The obvious burning question is how performance looks over different network conditions on some standard models. Have you done much benchmarking? Is it mainly latency affected or is overall throughput less than the…
I'll throw a shout out to the new Google Translate practice feature - it generates sentences around a theme you specify and speaks them to you at varying speeds in your native and learning languages.
Yes it has completely turned me around - was all in on Anthropic but now it just looks too risky. Better off leaning into open models. Even if I found a way to work with the restrictions as they are, who is to say they…
> It envisions delivery of “20 mission-ready aircraft” by 2031. Hmm, I'm not sure they fully address the problem if that is what is being proposed. The world will be an entirely different place by 2031 and 20 drones is…
Good to see Meta finally back to releasing something at least worth evaluating. And it sounds like they did at least a bit skate to where the puck is going by focusing on tool and computer use.
Yes and Zuck effectively disbanded the entire team that did that. Not saying we shouldn't cast a critical eye on it, but it probably does warrant a second chance.
I don't care about the politics, I wouldn't trust anything made by Musk.
Hard not to reflexively reference the XKCD here. I think the authors of most charting languages would say they look good by default. It seems more likely this is achieving a subjectively different presentation than…
Like a lot of the rest of the world they would probably rather take the alternative option and accelerate the transition to clean energy. Has the upside of not handing more power to an authoritarian state on the other…
And yet the will badger you endlessly to the point their photos app is near unusable to turn on auto sync which slurps up every photo and makes it very awkward to then delete them after. To me, this makes Google a…
I would love to know that inside story. The whole saga is starting to look like one of the biggest own goals in history - Meta went from being widely respected and considered a peer with leading frontier labs to having…
To me a lot of the anti-short leash sentiment is reflective of the low accountability SWE have always had for their output. Software devs seem to strongly reject the concept that it isnt ok to ship defective products…
It's honestly quite baffling that the EU would want to put any more power in the hands of any US controlled company at this point. The US is a borderline hostile state, only recently threatening to invade Greenland…
That's a great write up. The one thing I feel it seems to under estimate is the likelihood of improvement. Even the authors acknowledge it's not even worth comparing local models from a year ago to what we have now. In…
> Engineering for the sake of engineering has no value to the economy I think that's the adventure we're on now. If recreating something is low cost, what is the value in investing in designing it well in the first…
Now you get not just the 5 LoC to review but a 5 page essay to read in the form an auto-generated review as well. Which makes the submitter even more indignant when you start nit picking things about how it's…
I've tried so many of these and paid for a lot of them and I still can't find what I want. It sounds like this is closer than most: - record and separate two sides of the conversation - save meetings in a simple…
> they would have started verifying the identity of their customers. Very good point. Yes i think this part goes to hubris. Amodei probably didn't think the ban would cut along those lines if it happened. And in fact it…
I think it's a near universal phenomenon that people with extraordinary amounts of power become victims of their own hubris. Once you get sufficiently decoupled from the consequences of your own actions, it is near…
it's pretty interesting in the sense that Amazon went far out of their way to build a secure process around this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-pr... In theory, there currently isn't any…
Seems rather stingy - 6 months is barely longer than you will get on a free signup deal for a lot of online products anyway. Kind of worse than nothing if it causes you to adopt work patterns that aren't sustainable for…
The only thing I can think of that would give Amazon reasons to dislike Mythos / Fable is that Anthropic really ruined their Bedrock story by imposing data retention requirements that cross a red line in regulatory…
works really well with pi for small to medium sized coding tasks for me - C++ is an interesting case since it's probably more challenging just due to the complexity of the syntax. But it works great with Groovy which is…
And it is nearly always hubris - the people making these decisions are surrounded by yes-men who built their whole career pumping up the egos of their superiors.
DeepSeekv4 Pro is roughly Opus 4.5 - Opus 4.6 in my estimation. That's about 8 months difference, not 2.5 years. It's definitely not as good. But it's also definitely good enough.
The obvious burning question is how performance looks over different network conditions on some standard models. Have you done much benchmarking? Is it mainly latency affected or is overall throughput less than the…
I'll throw a shout out to the new Google Translate practice feature - it generates sentences around a theme you specify and speaks them to you at varying speeds in your native and learning languages.
Yes it has completely turned me around - was all in on Anthropic but now it just looks too risky. Better off leaning into open models. Even if I found a way to work with the restrictions as they are, who is to say they…
> It envisions delivery of “20 mission-ready aircraft” by 2031. Hmm, I'm not sure they fully address the problem if that is what is being proposed. The world will be an entirely different place by 2031 and 20 drones is…
Good to see Meta finally back to releasing something at least worth evaluating. And it sounds like they did at least a bit skate to where the puck is going by focusing on tool and computer use.
Yes and Zuck effectively disbanded the entire team that did that. Not saying we shouldn't cast a critical eye on it, but it probably does warrant a second chance.
I don't care about the politics, I wouldn't trust anything made by Musk.
Hard not to reflexively reference the XKCD here. I think the authors of most charting languages would say they look good by default. It seems more likely this is achieving a subjectively different presentation than…
Like a lot of the rest of the world they would probably rather take the alternative option and accelerate the transition to clean energy. Has the upside of not handing more power to an authoritarian state on the other…
And yet the will badger you endlessly to the point their photos app is near unusable to turn on auto sync which slurps up every photo and makes it very awkward to then delete them after. To me, this makes Google a…
I would love to know that inside story. The whole saga is starting to look like one of the biggest own goals in history - Meta went from being widely respected and considered a peer with leading frontier labs to having…
To me a lot of the anti-short leash sentiment is reflective of the low accountability SWE have always had for their output. Software devs seem to strongly reject the concept that it isnt ok to ship defective products…
It's honestly quite baffling that the EU would want to put any more power in the hands of any US controlled company at this point. The US is a borderline hostile state, only recently threatening to invade Greenland…
That's a great write up. The one thing I feel it seems to under estimate is the likelihood of improvement. Even the authors acknowledge it's not even worth comparing local models from a year ago to what we have now. In…
> Engineering for the sake of engineering has no value to the economy I think that's the adventure we're on now. If recreating something is low cost, what is the value in investing in designing it well in the first…
Now you get not just the 5 LoC to review but a 5 page essay to read in the form an auto-generated review as well. Which makes the submitter even more indignant when you start nit picking things about how it's…
I've tried so many of these and paid for a lot of them and I still can't find what I want. It sounds like this is closer than most: - record and separate two sides of the conversation - save meetings in a simple…
> they would have started verifying the identity of their customers. Very good point. Yes i think this part goes to hubris. Amodei probably didn't think the ban would cut along those lines if it happened. And in fact it…
I think it's a near universal phenomenon that people with extraordinary amounts of power become victims of their own hubris. Once you get sufficiently decoupled from the consequences of your own actions, it is near…
it's pretty interesting in the sense that Amazon went far out of their way to build a secure process around this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-pr... In theory, there currently isn't any…
Seems rather stingy - 6 months is barely longer than you will get on a free signup deal for a lot of online products anyway. Kind of worse than nothing if it causes you to adopt work patterns that aren't sustainable for…
The only thing I can think of that would give Amazon reasons to dislike Mythos / Fable is that Anthropic really ruined their Bedrock story by imposing data retention requirements that cross a red line in regulatory…
works really well with pi for small to medium sized coding tasks for me - C++ is an interesting case since it's probably more challenging just due to the complexity of the syntax. But it works great with Groovy which is…
And it is nearly always hubris - the people making these decisions are surrounded by yes-men who built their whole career pumping up the egos of their superiors.
DeepSeekv4 Pro is roughly Opus 4.5 - Opus 4.6 in my estimation. That's about 8 months difference, not 2.5 years. It's definitely not as good. But it's also definitely good enough.