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New comment by asdfologist in "AI is dramatically accelerating AI research"

asdfologist — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:05:10 +0000

Don't you mean the opposite, that intelligence per dollar is increasing?

New comment by asdfologist in "Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning"

asdfologist — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:54:57 +0000

Who's Chen? Do you mean Yen?

New comment by asdfologist in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

asdfologist — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:19:19 +0000

You're glossing over the false statement in your original argument that the cure was not confirmed. The slide says it passed stage 3.

New comment by asdfologist in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

asdfologist — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:12:58 +0000

Wrong: the slide says "the cocktail indeed passes a stage 3 trial." Be careful before you accuse others of bad reading comprehension.

New comment by asdfologist in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

asdfologist — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:07:20 +0000

But the slide says it passes a stage 3 trial. Surely many dying patients would kill for the opportunity to take the drug.

New comment by asdfologist in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

asdfologist — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:49:03 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1wzqe8d/interes...

New comment by asdfologist in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

asdfologist — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:48:51 +0000

How about 100 years?

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

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