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Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:20AM (#49918725)
Google's way of presenting their model's performance is terrible compared to Anthropic or Openai. Google's benchmark results are not useful at all. If you look at their methodology, they only present the model's performance at the Max reasoning levels. https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...

I don't know anyone who normally uses those models at these levels where Work output is excruciatingly slow.

Re:Rust GSoC 2024 Results on Thursday November 07, 2024 @12:02PM (#42078504)
This work is inspiring. Congratulations to those students.
His intro: Today I will explain why I often call async/await the "new billion dollar mistake": a mistake that has probably caused billions in developer productivity and bugs in the past ten years, especially in the context of Rust.
Re:An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020) on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:32PM (#40567212)
Thanks for taking the time to respond and analyze my comment! - The bigger the slope (in space), the faster (in time) the temperature changes at that point -

I have to confess that I got it wrong, indeed: the right side of the equation is a Laplacian. But, rather than describing an average in temperature, it describes the divergence of the temperature field.

Re:An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020) on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:11AM (#40560696)
Thanks @photon_lines! In your temperature diagram, you mention that every point will take the average of the neighboring points. However, the equation is not a constraint on the temperature but on the "change of the slope (or gradient) of the temperature". The bigger the slope (in space), the faster (in time) the temperature changes at that point!
Re:KLMS Agent: What Is It? & How to Get Rid of It? on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:27AM (#36846869)
It seems the Samsung Knox security services rely on the Android Strongbox spec.

It is not clear that a user would actually want to trade-off hardware based security (where encryption, signature verification happens in "tamperproof" / secure silicon) for some unspecified additional RAM.

In fact, the article does not benchmark RAM/CPU/Battery usage from the service. I would speculate that there is very little benefit in wanting a few MB of extra RAM when smartphones have north of 4GB of RAM and need strong security for payments and handling personal data.

Re:46 Books That Changed the World on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:31AM (#36337104)
It is an interesting list. However, a better title would be "46 Books that changed America".

There are 34 instances of the word America/American in the article for 46 books and most of the authors on the list would be English speaking or American. As a result, this list provides a very American centric view of literature, history and experiences.

Re:‘Blade Runner’ at 40 on Sunday June 26, 2022 @06:03PM (#31888527)
The book has a level emotional depth of that is not matched in the film. The first dialogue between Deckhart and his wife (yes he is married in the book) is really clever and meta. I was extremely disappointed by the film (I first saw it 2 years ago) and it feels very dated and has that 80s men-women cringe-portrayal. I agree, read the book it is awesome!
It would also work for private a repository.
Re:Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:49AM (#29023141)
No. Ivermectin is not officially approved in the UK for the treatment of COVID-19. Source from the government : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/freedom-of-inform...