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johnbarron··on Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims
Thanks for posting here. Keep expanding and improving your study. Correct where it deserves correction.

The fact that HN decided to downvote the author of the study, shows how these people cant stay classy, and the mods stay silent...just shows what this is all about.

johnbarron··on Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks
>> Why would I do that?

I agree you dont owe anyone a reproduction, but also you dont owe anyone an effort to discredit the study and you did it.

>> I don't think I need to spend more time on this than I have.

How pious of you. I am still looking into the credibility of the study. It will take me more than 25 min...but I am really looking forward to see what this means for this 10 trillion industry.

I can however notice you had enough urgency to publicly critique the study within 25 minutes, and your comments carry weight, but when asked about checking whether the headline result actually holds, the answer is “why would I?”

johnbarron··on Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks
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johnbarron··on Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
Anthropic will not have as many husbands as they think by next year: https://xkcd.com/605/
johnbarron··on Terence Tao: My recollections on the early history of compressed sensing
"... the situation with compressed sensing can be compared with the current situation with modern large language models and related AI tools. Here, the field is almost entirely dominated by empirical research, often from industry rather than from academics. As such, there is a lot less clarity on what the key ingredients are to make a given AI technology suitable for a given use case; there are spectacular successes that cannot be replicated, next to seemingly promising uses that hit an unexpected wall (or, conversely, unlikely applications for which AI tools are far more effective than anticipated). With the notable exception of the mathematics of optimization and numerical linear algebra which are both somewhat mature, most of the theoretical mathematical framework needed to explain the strengths and weaknesses of AI is still in its infancy. (Though I would say here that the main bottleneck is not exactly lack of funding in basic research in the foundations of AI, but more that the mathematics itself is not understood to anywhere near the level we would like.)..."
johnbarron··on SQLite Code of Ethics
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion."

― Steven Weinberg

johnbarron··on Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
I think its them on video: https://youtu.be/Rx19zOzQeis
johnbarron··on Coursera and Udemy are now one company
>But at the same time I agree that they aren't doing enough to surface the high > quality courses

They have forced the creators to agree on being scrapped by AI or otherwise not showing up on their own top search. Ironically this has sealed their fate, and most top creators decided to move their content somewhere else.

johnbarron··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Your comment is the equivalent of stating, that Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, do not really know their employees are carrying around urine bottles.
johnbarron··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
This is Matt Garman, the ultimate MBA. Bonus for sure tied to tokens-per-quarter, which is the 2026 equivalent of measuring engineers by lines of code...

This why AWS is bleeding good engineers for years. What is left is starting to look like Boeing post McDonnell merger...

They took out a quarter of their documentation page limited real estate, with AI doc shorts nobody asked for, nobody needs, and cant disable.

johnbarron··on Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
>> Anthropic using marketing to convince people their models are more advanced, better built, or that AI is a threat that needs to be regulated because only they have the answer? I’m shocked.

I remember when OpenAI was saying GPT-2 was too dangerous to release.

johnbarron··on Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
Get your history right: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pVJ1Ci3MXs4
johnbarron··on Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
>> Modern day piracy.

"Israel seizes Gaza aid ships in international waters" - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-begins-inte...

johnbarron··on Women at the sharp end as AI takes over administrative roles
https://archive.ph/ThnBp
johnbarron··on Wall Street lawyers aided insider trading ring, say US prosecutors
https://archive.ph/BLTyH
johnbarron··on Notes from inside China's AI labs
Great article
johnbarron··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Wanna bet they are firing in groups sizes, that match exactly CIDR subnets?
johnbarron··on KLM flight attendant hospitalized after contact with hantavirus
Oh no user name really checks out...You should lighten up Elon. Nobody likes you. Just accept it.
johnbarron··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Poland is the best example of using the best capabilities of access to EU funds and the large EU economy. Its sucess case should be rubbed up the noses of the arrogant UK establishment and its Eton driven Brexit disaster.
johnbarron··on Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
This is not new. Read Phantoms in the Brain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantoms_in_the_Brain

johnbarron··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Are they taking the piss by hiring and firing the same number as their public DNS IP ?
johnbarron··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
There is nothing in the post to support the statement. An interesting personal confession, but it does not establish that vibe coding and agentic engineering are converging as a general phenomenon.

As a piece of meat, I look forward to charge rates of $10,000 an hour, to fix code out the vibe code generation.

johnbarron··on Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it
He has all the credentials to support vitamin C, astrology, water memory, electromagnetic DNA signals, and DNA teleportation.
johnbarron··on Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it
Man who spent his life explaining mimicry in nature gets fooled by mimicry in Python
johnbarron··on Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return
Mostly agree with everything you said. I hesitated before posting the link, but the video gets better in the second half of it... :-), and though would be a second change for people, who would fail to engage with the high quality article.
johnbarron··on Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return
"Harvard Just Caught AI Lying to Every Executive in America" - https://youtu.be/pd1Km6bT104
johnbarron··on DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
And the credit of OpenAI is to Google?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

johnbarron··on DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
Silicon Valley has do to dirty tricks now. Next phase is they win....

"A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat" - https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-p...

johnbarron··on Amazon Free Cash Flow drops 95%
And incurring massive debt....
johnbarron··on For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
>> puts a bit of water on all hype around switching from Windows.

Said no one ever...present post excluded :-))

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