Just posted today another funny one that Opus 4.6 with extended thinking fails. Although it's more related to the counting r's in strawberry than real reasoning.
I pasted a piece of code with an error to o1-preview. MyTheprompt I pasted was fairly short and had nothing to do with Brooklyn or bike lanes. Strangely, o1-preview first "thinking" step was:
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Brooklyn's new bike lanes
I’m focusing on Brooklyn transforming into a bike-friendly, pedestrian hub. This initiative aims to make the borough more accessible and vibrant. Council Members Lincoln Restler and Shahana Hanif are championing this transition.
Examining the error
I’m looking into the error message pointing to a tensor size mismatch in the forward method.
Identifying tensor size mismatch
I’m analyzing a tensor size mismatch in the forward pass of the
...
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It did stay on topic after the second step. I am wondering why would something like this happen. Maybe the word "transformers"??
I don't share the full prompt has it's code from work. I'll see if I can reproduce this.
Same thing is happening in the greater Boston area. Many city centers have empty store fronts. Even some chains don't survive the high rent. Walgreens opened a huge space in the city center of Cambridge just across the street of a busy CVS. They closed it down about a year later. Just think how much money they wasted on this.
For me the biggest problem is the independent restaurants and coffee shops that cannot afford the high rent. They have to increase prices to survive. Most people are not willing to pay $4 for coffee or $12 for a sandwich. When you go to a coffee place you're not thinking about the rent the place is paying and if their prices are justifiable or not. Many people find cheaper places to go to. These places are usually run by people that either lucked out with landlords who didn't increase their rent for many years, or ones who own the property and are not affected by increasing rents.
Others mentioned banks that don't mind losing money because the physical presence helps their Online banking. I noticed this trend around where I live too. A new coffee shop was recently opened after the place was sitting empty for many months. The new place runs by a catering company. They probably don't mind if the place is losing money as long as it helps their catering business. It's a different way of doing marketing.
Minor point: Porter Square is not the city center of Cambridge. Central Square is.
The Walgreens in Porter Square closed due to over-saturation, not necessarily high rent costs. They plopped a store in an area with staunch competition from others and themselves. Perhaps they thought they'd steal CVS' business. Clearly they could not after just shy of two years. This article has more details: http://www.cambridgeday.com/2015/07/16/walgreens-closing-por....
It's not so much that the storefront can lose money as that the caterer is going to need some of the facilities available in that location (e.g. commercial kitchen, client meeting facility) regardless of whether they have a storefront. If the increased cost of having those with an associated store is comparable to the added revenue from the store, then the store is reasonable, and if it helps with branding and marketing as well then it's a net positive.
I didn't know about this quota, but it doesn't really matter. The main point, which the article didn't mention, is that being an undergrad international student is far more difficult. First, the high schools exams can be different and students might not be eligible to apply. Then there's tuition cost. How many Chinese and Indians can afford ~40K/year not including room and other expenses? Foreign students cannot apply for scholarship.
It makes much more sense to study almost for free in India/China/Finland/etc. and then do a GRE and apply to grad school in the US. PhD students don't need to pay tuition and even get a monthly stipend. Also many MS students get some sort of scholarship (but not all).
Check UT Austin, they admit a ton of international students every year. Undoubtedly UT Austin is a decent school, but it also milks a lot of money from international students.
There are two parts in your point. One, the exam. SAT/high school grade is basically a joke for India/China students, which can send a town of 2400 kids. Spending one or two years preparing and you can pass whatever exam set, SAT or ACT or anything. Two, the tuition fee. You clearly underestimate the financial ability of wealthy Asian families, and I had talked to people who pay the entire tuition fee (200k+) for kids to study in four years. Of course not everyone can pay that, but schools also offer partial scholarship (and thus it's quite common for students to come with 50 or 75 percent scholarship).
See, they are in the business of selling fancy trinkets from China as it is what 9 out of 10 consumer goods are. No mater what they do, a Chinese company will be having an edge over them no matter what they will do.
The interesting thing about WhatsApp is that most of my American friends haven't heard about it by the time it was acquired for $19B. One of the biggest success stories of a US based company that went global first.
