Tootfinder

@aiappsapi@mastodon.social I agree that per-query values have limited meaning given all the variability in the context of how they're used.
That said, although I don't know an empirical study of this, I think there are many contexts in which a cheaper model has a much lower footprint. In fact, a recent study out of Stanford et al. found re-reading context was one of the reasons agentic tasks blew up compute

🧑‍🎨🖌️🎨🖼️ we know. Nice to know the date is open to question.
Astronomers challenge dating of Van Gogh’s Starry Night
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/22/astronomy-dating-art-van-gogh-sta…

Astronomers challenge dating of Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Study suggests much-loved work was based on a real dawn sky in July 1889 rather than just the artist’s rich imagination

🧑‍🎨🖌️🎨🖼️ we know. Nice to know the date is open to question.
Astronomers challenge dating of Van Gogh’s Starry Night
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/22/astronomy-dating-art-van-gogh-sta…

Astronomers challenge dating of Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Study suggests much-loved work was based on a real dawn sky in July 1889 rather than just the artist’s rich imagination

The actual sky of Van Gogh’s Starry Night - a multidisciplinary reconstruction: #VanGogh ’s famed ‘Starry Night’ to an actual night sky from 1889: https://apnews.com/article/van-gogh-starry-night-space-6385c8e37f748bddc4137cdda5c76887

Abgesehen davon, dass die Zahl wohl zu hoch ist: Man kann das auch so lesen, dass Europa in den letzten Jahren $128 Mia nach USA statt in die eigene IT-Industrie gesteckt hat.
US Tech Giants Warn Europe That Data Sovereignty Requirements Could Cost $128 Billion htt…

I've finally got a formal solicitation for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plant populations' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration.
Details here: <…

Why do the media and politicians continue to talk about #Brexit and reversing Brexit? It happened 10 years ago. It will soon will be in school syllabuses studying our relationship with #Europe. Europe has moved on. We will not be going back to where we were, but we will eventually get to a new place at …

If AI were a nation, the increased economic activity it promises to stimulate would become the fifth largest CO2 emitter, just behind Russia—study.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/ai-will-do-more-to-boost…

Fantastiskt. Och det här innebär också mindre sjuka som behöver behandling av olika typ. Och mindre vårtor på könsorgan. Också bra.
HPV vaccine means young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621z28z138o

HPV vaccine means young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

The paper is "Understanding LLM Performance Degradation in Multi-Instance
Processing: The Roles of Instance Count and Context Length."
Here's the list of tasks used in the study.