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New comment by genrader in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

genrader — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:36:58 +0000

Correct but it's never been so accessible, so easy so smart and easy for the population of the world to use

New comment by genrader in "Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs"

genrader — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:28:57 +0000

You wouldn't believe the spam if they did that

New comment by genrader in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

genrader — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:24:10 +0000

This is untrue and you have to be at least 80%

New comment by genrader in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

genrader — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:40:05 +0000

If you're using for instance the Gemini web app there may be a preference in the system prompt to immediately favor the fact that you said to create an image when in fact it may have been better to initially start with a regular chat prompt, making sure you're on Gemini 3 Pro thinking, and then give it exactly what you usually would. You can tell it that after it has an answer to the question then to create an image for it.

This may even work if you tell it to do all that prior to figuring out what to create for the image,

New comment by genrader in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

genrader — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:36:50 +0000

Go watch some of the more recent Google developer, Google AI, and Google deepmind videos, they're all separate channels at YouTube but try to catch some from the last 6 months with some of these explanatory topics on the developer side that are philosophical/ mathematical enough to explain this to you without going into the gritty details and should answer your question

New comment by genrader in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

genrader — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:35:21 +0000

You're correct, however midwit people who don't actually fully understand all of this will latch on to one of the early difficult questions that was shown as an example, and then continued to use that over and over without really knowing what they're doing while the people developing the model and also testing the model are doing far more complex things

New comment by genrader in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

genrader — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:34:28 +0000

Google's summary of the thinking process isn't as detailed or accurate as what is actually being thought out.

For instance, look at what other reasoning models show you about their thinking. You can tell Gemini is not giving it all to you, so I don't put full trust in it unless it routinely is giving me an issue that I can catch in there.

For instance, it doesn't show you all the tool use that it can use nor distinguish the different types where I really wish it would. Especially because I force it to in a Gemini personal context instruction as well as many prompts and it does do them

New comment by genrader in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

genrader — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:30:30 +0000

This is an excellent short way to understand that what you give Gemini 3 Pro is substantial better in understanding the data.

Making sure you ask correctly how it should give you the info is still lacking in many people's ability

New comment by genrader in "Claude for Excel"

genrader — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:50:58 +0000

you should:

-stop using the free plan -don't use gemini flash for these tasks -learn how to do things over time and know that all ai models have improved significantly every few months

New comment by genrader in "Claude for Excel"

genrader — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:50:24 +0000

This is so correct it hurts

New comment by genrader in "Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library"

genrader — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:05:49 +0000

What did I just read

New comment by genrader in "Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library"

genrader — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:04:32 +0000

No, because one built a civilization and the other is actual nonsense