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Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by jmalicki »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #460
jmalicki wrote: post #339

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It's not like there are only two buckets: 1. HFT doing ass-simple arbitrage where only latency matters 2. More sophisticated slower trading taking in deeper signals Those are two points along a continuum. If you are reacting to an earnings announcement by having an LLM read the earnings release and listen to the call, getting the results a few seconds earlier lets you get your trade in a few seconds earlier. Just bec…

Exactly that. Except that ultrafast delivers this level of intelligence an order of magnitude faster. So if your competitors automatically react to news articles or financial statements with a certain level of comprehension within minutes, you can now do so in seconds.

Except they all do, and the money flows to Cerebras :)

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by WarmWash »

rolisz wrote: post #403
WarmWash wrote: post #263

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Ultimately it would track that in the real world, people will want to point cameras at things and get answers. I pay for ChatGPT and Gemini, and while Sol is a total beast with anything text, it still poisoned my cucumber bed. Which I will be bitter about for at least a few years while the bed recovers. Gemini (even flash) is exceptionally talented at viewing photos and telling you what to do/what it is (and telling…

Tell me more about your cucumber bed. We started some raised veggie beds this year and my wife is relying very heavily in ChatGPT and Claude for advice on how to deal with issues.

5.6 Sol was confident that I had a mite problem, as evidenced by the yellow spots on the leaves. I flipped over the leaves and saw a few small bugs, and relayed this to 5.6 who said that they can be difficult to see since they are so small. The remedy was to blast the underside of all the leaves to wash off all the mites, which I diligently did.

However afterwards, still feeling odd that I didn't see many bugs, I double checked with Gemini who is my typical standby for vision tasks. Gemini pointed out that its actually the fungus Corynespora cassiicola...which spreads by water splashing, and can live in your bed for years once it gets into the soil.

So now having two answers I need to research and check myself, and sure enough, it was obvious match for the fungus and didn't look much at all like the mite damage.

There is another story a few days later of 5.6 looking at my heatpump install and telling me it was probably borked and to call an expert. Gemini told me to just open a valve and it was good.

I don't really trust any other LLM besides gemini for vision stuff. It also tracks as google is the only lab still pursuing vision related tasks.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by jpadkins »

SyneRyder wrote: post #250
jjcm wrote: post #224

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Disclaimer that I haven't tried this since January, so things may have changed in the last 7mo, but this was my experience at that time: https://x.com/pwnies/status/2010523020629274723 At a high level though, as a rule of thumb Google assumes that they're serving companies at Google scale first, and at a human scale second. For other companies it's the opposite. Generally what that means is the first experience you g…

Similar experience here, for what it's worth, though I didn't get as far as you. I basically just stopped and didn't bother - it was easier to go through OpenRouter than spend more energy on it. Also: > Google assumes that they're serving companies at Google scale first So much this. I'm currently grandfathered in until the end of the year on Google's Search API, but the $35,000 they want to continue usage of my < 10…

It's not an assumption that the customer is Google scale that led the $35k monthly price point. It was that you (and many others like you) are breaking the terms of service (which state you are not supposed to store, process or analyze the search results). It was an API built for a different era, that doesn't really exist anymore.

> It has honestly been easier to use Anthropic to help me build my own search index & crawling infrastructure than deal with Google.

That's great to hear! FWIW I agree with you that it's harder for independent professionals to get started on Google dev services than others, but the Search API is not developer service and was never intended to be.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by jpadkins »

jakswa wrote: post #203
abtinf wrote: post #200

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> got a pretty excellent pelican for the first two This suggests you primarily use Safari. While the bike renders, the pelican doesn’t in Chrome and Firefox. Probably one of the more serious defects I’ve seen with the pelican. It’s one thing when animated SVGs have bugs, but another when plain ones do.

my whole world is shifting. have I been seeing _different pelicans_ from everyone else?!

welcome to the internet, not all browsers are the same

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by jerf »

deadmutex wrote: post #249
jerf wrote: post #217

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"why can't a massive company do two things?" It's a variation of opportunity cost. A company that has an opportunity to take $1 and make $1.50 on it can't justify an opportunity to spend $1 and make $1.25, even though a less profitable company may make a good living on that. When considering capital allocation, Google has to consider the opportunity cost of investing more into their highly lucrative ads business. Ano…

This is extremely simplified, and not realistic. One counter to this is markowitz portfolio theory, or "diversification effect".

Of course the three short paragraph description of a general principle posted to Hacker News to give a partial answer to someone's 8-word question is simplified. What's the alternative? HN's text box is too short to contain a 4-year business course.

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Post by xp84 »

FartyMcFarter wrote: post #462
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not that I'm intending to defend Sergey here but, if you could spend 0.04% of your net worth to protect 5% of your net worth (and probably all of your easy liquidity)... wouldn't you?

> if you could spend 0.04% of your net worth to protect 5% of your net worth If I was anywhere near being a billionaire I wouldn't. There would be much better things to spend my time and effort on. That's not even counting the fact that I would probably care about the ethical aspect too. 0.95x of an obscene amount of money I can't spend is still an obscene amount of money I can't spend. That 5% wouldn't make any disc…

They’ll be back for the less rich people too until no more rich people are dumb enough to stay. Look at CAHSR. There’s no end to how much money California politicians can spend.

There’s not a revenue problem in California. There’s a spending problem.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by nl »

ipsod wrote: post #475
nl wrote: post #360

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I've found Sol excellent at OpenSCAD. But I don't do "compare visual output to target" as much as 3D reasoning type tasks (eg: "Build a G1 curve where the -X face meets the +Z face" etc)

"G1 curve"? Nice, cool to have new vocabulary for the spell book. Thanks.

Yes! Discovered that on a random YouTube video on industrial design.
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