Anyone know why Distilled Qwen 1.5b outperforms 4o and sonnet?

Said a privileged person born in a rich country, who has never faced the prospect of being deported.

It becomes a default, which, even when it's at the pleasure of the president, substantially increases the chances of it continuing

...or it's just the default choice and people choose the default choice when they're thinking of other things?

I, for one, look forward to interest rates staying stuck at zero for a long, long time should this be true should the implication of "no more jobs" be true.

Should the implication of "59% of employers are holding or increasing staffing" hold true, then it's time to work another day.

I don't know why this never occurred to me. What a great website, glad you made it!

any place you have your current progress written up on? Any methodology I could help contribute on? I've read each one of the four links you've given over the years and it seems vague with how far people have currently gotten and exact issues.

>Any methodology I could help contribute on?

Several people have already contacted me today with this request. This is how I give out details and share current progress with you.

Yes, you can help, most people on HN could. It is not that difficult work and it is not just low level debugging, coding and FPGA hardware. It is also organizing and even simple sales, talking to funders. With patience, you could even get paid to help.

>any place you have your current progress written up on?

Not any place in public, because of its value for zero-day exploits. This knowledge is worth millions.

I'm in the process of rewriting my three scientific papers on reverse engineering Apple Silicon low level instructions.

>it seems vague with how far people have currently gotten and exact issues.

Yes, I'm afraid you're right, my apologies. It's very much detailed and technical stuff, some of it under patent and NDA, some even sensitive for winning economic wars and ongoing wars (you can guess those are exiting stories). It even plays a role in the $52.7 billion US, €43 billion EU and $150 billion (unconfirmed) Chinese Chips Acts. Apple Silicon is the main reason TSMC opened a US factory [1], keeping its instruction set details secret is deemed important.

If you want more information, you should join our offline video discussions for more info. Maybe sometimes sign an NDA for the juicy bits.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/13/inside-tsmcs-new-chip-fab-wh...

While understanding the GPU’s microarchitecture might be useful for exploits it’s definitely not worth “millions”.

You are right. The zero-day exploits might be worth roughly a million each, but not the family tree of native GPU's, ANE, CPU instruction sets and microarchitecture on which they would be based.

My apology for writing unclearly, English is not my native language. I'm surprised it is yours.

Saving on energy, programming effort and purchase cost of a supercomputer in case of M4 instruction sets and microarchitecture knowledge would also save millions.

I doubt that, largely because nobody is really using Apple silicon for supercomputing efforts.

It can't be due to fundamental skill, though! That same engineer's earnings statistically triple upon moving to the US, which is why we should allow more of them in: people are more productive in the US, and we all benefit from their productivity (most obviously fiscally, but less obviously through products that wouldn't exist in the counterfactual).

Frictional unemployment exists, so this effectively bars H1s.

it's not really the goal, but there are many cases of people denied visas going back and having huge success