(As I said in a separate comment above, results are all bikini-clad and not revealing. However, whether it is NSFW is up to you/your work policies.)

However, result quality really drops off once you get out of the top 5 or so.

(NSFW note: all buttocks are covered by fairly conservative bikini bottoms and show no genitals, bulges, etc.)

If what you say is true, then the next set of benchmarks will be written to illuminate the true reflection of real-world tasks. Then those get benchmaxxed so managers can show "numbers go up."

Repeat enough times, and you get materially and genuinely improved products.

The burden is on the press, outside researchers, and general tech industry to both write and care about the metrics that matter.

The hard reality though is any site written in JavaScript is now part of an LLM's training set and can (and will be) be trivially rewritten into something new. Interesting times.

>“He who hath grown wise concerning old origins, lo, he will at last seek after the fountains of the future and new origins. […] For the earthquake—it choketh up many wells, it causeth much languishing: but it bringeth also to light inner powers and secrets. The earthquake discloseth new fountains.”

— Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Interesting that High got the render order correct, with the back leg behind the bike, while xhigh and max have both legs on the same side of the bicycle. Astra only got this right on Max.

This looks like a very sane implementation, addresses some issues with traditional arrays (while extending them nicely) and implements those much-needed formulas.

OK, maybe with plug-ins, but probably not natively.

Probably not.

Maybe.

The Amiga pushed the boundary in so many directions at once that the horizon extended far beyond what I was used to with the DOS/EGA/TSR/ISA/x86/PC Speaker environment. Or, the monochrome VT100/PDP-11/multitasking/multiuser systems I used in college.

At the same time, it was clear the horizon was limited...but could be pushed back through a combination of cleverness, and discovery, and code. You felt like there were true discoveries to be made, whether it was through looking at source code found on UUCP, by finally understanding the purpose of some struct found in the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual, or just experimenting with blitter or copper code.

Despite (or perhaps because of) the depth of knowledge available, computing today feels stale; anything "new" is only new to you. A million people would look at your "innovation" with disdain as its such a well-trodden path.

In a way I welcome AI-based coding, because if there's no joy (for me) in the (coding/discovery) journey, perhaps I can at least feel there's magic in getting to a new destination more quickly than ever.

It really was like going from a black-and-white world to seeing full color.

I always said that if 1% of the effort (and money) put into overcoming the PC architecture's shortcuts was put into the Amiga, the computing world would be in a very different place.

"Create an SVG of Shaquille O'Neal eating potato chips shaped like a telecopier."

Shaq'sFaxSnacksMaxx

Does the ACM really think LLMs haven't already consumed 90% of the content through other sources?

When translated, clicking the Solver drop-down (default 3x3x3) displays:

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Basic research has such a long time horizon it's interesting to think of the fundamental grants that might have been affected. Quantum computing? CRISPR? mRNA?

If it continued to completion, it would have had almost 3x the beam energy of even the upgraded LHC in 2030 (20TeV vs. 7TeV). But the questions are fundamentally political, not scientific: Would SSC operations and funding have continued through the US economic challenges of 2001, 2008, and 2020?

I could see a timeline in which the SSC got built and discovered the Higgs boson before LHC came online, causing the LHC to be canceled, delayed, and/or starved of funding -- only for the SSC to be shuttered during the "great recession" of 2008 or during any other US Gov't belt tightening exercise. Today we would have neither the SSC nor the LHC.

Or, perhaps SSC would have accelerated other discoveries by 10 to 15 years (SSC go-live was to be in the late-1990's versus LHC's Higgs discovery in 2012).