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nsingh2 • today at 4:52 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Lots of confusion about what this model is actually focused on.

It is a cheap specialist for closed-world, verifiable reasoning tasks like math, self-contained coding problems, and similar.

"Closed-world" means the needed information is already in the context. It is not a tool-using agent that can discover missing context. "Verifiable" means answers are hard to generate but easy to check.

So no open ended research, repo wide agent work, factual Q&A, or SVG generation. More of a compact reasoning module for bounded problems.

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nsingh2 • today at 6:13 AM

To follow up on this, I had it solve a nasty ODE problem that I saw in the recent Mathematica 15 release post:

    Solve the following first-order ODE for f(x):

    ((-1 - 2*x)*f(x)*tan(1 + x - exp(-61 - 2*x)*f(x)/x)
    + exp(61 + 2*x)*x*(1 - x*tan(1 + x - exp(-61 - 2*x)*f(x)/x))
    + x*tan(1 + x - exp(-61 - 2*x)*f(x)/x)*f'(x)) = 0

    Find the general solution f(x).
And surprisingly it found a valid solution! Extra impressive because it runs 25 tok/s on my measly RTX 2070 super.

    f(x) = x*exp(61 + 2*x)*(1 + x - arccos(C/x))

    C is an arbitrary constant.
Apparently Mathematica 14.3 couldn't solve this ODE.
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skeledrew • today at 8:12 AM

If it can code well then once you put it in a loop with an interpreter it can do anything.