AnodicElegy

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AI changing the calculus for Canadian students interested in comp sci(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by AnodicElegy 5d ago|1 comments
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How do we know if writing is AI?(paulgp.substack.com)
2 points by AnodicElegy 6d ago|1 comments
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by AnodicElegy 10d ago
"OpenAI’s primary bet here has been chain-of-thought monitoring. It is based on an appealingly scalable idea: a lot of the model’s capability comes from a verbalized reasoning process (chain-of-thought). If we scale optimization on the
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by AnodicElegy 11d ago
If someone uses an LLM to write and is able to tailor their writing such that it isn't obviously written by an LLM, then I'm fine with it! But two of my otherwise-favourite news sources -- the Hacker News front page and FT Alphavi
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by AnodicElegy 12d ago
This update really gives OpenAI a boost. Not saying there's anything inaccurate or untoward about that, but the timing is unfortunate. It would have looked better had it been done prior to the Fable 5.1 and GPT 6 releases. I guess AA w
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by AnodicElegy 12d ago
It's very different than it was earlier today, so pretty sure it's v4.2.
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by AnodicElegy 12d ago
Everything in moderation! With the big predators you get mercury, with the bottom-feeders you get persistent lipophilic compounds like PCBs and PFAS. I could just fish for perch, but what's the fun in that? (I'm mostly kidding, I
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by AnodicElegy 12d ago
Any angler will know that, in some lakes, it seems like every fish is full of worms. I've always dealt with that by frying the crap out of them -- no medium-rare bass for me, sorry. Alternatively, I'm sure they're fine after
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by AnodicElegy 13d ago
If you scroll down in the Artificial Analysis page you linked, you'll see all the individual benchmarks.
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by AnodicElegy 13d ago
Confirmed: the compound proposed by the author has been made and studied since at least 1992 ( https://pubs.acs.org/jmcmar/article-abstract/35/22/4135/7112... ). It had activity interesting enough to
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by AnodicElegy 13d ago
This is pure speculation, and he really doesn't know what he's talking about: "The main problem is that DXO also contains an amine, and that amine can react during the process. So the first step would be to temporarily protec
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by AnodicElegy 13d ago
It was in the link in the parent of the thread to which I replied. But you can find it on Artificial Analysis's website now.
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by AnodicElegy 13d ago
This stood out: "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 61.2" So on the Metacritic of LLM benchmarks, it's.. basically where everyone else is (except for Fable 5.1, which is a bit ahead).
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by AnodicElegy 15d ago
Zitron has staked his bear position and isn't budging, so regardless if he's been wrong and wrong again, he'll be remembered for calling the bubble if/when it pops, if only because so few in the media have done so withou
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by AnodicElegy 15d ago
Fable 5.1 is actually more expensive than 5.0 when run on the Artificial Analysis suite: https://artificialanalysis.ai/#intelligence-efficiency-tabs
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by AnodicElegy 15d ago
The data and graphs are great, but it would have been a much higher quality report if the text and titles were written by a human.
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by AnodicElegy 16d ago
Why call out "drink less" but not "smoke less"? Both are recreational drugs, both are socially stimulative, but only the former has the propensity to lead to serious harm in the short term.
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by AnodicElegy 19d ago
I switched two of my PCs over to Linux Mint last week. The automatic driver support is shockingly good compared to when I last installed Linux on a PC (almost 20 years ago). It even found a driver for the random no-name USB wireless receive
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Harvard and the Cloudflare Governance Fight(ft.com)
2 points by AnodicElegy 20d ago|1 comments
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by AnodicElegy 20d ago
Accessible with free FT account
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by AnodicElegy 21d ago
Artificial Analysis benchmark is out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450353
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by AnodicElegy 21d ago
Impressive. It kicked everything between itself and Sol xhigh out of the Pareto frontier. Can't wait to try it out.
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by AnodicElegy 24d ago
I can't read the article due to the paywall, but why is the author worried about this? If there's anybody out there arguing that "AI agents" should be given legal personhood, I imagine they're a pretty small group.
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by AnodicElegy 26d ago
Net debt to GDP is arguably a more important metric. Look at Norway, for example. Presenting it as an indebted nation is hardly the whole picture.
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by AnodicElegy 26d ago
"How this article was written I wrote this article and used Grammarly to proofread and fix it." What a brave new world we're in, where this is necessary. Regardless, it's appreciated. Although, I have the feeling that th
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LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site(wsj.com)
11 points by AnodicElegy 26d ago|3 comments
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by AnodicElegy 27d ago
I don't think the public is going to swallow subsidies for the richest companies on Earth so that they can avoid competition. "...A proprietary model that the U.S. government is treating like something just shy of a nuclear weapon
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at School(futurism.com)
6 points by AnodicElegy 27d ago|0 comments
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by AnodicElegy 27d ago
"Prompts and completions are retained by the provider and are not used for training..." I'm curious what the model provider is using the prompt/response pairs for, in that case. They aren't offering a model for free
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by AnodicElegy 29d ago
Yes, they have multiple levels of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Kimi, but not the other top models (I would put GLM, Qwen, Muse, Grok, and Deepseek in that bucket).

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