[–] 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is this krugman again? He's such a fucking idiot. Remember during the Biden admin, when he posted a graph claiming inflation was down actually, and then the title of the graph was like "inflation except housing, healthcare, transport and education". Yeah if you don't count all the things that consume practically all the money of the working class then inflation is down

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  • [–] 73 points 5 days ago (24 children)

    French polls, "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" edition

    The main takeaway from this poll is that an overwhelming majority of Philippe or Glucksmann supporters say they would not vote for Melenchon in a 2nd round against Le Pen. This a warning from centrists: vote for our candidate, or we will give the country over to the fascists.

    France, Toluna-Harris poll:

    Presidential run-off election

    Le Pen (RN-PfE): 70% (+3) Mélenchon (LFI-LEFT): 30% (-3)

    Le Pen (RN-PfE): 57% (+1) Philippe (HOR-RE): 43% (-1)

    Le Pen (RN-PfE): 59% (n.a.) Glucksmann (PS/PP-S&D): 41% (n.a.)

    +/- vs. 05-08 October 2026

    Fieldwork: 23 October 2026 Sample size: 2,094

    https://nitter.meowing.monster/moshik_temkin/status/2113629713977528645#m

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    I know people here are very skeptical of AI in general, and there is definitely a lot of hype, but I think the progress in the last decade has been incredible.

    Here are some quotes

    “In my field of quantum physics, it gives significantly more detailed and coherent responses” than did the company’s last model, GPT-4o, says Mario Krenn, leader of the Artificial Scientist Lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany.

    Strikingly, o1 has become the first large language model to beat PhD-level scholars on the hardest series of questions — the ‘diamond’ set — in a test called the Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark (GPQA)1. OpenAI says that its scholars scored just under 70% on GPQA Diamond, and o1 scored 78% overall, with a particularly high score of 93% in physics

    OpenAI also tested o1 on a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad. Its previous best model, GPT-4o, correctly solved only 13% of the problems, whereas o1 scored 83%.

    Kyle Kabasares, a data scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute in Moffett Field, California, used o1 to replicate some coding from his PhD project that calculated the mass of black holes. “I was just in awe,” he says, noting that it took o1 about an hour to accomplish what took him many months.

    Catherine Brownstein, a geneticist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts, says the hospital is currently testing several AI systems, including o1-preview, for applications such as connecting the dots between patient characteristics and genes for rare diseases. She says o1 “is more accurate and gives options I didn’t think were possible from a chatbot”.

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