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make3··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
This won't fit everyone of course, but I've found that the Cursor / VScode extension of Claude is similar (though not perfect) to the desktop client. It's kind of like letting Microsoft deal with the Electron variability stuff in a way.
make3··on Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
I wonder if they're trying to just kill Anthropic and OpenAI with this, ahah. I assume that Google really doesn't care if the coding model becomes fully overtaken by free models.
make3··on Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries
Government-controlled inspection wouldn't be solved by switching to older DLLs (unless the code itself is compromised, which is unlikely for video game code)
make3··on Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
you can just tell them to do more dynamic testing. I think dynamic testing is partly frowned upon because it slows things down & can take down software where you wouldn't expect
make3··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
Thinking that Israel potentially spies on the US government is not what anyone reasonable would call a conspiracy theory.
make3··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
I don't think we can assume that easily that it's perfectly normal to spy on allies, especially when one ally is the biggest military power in history, & their direct sole protector
make3··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
there's currently disagreements with Israel on their approach to Lebanon being way more aggressively and murderous than "necessary", whatever that means. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5904899-trump-ne...
make3··on New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
or just you know.. asphalt residue
make3··on Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history
It's surprising that they're not doing that systematically around the building, but then again I guess that applies to a large part of the city as well.

One always wonders which incredible books we lost, from amazing mysterious old philosophers. The burning of the library of Alexandria is such an incredible sadness

make3··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
asset strip to the moon, literally
make3··on Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
I guarantee you there's positional information one way or another. they just don't mention it because positional embeddings are extremely cheap computationally, not worth mentioning
make3··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
theoretical question, do cooldowns still work if everyone has them?
make3··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
this can't be their only market proposition (and is not), because the vast majority of anyone not in CS or IT doesn't care about this, or even know it's a thing
make3··on What Is a Dickover?
Aren't cookie dickovers mandatory in the EU?
make3··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
Before devices and AI came. we're seeing a reversal of the Flynn effect trend
make3··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
No one is saying there isn't, but it's objectively a stupid massive oversimplification of how complex things like a human brain and human learning really are.

For one, people used to be a lot better, do unless you think people are actively dumber, you argument doesn't hold.

School capabilities also correlates massively with things like access to resources and wealth of parents, and inversely with mental health.

We also have very strong incentives as a society, as an economy and as a democracy to have as many educated people as possible, to work on setting the best conditions possible for people to learn

make3··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
blackboards in uni where you can't do anything but just rewrite everything the prof is writing is a nightmarish waste of time, especially for anyone with any kind of attention difficulties

please remove the devices from the students but provide slides

make3··on Ferrari Luce
it looks like a generic cop car from a sci fi game
make3··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
To me, AI feels like the morbidity of Star Trek teleportation, where it's actually copying the person at to the other end and zapping the original one out of existence. The original human never benefits from the fast transportation.

Similarly, we're creating tools to improve knowledge, but we're progressively zapping the human out of the equation. Knowledge is created for something, but it's unclear if very soon humans will be able to understand it, or really benefit from it, except billionaires, etc.

It's too bad that we're not improving humans nearly as fast as we're replacing ourselves.

make3··on I’ve joined Anthropic
That's a funny thing to say as time is infinite, and we're at the early stages of every single thing. Reasoning in time dynamics is useful though to be clear
make3··on Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
these are in the trillion parameters range, not sure it's actually that cheap to have at a reasonable speed without quality degradation & without like.. your own DGX B200
make3··on Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
why is that part impressive specifically? they got purchased by SpaceX, they have access to infinite compute and cash now.

& now they're still losing all of their users to Claude Code and Codex.

make3··on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
Anthropic is a bit like a grass-fed animal slaughterhouse, equally a threat to the existence of a middle class as OpenAI but with better branding
make3··on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
sign of the times
make3··on America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish
it's about cultural relatedness from a Western centric pov, not language
make3··on America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish
the point is to give an idea of the approximate region that people come from, not to give a professionally accurate linguistic picture
make3··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
no one thinks "shell shocked" is real anymore, and afaik it wasn't ever supported by task science. it's just super intense trauma response
make3··on Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
The real reason this comparison makes no sense is that only a vanishingly small fraction of people seriously using ai to code would seriously use a model so far from the top models (including open source ones).

He should compare his MacBook to Open Router on Kimi 2.6 1.1T or GLM 5.1 (754B), at bfloat16 precision, which he can't ofc.

But it furthers his point that things like open router are a better idea, which is not surprising.

make3··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
you think universities don't all have honor codes or ethics statements
make3··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
no proctors is insane, seeing as I've experienced a number of people trying to cheat off of me in proctored exams (and I was not a particularly good student)
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