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everfree | on: A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
And if you give the LLM a simple calculator MCP, then the calculator's outperformance disappears.
bayindirh | parent | next
Nope. It'll be more efficient and faster.
everfree | root | parent
That's just semantics around the word "performance".

We're messaging each other right now inside a heavily sandboxed virtual environment that interprets XML-like markup and runs a text-based JITted scripting language from the 90s. It doesn't really matter that it's extremely inefficient, since it's still effectively instant.

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guelo | parent | next
Imagine performing literally trillions of matrix multiplications in order to figure out the answer to 1 + 2.
everfree | root | parent | next
Your computer/phone just performed millions of them in order to display the contents of my comment to you.
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wrigby | parent
Sure, but what about performance per joule?
everfree | root | parent
If performance per joule is important in this loosely-defined hypothetical scenario, then it's important.

If it's not, then it's not.