Q: Die Hard: Is it a Christmas movie?

A: Of course it is. It was released on a sunny day, and that makes it a Christmas movie.

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A: "Aww hell naw! Just because it's set during Christmas doesn't make it a Christmas movie, dummy!"

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In Queensland, Australia we have solar powered e-paper displays [1][2] at some bus stops that are very similar to this (much bigger than a kindle screen, though).

[1] https://translink.com.au/about-translink/projects-and-initia...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/TranslinkQLD/videos/e-paper-trial-h...

I think your comment is a bit unfair.

> no reasoning comparison

Benchmarks against reasoning models:

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2

> no demo

https://chat.inceptionlabs.ai/

> no info on numbers of parameters for the model

This is a closed model. Do other providers publish the number of parameters for their models?

> testimonials that don't actually read like something used in production

Fair point.

Just to clarify one point: Mercury (the original v1, non-reasoning model) is already used in production in mainstream IDEs like Zed: https://zed.dev/blog/edit-prediction-providers

Mercury v1 focused on autocomplete and next-edit prediction. Mercury 2 extends that into reasoning and agent-style workflows, and we have editor integrations available (docs linked from the blog). I’d encourage folks to try the models!

You are right edited my post (twice actually). Missed the chat first time around (though its hard to see it as a reasoning model when chain of thought is hidden, or not obvious. I guess this is the new normal), and also missed the reasoning table because text is pretty small on mobile and I thought its another speed benchmark.

I tried their chat demo again, and if you set reasoning effort to "High", you sometimes see the chain of thought before the answer (click the "Thought for n seconds" text to expand it).

That being said, the chain is pretty basic. It's possible that they don't disclose the full follow-up prompt list.

> what is the point of that

Planned obsolescence? /s

Jokes aside, they can make the "LLM chip" removable. I know almost nothing is replaceable in MacBooks, but this could be an exception.

Is this sarcasm? These all sound like things that I would never use current LLMs for.

Last one is research. But you don't need a claw.

> Suddenly, smart AI-enabled juniors can easily match the productivity of traditional (or conscientious) seniors, so why hire seniors at all?

I guess we'll see, but so far the flattening curve of LLM capabilities suggest otherwise. They are still very effective with simpler tasks, but they can't crack the hardest problems like a senior developer does.

That's a great opportunity for a controlled study! You should do it. If you can send me the draft publication after doing the study, I can give feedback on it.

I don't think there is a need for a new study as Cognitive Reflection Tests are a well-researched subject [1]. I am actually surprised that I got downvoted, as I thought this would be common knowledge.

[1] https://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych466/articles/Fred...

No.

[Citation needed]

> He was not the youngest GM.

He is currently the youngest GM.

The source was available, but with cryptic variable names and (apparently) no or little comments:

> Ward mentioned that the biggest bottleneck was the cryptic variable names—short abbreviations that were common in old-school programming but made the code nearly impossible to follow.

> "He not only commented everything," Ward marveled, "he went through every single line of code and renamed every single variable for me in about three days.

I think it's still fair to use the term "reverse engineering".

> Why wasn't it an exe??

It was originally a PDP-1 game. If you are talking about the PC remake by B. Seiler, it was only 9KB. There is no need to bother with a relocation table if it's under 64KB.