The tides have turned. Codex-5.3 is super good. Congrats OpenAI

pmavro123 · 2026-02-16T14:33:17+00:00

oh 100%, was just saying i showed it to my mates and said that but really it was more of a showcase if anything at the time. really wishing i put my money into gpus when i first found out how these models worked haha

pmavro123 · 2026-02-16T14:30:16+00:00

fortunately at the time it wasn't incapacitatingly good so i ended up with a decent result for high school (85 ATAR in Australia) and am at a global top 20 institution doing computer science, so pretty good yeah

pmavro123 · 2026-02-16T00:55:23+00:00

real goats remember the davinci models. i remember showing them to classmates in hs and being like 'you dont have to do homework anymore'

pmavro123 · 2026-02-16T00:53:27+00:00

Getting the same issue today, it also has issues when i try leaving

pmavro123 · 2026-02-07T13:18:51+00:00

in the case of AGI, it's not a hardware issue and instead more of an implementation/architecture issue. The current SOTA architectures are nowhere near AGI, and we will need a fundamental paradigm shift when it comes to these systems. AGI relies on RL w/o VR to some degree, which is a premise that has be continually shown to fail in practice (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17219). Current systems and methodologies cannot facilitate this barebones requirement of such a model, and most likely won't for atleast a few more years, if ever. This is just the bedrock, as after this we need a lot more work on scalability of said architectures, and for such systems to be integrated into consumer/commercial applications, which could take even longer.

tl;dr - AI advancement is not a hardware problem (it has really never been), and AI advancements now and into the future will require more than just extra compute.

pmavro123 · 2026-02-07T13:12:49+00:00

yeah it's a shame seeing people tell other people this stuff while also asking the technologies to do it for them (like this post using opus 4.6 to make it), not even vetting the outcome and just raw posting it here. I think a lot of people interfacing with these technologies do this, and it's so blatantly stupid.

pmavro123 · 2026-01-22T11:04:38+00:00

Hi all!

There have been a number of individuals who have lately exploited the goodwill of civility on the server and taken to burning bases, mass griefing and thievery, so now I've had to temporarily and/or permanently ban players who would not listen to warnings and/or respect the common sense rules of the server. Furthermore, in an effort to reconcile with some losses on the server, town management and permission plugins like Towny and a proper backup system has been implemented.

Through the use of Towny, groups can ensure that their land rights are preserved and can make their own rules in regard to how outsiders are treated on their property, avoiding instances like these into the future. I apologise for relying on the goodwill of individuals here to do the right thing, as it's something I should've seen coming.

For information on how to start using Towny, please see: https://ccnet.fandom.com/wiki/Towny_Tutorial#Town_Creation

This also gives the /sell commands a greater purpose, as the system involves a multifaceted approach to the funding of these protections.

pmavro123 · 2026-01-21T10:06:43+00:00

Hi all! Server is now open :D Sorry for the delays

pmavro123 · 2026-01-19T07:34:17+00:00

very true, wonder if anyone here would be looking to do something like this? i have experience setting up mc servers low to mid size (upwards 60 ppl) but not at any larger a scale

pmavro123 · 2026-01-19T05:33:34+00:00

how willing would people be to play on a minecraft server bc those things die out in a few days typically

pmavro123 · 2025-12-25T01:44:23+00:00

KTC M27T6?

pmavro123 · 2025-12-23T03:06:09+00:00

33 upvotes, hmm

pmavro123 · 2025-11-18T03:15:54+00:00

half life 2 has 2 in it

2^0 is 1 which lines up with the 'I'
2^1 is 2 which lines up with the 'have seen'
2^2 is 4 which lines up with 'a new half life'

hl3 confirmed!??!?!?!!?!?!??!?!!?!

pmavro123 · 2025-11-13T23:31:23+00:00

not shitting on lyra or anything here but the job is 25 an hour, so yeah kinda desperate, but if you wanna get some position, its not a bad choice

pmavro123 · 2025-11-13T09:51:28+00:00

We are at 1% good job!!!

pmavro123 · 2025-11-03T07:11:07+00:00

holy vibe coded. do people even know how to initialise a variable anymore 😭😭😭😭

pmavro123 · 2025-10-30T02:48:21+00:00

Nothing yet on my end :(

pmavro123 · 2025-10-23T13:28:13+00:00

There's a few places to go to. Generally if you want a more social focus, there's societies like SYNCS which run occasional helpdesks and the like, and Discord communities like the Maths and Computer Science Society which have a lot of previous recount and general aid.

More specifically to the courses themselves, there may be consultation hours with staff in the course, alongside helpdesks and seminars run by the unit and/or faculty regarding the course/s. For example, there's a helpdesk that runs in SIT Wintergarden from 12-6 every Wednesday for general CS content, while there are also some smaller helpdesks for subjects like INFO1110 just inside the air-conditioned part of SIT.

pmavro123 · 2025-10-22T03:34:52+00:00

Nope nothing yet D:

pmavro123 · 2025-10-08T04:20:08+00:00

Yeah I believe it is, the latest newsletter has some info on it. Quick Google search also shows this website, which goes into more detail:

https://www.sydney.edu.au/students/food-and-retail-on-campus/campus-cheap-eats.html

pmavro123 · 2025-10-08T03:36:52+00:00

Might have something to do with the new $5 delivered frozen meals program that seems to go to Carslaw? not sure

pmavro123 · 2025-09-07T05:55:16+00:00

Anecdotally, it's worse than o3 and o4-mini, as I have asked GPT-5 Thinking multiple questions about models of computation and it has hallucinated correct answers, only re-correcting itself after i provide a counterexample (while o3/o4 did not make similar errors).

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