Deep search/deep research in grok, chatgpt, perplexity etc works much better. It can also do things like search in different languages. Wonder about something in some foreign country? Ask it to search in the local language and find things you won't find in English.
> Ask it to search in the local language and find things you won't find in English.
Yeah, this is one of my favorite use cases. Living in Europe, surrounded by different languages, this makes searching stuff in other countries so much more convenient.
Can Claude Code also be a devops agent or is it only for coding?
I currently use Cursor as a devops agent, I use the remote ssh extension to ssh into a VM, then Cursor will set up everything, I make snapshots on way in case it fucks up. It's been really great to quickly be able to setup and try out different infrastructures and backends in no time at all. It works well enough that I now do all my development using remote dev with ssh or remote containers on the a server. Having a virtualized dev environment is a great addition to just having git for the code.
Gogole is great for one thing: brainstorming, and brainstorming is only useful if you have no idea what to do in the first place. Once you know _anything_ substantial about the subject matter Google loses its value to you.
It seems likely that HPPD, if it doesn't go away by itself, can be cured by 50-200 hours of practicing focusing on the noise and then trying to consciously move it, changing its colors etc.
But not multimodal reasoning, the intermediate and output tokens are text only, at least in the released version, they probably have actual multimodal reasoning that's not been shown yet, as they already showed gpt-4o can output image tokens,but that's not been released yet either.
That wasn’t the question… they asked if any multimodal models had been reasoning trained. o1 fits that criteria precisely, and it can reason about the image input.
They didn’t ask about a model that can create images while thinking. That’s an entirely unrelated topic.
This stuff works, it's just that people interpret what's happening in different ways. You can believe you are visiting an astral plane that is a separate physical dimension or whatever or you can believe you are essentially having a type of lucid dream. There are people who believes regular dreams are seeing the future or visiting alternate dimensions. That doesn't mean dreams don't exist, but it also doesn't mean that dreaming is traveling to some alternative physical reality.
I can believe that it works. But there's a risk of actually starting to believe that the astral plane and other stuff is real, particularly if someone has predispositions for schizophrenia.
There's also a degree of danger, believing your dreams tell you the future is one thing but if you immerse yourself in occult, text about daemons, start believing they might have their own agendas - and I mean really believe - you can see how dangerous it can get.
On the one hand, you're right, but on the other hand, what you're describing is essentially just religion. Believing in spells is little different than believing in prayer. The "astral plane" may as well be Heaven or Hell, or Purgatory. The Bible is an "occult" text about demons, containing spells and rituals, and many people believe in a literal God and Devil and intercession by angelic and demonic forces.
And of course there are plenty of schizophrenics who claim to hear the voice of God and claim to be doing His will, something which might have gotten one canonized centuries ago, but no one pathologizes Christianity when that happens. If we're going to consider magical thinking normal in one sense, we should consider it normal in every sense, because the only difference between "religious" and "occult" practice is cultural acceptance.
Or else accept that all of it is equally ridiculous, that Aleister Crowley is no more divine or absurd than the Pope.
To be honest, my thinking on this is not crystalised but I do think there's an important difference between a religion like Christianity and other "occult" practices - it's about social guardrails against going insane.
Practicing Christians will congregate weekly, reinforce their beliefs, chat about them, confess to the same priest - all of this stops going into crazy corners of the belief space. Also, normal to be openly Christian (at least where I'm from) and people have vague ideas about which beliefs are roughly in that category - and can call out deviations.
I'm basing this all on my guesses to be clear! Still curious to see if others have similar thoughts.
That's a sound theory. I'm a fairly staunch atheist so do believe both are equally absurd. Even with that frame though it's easy to acknowledge community that forms around (most) religion serves to align group behaviour. This can be both good or bad depending on what those behaviours are in a larger social context.
You still get similar community in a lot of alternative spirituality / occult practices but from slices of that community I've been exposed to it does focus much more on personal exploration and opens the door to the recursive degeneration that may lead to.
> but no one pathologizes Christianity when that happens
Many people, even many believers, certainly pathologize those that become too embroiled in Christian beliefs. Sure, they admire the deeply devout priest or nun or monk or who is spending their whole life in the Church. But if that person starts telling them that God is speaking to them, or that God is showing them far off events, or that they can pray to obtain physical results directly - they way this book suggests is possible - they will certainly take a few steps back and stop listening so intently.
Not to mention, there are vast differences between religious and occult practices. While religious people do sometimes pray for material improvements to their life, many religious practices are more moral or social rather than magical. People eat a certain way because they believe this is what they believe is the right thing to do, they help the poor or others in their communities, they worship their god or gods just because.
Wishing to live a good life because you believe that will guarantee you'll have a good after-life (i.e. religion in a nutshell) is extremely different from performing spells that you think will fix your life here and now (occult magical practices).
The trick with AlphaGo was brute force combined with learning to extract strategies from brute force using reinforcement learning, that's what we'll see here. So maybe it costs a million dollars in compute to get a high score, but use reinforcement learning ala alphazero to learn from the process and it won't cost a million dollars next time and let it do lots of hard benchmarks, math problems and coding tasks and it'll keep getting better and better.
For important sites like your email you'll add multiple passkeys. On less important ones you can just reset which passkey you use to login, using your email, if you lose one of your passkeys.
