chazeon

15M really is not a big commitment tbh... university take half, then there is not much left; it can maybe fund <10 groups.

As many have discussed earlier, if you have an accent, macOS transcribing is not so accurate; on top of that, Apple's transcribing also don't work well if you have a lot of technical terms (for example, if you are transcribing a thesis in physics)

the place where zotero and alike become useful is when you start to need a tree-like structure

Why does this lab test only have marketing materials? They are not even installing linux on a supposedly LLM dev machine

Well, when 5.5 first came out, it was kind of OK, but now it's almost noticeably worse. It can be done, but requires a lot of effort, just more and more round, and actually, the Gemini Pro on the web (which should be 3.1 Pro) is actually doing a more stable job.

The thing that I ask it to do is like take X and Y paper into Z paragraph --- a not-so-silly model should think of how information in X and Y are related and how they support the whole article to synthesize this sentence in a way that is coherent to the article, but 5.5 now will just copy the stuff without any reasoning about the relation. Of course, this will cost a lot of tokens and will be obvious if not done. One clear indicator is that in a few rounds you can see the length of the article get bloated to 2-3x undesirably long, which is clearly because it is not analyzing/synthesizing the info.

Even without stats i know it went bad. In the pass two month barely can do any good scientific writing lately, which of course rely on reasoning. It just writing for gods sake. And it show how far we are from AGI.

I have always been thinking LUKS was supposed to be enrolled in TPM, so you should not have to enter this key manually; this is just to prevent someone from unplugging the hard drive and reading on another machine. Of course, this depends on one's threat model.

But if you do this, don't you have to enter two passwords each time you wake? One for LUKS, one for the system login?

Isn't this the company that make the LLM become a degenerate when it comes to bioscience?

Mac mini Pro line is doomed, they never made enough of it; skipped M5 Pro, now skipping M6 Pro, it is like 2014-2018 again. Now ordering a custom M4 Pro build take 3 months+ to ship with an increased price.

GPT-5.5 must have serious issues; it is fast, but quality-wise, it is just not good. It read one LaTeX paper (which is not long) and can spell my name wrong. This is GPT-5.5-high.

Most CA households may be, but obviously not everywhere