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New comment by asdfologist in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

asdfologist — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:59:02 +0000

BTW you're comparing 3.8 flash high to opus 5 medium. 3.8 flash medium scores lower.

New comment by asdfologist in "Students prefer Gemini over ChatGPT and Claude for AI essays in blind tests"

asdfologist — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:00:50 +0000

Fair challenge, the ability to write good prose is load-bearing for essential tasks.

New comment by asdfologist in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

asdfologist — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:10:31 +0000

Unlike math, software is constrained by the physical world.

New comment by asdfologist in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"

asdfologist — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:45:34 +0000

Meh, I doubt it was intentional. Deliberate benchmaxxing is incredibly damaging to credibility once it's discovered (see what happened to Meta with LlaMa 4).

It's more likely that the training data was contaminated with the benchmark data.

New comment by asdfologist in "Renting a sewing machine from the library"

asdfologist — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:01:03 +0000

Why was this downvoted? The math checks out. Multiplying by 4 and then dividing by 12 is wrong.

Easy way to verify this: assume only 1 person in the queue and only 1 machine. Then the original calculation yields 4/12 of a year, even though the actual wait time is (about) 1/12 of a year.

New comment by asdfologist in "Claude Fable 5"

asdfologist — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:04:10 +0000

But you said you've been working on those problems for months, so didn't you throw those same problems at Opus?

New comment by asdfologist in "Magnifica Humanitas"

asdfologist — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:35:45 +0000

Aren't there regulations on all sorts of technology? Medicine, nuclear power, etc.

New comment by asdfologist in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

asdfologist — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:08:20 +0000

Diminishing returns on additional labor.

New comment by asdfologist in "Cursor CLI"

asdfologist — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:41:54 +0000

Not sure. So far Reddit seems largely negative on Cursor CLI + GPT-5

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1mk8ks5/discussion_...

New comment by asdfologist in "Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO"

asdfologist — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:33:02 +0000

It did partially, which is why top players are nowadays playing Freestyle (chess 960) more and more.

New comment by asdfologist in "Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices"

asdfologist — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:51:01 +0000

Someone on Reddit suspected this 3 years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/wopjw8/how_sure_a...

New comment by asdfologist in "Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?"

asdfologist — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:33:58 +0000

>I myself have had a difficult time landing an interview over the last year despite having two decades of experience.

Unfortunately many employers see that as a minus, not a plus.

New comment by asdfologist in "Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination"

asdfologist — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:40:03 +0000

Summarization

Translation

Writing emails

Code generation

...

New comment by asdfologist in "Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs"

asdfologist — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:46:17 +0000

Whoa, I had no idea PDFs can have formulas.

New comment by asdfologist in "Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs"

asdfologist — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:25:59 +0000

I find Chrome's built-in PDF viewer much snappier than Adobe Acrobat.

New comment by asdfologist in "Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?"

asdfologist — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 21:10:34 +0000

Amnesia? Or did you mean insomnia?

New comment by asdfologist in "How to protect your career from a ChatGPT Future"

asdfologist — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:47:46 +0000

If AI makes engineers more productive, then it follows that companies will hire fewer engineers for the same work. So AI is making some engineers obsolete.

New comment by asdfologist in "Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?"

asdfologist — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:10:53 +0000

For those of you with families and took a sabbatical, what did you do about health insurance?

New comment by asdfologist in "UK scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds"

asdfologist — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:55:14 +0000

New comment by asdfologist in "New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots"

asdfologist — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 20:00:56 +0000

Sensationalism?