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rubslopes

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Developer | Data Scientist | PhD in Economics. Website: rubenslopes.info/?lang=en
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rubslopes··on Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma
If they don't care, why are them presenting them when launching a new model, every single time?
rubslopes··on Herdr has released native app
For me, the main reason is the remote sessions. I can copy and paste text and files in a remote session with no extra config, it's amazing!
rubslopes··on Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you
I agree with this. At this point, AI has gotten smart enough that most smart TVs can be hacked (I just did it with my LG), and TV manufacturers haven't caught up yet.
rubslopes··on Root shell on Samsung TV
This is very true, I just used AI to deactivate tracking in my LG, I was amazed of how much faster it became.
rubslopes··on macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
Finder search has been broken for me for years I think, and that smart folder "Recents" never worked properly. It's puzzling how they can let this happen.
rubslopes··on Make Tmux the OS
Thank you for the recommendations!

Years ago I bumped into Sublime Text, which introduced me to multi cursors. I ended up becoming quite good at using regex for search, then pressing Alt+Enter to select all the matches. That satisfied my multi-selection needs, and although I tried getting into Vim later, I felt that the effort was too much and my setup already made me quite fast at editing code in multiple places.

rubslopes··on Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
I'm not sure I will migrate to Omarchy, but seeing the hype around the system gave me incentive to create TUIs for most of my apps. I'm making my day to day DX as OS-neutral as possible until I finally move to Linux.
rubslopes··on Make Tmux the OS
> It is the age old conflict, what is better a verb focused or noun focused world.

Reading your comment earlier, while trying to make dinner now, made me realize that the reason I hate the layout of my house might be the same reason I never got into Vim...

To get to the kitchen, I have to walk through the dining room, where all the plates, bowls, glasses are. But I can’t grab what I need yet, because I haven’t seen the food. I first need to get to the kitchen, look at what’s there, and decide what I’m going to make... Only then do I know which tools I need.

My house verb first, but my brain works noun first.

rubslopes··on Make Tmux the OS
I've been using Aerospace on MacOS for 2 weeks and having a great experience with it. Very configurable, and it doesn't require you to deactivate SIP like yabai.
rubslopes··on Pi Durable
one example: I have several cron jobs that monitor different projects and notify me via my claw agent in Telegram. Whenever it sends me a message, I can ask it to address the issue within the same conversation.
rubslopes··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Yes. I have several subscriptions for cost saving and I'm all the time swapping models according to the cost/benefit necessary for the task at hand.
rubslopes··on Claude Opus 5.5
OP is using the expression correctly.

> Ocham's razor(...) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.

> Popularly, the principle is sometimes paraphrased as "of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

rubslopes··on Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
> RL it to oblivion.

What would that mean in this context?

rubslopes··on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
There's also a third way that can spend the most tokens: if the AI is used as part of the product, and not just a tool to build the product.
rubslopes··on Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows
I'm glad to see that GPT Sol beats Opus at least in Mathematical Sciences, because that's my need right now, and I much prefer GPT's prose style.
rubslopes··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
For me, there are two reasons: it’s what my work provides, and for some tasks, I want the absolute best model for coding.

Having said that, I just subscribed to ChatGPT yesterday, as I've become impatient with Claude for a text-dense project I'm working on.

rubslopes··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
That's the problem for me: "semantically dense". Sometimes a single paragraph is filled with several of this expression, one after the other, and there's a real mental effort to get what Claude is saying.
rubslopes··on A faster way to calculate the day of the week
So it should be called weekends?
rubslopes··on If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?
Apparently, they use "own" in the same misleading way that digital media providers use "buy", but later remove the purchased content from my library.

It's named "yours" at the time of payment, but actually only a license to use under certain conditions.

rubslopes··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
I've never used Grok, but I'm very dissatisfied with the writing style of frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic. I only use them for coding now.

ChatGPT is very long-winded, sometimes producing multiple bullet point lists for a simple answer. Claude is full of mannerisms: 'not merely x, but y', 'Here's where it gets interesting', 'the real question is', etc.

rubslopes··on Let's all meet up in the Y2K
> I'm fine with people who like going to an office, I just prefer not to. I wouldn't want to force everyone to work from home though.

Im not anti-social, but I'm an introvert with some very extrovert friends. I find interesting that we, introverts, "get" extroverts; I have no problem understanding people who like begin around other people all day long, I'm just not that guy.

But extroverts don't get introverts at all! A sentence like "yeah, I enjoy being alone by myself" feels like alien talk to them.

rubslopes··on How to Exist
When I started meditating, I actively tried to ignore my thoughts, which was exhausting. So when I couldn't, I'd engage and ruminate instead, which was just as tiring.

The approach that finally worked for me (and one I still use today, years later) I learned from a book by Adrian Wells called Metacognitive Therapy. It's not self-help, actually; it's a clinical manual for therapists, but I read it anyway. The idea, in my own words, is not to engage with the thought but simply to recognize it, almost like greeting it and saying goodbye in the same breath. A thought comes, and you say, "Hmm, okay, I just thought that. That was a thought. That's fine." And you move on.

Of course, the book goes much deeper than that, but this simple approach helped me enormously with rumination and anxiety around intrusive thoughts.

rubslopes··on Elevators
Yes! I always thought that, when unused, elevators should distribute themselves along the floors, weighted by the floors that use them the most.
rubslopes··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
I was also so annoyed by this. It makes communication all around difficult. Why don't they simply call it 4.1 flash?
rubslopes··on Azulejo
I'm always puzzled how ordinary Wikipedia pages make the front page. There must be some rare planetary alignment that gets so many people to upvote something that is plain and ordinary.

To be clear, this isn't about azulejos specifically. I'm just talking about the pattern in general, whatever the topic.

rubslopes··on Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
Yeah, me too. He did it once on MI2, fine. But again and again? I just wish he could tell a complete story for once.
rubslopes··on Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
He repeated the same trope in Return to Monkey Island. At this point, I expect all of his endings to be abstract and meta. I don't like it...
rubslopes··on Our position on open-weights models
Maybe my phrasing was confusing. I didn't mean that that was what happened, but the ideal approach to stop atomic bombs (at least in my view).
rubslopes··on About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6
This reminds me of my favorite segment of the TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm: https://youtu.be/JqrJ4wGid4Y
rubslopes··on Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API
They are selling it even cheaper than Moonshot AI. Why are you so sure they are lying?
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