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New comment by wohoef in "Googlebook"

wohoef — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:47:11 +0000

You get 90% of the MacBook experience for half the price. Most users only need this 90%.

New comment by wohoef in "DeepSeek v4"

wohoef — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:17:54 +0000

Do you an idea of how well these models perform on set theory problems or more niche fields in mathematics? So the model would have to both understand a paper that’s not in its training data, and use this to write proofs.

New comment by wohoef in "GPT-5.4"

wohoef — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:09:19 +0000

Very Apple-like marketing. No comparisons to other companies’ models, only to previous version of ChatGPT. Lots of phrases like “this is our best model yet”.

New comment by wohoef in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

wohoef — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:50:55 +0000

Anthropic's two demands are: 1. No domestic mass surveillance 2. No autonomous killing

I'm wondering if 2. was added simply to justify them not cooperating. It's a lot easier to defend 1. + 2. than just 1. If in the future they do decide to cooperate with the DoW, they could settle on doing only mass surveillance, but no autonomous killings. This would be presented as a victory for both parties since they both partially get what they wanted, even though autonomous killing was never really on the table for either of them. Which is a big if given the current administration.

New comment by wohoef in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

wohoef — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:48:32 +0000

Just opened my Whatsapp settings and "Third-party chat requests" is on by default (From the Netherlands). Although to actually receive messages you do have to activate this feature.

New comment by wohoef in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

wohoef — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:49:53 +0000

Tools like GPTzero are incredibly unreliable. Me and plently of my colleagues often get our writing flagged as 100% AI by these tools, when no AI was used.

New comment by wohoef in "The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law"

wohoef — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:59:20 +0000

“Im part of the shrinking privileged minority”

New comment by wohoef in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

wohoef — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:19:58 +0000

Nice try! You got it next time

New comment by wohoef in "What nicotine does to your brain"

wohoef — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:31:14 +0000

Find a new dentist. Nicotine pouches are incredibly bad for oral health. Huge risk of oral cancer. And it’ll make your gums recline, exposing your nerves (this hurts). Also nicotine itself is quite bad for you to begin with (cardiovascular health, anxiety, etc).

Sure snus is better than smoking, but that’s just because most things are better than smoking.

New comment by wohoef in "Gemini 3"

wohoef — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:15:34 +0000

Curious to see it in action. Gemini 2.5 has already been very impressive as a study buddy for courses like set theory, information theory, and automata. Although I’m always a bit skeptical of these benchmarks. Seems quite unlikely that all of the questions remain out of their training data.

New comment by wohoef in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

wohoef — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:23:52 +0000

Yeah I tried telegram. None of my contacts did though…

New comment by wohoef in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

wohoef — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:18:53 +0000

But the web app is genuinely unusable. Often times takes 2+ minutes to properly load. This issue seems to be quite random though, not everyone has it.

New comment by wohoef in "Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window"

wohoef — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:49:07 +0000

The point of LLMs is that there’s nothing in between the lines.

Or do you mean to say that you are trying to find the specific bias each model has?

New comment by wohoef in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

wohoef — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:05:12 +0000

In my experience 120% of my daily usage from windows works on Linux.

Where are the friction points for you?

New comment by wohoef in "'Attention is all you need' coauthor says he's 'sick' of transformers"

wohoef — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:44:05 +0000

I'm tired of feeling like the articles I read are AI generated.

New comment by wohoef in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

wohoef — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:42:26 +0000

And Sonnet is again better than Opus. I’d love to see simultaneous release dates for Sonnet and Opus one day. Just so that Opus is always better than Sonnet

New comment by wohoef in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

wohoef — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:39:23 +0000

Just a few months ago people were still talking about exponential progress. The fact that we’re already going for just linear progress is not a good sign

New comment by wohoef in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

wohoef — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:26:18 +0000

In my experience people subscribe and follow easy to digest content that makes them feel productive for consuming it.

New comment by wohoef in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

wohoef — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:23:19 +0000

Final sentence of this piece is missing a word.

New comment by wohoef in "Learning Is Slower Than You Think"

wohoef — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:44:46 +0000

I'm quite worried by this post. After reading the first paragraph it is obvious that this is AI generated, or at least heavily edited by AI. Read some of the other comments on this post for examples of how this is obvious.

The author is a professor in Computer Science at Yale. As well as an ex-research at Microsoft and IBM. You would think this person has the necessary writing skills to write this article themselves. There is no excuse to use AI for writing this. It makes it much harder to read. And always leaves me wondering if I don't understand the point the author is trying to make or if there wasn't one to begin with.

Overall I'm just annoyed by how often I see people use genAI to write stuff for them. Do they think people won't realize it is generated by AI? Do they just not care? Or has it become socially acceptable to write emails, articles, and memos with AI? Just give me the f***g prompt. Then at least I don't have to deal with reading the AI slop.

Let alone how ironic it is to write an article that talks about AI in education, with AI.

PS: I'm not trying to attack the author. This is becoming a widespread issue and I don't want to single him out.