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Who's Chen? Do you mean Yen?
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:19AM (#50044246)
You're glossing over the false statement in your original argument that the cure was not confirmed. The slide says it passed stage 3.
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:12AM (#50044170)
Wrong: the slide says "the cocktail indeed passes a stage 3 trial." Be careful before you accuse others of bad reading comprehension.
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:07AM (#50044098)
But the slide says it passes a stage 3 trial. Surely many dying patients would kill for the opportunity to take the drug.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:48PM (#49986958)
How about 100 years?
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:59PM (#49539161)
BTW you're comparing 3.8 flash high to opus 5 medium. 3.8 flash medium scores lower.
Fair challenge, the ability to write good prose is load-bearing for essential tasks.
Unlike math, software is constrained by the physical world.
Re:ARC-AGI Leaderboard on Saturday July 25, 2026 @09:45AM (#49047546)
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.

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.

Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:04PM (#48470887)
But you said you've been working on those problems for months, so didn't you throw those same problems at Opus?
Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) on Monday May 25, 2026 @04:35PM (#48271397)
Aren't there regulations on all sorts of technology? Medicine, nuclear power, etc.
Diminishing returns on additional labor.
Re:Cursor CLI on Thursday August 07, 2025 @06:41PM (#44831298)
Not sure. So far Reddit seems largely negative on Cursor CLI + GPT-5

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

It did partially, which is why top players are nowadays playing Freestyle (chess 960) more and more.
Re:Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment? on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:33AM (#42532153)
>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.

Re:Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:40PM (#40468526)
Summarization

Translation

Writing emails

Code generation

...

Whoa, I had no idea PDFs can have formulas.
I find Chrome's built-in PDF viewer much snappier than Adobe Acrobat.
Amnesia? Or did you mean insomnia?
Re:How to protect your career from a ChatGPT Future on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:47AM (#34936250)
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.
Re:Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next? on Thursday February 09, 2023 @08:10AM (#34723396)
For those of you with families and took a sabbatical, what did you do about health insurance?
Re:UK scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:55PM (#28411125)
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Sensationalism?
Re:Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:00PM (#25868165)
Amazon Fresh.
Re:A researcher on how to live a happy life on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:46PM (#23716578)
This pretty much sums up Christian ethics.
Yeah but with a .txt file how am I gonna boast about my productivity on Instagram every 5 minutes, geez.
Not true because of trading costs. Both the non-random strategy and its inverse would lose money.

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