested a bunch of ideas by itself, and it profiled them using nsight ncu etc. by itself, which lead to one order of magnitude faster kernel.
You mean when they said they are doing safety evaluation and hardening? I'm having the same fear as you.
Re:The Future, Made in China on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:50PM (#49158271)
It's an axiom that the modern Western mind is built upon.
Do you have any numbers on the solve quality? Exploitability numbers etc.
Re:Geekbench 7 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:53PM (#49026386)
You can use geekbench 5 in that case. But given that they deprecated that, it might be harder to compare to others.
Re:Geekbench 7 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:52PM (#49026366)
I agree. For me personally I mostly only care about single thread geekbench variant, I believe it's an excellent proxy for general performance of a CPU. Multi thread geekbench (or other benchmarks) for most purposes and for most people, it's kinda useless. You just need to know that you have a quite a few cores on your computer and that it will have enough concurrency for what you do. But single thread will make whatever you do actually faster.
Re:Claude Is Not a Compiler on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:57AM (#48994037)
In computer science, one definition of algorithm is basically any program that runs on a turing machine. By that definition, any LLM is an algorithm.
Lol yet I've used Apple and Android phones extensively and would choose Android every single time.
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment on Saturday July 18, 2026 @07:30PM (#48963492)
He's talking about the plans, you are talking about API prices.
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:52PM (#48963272)
No idea lol, didn't even know those exist..
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:49PM (#48963250)
It is complicated, but paying for the cheaper usd plans really don't get you much usage.
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:48PM (#48963242)
Nah that won't work. I don't know tbh, I just used someone else's number.
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:26PM (#48961996)
Absolutely do not pay for the kimi plans thinking they will be cheaper. If you sign up with a Chinese phone number, you can get the same plan for 200 yuan instead of 200 usd, it also only accepts Chinese payment methods iirc. So the plans are really made for Chinese userbase.
GPT should be better at these optimization problems given that they won the recent atcoder heuristics competition against top humans. And Anthropic is less focused on these types of things.
This was extremely impressive to me. AtCoder has the hardest problems these days, usually the human onsite final round contestants can't solve more than 2 or 3 problems. This year the problem setter sets the round in a way that maximizes humans chance of winning. Then OpenAI just comes in and solves all problems..

No point for them to even go to IOI or ICPC this year anymore, those are all much easier than this Atcoder contest. And given the mathematical nature of AtCoder problems, not sure if there's any value to do IMO either, except for publicity of course.

Re:GPT-5.6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:54PM (#48849903)
Mythos probably wouldn't, otherwise they'd have included it in their release. Next version of Mythos probably will though.

And yeah.. Reality has not been kind to LeCun.

Re:GPT-5.6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:46PM (#48849777)
SWE-bench series just aren't that great by today's standard, even Anthropic previously stated Claude had memorized solutions for the non Pro version of the benchmark, I suspect the recent increase in the score for the Pro version probably also had similar behaviors.

But anyway, I think it's pretty useless to look at SWE Bench's now when other way better benchmarks exist.

Re:Grok 4.5 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:32PM (#48849553)
Huh so that's why it's hard to find. They probably haven't properly optimized their caching, or they are just trying to make more money from there.
Re:GPT-5.6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:22PM (#48849386)
And they'd be right, it's an almost saturated benchmark where even some subpar open source models score very well on. And most models are clustered within a small range so it really doesn't tell you much.
Re:GPT-5.6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:21PM (#48849363)
SWE-Bench pro is pretty much useless now even though many ppl still look at it. OpenAI published a report yesterday saying so as well. Only look at DeepSWE and FrontierCode right now for coding imo.
Re:GPT-5.6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:15PM (#48849251)
GPT usually performs better on DeepSWE while Claude does better on FrontierCode. These two coding benchmarks are pretty much the only ones right now that's still worth taking a look at imo.
Re:Learning to code is still worthwhile on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:23AM (#48813643)
Most programming is that, but most music and literature are probably uninspired junks as well. But there are many beautiful algorithms (such as the ones in Knuths books) that are more beautiful than any music for me personally.
Re:Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:30PM (#48752700)
I think at the current stage of LLM, it just doesn't make sense to ever have an annual sub. Things change too quickly that you really don't want to be stuck with one model.
If anything that'll be more obnoxious because they have to show the government that it's safe.

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