We just tested magistral-medium as a replacement for o4-mini in a user-facing feature that relies on JSON generation, where speed is critical.
Depending on the complexity of the JSON, o4-mini runs ranged from 50 to 70 seconds. In our initial tests, Mistral returned results in 34–37 seconds. The output quality was slightly lower but still remain acceptable for us.
We’ll continue testing, but the early results are promising. I'm glad to see Mistral prioritizing speed over raw power, there’s definitely a need for that.
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I highly recommend trying Qobuz!
Artists are paid more, the catalog is rich and comprehensive (I recommend to early users who might have felt a lack of content to give it another try, as it's now much richer), most albums are available in Hi-Res Audio, the UI is nice, there is no fluff (just music, nothing more), and most importantly, content is curated, with many articles written by critics and journalists, artist interviews, and, for each album, a small review or a piece of text informing about the album's significance. Compared to the awesome but "industrial" recommendation system of Spotify, this is something more personal and curated which, in my opinion, better helps to understand some music genres.
megalomanu commented on Star observatories you can visit in the United States matadornetwork.com/read/u... · Posted by u/belter
If any French people happen to come across this thread, I recommend visiting the Observatoire des Baronnies Provençales. I went there this summer and really loved the experience. We observed various astronomical elements (the sun, planets, galaxies, stars, etc.) from 2pm to 2am. We used different instruments, from a large dome telescope to smaller ones, as well as a connected telescope for taking pictures—the eVscope, an amazing piece of hardware and software—and infrared binoculars. We also did other activities, like identifying an exoplanet with the astrophysicist in residence. Highly recommended for amateur astronomers.
Places like these are unfortunately quite uncommon in France.
megalomanu commented on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? · Posted by u/l2silver
I live in Paris, the city with the most art house cinemas in the world. There are so much of them I have a hard time following what is showed every week. I made a simple crawler that looks at these cinemas and sends a digest of the week schedule by email, listing only the movies that went out one more than year ago (because these theaters also show recent films). Nothing fancy here but I use it every week.
Beautiful, congrats!
This reminds me the final shot of Playtime (not a spoiler! at 2:07: https://youtu.be/anvhVINSFnE?t=127 )
I was recently working on a user facing feature using self-hosted Gemma 27b with VLLM and was getting fully formed JSON results in ~7 seconds (even that I would like to optimize further) - obviously the size of the JSON is important but I’d never use a reasoning model for this because they’re constantly circling and just wasting compute.
I haven’t really found a super convincing use-case for reasoning models yet, other than a chat style interface or an assistant to bounce ideas off of.