If they’re sourcing some of their information from GPS data, the vertical precision for elevation is pretty poor, even if you’re using professional equipment. I’ve been being off a foot or tube is perfectly normal. You really need to use survey monumentation as controls. Also many states known invest in a statewide light R elevation program. It’s really too bad because they are so useful for planning and design.
Sounds like Claude commits are, on average, going into higher visibility repositories than humans… maybe the author would like to reconsider their approach?
There are also plenty of super high utility repos that are widely used (often indirectly), but don't have a lot of stars, or even a meagre amount.
Also there is the issue of star != star, because it's not granular.
It's similar to upvotes on general social media platforms. Everyone likes cute cats doing funny things somewhat, but only few people appreciate something that's more niche but way more impactful, useful or entertaining (or requires some effort to consume), but those who do, value it very highly. But the same person might use the same score (single upvote) for a cat video and a video that they value much higher.
So your definition of intelligence would be exactly equal to a human or some subset of them you choose? Could a dog solve ARC-AGI? Probably not. I would not say they lack intelligence. Same with a fruit fly. What if the calculator is powered by actual living neurons? I think you need to know where you actually think the difference between organic machine and intelligence is before making blanket statements.
A modern LLM in a loop with a harness for memory and behavior modification in a body would probably fool me.
"a harness for a memory" so it still requires external tools to work well. The whole point of this benchmark is to validate the systems can solve problems without any sort of outside help.
A theme I have noticed in content oriented towards young children is a very heavy use of probably unlicensed depictions of famous characters from popular franchises. Is Nintendo collecting a royalty from “it’s raining tacos“? Probably not.
Why on earth would you publish and monetize software anybody can reproduce with a $20 subscription and an hour of prompting? Why would you ever publish something you vibe coded to PyPI? Code itself isn’t scarce anymore. If there is not some proprietary, secret data or profound insight behind it, I just don’t think there is a good reason to treat it like something valuable.
I get that people are upset that making a cool six figures off of stitching together React components is maybe not a viable long-term career path anymore. For those of us on the user side, the value is tremendous. I’m starting to replace what were paid enterprise software and plug-ins and tailoring them to my own taste. Our subject matter experts are translating their knowledge and work flows, which usually aren’t that complicated, into working products on their own. They didn’t have to spend six months or a year negotiating an agreement to build the software or have to beg our existing software vendors, who could not possibly care less, for the functionality to be added to software we are, for some reason, expected to pay for every single year, despite the absence of any operating cost to justify this practice.
Enormous amounts of money could be saved with plain old Python and shell scripts anybody could learn… but then management wants you bolt on telemetry for a dashboard nobody will look at to prove it’s a good idea. Then they want you to promise your work is in their GitHub. Then their idiot CISO who can’t program has to pretend he’s auditing your work. Then the change management council needs a say… then you decide that profitability and efficiency isn’t your problem and you hobby code for toy problems.
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