There is a lot to like here. It can be a nice stack when combined with async/falcon and viewcomponents, at least where you don't need a lot of client-side state and browser API usage (canvas/usermedia etc) where javascript-first is a better approach, or a lot of number crunching, for which Python is better.

That's just Play Store. It's easy to publish APKs on Github releases like any other OS.

So not even milling off the ssd works now?

Fortunately I don't really see the point of using a mac mini, so this doesn't bother me too much, but... it's poor taste. You're holding it wrong was not cool the first time.

You can mill them off and replace them with supported nands. People have videos on YouTube but it’s not very accessible to do.

The issue is that Apple moved the storage controllers into their SOC. So they use raw nand chips, and you need to use ones that the SOC supports.

It does not have access to the Excel app. You may be able to generate the .xlsx file using python libraries but you would need to run the python code on your own. ChatGPT can run generated code, which is probably why it works there.

I don't expect it to have the Excel app, I expect it to run the code it is capable of generating.

This is what I mean by their strategy being a jumble. Claude can do the hard part of figuring out what code to write and writing it, but then refuses to do the easier part of executing the code.

The Claude web UI cannot generate binary files, it's (currently) restricted to plain text.

If you want binary files you'd be better off with ChatGPT with Code Interpreter mode, which can run Python code that generates binary content.

Or ask Claude to write you Python code that generates Excel files and then copy and paste that onto your own computer and run it yourself.

> you'd be better off with ChatGPT with Code Interpreter mode

Yes, this is what I am saying. Why go to the trouble to build something as capable as Claude and then hamstring it from being as useful as ChatGPT? I have no doubt that Claude could be more useful if the Anthropic team would let it shine.

They've been investing engineering effort in Claude Artifacts instead, which I find incredibly useful: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/

I'd love to see them produce their own Code Interpreter alternative, but in the meantime it's open for third parties to offer that (and a few do).

I have used Artifacts a couple of times and found them useful.

But now I am even more confused. They make an LLM that can generate code. They make a sandbox to run generated code. They will even host public(!) apps that run generated code.

But what they will not do is run code in the chatbot? Unless the chatbot context decides the code is worthy of going into an Artifact? This is kind of what I mean by the offering being jumbled.

BTW saw your writeup on the LLM pricing calculator -- very cool!

Yeah I can't imagine Claude will be without a server-side code execution platform forever. Both OpenAI (Code Interpreter) and Gemini (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/code-execution) have had that for a while now, and it's spectacularly useful. It fills a major gap in a Chatbot's skills too, since it lets them reliably run calculations.

Sandboxing is a hard problem, but it's not like Anthropic are short on money or engineering talent these days.

See, I think this is a case of personal preference. I much prefer Claude's approach of figuring out the code and writing it for me to execute myself, rather than having it all in one box. Apart from anything else, it makes me think a little more about the process, and the desired outcome, rather than just iterate, click, iterate, click.

It's marginally less efficient, for sure, but it allows me greater visibility on the process, and gives me more confidence that whatever it's doing is what I want it to do.

But maybe that's some weird luddite-ism on my part, and I should just embrace an even blacker box where everything is done in the tool.

YMMV obviously. If I ask the magic box to make a spreadsheet, I don't need to see the Python for that any more than I need to see the code it uses to summarize something I paste in. I don't really even care that it has to write code to make the spreadsheet at all.

Strict hierarchies are indeed too rigid. What about using a tag-based file manager like TagSpaces (which is free and open-source)?

MacOS also supports tags.

Try dropping him in one of these math discord groups (for eg: Summer of Math Exposition)? Teens care a lot about social approval and seeing so many people having fun with math might help.

Isn't this fan-in?

let A = select * from tbla

let B = select * from tblb

let C = select * from A join B

Think about what tbla and tblb can be - hint they can only be globals (ie actual tables)

No, "silver medal" is defined as a range of points to be earned in the allotted time (4.5 hours for both papers of 3 problems each).

And the cutoffs are chosen after the results are in, not in advance.

> you should not try to use the money itself as a way of limiting what people do

Are you saying that Anti money laundering rules should be scrapped?

If they don't work, are fully ineffective and generally only catch small fishes I guess we could scrap them.