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It's been 2.5 months since Qwen 3.7-Max. Unless you mean since the preview of this 3.8-Max model.

> lack of European competitors There's Mistral. Although they've been surprisingly quiet for the last 6 months.

In one of the most infamous stories of the era, Half-Life was officially ported to Mac OS back in the year 2000 by Logicware/MacPlay but got shut down by Valve at the last minute. …

...not going anywhere.

Goldbach's Conjecture is very accessible.

I'm disappointed only that the chain of thought needed to be rewritten. Need to train these LLMs to natively communicate in LaTeX research paper format.

> It’s not hacking, I wasn’t breaking anything That's a very narrow read of the word "hacking". We're literally on a website called "Hacker News". We're not all trying to break thi…

> Why use splines or polynomials or haphazardly chosen basis functions if you can just fit (gradient descent) your data or wave functions to the proper computational EML tree? Same…

I think you can look at Star Trek as a fairly grounded example of where current LLMs could go: the ship's computer is not autonomous in any way but it does accept fairly vague inst…

For 20-ish% of Alzheimer's patients, the Shingles vaccine may be a treatment. This has been suspected for a few years now but has received recent confirmation studies. https://www.…

It seems to be back, now.

I read that but it doesn't define handmade. It gripes about large frameworks and rewriting in different languages but doesn't say what handmade is or how it addresses anything.

Do they define "Handmade"? I couldn't find a definition.

You got Liquid Metal? I'm stuck with Liquid Glass :-(

That 3B model is a local model that eventually got built into macOS 26. Gemini 3 Pro is a frontier model (cloud). They're very different things.

Network operations are "asynchrony". Together with parallelism, they are both kinds of concurrency and Swift concurrency handles both. Swift's "async let" is parallelism. As are Ta…

> Charlie Brown may have been as popular as any character in all of literature Was he? Maybe this is true inside the US but from outside the US, I've always viewed the character as…

Mac sales are up 12%, year over year. It's Apple's fastest growing hardware category. They're just going to be lower next month (year over year), due to the release cycles being di…

> Even many games that support native linux run better under wine. The same is often true on macOS, too – running games through CrossOver is often better than the native port. The …

Of course. And these are CPU vector instructions, so the saying "The wider the SIMD, the narrower the audience" applies. But ultimately with a benchmark like Geekbench, you're trus…

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Any app compiled using LLVM 17 (2023) can use SME directly and any app that uses Apple's Accelerate framework automatically takes advantage …

They've supported the Steam Deck for a couple years now. Here's a review of Steam Deck performance from early 2024: https://steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews/baldurs-gate-3/ I'm assumin…

That entire banner is pure copyright infringement.