> For example, you could enter ñ by holding Alt and typing Numpad1 Numpad6 Numpad4, then releasing the Alt key.
To this day, this remains the best way to insert the character, I have tried the PowerToys Quick Accent [1] but I had so many missed characters when typing fast.
On many Euro keyboards it's just ~n, as ~ is a dead (modifier) key. But on Windows I do miss the way on macOS and iOS you get access to variants of a basic letter by pressing and holding the respective key.
I use WinCompose, which is a Windows implementation of an XCompose style compose key. It comes with a number of composition sequences but you can also add your own. I have mapped it to the "menu" key which I never use so "ñ" is <Menu>,<~>,<n> or <Menu>,<n>,<~> (both work by default).
For acute/grave accents I have a dead acute/grave key on my keyboard and because it's a German layout I already have the umlauts as separate keys. For "ë" and such I can compose the letter with <"> to get the diacritic version.
There's no reason for OpenAI to release the model. They have close to 100% market anyways and releasing GPT-5 likely won't increase the total market as it is a incremental leap. And it's a open secret that most other models used GPT-4 synthetic data for training to come close to it.
They would likely wait till any model performs better than GPT 4 for the same price
The same reasoning would have applied for GPT-3.5. In the hindsight, you can say that it was obviously a good idea to build and ship GPT4. But hindsight is 20/20.
There are few differences. Firstly, GPT-3.5 wasn't ahead of Palm etc. from Google which was published at the same time as GPT-4.
Secondly, GPT-4 increased overall AI market. According to all the sources, interviews and leaks, GPT-5 won't be a big leap over GPT-4 as the model size and training data won't be significantly larger. I doubt GPT-5 would do that. (I could be wrong in my assumption though that GPT-5 would just be a incremental gain).
Claude 3 Opus is in the capability ballpark of GPT-4, GPT-3.5 has alternatives that are cheaper (Claude 3 Haiku) or cheaper and work offline (Qwen 1.5, Mixtral, …).
Is Claude 3 Opus generating more profits and taking considerable amount of customers from OpenAI? I'm not seeing that yet. Granted, I'm in Europe (outside of EU) so I can't pay for Opus but I guess that kinda confirms my statement. GPT4 is still a good product and there are no market pressures to release GPT5.
According to Sam Altman in a podcast with Lex Fridman this week, there is no real indication that it will be dropped this year. They will release a new model, but it might not be GPT-5
Which is an indication of nothing. In which world would Sam A. drop any kind of info about such a sensitive topic? If anything, this could just be deception before a massive drop.
Could also be resetting expectations for people who've been expecting GPT-5 (or just GPT-4.5) sooner - been a year now since GPT-4 was released.
The other odd thing from Altman was saying that GPT-4 sucks.
I think the context for both announcements is the recent release of Anthropic's Claude-3, which in it's largest "Opus" form beats GPT-4 across the board in benchmarks.
I personally think OpenAI/Altman is a bit scared that any moat/lead they had has disappeared and they are now being out-competed by Anthropic (Claude). Remember that Anthropic as a company was only formed (by core members of the OpenAI LLM team) at the same time as GPT-3 was released, so in same time it took OpenAI to go from GPT-3 to GPT-4, Anthropic have gone from nothing -> Claude-1 -> Claude-2 -> Claude-3 which beats GPT-4 !!
Anthropic have also had quite a bit of success attracting corporate business, quite a bit of which is more long-term in nature (sharing details of expected future model capabilities so that partners can target those).
So, I think OpenAI is running a bit scared, and I'd interpret this non-announcement of some model (4.5 or 5) "coming soonish" to be them just waving the flag and saying "we'll be back on top soon", which they presumably will be, briefly, when their next release(s) do come out. Altman's odd "GPT-4 sucks" statement might be meant to downplay Claude-3 "Opus" which beats it.
Somehow related(?) but when I was in Berlin I noticed all buildings have a white square with a black number for the building number. This is consistent across most (all?) parts of the town but no local was able to explain me why or what's the background of that.
That's interesting... actually the directive only specifies that the numbers should have sufficient contrast against the background, be at least 10 cm large and have their own light source. So, while most seem to have settled on "black numbers on a white square", you are actually allowed to do something fancier if you want. Other cities (like Munich, which I mentioned in a sibling comment https://stadt.muenchen.de/rathaus/stadtrecht/vorschrift/310....) have more strict design rules, but don't require illuminated numbers.
Not sure about Berlin specifically, but many (most?) larger German cities have rules about how the house numbers should look like - after all, Germans love rules and regulations! And this is actually helpful, as it's much easier to find the house number on a house if they have a consistent look.
IMHO the Munich house numbers are better than the Berlin ones, as they also include the street name and (most of the time) an arrow pointing out the numbering direction (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:House_numbers_in...). Not sure what that font is called either though...
- must be placed at least 180 cm above ground, near the entrance or on the side facing a public road
- if the building is too far away from a public road for the number to be recognizable, it must be placed at the entrance of the premises, no lower than 90 cm above ground
- it must be made out of a material that can withstand weathering and provides good visibility of its shape and color
- for certain buildings (office buildings?) the numbers must be illuminated to be visible in low light conditions
I'm not going to go over the rest of the list as the lesson seems clear: some cities/municipalities have strict regulations, some barely have any, size doesn't really seem to be a deciding factor.
Only slightly related but at my house in rural France, at some point the way houses are numbered changed : each house now has a number which is the distance, in meters, from the beginning of the street (and probably with even/odd depending on which side of the street you're on: didn't check).
But, without asking, the authorities did install the new numbers plate on every single house. So it's all consistent, everywhere.
The official reason is if an ambulance or police car has to find a house: because previously none made sense it was hard to find (it's very sparsely populated). Now the idea is that the driver can just engage in the street and drive x meters and he'll be in front of the correct house.
I take it in Berlin there's t least something a bit related in that they have to be visible in case of an emergency (but I'm just guessing).
It makes Apple look bad overall to me; what's worse for Apple is that I'm a dev: they're supposed to be making themselves look good to people like me so that I'm attracted to their platform, but their churlishness is putting me off.
My micro-ISV stopped shipping an iOS app a few years ago when Safari's support for PWAs made it viable to reimplement our app as a PWA so that we no-longer needed to deal with App Store hassle (faffing around with a Mac Mini we'd only use a few times a year, confusing certificates/entitlements/etc, not to mention the capriciously enforced store app review policies).
...but I'm probably just being nostalgic for the early days of indie iOS apps. Those times are long gone, perhaps Apple actually isn't interested in attracting small devs to their platform anymore?
To this day, this remains the best way to insert the character, I have tried the PowerToys Quick Accent [1] but I had so many missed characters when typing fast.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/quick-ac...