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New comment by PunchTornado in "Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5"

PunchTornado — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:00:55 +0000

goog released it just before the earnings call. anthropic and openai don't have these issues.

New comment by PunchTornado in "Gemini 4 Carbon"

PunchTornado — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:03:13 +0000

My view is that the llms aren't sticky. I switch from one to the other daily. frequently auto which selects the cheapest option. When codex came with sol the entire team switched instantly. Then opus 5.5, the entire team switched instantly. We have a channel on slack where somebody says which is the best cheapest model today and I usually use that.

New comment by PunchTornado in "Why I'm Short the AI Buildout Even Though I'm Long Computers"

PunchTornado — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:04:00 +0000

They keep talking about gpu depreciation and I pay a fortune to rent A100. We have a policy at our company to never close them because demand is so high that we can't find resources to spin them back up when we need them. So msft doesn't even spend money cooling them.

New comment by PunchTornado in "Muse Spark Open"

PunchTornado — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:26:16 +0000

How is this open weights? Open weights means anyone can use the weights. The license forbids certain categories.

New comment by PunchTornado in "The Disease called Politics (1962)"

PunchTornado — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:19:49 +0000

If you expect some arguments in this text, you'll find none. It is just some absolutist language, x is y and y is z.

New comment by PunchTornado in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

PunchTornado — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:14:43 +0000

yes, but in this case, openai does a lot of PR how their models solve important math problems. if it goes unchallenged, parts of society would think that is true. what would happen if we scale it and 10k companies dump 10k papers every month claiming solved math problems. how is this scalable?

We need the companies to humanly review their papers. in the same way as at other companies we use humans to review the papers.

New comment by PunchTornado in "Mistral Large 4"

PunchTornado — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:01:04 +0000

If you are a EU company worried about your data then mistral is your only option. Think about EU military companies. They can't use US and Chinese models.

New comment by PunchTornado in "2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel"

PunchTornado — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:31:33 +0000

how hard is it with AI to do an optogenesis surgery on some mice and do some experiments with neural networks? would the AI guide you step by step, tell you where to cut, what to put where? I have no medical background.

New comment by PunchTornado in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

PunchTornado — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:15:46 +0000

Doesn't everyone agree that recent rogue events are entirely the fault of management wanting to do some PR for their companies?

Is there anyone who genuinely believes that current models can't be contained if we want too?

What is LeCun saying here that is debatable?

New comment by PunchTornado in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

PunchTornado — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:54:28 +0000

I actually disagree. Why do you need a car for city trips? Most often you can take transport, a bike or walk. And in emergency situations take a taxi.

I have a car and use it only to go OUTSIDE the city, road trips and to the mountains / sea. That's why I think a hybrid is still the best option.

New comment by PunchTornado in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

PunchTornado — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:08:34 +0000

This site was painful to read on mobile. Each time I switched to another app and then back it automatically scrolled to the top and I had to painfully rediscover where I left.

New comment by PunchTornado in "Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)"

PunchTornado — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:32:54 +0000

Can't you argue that now, with llms, the written word speaks back?

New comment by PunchTornado in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

PunchTornado — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:47:31 +0000

Interesting that it is ok in the US. I also work in weapon detection for driver safety systems. Obviously it is impossible for a human or a machine to detect intent with accuracy. A security guard can enter the car and then shoot the driver. You never know. That is why our systems always send alerts no matter the situation.

New comment by PunchTornado in "CUDA for AMD on Windows"

PunchTornado — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:44:11 +0000

But claude will not be able to debug the whole stack? I have no experience in the domain. But as an outsider, it seems to me, that if the rate of progress is maintained, i don't see why agents wouldn't be able to do it in a couple of years

New comment by PunchTornado in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

PunchTornado — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:30:45 +0000

But regarding this specific case, where is the misdetection? Why would you enter a taxi with a ghost gun?

New comment by PunchTornado in "Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For"

PunchTornado — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:19:20 +0000

Good point. One could counter with the fact that US transitioned to service based and software while EU kept the heavy industry (more) while doing the change

New comment by PunchTornado in "My last six months at Evernote"

PunchTornado — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:09:35 +0000

I remember i switched from evernote to obsidian in a few hours

New comment by PunchTornado in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

PunchTornado — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:54:19 +0000

Do you know what a ghost gun is? Where is the misdetection?

New comment by PunchTornado in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

PunchTornado — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:53:32 +0000

If i were a driver i would call the cops too. What do you mean? A ghost gun in a taxi is ok?

New comment by PunchTornado in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

PunchTornado — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:26:21 +0000

A lot of taxis have models detecting weapons and aggressive behaviours. I work on some models like this. I think they are necessary. For driver's safety.