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Comment · 6 months ago
"Crema catalana: Three of four models called it “creme brulee” 100% of the time. Only Gemini 3.1 Pro got “crema catalana” — in 3.4% of queries."

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Wikipedia for Crema catalana:

Crema catalana (Catalan for 'Catalan cream'), or crema cremada ('burnt cream'), is a Catalan dessert consisting of a custard topped with a layer of caramelized sugar.[1] It is "virtually identical"[2] to the French crème brûlée. It is made from milk, egg yolks, and sugar. Crema catalana and crème brûlée are made in the same way.

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Oh no, my AI can't detect that an obscure clone of a famous dish is indeed the obscure clone, and not the commonly know version.

Comment · 10 months ago
Can't they point these dns records to working servers meanwhile to avoid degradation?
Comment · 1 year ago
>It becomes a pain point when the IT team never heard of docker

Where do you work ? Is that even possible in 2025?

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Using this for testing instead of regular playwright must 10000x the cost and speed, doesn't it? At which points do the benefits outweigh the costs?
Comment · 1 year ago
Especially back then, in the time of vinyls and cassettes (browsing music wasn't exactly as easy as pressing "play"), it shows the amazingly deep musical culture of these artists. The samples they use are from all over the place, and their songs are often built around a handful of seconds from obscure b-sides.
Comment · 1 year ago
What's your stack ? I have the complete opposite experience. LLMs are amazing at writing idiomatic code, less so at dealing with esoteric use cases.

And very often, if the LLM produces a poopoo, asking it to fix it again works just well enough.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thus, a problem in search of a solution. Who has asked for that exactly ?`It's been more than a decade and still no one has found an actually useful real-world application for blockchain besides gambling and money laundering.
Comment · 1 year ago
Note: while this is a 2019 article, the Getty Center has not burned during the 2025 Palisades fire.
Comment · 1 year ago
The difference between this concept and, let's say, Descarte's evil demon, is not the philosophical skepticism but its explicit grounding in physics and thermodynamics. It basically attempts to answer the question "Where would that evil demon come from?". It materializes Descarte's thought experiment and shows that it could actually happen within the confines of our scientific knowledge, unlike malicious demons.
Comment · 1 year ago
Could be a swede who meant "GDP" (BNP = BruttoNationalProdukten = Gross Domestic Product)
Comment · 2 years ago
Wash traders are the ones breaking the law.
Comment · 2 years ago
And Sony doesn't ?
Comment · 2 years ago
I mean Israel is behind Pegasus, so it's not exactly a secret that they can get into any cellphone. Israel didn't need to infiltrate Hezbollah, they just needed publicity.
Comment · 2 years ago
All the terrorist market suddenly boycotting them, I'm sure they're losing sleep over it.

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