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I found myself trying to explain MCP the other day. The simplest way I could put it for another developer:

MCP is a standardized set of API endpoints that makes it easier for LLM's to discover and operate with all the other regular APIs you have.


Impressive how well Grok performs in these tests. Grok feels 'underrated' in terms of how much other models (gemini, llama, etc) are in the news.


you can't download grok's weights to run locally


how is that relevant here?


it helps explain why theres' less people talking about them than gemini or llama?

less people using them.


You can't download Gemini's weights either, so it's not relevant as a comparison against Gemini.

I think the actually-relevant issue here is that until last month there wasn't API access for Grok 3, so no one could test or benchmark it, and you couldn't integrate it into tools that you might want to use it with. They only allowed Grok 2 in their API, and Grok 2 was a pretty bad model.


lol sorry mixed them up w gemma3 which feels like the open lesser cousin to gemini 2.5/2.0 models


I can guarantee you none of my friends (not in tech) use “downloading weights” as an input to select an LLM application.


isn't chatgpt the most used or most popular model?


Yes OpenAI has a first-mover advantage and Claude seems to be close as a second player with their closed models too, open weights is not a requirement for success but in an already crowded market (grok's prospect) their preposition isn't competing neither with top tier closed models nor the maybe lesser-capable but more-available battle-tested freely available to run locally open ones


It's not.

Also, only one out of the ten models benchmarked have open weights, so I'm not sure what GP is arguing for.


> in terms of how much other models (gemini, llama, etc) are in the news.

not talking about TFA or benchmarks but the news coverage/user sentiment ...


I am amazed Gemini did as well as it appears.

Gemini frequently avoids discussing health problems, which likely hurt its scores. My guess is any censorship was considered a fail.


It's not just transgender research it's also if an organization boycotts a certain foreign country (note: boycotting any other country is still OK): https://www.pulmonologyadvisor.com/news/nih-prohibits-dei-pr...


We think about information density a lot at Levels.fyi. I don't think we're perfect but we do have a fairly dense UX: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer?countryId=254&cou...


I gave up after the third popup.


https://charityvest.org/ is a great modern DAF tool. I use it to get 1 single charity receipt at the end of the year and track my giving.


Another happy CharityVest user here. I recommend it to everyone I talk to when DAFs are remotely relevant to the conversation.



Levels.fyi | Backend & Frontend Engineer | Remote (India, Open to other countries) | Full-time | https://www.levels.fyi | $30-50k USD

Levels.fyi's mission is to help every professional build a better career through the most accurate insights and services. We're building the future of compensation & hiring by centering ourselves around professionals.

You'll be joining a close-knit team of 4 engineers to work across our product verticals. You'll have the opportunity to lead and own new projects / initiatives from idea to production end-to-end (architecture to deployment). We move fast and have come an incredibly long way on a tiny team. We're looking for a self-starter and resourceful engineer with strong communication skills and experience building things from scratch.

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Tried it out and has promise but for now it's not as polished. My fave email client right now is Mimestream: https://mimestream.com/


It's quite insane that protesting against the actions of a foreign government has more consequences than protesting against the American government.

The current administration is throwing everything it (theoretically) stands for (1st Amendment, America-first, etc) for another country.


This is impossible to discuss accurately without politics and religion - the GOP relies heavily on fundamentalist Christian votes, there is a roughly 200 year old interpretation of Revelations in the Old Testament that posits that the state of Israel must exist so Satan can destroy it in the battle of Armageddon before Jesus comes back a second time to save Christians. This is why the GOP is so gung ho for Israel at any cost.


I'm bit 'no true Scotsman' with this but I think it would be more precise to talk specifically about American Evangelicals instead of just Christians. Because this is not normal Christian thing and, comparing to Catholics, American Evangelicals are niche.


The evangelical angle certainly applies to a subset of the republicans, but not all of them.

The difficult and uncomfortable truth is that ardent supporters of Israel wield immense power and influence, and they are able to significantly damage the careers of politicians that do not align with their interests.

The fact that many repugnant racists, antisemites, and holocaust deniers make a comically exaggerated conspiracy theory out of this core truth makes it impossible to discuss it rationally.


No, but attacking students, physically preventing them from attending classes and screaming death threats based on their religion has tremendous implications. First stop all the funding (not only NIH, but prevent Qatar from funding universities) and then kick out those who are on student visas (or better send to jails in El-Salvador) and send to jail the citizens.


Insane comment. Send somebody to foreign slave prison because they said mean things? Meanwhile you don’t mention Columbia professors who set up secret chat groups to dox and threaten pro-Palestine students .


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