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carbocation
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About carbocation
Previously founded MyChances.net (acquired by Parchment in 2011).
Email: james@{my HN username}.com
https://carbocation.com
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Comment #48885692
That is essentially how it works in the US as well thanks to public service loan forgiveness for physicians.
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Comment #48725440
This scans very much as AI-written.
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Comment #48089546
Was the choice of such a small model driven by a desire for high tok/sec? I ask because an m4 pro 48gb machine can run larger models (if model intelligence is the thing that would …
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Comment #48051073
Last month, Steve Yegge suggested that they are not: https://xcancel.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2043747998740689171
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Comment #47802044
Neat, thank you for explaining!
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Comment #47800963
Is there a page where I could read more? What's unintuitive at a glance is that Opus 4.7 has a lower success rate than Sonnet 4.6 (90% vs 100%) while having a higher Avg Percentile…
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Comment #47707479
The $20 Plus plan still exists, and does not give access to the pro model. The $200 Pro plan still exists, and does give access to the pro model. What is new is a $100 Pro plan tha…
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Comment #47653275
It would be very helpful if the chat logs could (optionally) be retained.
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Comment #47468815
The article kind of downplays the most interesting elements. Not an expert, but to my limited understanding: * I think this is the longest-range use of a ballistic missile in anger…
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Comment #47450235
I think the average is ballpark 1 per 100 million miles, so my guess is that someday they might show this, but they probably want to wait til they have more miles driven.
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Comment #47345533
Haber-Bosch process, for the curious.
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Comment #47091431
Because many of us think simonw has discerning taste on this topic and like to read what he has to say about it, so we upvote his comments.
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Comment #47080700
I agree with this; it feels like the most likely tool to drop its high-level comments in code comments.
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Comment #46889340
This model was able to transcribe Bad Bunny lyrics over the sound of the background music, played casually from my speakers. Impressive, to me.
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Comment #46820341
300 grams of oatmeal a day, basically nothing else, and your LDL only goes down 10%.
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Comment #46674824
Em-dashes are easy to type on a macos laptop for what it's worth: option-shift-minus.
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Comment #46664831
The erdosproblems thread itself contains comments from Terence Tao: https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/281
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Comment #46436422
That repo is throwing up a 404 for me. Question - did you consider tradeoffs between duckdb (or other columnar stores) and SQLite?
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Comment #46279336
The article explicitly says that the aircraft is safe. I don't think this is particularly clickbait-y.
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Comment #46173706
> The public database of reported post-vaccination health issues is often misused to sow misinformation. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/what-vaers-is-and-isnt
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Comment #46163523
VAERS cannot be used to establish causality; it cannot correctly be used in the way in which they are purporting to use it[1]. 1 = https://www.kff.org/quick-take/fda-memo-linking-c…
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Comment #46088311
If the URL is public, it would be neat to see if you want to share it.
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Comment #45984283
It would be great to have access to this model via the chat interface, even if it was gated behind the "other models" dropdown or something.