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oofbaroomf··on Laptop Based on 6502 CPU
The display also takes power, quite a lot actually - 2-5W
oofbaroomf··on Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Martin Hairer signed the Fields Medallists' letter and is in the advisory board. Camillo De Lallis and Ravi Vakil both endorsed the letter and are also on the advisory board. I'm not sure what "incentives" you're talking about.

https://mathandai.org/

oofbaroomf··on Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?
I believe you're looking for IFBench (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02833, https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/ifbench, https://github.com/allenai/IFBench)
oofbaroomf··on Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
Takes time to move your hand to it.
oofbaroomf··on WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
Proton is a tool Valve made, based on Wine, to easily run Windows games, on Linux [0]. GP meant Proton.

[0]: https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton

oofbaroomf··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Have you ever been forced to code something impossible and tedious by a user who keeps getting more and more frustrated as you keep trying?
oofbaroomf··on Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
Wayland is great and I generally prefer it, but it's worth keeping X around for KDE Plasma I think. Things like remote desktop are nicer on X, X is much easier to use on Android compared to Wayland, etc.
oofbaroomf··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
If DDG got 28% more visits, Google lost about .6% of their visits.
oofbaroomf··on Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse
Egeustimentis.

source: https://www.anarchyishyperbole.com/p/significant-digits.html

oofbaroomf··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Wow. Hopefully, Ternus will bring what he brought to Apple's hardware to their software. The hardware is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else, but their software gets worse and worse every generation. I'm glad to hear this.
oofbaroomf··on State of Homelab 2026
Seems like it's down right now. I guess that's the "State of Homelab"? :)
oofbaroomf··on Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website
ChatGPT recommended me some good hard drives for price per TB, and one particularly cheap one had direct checkout with Walmart, so I tried it, because why not? It let me get all the way to the payment step before it told me it was out of stock. Walmart's website told me it was out of stock when I decided to click on the link. This is probably part of why it doesn't convert.
oofbaroomf··on Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
I'm currently using a fully vibe-coded, personal River window manager that works just how I want it to. I switched to it after I realized I couldn't do everything I wanted in Hyprland (e.g. tile windows to equal areas instead of BSP by default).

Simple example of how impactful this separation has been for me.

oofbaroomf··on Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices
Wait... weren't there many ARM Chromebooks already?
oofbaroomf··on Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English
Ugh, I just wish there was a deterministic and formal way to tell a computer what I want...
oofbaroomf··on Two insider cases we've recently closed
"Prediction" markets were supposed to be great because of insiders: they make the probabilities much more accurate and actually useful for forecasting.

But they ended up just being for gamblers and there is no more signal.

oofbaroomf··on Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents
Is this essentially a cloud-managed specialized subagent with an LLM-friendly API?

Seems like an interesting new category.

oofbaroomf··on Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery
20% loss isn't too bad if you start out at double the capacity though.
oofbaroomf··on Some software bloat is OK
Ok, but something like Zed is almost as snappy as native GUI frameworks AND has a consistent user experience. It doesn't seem like they are making any tradeoffs there.
oofbaroomf··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
a "clear" opinion... :)
oofbaroomf··on Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05
I think AI Studio uses the API, so rate limits are extremely high and almost impossible for a normal human to reach if using the paid preview model.
oofbaroomf··on Claude 4
Mathematicians don't do high school math competitions - the benchmark in question is AIME.

Mathematicians generally do novel research, which is hard to optimize for easily. Things like LiveCodeBench (leetcode-style problems), AIME, and MATH (similar to AIME) are often chosen by companies so they can flex their model's capabilities, even if it doesn't perform nearly as well in things real mathematicians and real software engineers do.

oofbaroomf··on Claude 4
The improvement from Claude 3.7 wasn't particularly huge. The improvement from Claude 3, however, was.
oofbaroomf··on Claude 4
Nice to see that Sonnet performs worse than o3 on AIME but better on SWE-Bench. Often, it's easy to optimize math capabilities with RL but much harder to crack software engineering. Good to see what Anthropic is focusing on.
oofbaroomf··on Claude 4
Interesting how Sonnet has a higher SWE-bench Verified score than Opus. Maybe says something about scaling laws.
oofbaroomf··on Claude 4
Wonder why they renamed it from Claude <number> <type> (e.g. Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to Claude <type> <number> (Claude Opus 4).
oofbaroomf··on Devstral
No. I am referring to Claude 3.5 Sonnet New, released October 22, 2024, with model ID claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022, colloquially referred to as Claude 3.6 Sonnet because of Anthropic's confusing naming.
oofbaroomf··on Devstral
The SWE-Bench scores are very, very high for an open source model of this size. 46.8% is better than o3-mini (with Agentless-lite) and Claude 3.6 (with AutoCodeRover), but it is a little lower than Claude 3.6 with Anthropic's proprietary scaffold. And considering you can run this for almost free, this is a very extraordinary model.
oofbaroomf··on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
> I wondered if Microsoft would...do this properly

No.

oofbaroomf··on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
A little bit unrelated, but the rise of Transformers in 2022 was because of the compute available - in 2018, it would have been almost impossible to make something like GPT-4.
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