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  • Two. My experience with mechanical pencils is that they’re often unreliable and a waste of time. I hate having to reload my pencil, I hate when it breaks if you accidentally make the tip longer than it should be, I hate when you accidentally put one more in the pencil and it gets clogged, I hate having to carry refills all the time, I hate buying an expensive pencil and worrying about losing it (as opposed to just buying a dozen regular pencils for backup)…

    Just hand over the regular pencil and a decent sharpener.






  • Other people answered how it’s measured, but if you’re just shopping for a CPU I’d recommend skipping straight to benchmarks. There’s a lot of technical stuff involved but if you look at Geekbench/Passmark scores you can easily compare which ones are more powerful.

    If you’re shopping for a laptop with a specific CPU I’d also look into how much power it uses (in Watts).
















  • in developing our reasoning models, we’ve optimized somewhat less for math and computer science competition problems, and instead shifted focus towards real-world tasks that better reflect how businesses actually use LLMs.

    I was just about to say how useless these benchmarks are. Plenty of LLMs claim to be better than Claude and GPT4, but in real world use they’ve always been more reliable. Claude especially. Good to hear they’re not just chasing scores.