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Performance greatly decreases with growing text length / decreasing text size. For example, Gemini 2.5 (right) gets it nearly (though not completely) correct if I reduce it to just the first 30 words. 3.0 is left.

2.5 is full of errors, not just "shot from" - 3/4ths of it is outright illegible. But for long text, it used to be arguably the best out there.

3.0 is almost perfect even with long text. The only error I see is 5th line from the bottom, where there's a blurry "north" added. Way beyond SOTA.

I'm doing comparisons with LMArena and they seem to be being overloaded, as I got rate limited after just a few generations. But thusfar, it looks super-impressive. Can't wait to try its editing capabilities, as 2.5 was very good at certain things, but bad at others (for example, style transfer).

Humour test: "Low-quality amateur photograph of something that is extremely "Russian" in nature, the sort of photo that would likely immediately become fodder for memes."

Both tend to be good with humour, but 3.0's images feel more "real", and the humour is often more subtle (e.g. "squatting slav")

Chained reasoning task: "Photograph of a common substance produced from the product of the last job of the US president who was born in Plains, Georgia." 2.5 (right) was already quite good at this, but 3.0 did even better by focusing on the *product*

Gemini 3.0 image (left) vs. 2.5 (right), on a long, non-provided text ("Photo of the first 300 words of the King James Bible, written in refrigerator magnets."). And Gemini 2.5 was already arguably the best out there.

The only minor thing I have to critique is that did a bit more than 300 words.

This explains a lot, actually.

None of it is "good" - acrylate is generally considered biocompatible but still chemical leaching and microplastics and sharp silica aren't healthy stuff. But it's not a forever-thing.

It won't be fast, but they should degrade. Surface coating is UV-cured acrylate. Without a protective sheath, which will break down from UV and hydrolysis over the course of years. The inner glass fibres (basically fibreglass), lacking protection, will slowly fracture to sand over decades.

"Here's our brilliant plan. First, we'll deport all of the people who work building houses..."

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Where people want to be and where people have to be are two different things.

EXPLAINED: Trump calls a reporter "Piggy"

"Socialism With American Characteristics"

I'm on Gemini's side...

Thanks for all your team's hard work - it looks like a winner! :)

Funny to remember how not that long ago Google was a serious laggard in the LLM space. Definitely not now!

Hmm, I can't help you with Russian sourcing, but if you find some Icelandic-sourced ones, I'd be glad to go hunting! :)

(Apparently tarkianite was first found in Finland?)

Bacteria and fungi make the most cursed ones, though ;)

Oh, I missed your posts for a few days - it's apparently WEIRD LIPID WEEK! ;) What are some more fun structures... ricinoleic? Licanic? Vernolic (mustard seed!)? Kombic (african nutmeg)? Sargaquinoic?

Not just reactive, but literally explosive at elevated temperatures! :)

Ready to watch and do nothing :Þ

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Serious uncanny valley stuff - a soulless visage pretending to be human.

Also, there's a robot there.

Yep. This poll is IMHO quite telling:

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Only 13% of people who grew up in a downtown apartment want to live in the city.

67% of those who grew up in the countryside want to live in the countryside.

Most people like space. The "exceptions" on Bluesky need to deal with this.

Let's just jump to the point where the Don't-Call-It-Surrender surrender deal comes out, Ukraine says no, and you stop punishing Russia and start punishing Ukraine, and skip all the dancing around in-between.

"We think that Man-Who-Skyrocketed-In-Domestic-Popularity-When-He-Last-Stood-Up-To-Us is likely to accept <Manure Sandwich On A Plate> because he's currently unpopular" is certainly.... a take.

... public transit. But Americans, on average, still don't.

... rapid transition of European fleets to electric, the spread and advancement of technologies such as AEB, and so forth. You simply can't use data from a fleet that that's out of date.

*Today*, from an *overall* perspective, European drivers generally pay their way, and also help subsidize...

... which - while varied by an order of magnitude - is commonly comparable to driving)

And the last big bit of nuance is that most of the "viral" studies (the "counterpoint" studies never go viral :Þ) are grossly obsolete. 2019, 2015 (Copenhagen bike study), etc... this entirely misses the...