I have tried TrackerControl. As a stand alone, I think its great. A little bit more verbose in its front end (and for some reason, a little more battery hungry than DDG) but similar functionality. The system app blocks are a good feature. As you say, the DDG option is simpler.
Re: Firefox. Firefox has become very feature rich and heavy. On a 6 year old phone with 3GB ram, I can maybe get it to work smoothly with 4-5 tabs, whereas DDG has no issue with 20+. It would be my preference to use FF but it (and the usual forks) don't seem too performant on my old beater.
I'm curious to see how long I can keep it out of landfill. I'm trying for 2028, as a personal challenge. That will be almost 10 years out of a $200 phone
Correct. The title is clickbait. The actual content doesn’t support the “all AI is bad” fever being stirred up.
In any case, governments banning access to cloud-based AI is nothing new - Italy and the Czech Republic both come to mind (though I think the later was a knee jerk reaction).
At this stage, it's probably a good preventative measure to not send sensitive information to the cloud (aka someone else's computer), especially a cloud in a foreign territory.
Common sense, that applies from individual to government level: don't yeet your sensitive data helter skelter. Host your own secure infrastructure.
Could you elaborate a bit more on the issues around shortages of funding and professionals?
My understanding was that Cuba has had one of the highest doctor-to-population ratios in the world, and that its medical schools were often treated almost like a public works project to train large numbers of physicians.
Is it an issue of brain drain (graduate qualifying and then leaving for greener pastures?)
(I'm not doubting what you say btw; just trying to address my own ignorance).
PS: El Paquete is exactly the example of "fine, I'll do it myself" response I had in mind. At 1TB per week, that was/is one of the largest sneakernets in the world.
Doesn't Cuba punch well above its weight class when it comes to medicine, including universal free medical and dental? IIRC, hasn't the US embargo basically fostered the development of Cuba's own burgeoning biotech industry?
I am sure that the US blockade has made life exponentially harder. Self reliance is one thing but access to raw materials is another.
OTOH they seem like a resilient people. If there's anywhere on Earth that exudes "Fine; I'll do it myself" energy when dealing with America, Cuba is it. I hope this makes them even stronger. I hope they find a way to completely circumvent America. I actually hope that for the whole world.
I would have like to have read more about the examination and in what ways the medical students were under performing thereon.
One presumes that the Brazilian cohorts are passing their national medical entry and exitexams (per their ministry of education?) and fulfilling their practicum requirements for licencing (per WHO/WFME recommended standards).
Alternatively, if you have the hardware, self host. Qwen 3-4B 2507 Instruct matches / exceeds ChatGPT 4.1 nano and mini on almost all benchmarks... and the abliterated version is even better IMHO
I have ASD; I made several tools that explicitly convert web sources to .md and JSON.
The shitty thing is, a lot of sites - even if they have stuff available in simple, beautiful JSON format, refuse to give public access to it. Notoriously, movie session times for local cinemas. That should be a simple look up...but no.
Oh well, at least cool shit like this still exists
Yeah me too. Opus 4.5 is awesome but my god...om nom nom go my daily / weekly quotas. Probably I should not yeet the entire repo at it lol.
4.6 is meant to be 2x worse for not much better output.
Viewed against that, Codex 5.3 @ medium is actual daylight robbery of OAI.
I was just looking at benchmarks and even smaller 8-10B models are now around 65-70% Sonnet level (Qwen 3-8, Nemotron 9B, Critique) and 110-140% Haiku.
If I had the VRAM, I'd switch to local Qwen3 next (which almost 90% of Opus 4.5 on SWE Bench) and just git gud. Probably I'll just look at smaller models, API calls and the git gud part.
RTX 3060 (probably what you need for decent Qwen 3 next) is $1500 here :(
For that much $$$ I can probably get 5 years of surgical API calls via OR + actual skills.
PS: how are you using batch processing? How did you set it up?
Woof - the axes on that chart LOL. Suffice it to say, they're all pretty dang close. Interesting. Maybe the easter bunny can bring me something with >8GB VRAM so I can actually run em locally. I'm guessing Kimi-2 eats about what...500GB+ for 128K context?
I have tried TrackerControl. As a stand alone, I think its great. A little bit more verbose in its front end (and for some reason, a little more battery hungry than DDG) but similar functionality. The system app blocks are a good feature. As you say, the DDG option is simpler.
Re: Firefox. Firefox has become very feature rich and heavy. On a 6 year old phone with 3GB ram, I can maybe get it to work smoothly with 4-5 tabs, whereas DDG has no issue with 20+. It would be my preference to use FF but it (and the usual forks) don't seem too performant on my old beater.
I'm curious to see how long I can keep it out of landfill. I'm trying for 2028, as a personal challenge. That will be almost 10 years out of a $200 phone