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HEADLINE: Electromagnetic radiation can be used to see!!!!

Right, that's what your eyes do. Radio is much longer wavelength than visible light (~5-10cm). So at best it offers extremely crappy resolution unless - you're doing something clever with second order information.

can we not come up with a way to separate the control and data planes in LLMs?

I think that's the kind of intuitive decision that comes from years of troubleshooting experience. It's not obvious that would be the place to start. It's impressive to me at least he got there.

Utterly brainless article. Why am I even commenting.

Real risk of them blocking or crippling it at some point. They've nerfed a lot of useful things over time, Wi-Fi scanning being one good example.

I assume this allows more granularity. Many apps avoid you blocking their marketing by not using the notification categories system. It's all or nothing. This app would presumably allow me to differentiate between the two if it can't be done with notification categories.

So fast mode uses more tokens, in direct opposition to Gemini where fast 'mode' means less. One more piece of useless knowledge to remember.

I don't think this is the case, according to the docs, right? The effort level will use fewer tokens, but the independent fast mode just somehow seems to use some higher priority infrastructure to serve your requests.

You're comparing two different things. It's not useless knowledge, it's something you need to understand.

Opus fast mode is routed to different servers with different tuning that prioritizes individual response throughput. Same model served differently. Same response, just delivered faster.

The Gemini fast mode is a different model (most likely) with different levels of thinking applied. Very different response.

Was it leading with a bad analogy that gave it way?