i think its probably mostly vibes but that still counts, this is not in the charts
> Windsurf reports Opus 4.1 delivers a one standard deviation improvement over Opus 4 on their junior developer benchmark, showing roughly the same performance leap as the jump from Sonnet 3.7 to Sonnet 4.
And in 52 weeks we've gone 3.5->4.1 with this training improvement, meanwhile the 52 weeks prior to that were Claude -> Claude 3. The absolute jumps per version delta also used to be larger.
I.e. it seems we don't get much more than new training run levels of improvement anymore. Which is better than nothing, but a shame compared to the early scaling.
Why is there supposed to be no step between frequently useful and indispensable? Quickly going from nothing to frequently useful (which involved many rapid hops between) was certainly surprising, and that's precisely the lost momentum.
They need to leave some room to release 10 more models. They could crank benchmarks to 100% but then no new model is needed lol? Pretty sure these pretty benchmark graphs are all completely staged marketing numbers since they do solve the same problems they are being trained on – no novel or unknown problematic is presented to them.
I am still very early, but output quality wise, yes, there does not seem to be any noticeable improvement in my limited personal testing suite. What I have noticed though is subjectively better adherence to instructions and documentation provided outside the main prompt, though I have no way to quantify or reliably test that yet. So beyond reliably finding Needles-in-the-Haystack (which Frontier models have done well on lately), Opus 4.1 seems to do better in following those needles even if not explicitly guided to compared to Opus 4.
I will only add that it's interesting that in the results graphic, they simply highlighted Opus 4.1 - choosing not to display which models have the best scores - as Opus 4.1 only scored the best on about half of the benchmarks - and was worse than Opus 4.0 on at least one measure.
Good! I'm glad they are just giving us small updates. Opus 4 just came out, if you have small improvements, why not just release them? There's no downside for us.
Public transport simply does not work at low densities, and improves with density. Car based societies are, almost by definition, not walkable. Dense, walkable cities are cheaper, healthier, prettier, greener, and more productive.
There are problems that come with density, like crime, but there are solutions to that other than low density. I encourage you to explore life in Asian cities, especially SE China or Singapore, to see how great low crime, high density cities can really be.
When I worked at a large bank they blocked ChatGPT on the network. Unfortunately I was a new grad who didn’t know Java working in a Java team. I just turned off the vpn and copy pasted the code back and forth until it worked. Boss didn’t seem to mind. Left the job after 2 months anyway.
The biggest difference I see (though I'm not super familiar with Plotly) is that we define data transformations in SQL, while Plotly uses Python. One benefit of SQL is that it provides the advantage of tracing data lineage from source to visualization, which gives you visibility into data dependencies - something that Python code in Plotly Dash doesn't offer.
I always splice wires considering these good practices, regardless of what application. I just like doing things correctly and reliably.
I also have a little bit of a fetish. I really enjoy it when other people do their work correctly and do those small things that show their prowess. And I like to to think somebody someday sees what I did and will enjoy it the same.
That's why, when I sail, I always have all my lines neatly tied and organised. And use proper knots for their applications. And look at other yachts when docked to see if their owners know what they are doing or not.
Just a reminder to all homeowners that the other extreme is also bad; you can't just wire-tape two Romex cables together in an attic and call it a day!
I wish someone had told the person that did nearly this very thing to the low voltage control cable to my external AC compressor. At least in the attic it would not be exposed to weather and UV. <facepalmEmoji>
