Do it in your head. 10 disks. I'll wait.

Forever. Because you can't fucking do it.
Solving it with a physical or digital representation of the puzzle is simply a matter of repeating a small set of rules. Nobody is contesting that.
That is not what was done. What was done was something you couldn't hope to do in your entire lifetime- solve 9 disks entirely from memory with no representation of the puzzle other than what's in your head.

I feel like you might actually be too dumb to put the pieces together enough to actually understand what is going on- which is a little weird since you can apparently follow the algorithm competently. Autistic?

And literally changing the narrative on performance and power usage?

Sure they're overkill for most applications- but that doesn't change the fact that an M1 doesn't *have* to use all of that performance. It can sit there not using... for 14 hours after your Intel PC dies.
Just about every CPU in a contemporary computer is overkill for most applications. That's simply not a useful metric.

My M4 Max MBP can get a little toasty- but uhhhh, it doesn't come as a surprise to you if that happens. You're burning ~100W+ of constant power. In fact, you probably shouldn't be doing that on your lap anyway, because you're probably restricting its airflow.

I played with my buddy's PowerMac G5... Machine really is kind of a sloth, performance wise- but that case is fucking gorgeous.

Some would argue that's a feature...

Sure, in just before the heat death of the universe.

Well, no, but you can in Javascript (with floating point support, unlike Python). Does that mean Javascript is one of the few languages that can handle numbers "very, very" well?

In C++, or Rust, you use a library that does overloading, and you operate with the numbers as if they were native, at somewhere around a metric bazillion times faster than Python.

Your cheapest 4TB SSD is around US$190. A Samsung 990 EVO Plus (gen 5 NVME) is US$250, according to PC Part Picker... I highly doubt that they're using the most expensive storage for this item either as the console doesn't have PCIe5.

This is why I'm glad to be a PC gamer, you don't get "nicked and dimed" to use an Americanism. The cost of entry is higher but the total cost of ownership is lower as once you've paid for your gaming boxen the savings start to stack up and up and up (cheaper games, cheaper upgrades, games go on sale sooner and more often).

This.

In the US at least, the moderation on far right content will stop and actual censorship on content Oberkommando Bonespurs doesn't like will start.

Welcome to Fascism. I know you never expected it to be turned against you... well until it does. I mean it's not like a German preacher wrote a famous poem about how that happened in the past.

Add in the Philippines and Belgium. Both countries speak at least two languages (dozens of dialects in the case of the Philippines).

Hell, we can't even decide on one form of English here in England, let alone the wider UK where you've also got Welsh and Gaelic.

Just one more step in decommissioning the Mac line and turning everything into Ipads.

I mean they probably won't decommission the name, they want you buying $3000 Ipads.

It's not like they aren't making it obvious at this point.

Nah, this is for the kind of browser game you used to play for free over the web but now pay $5.99 for on the app store.

Macs don't have any graphics hardware.

Whilst that is true, Apple products are a scam this isn't really going to go anywhere. Apple fails spectacularly when confronted with a well established market, in fact it tends to fail when confronted with an uncontested market most of the time. Their successes have been abreactions.

If developed nations can demonstrate that a declining population is economically sustainable, developing nations can follow.

We won't though, so probably the best hope now is China doing it.

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The board and current position after each move are the state. 3 stacks across 3 pegs.
Since the LLM's context cannot be arbitrarily written to, only appended to, it must essentially record the entire configuration space of the towers as well as the couple of variables for the algorithm (Step #, even? odd? IIRC). In practice, I was only able to do 6 disks before I ran out of context on my local models. Performance degraded seriously at 5.
As I said, using an agentic system where you managed the board and context externally, I have no doubt it could be done to arbitrary length. The problem is fitting the moves and "memorization" of the board state in context. The context window isn't a notepad for which there is perfect recall against, it's pumped into an attention layer which turns it into weights. The fuller it gets, the more it tries to consider all of it to do any job, the higher the chances of a mistake. There are no training wheels stopping it from making incorrect moves.

As I said, now try to do it in your head. No constraints.
I can do 3- but with minor difficulty. I didn't try 4- but I also really don't want to.

An agentic system would maintain the board externally and feed it to the LLM for consideration of each step. Even a very tiny LLM would succeed at this task to essentially arbitrary size.