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I've never trusted on model cards though. I'm sorry.
In the comments,boscillator wrote:
"I'm always saying Simulink needs a text-based interface. Same signal flow programming model that supports scopes and continues time integrators, just with text instead of drag-and-drop." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598291)
This has been on my own list for a long time too, so I built it. It's called MDL (Modeloop Description Language).
Every diagram now has an equivalent textual form, and the two stay synchronized in both directions. This allows users to decide if to create and modify diagrams as blocks on the canvas or as MDL text.
Curious what HN thinks — and boscillator, if you're around: this one's on you.
However, I am also confused about market positioning. Too expensive to perform daily tasks - open souce models are much cheaper - and not frontier model to address complex real world problems.
Rarely used Sonnet btw.
Your point is interesting! And with a Mythos-class model already on the market (e.g. DeepSeek or GLM), will OpenAI and Anthropic be forced to apply the same policy?
That is exactly the right direction. But for now it is just a proposal
Also, a founder spending months coordinating lawyers banks and tax advisors is not talking to customers or building the product. The opportunity cost here is huge.
Anyway, you are pretty close. One more push, don’t give up. :)
- Price/Sales about 128x (NVIDIA had a peak of a 40x at its peak)
- Bought Twitter per 44 billions. Inflated its valuation to $250 billion just by integrating it into X.AI
- EnterpriseValue/EBITDA about 219x (30x for scaleup business) and negative Price-to-Earnings
- Low free-float trick (minimal public shares available)
Even the market efficiency hypothesis struggles to justify it
The real technical challenge is rappresented by edge cases: a software that is excellent 99.9% of the time can still be unacceptable if the remaining 0.1% contains rare but catastrophic scenarios. And that's why we still don't see many self-driving vehicles on the roads today.
However, NVIDIA has a credible shot because it controls much of the loop - hardware, training infrastructure and simulation environment. If it works they will impose a huge vendor lock-in, difficult to replicate for other competitors.
I probably wouldn’t want Modeloop to automatically convert between SI and Imperial units inside the model, because that can make the behavior less explicit.
What I do think is useful is documenting that a certain signal represents speed in mph, temperature in degC, pressure in psi, etc. So the value stays exactly what the model defines, but the user and generated artifacts have clearer semantics about what each signal represents.
I think the closest term is probably contextual onboarding or guided onboarding. This onboarding system is created around concrete real-world examples so users don't feel disoriented. The user starts from a working model and then the UI highlights the next meaningful step.
Technically it is a pretty minimal implementation without using external libraries - I generally avoid the use of libraries when possible. Given an example model, define a sequence of expected actions, store the current onboarding step in app state, and render a hint/highlight near the next control until the user completes that action. Then just optimize the transitions timing and appearance
For example, also the bouncing ball does not catch the real essense of Modeloop. Indeed, I will change it soon with a more control-oriented example :)
Edit: Changed the example on the landing page with a DC Motor controller
Regarding the needs a text-based interface, I totally agree with you! Most of the time you can create models directly within the terminal or with a simple script. That's why we actually provide a CLI that allows you to build and run models. You can initialize models, add blocks with parameters, connect ports, validate the graph, and trigger code generation all from the terminal. Nevertheless, we think the GUI is useful to review the model and inspect it graphically
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