Researcher slams Inkling 2 Small time-series demo as a practically pointless task
mariofilhoml · x · 2026-11-06
mariofilhoml criticizes Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small autoresearch demo, where the model autonomously trained Qwen3.5-4B on Tinker to predict time series like weather and Wikipedia page views for an internal Proximal benchmark. He argues forecasting a time series makes "zero practical sense" as a showcase task, claiming there are a thousand better ways to formulate it.
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