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New comment by prplxd_nihilist in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

prplxd_nihilist — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:05:38 +0000

Until anthropic hire or steal code from acquired companies and train with it.

New comment by prplxd_nihilist in "A desktop made for one"

prplxd_nihilist — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:31:17 +0000

This is the best use case of LLMs, the one I use it the most for.

New comment by prplxd_nihilist in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

prplxd_nihilist — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:21:16 +0000

Upvote. These remote models are going to get ever expensive. Their business future depends on the expected advancements in inference costs. One should never want to tie themselves to this prison.

New comment by prplxd_nihilist in "US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City"

prplxd_nihilist — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:02:13 +0000

From India, verification passed through

New comment by prplxd_nihilist in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

prplxd_nihilist — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:24:18 +0000

> Men are ditching TV for YouTube

this, and

> as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

this are not congruent, you are shown way more AI slop in YT than TV, where it is growing - but still no match. If anything, AI fatigue must be making people spend less time on the web. The write-up in the article itself is contradicting this title. Bad title.

New comment by prplxd_nihilist in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

prplxd_nihilist — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:51:52 +0000

The basque and sardinians seem to have the most of DNA from the neolithic european farmers. The sharp features in the rest of europe might come from the steppe people. That way this totally makes sense.

New comment by prplxd_nihilist in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

prplxd_nihilist — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:49:31 +0000

The females in this article look exactly like modern age humans, the males have these long beard but apart from that there is no visible change in the looks. Far different from what we used to see depicting neanderthals. Is that AI generated?