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Comment · 7 days ago
Of course it has to be maintained. Things are maintained as they are sunset.
Comment · 7 days ago
Presumably it makes sense to sunset PHP especially with how cheap code migrations are nowadays.
Comment · 10 days ago
What topics are you still seeing this in?
Comment · 14 days ago
Comment · 15 days ago
I agree with the sentiment of mixing up sources. However there are not really many textbooks that rise to the level of "ground truth". Plenty of times that books give wrong explanations as well.
Comment · 16 days ago
I disagree somewhat. I think internally OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are probably all pretty close right now. Argon is competitive with Opus 5.5 and Astra. It might be third, but its competitive at least. Its becoming more apparent that different models are RL'd for different tasks.

Astra (or broadly openAI) are best for mathematics, 3D modeling, and vision. Opus 5.5 is best at like visual design (or just in general adding more taste and feel)

Now, it can depend on your definition of frontier class model. But Argon is a strong model. Google is not running a distant third. If OpenAI and Anthropic shut down they would have the strongest model on the market in like 2 months imo. Google does suck at shipping (maybe due to an unusual amount of dogfooding models internally?)

And we know all the labs have stronger internal models than their public releases.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Ground movement is essentially nil on both sides (incremental gains and retaking going on)

Both sides are able to perform drone attacks 100s of km beyond their border. Moscow is also enduring drone attacks.

Comment · 1 month ago
Pangram also shows 100% AI generated. Its very likely that the technical details have some correctness, but you could also just ask the LLM of your choice for an analysis of where Rust is and get similar quality. There doesn't appear to be any interesting technical moral or anything.

Also I am loving just how over the top clickbaity Claudeish is for an article like this. I just imagine it as a dramatic narrator announcing these section titles: 5. The one announced as accessibility, not as Rust: Narrator’s maths engine 9. The compiler that changed name

Comment · 1 month ago
The fact that it might affect quality is something that is on my mind. In fact, I have mainly been using Astra after being primarily on Claude for several years exactly because of this annoyance. Ultimately, the model (at least for coding purposes) should just... not have this writing style.

I do think an infrastructure where another Claude retranslates the output would be better. Oftentimes I forget to put it in the actual prompt and when I receive back 8 paragraphs of Claudeish I ask for it then.

I would have to disagree that it gets as grating as Claudeish though. Its just direct and professional instead of ring-around-the-rosy clickbait.

Comment · 1 month ago
FYI a quick fix for claudish is to ask for the response to be in ASD-STE100 (Simple Technical English). Then it is far more readable. But I would agree that this is an annoyance and shouldn't require user workaround to get something readable.
Comment · 1 month ago
That is a vindictive way to view the world. It'll be a race to the bottom if everyone gives up on facts and says whatever is politically expedite. I would urge you not to give into it, although I certainly understand the frustration.
Comment · 1 month ago
I tried the kart racer game and instantly found that there is incredible auto-steering and you can fly by spamming spacebar.
Comment · 1 month ago
A more physical way to think through this may be: imagine many many bits of rock all with their own semi random velocity. The overall system has an angular momentum that must be preserved. So as these bits of rock accrete you end up with orbits of large bodies that all must add up to the initial angular momentum of the system. Since every planet is a conglomeration of many bits it is extremely likely that all orbits are in the same rotational direction, though not guaranteed.
Comment · 1 month ago

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