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After they acquired Cursor, Grok 4.5 seems like a completely new model, performing at Opus 4.6 level, I'd say. But much cheaper and faster.

And our robots still look far from capable of changing bike tires...

I agree with you for some kinds of images, but not all. LLMs are the best PDF-to-markdown converters, in my experience. I have a CLI that converts PDF to PNG, then run a background…

That study seems to be confounding factors and rushing to a questionable conclusion. A very plausible explanation for the adenoma detection rate to have gone down is simply that it…

What's the value of something that has no utility and is not linked to anything useful or valuable?

I think this is analogous to diseases and vaccines. You don't immunize a child by exposing it to the pathogen, but to a modified version of it that poses no threat to their health,…

Empirical research [1] [2] shows that your worry is unfounded. [1] Homeschooled Children’s Social Skills: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED573486.pdf [2] Homeschooling and the …

Can they know the SIM location precisely? I believe they can only triangulate multiple towers to determine a radius. If they could pinpoint a specific, narrow location, it'd be eas…

I use hundreds, if not thousands, of third party software in my Linux OS and I don't think the OS is in a sad state.

I think many Apple users, especially people in the software industry, would prefer Apple software to be open source. It's not that they don't care, it's just that Apple quality is …

exactly, connect AI to our existing digital lives I think we do need to build new interfaces, though. The existing ones were designed for humans to use, either GUIs for end-users, …

> The LLMs seem to have their own idea of how they want to do something exactly! what I'm experiencing is that prompt engineering has its limitations and comes with inconsistency i…

Integrations between LLMs and real-world services are challenging because all our current interfaces were designed for humans. While developing tools for LLMs, my team [1] and I ca…

> if we jump across imaginary moral bars some people set up Aren't you you the one setting up imaginary moral bars for what kinds of features a car should or should not have? And f…

"what (I think) the world needs right now" is people who make uncomfortable sacrifices to live up to the ideas they defend, before calling for massive collective change and policin…

aider.chat has an /architect mode where you can discuss the architecture first and later ask it to execute the architectural decisions works pretty well, especially because you can…

> You are more likely to get late to work because your alarm run out of battery :-) Or because you spend precious sleep time on pointless comments online...

If I were an Indian resident living downstream this river, I'd relocate

have you ever done therapy for a deep emotional issue? your comment sounds like you've never

i've had issues with aws lambda and compiled ai models, because lambda varies hardware and cpu architecture from one container to another i can imagine this happening if a team has…

> Stalin didn’t win ...even backed by crucial US supplies

be creative in any kind of technical assessment some people think SWE is about "logic". it is, in part, but the "engineering" in software is much more of an art than it is in other…

this [load image] button is so respectful and considerate, such a pleasant surprise to find on a random website in 2024's internet

the main criticism is about sending private and sensitive data to Apple without consent and warning