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asdfologiston Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

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

asdfologiston Students prefer Gemini over ChatGPT and Claude for AI essays in blind tests

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

asdfologiston Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Unlike math, software is constrained by the physical world.

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.

asdfologiston Renting a sewing machine from the library

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.

asdfologiston Claude Fable 5

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

asdfologiston Magnifica Humanitas

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

asdfologiston The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

Diminishing returns on additional labor.

asdfologiston Cursor CLI

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

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

asdfologiston Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

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

asdfologiston Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

Someone on Reddit suspected this 3 years ago.

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

asdfologiston Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

>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.

asdfologiston Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

Summarization

Translation

Writing emails

Code generation

...

asdfologiston Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

Whoa, I had no idea PDFs can have formulas.

asdfologiston Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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

asdfologiston Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?

Amnesia? Or did you mean insomnia?

asdfologiston How to protect your career from a ChatGPT Future

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.

asdfologiston Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?

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

asdfologiston UK scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds

asdfologiston New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots

Sensationalism?

asdfologiston Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles

Amazon Fresh.

asdfologiston A researcher on how to live a happy life

This pretty much sums up Christian ethics.

asdfologiston My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file

Yeah but with a .txt file how am I gonna boast about my productivity on Instagram every 5 minutes, geez.

asdfologiston You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds

Not true because of trading costs. Both the non-random strategy and its inverse would lose money.

asdfologiston What Happens to Spelling Bee Champions When They Grow Old?

Spelling bees don't test English comprehension.

asdfologiston China’s Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid

Korea had a dictator too.

asdfologiston 12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018)

(2018)

asdfologiston Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%

As a user I like AMP because it's guaranteed to be very fast. There, I said it.

asdfologiston ‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions

That's the same argument these colleges used to keep Jews out in the 30's. Now they're saying Asians have bad personalities so they shouldn't be admitted. This sounds ethical to you?