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einarfd··on GPT-5
I got the same when trying it with standard gpt5. But when I used the thinking mode I got:

3 — cranberry.

Tried with Claude sonnet 4 as well:

There are 3 r’s in the word “cranberry”:

c-*r*-a-n-b-e-*rr*-y

The r’s appear in positions 2, 7, and 8.

I would expect standard gpt5 to get it right tbh.

einarfd··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
There are companies out there working on those problems as well. How the funding climate for them are. I don't know. But the market for smart robots, should be gigantic. So there must be some. Keep in mind that what is easy, and hard for a human, which is the result of billions of years of evolution. Isn't necessary the same things that are hard or easy for our technologies.
einarfd··on Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
And deleting the file would have been perfectly fine, if Tesla had given out the file when asked for it. Instead of what they did.
einarfd··on Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
You are right, but unfortunately you are the least useful right, which is technical right.

That is definitely what auto pilot means in the aeronautical and maritime sphere.

But a lot of the general public has a murky understanding of how an auto pilot on a ship or a plane works. So for a lot, probably the majority of them. They will look at the meaning of those two words and land on that auto pilot, means automatic pilot. Which basically ends up beeing self driving.

Sure in a perfect world, they would look up what the term means in the sphere they do not know, and use it correctly, but that is not the world we live in. We do not get the general public, we want, but we have to live with the one we got.

einarfd··on The Ski Rental Problem
Are you sure that there aren't multiple tiers of rental skies in resorts in the USA? I have friends in the rental business in Norway, and they rent out skies from the kind of beginner friendly skies that would fit your description. To top of the line Stockli and Van Deer kit. I think they keep all of their gear in at least decent shape, with the top gear kept in the best shape, as it makes the most difference for those customers. Btw. haven't rented much in the Alps. But my impression is that you can rent gear for all ability levels there aswell, and that that gear is kept in good shape.
einarfd··on Stargate Norway
Power is why you would build in Iceland. There is a lot of geothermic potential there. It's after all, the land of hot springs and volcanoes. So if you need more power, build a new geothermic power plant.
einarfd··on Uber will let women drivers and riders request to avoid being paired with men
No, you do not need to remove the urinals. The standard way of solving this here in Norway. Is to put the urinals at the inner end of the bathrooms around a corner. So you can’t see in at them from where the stalls or the sinks are. Works like a charm.
einarfd··on Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage
That sounds crazy, are you sure you didn't misread the labeling?

When I checked the turmeric supplement I use. Which I buy in a reputable health food, and supplement chain in Norway. It is 40mg of turmeric, which according to the article is well under the acceptable daily dose. As far as I understand Norway follows the EU directives on this, but has some additional strictures as well. I wouldn't expect the difference to be this stark though.

Btw. the reason I use turmeric supplements is that I have a tendency to get persistent inflammation, and for me, the supplements seems to help with that. But if I didn't have this problem, I would not take it, and also, it isn't given that it works for you, even if it does for me.

einarfd··on Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app
This is only true in some countries, and tbh. having this as the state of the art, sounds a bit dystopian. I've been using my BankID, which is a Norwegian electronic identity solution, to log into banks and such, for decades now. With these type of solutions, there is no way that taking control over phone numbers make any difference when trying to get access to a bank account.

Btw. this type of electronic identity solution are not Norway specific, I know all the other Nordic countries have them, and they are, as far as I know fairly popular in the rest of Europe as well.

einarfd··on What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
When people call me Sir, I find it uncomfortable. I know it is a thing in English and specifically in the USA. But it is so far from the Norwegian cultural norms I grew up with, that I'll probably never get used to it.
einarfd··on Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
At one point I was researching using the Norwegian BankID system to ensure that accounts where real people. The pricing model didn't make that look like a reasonable choice. While I'm not surprised an eBay like service would be fine to pay to combat fraud. For a lot of offerings, paying the cost of using such services will not be worth it.
einarfd··on Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
In Norway our BankID system, which is similar to what the Danes have, is owned by the banks, and is a run by a private company. While I personally think that in principle it should be run by the government. It works well enough, and it is imo. proof that it does not have to be run by the government.
einarfd··on Try Switching to Kagi
I haven't set up blacklist for my kagi account. Searched for "python sum", got a link to the python doc as the first result. So imo. you dont need a blacklist.
einarfd··on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers
Both Lely and DeLaval seems to have at least some customers with thousands of cows.

https://www.lelyna.com/us/farmer-stories/homestead-dairy-uti...

https://www.farmersjournal.ie/dairy/news/world-s-largest-rob...

einarfd··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
I haven't seen the Reddit posts. But I've seen the same in Articles in the Norwegian press, where they bought a bunch of random Temu stuff and sent it for safety testing. The result where not great and the results for the jewelry was really scary.
einarfd··on When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed
So where is the slippery slope in the Martin Niemöller poem?

The transgression against the groups does not change, it is just repeated on different "troublesome" out groups. I guess you can argue that the last line, where the I of the text is taken, is the slippery slope. But that seems a bit contrived.

My reading of it is that it is an admonishing against accepting injustice against groups that you yourself is not part of, and that if you do not speak up. Then who will speak up for you, if you need it.

einarfd··on Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague
Jan Marsalek would make a great Bond villain.
einarfd··on The Era of Solopreneurs Is Here
You need to retool the corporation, the way the company is organized, and retrain the workforce for the new way building. In addition you have to pull that of, while still keep the light on, for what you already have. It will be much easier for someone starting from scratch.
einarfd··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Because a lot of it is salaries and other employee benefits.
einarfd··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
> If it has a hood and you choose to never open it, that does not make it a worse product.

This is only true if having a hood has no negative ramifications, the argument from Volvo was that removing it made forward visibility better. For some people trading a hood they never use, against better forward visibility, could be well worth it. Especially for short people, where forward visibility can be more of a problem than for the rest of us.

einarfd··on Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
My problem with this puzzle, is how do you know that Alice and her brothers share both parents?

Is it not correct English to call two people who share one parent, sisters, or brothers?

I guess I could be misguided by my native Norwegian where you have to preamble the word with "hell" (full), or "halv" (half), if you want to specify the number of shared parents.

einarfd··on WiFi4EU initiative provides free Wi-Fi in public spaces across Europe
Just had a look at Ubigi, which I used when on vacation in Japan, and they sell a data only recurring monthly Germany 20 GB data subscription for 19 USD. It's 8 USD more if you want all of Europe. So a bit more pricey. I haven't looked at other vendors, but I don't think there is anything special with my choice of data esim vendor, nor their prices. I haven't seen anything, on their pages, that indicates, that there are stay limits, and if there where, you would expect them to flag that? I wouldn't view these prices as expensive, and they seem not that far from what I pay I Norway. But what is cheap for some, is expensive for others, so what do I know?

This also won't help with coverage, of course, and if you want a phone number, you would need an extra SIM for that.

einarfd··on Can the New Mathstral LLM Accurately Compare 9.11 and 9.9?
I found this interesting and tried the question with the top models from Antrophic, Openai, Google and Mistral. Which all gave the wrong results. But if you preface the question with "Of these two decimal numbers ", the answers changed and the results where correct. I suspect what we are seeing is that the models handles the numbers as version numbers, and not decimal numbers. This is disappointing and confusing, but it also imo. underlines that giving them context on what you try to get them to do is worthwhile.
einarfd··on CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there
Or maybe you get someone with PSTD and suicidal tendencies. You never know how someone will process something like this.
einarfd··on Dear Roku, you ruined my TV
If you live in the right jurisdiction consumer protection laws might be able to force the seller to get this defect fixed or have them take back and refund the tv.

Where I live (Norway), there is a five year warranty on long lived products, which a tv is, and if it breaks during that period, the seller needs to fix or replace the product. Motion smoothing that can't be turned off seems a serious breakage, and if they seller pushes back, you can point out that Tom Cruise and a bunch of other movie luminaries think motion smoothing ruins movies.

Not sure what the rules are with software updates after the tv is out of warranty. But I do suspect the seller would still be in hot water, if the update breaks important functionality.

einarfd··on Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta
I grew up on a farm in the nineties, and in my teens, I saw a roe deer fawn that went through a forage harvester.

Surprisingly enough, there was almost no blood, but every bone in the animal was broken. The load of silage that it ended up in had to be thrown out, the forage harvester itself, needed some light repairs, the harvest got delayed a few hours, and the whole thing was really depressing.

Luckily as far as I can remember it happened only once, and it was definitely something that we tried hard to avoid.

einarfd··on DBRX: A new open LLM
The point of the more than 700 million user restriction. Is so Amazon, Google cloud or Microsoft Azure. Can not setup an offering where they host and sell access to the model without an agreement with them.

This point is probably inspired by the open source software vendors that have switched license over competition from the big cloud vendors.

einarfd··on Building a Password Cracker in 2024
If you manage to steal the file with the hashed passwords. Then none of that makes a difference.
einarfd··on Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night
Philips has had a series of lights to stimulate the sun during the short day season, that they've been selling in Norway, at least since the nineties. At the moment they've branded them energy up. They are the only brand I've seen selling something like it. But there might be others.
einarfd··on European digital identity: provisional agreement reached on eID
I got interested in how it works in the UK, and I went looking for how one could log into government services. First I found the discountinued verified id system, and then the new gov.uk one login system. Which based on my understanding of them, both are eID systems. Limited in scope compared to systems that integrate with non governmental systems, but still eID systems.
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