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New comment by elbear in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

elbear — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:46:39 +0000

I thought it was determined (slight pun) that free will is not a thing. I'm referring to Sapolsky's book "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will)" as an example.

New comment by elbear in "Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents"

elbear — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:42:33 +0000

In case you don't know, Gemini 2.5 flash is hosted on DeepInfra. They also have 1.5 flash but not 2.0 flash.

I have no affiliation with DeepInfra. I use them, because they host open-source models that are good.

New comment by elbear in "Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents"

elbear — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:39:22 +0000

I use ChatGPT and Claude on OpenRouter, because it's just easier than buying credits on each platform separately.

New comment by elbear in "The only moat left is money?"

elbear — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:22:27 +0000

by keeping the how part a secret

New comment by elbear in "I’m joining OpenAI"

elbear — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:03:18 +0000

I wonder, how does a Julius perceive another Julius, as another competent worker? What about a non-Julius then?

New comment by elbear in "Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]"

elbear — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:56:54 +0000

* It's cheaper than proprietary models

* Maybe you don't want to have your conversations used for training. The providers listed on OpenRouter mention whether they do that or not.

New comment by elbear in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

elbear — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:31:14 +0000

I had started using it again through Open WebUI. If it's gone, I'll probably switch to GLM-4.7 completely.

New comment by elbear in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

elbear — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:54:22 +0000

I'm mostly the same, I don't watch movies twice. But there are exceptions. Some movies are just beautiful or I like how they make me feel, so I want to rewatch them. Groundhog Day is an example.

New comment by elbear in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

elbear — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:28:07 +0000

Maybe you would, if you bought it.

New comment by elbear in "C Is Best (2025)"

elbear — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:44:00 +0000

How I interpret his comment about the distance: The benefit of switching from C/C++ to Rust is higher than switching from C++ to Go (in the similar use-cases) or from Java to Kotlin.

Another argument offered for Rust is that it's high-level enough that you can also use it for the web (see how many web frameworks it has). So I think that Rust's proponents see it as this universal language that could be good for everything.

New comment by elbear in "Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker"

elbear — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:19:55 +0000

When I started learning Haskell, it did feel like coding with a straightjacket.

New comment by elbear in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

elbear — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:19:34 +0000

I would never expect a Western European country to not accept Visa and Mastercard. I say this as an Eastern European. But I do remember that in Germany (and Austria) it's not that accepted to pay by card.

New comment by elbear in "How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)"

elbear — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:27:40 +0000

I wasn't sure how encipher is in Romanian (it's not common), it's "a cifra". The infinitive in Romanian puts "a" in front of the verb, so it's very close to Spanish.

New comment by elbear in "How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)"

elbear — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:59:35 +0000

In Romanian:

- cifru -> cipher

- cifră -> digit

New comment by elbear in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"

elbear — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:11:08 +0000

Another way to put it: don't focus on distance but more on behaving in tune with yourself.

New comment by elbear in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

elbear — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:04:12 +0000

Yeah, we now need to specify who wrote the tests, because it's important information.

New comment by elbear in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

elbear — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:29:12 +0000

Those tests were written by people. That's why they were confident that what the LLM implemented was correct.

New comment by elbear in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

elbear — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:40:52 +0000

They withdrew in WW1 after the revolution.

New comment by elbear in "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

elbear — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:12:03 +0000

> No one claims that good type systems prevent buggy software.

That's exactly what languages with advanced type systems claim. To be more precise, they claim to eliminate entire classes of bugs. So they reduce bugs, they don't eliminate them completely.

New comment by elbear in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

elbear — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:04:54 +0000

Likely because some people don't like to hear about positive experiences with LLMs.