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No one is assuming printing costs are the only costs to produce the catalogue. The point of pricing the catalogue at printing costs is to cover the marginal cost of offering the catalogue for sale. The fixed costs of producing the calendar are incurred either way.

That eval hasn't been relevant for a while now. Performance there just doesn't seem to correlate well with real-world performance.

It's because those markets are based on the LLM Arena leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/), where Claude has historically done poorly.

That eval has also become a lot less relevant (it's considered not very indicative of real-world performance), so it's unlikely Anthropic will prioritize optimizing for it in future models.

Call that tip to tip efficiency ;)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwYxLaaQ5s (reference - which really fits this whole thread)

Hi Simon. Do you recommend aider over Cursor? I've always used aider, and like it, but it just seems like Cursor is overtaking it in terms of features, and I wonder if sticking with aider still makes sense.

Most people use Cursor. Aider and Cline are other options. All of these work with all of the popular LLM APIs. Even among people using Claude, I would bet more of them are using Claude through Cursor than through Claude code.

I use the Xreal for coding while traveling. It's not as nice as a monitor, but it's definitely good enough for coding IMO.

Just note that you will also need the Xreal Beam if you want the virtual screen to stay fixed in space while you move your head (it's too uncomfortable to use without it IMO).

I got mine for $60 shipping incl from HONS VR. And they work well.

You can plug them directly into your laptop (as long as it supports DP Alt mode, which I understand is common - my Thinkpad does). But, the virtual monitor will be in a fixed position relative to your head. Which is really not comfortable. In order to get the virtual screen to stay fixed in space while you move your head, you need the Beam.

I use the Xreal Air 1 with the Beam on my Thinkpad X1 and it's great. I really recommend it for flights. I don't understand why it hasn't gotten more popular. I can use my laptop comfortably for many hours, which makes long flights a lot more tolerable.

I only use them for laptop productivity. Not sure about VR stuff.

It depends on your device. If your device doesn't support the Nebula app, you need the Beam.

I strongly agree. That's what the European system is like, as others have mentioned. Even the 2 years of fundamental science preparation. In Spain, what I would say is the academic equivalent of high-school ends at 16. 16-18 is then spent in "baccalaureate", an optional university preparation program, which is more rigorous and ends in nationally-administered university preparedness exam. A prospective medical student would need to do the science-based variant of this program.

Wow, that seems so short then. In Europe medical school is 6 years, with a 7th year spent on preparing for residency. At least in Spain. And it doesn't start off easy. All student are required to have spent the last 2 years of high school in a science-focused baccalaureate program, which in my experience is similar to early American undergraduate in terms of academic rigour.

Obviously no one is talking about "stopping matrix multiplication globally". But setting limits on the supply of and access to hardware, in a way that would meaningfully impede AI development, does seem feasible if we were serious about it.

Also, Eliezer is not claiming this will definitely work. He thinks it ultimately probably won't. The claim is just that this is the best option we have available.