The article's title was longer than 80 chars, which is HN's limit. There's more than one way to truncate it.
The previous truncation ("From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring Progress in Medical Language Understanding") was baity in the sense that the word 'understanding' was provoking objections and taking us down a generic tangent about whether LLMs really understand anything or not. Since that wasn't about the specific work (and since generic tangents are basically always less interesting*), it was a good idea to find an alternate truncation.
So I took out the bit that was snagging people ("understanding") and instead swapped in "MedHELM". Whatever that is, it's clearly something in the medical domain and has no sharp edge of offtopicness. Seemed fine, and it stopped the generic tangent from spreading further.
The article's title was longer than 80 chars, which is HN's limit. There's more than one way to truncate it.
The previous truncation ("From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring Progress in Medical Language Understanding") was baity in the sense that the word 'understanding' was provoking objections and taking us down a generic tangent about whether LLMs really understand anything or not. Since that wasn't about the specific work (and since generic tangents are basically always less interesting*), it was a good idea to find an alternate truncation.
So I took out the bit that was snagging people ("understanding") and instead swapped in "MedHELM". Whatever that is, it's clearly something in the medical domain and has no sharp edge of offtopicness. Seemed fine, and it stopped the generic tangent from spreading further.
* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Well thought out, thank you!
Generic Tangents is my new band's name.