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by SamPatt 1y ago
This game was deeply important to me: it's the first time I remember explicitly recognizing different ideological and religious beliefs abstracted away from their particular human instantiations. I absolutely loved the different factio
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by SamPatt 1y ago
But you do have full control, if you want it. Nothing stops you from altering plugins or making your own. The plugins sit in a local directory. Very easy to modify.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Same. I admit I've running into a few syncing headaches over the years, but given the cost of $0 and the fact it's open source, I recommend it too. I previously rolled my own notes system and I find Obsidian plus Syncthing is bett
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by SamPatt 1y ago
If you use Obsidian there's a great plugin which allows me to make flashcards easily within my notes: https://www.stephenmwangi.com/obsidian-spaced-repetition/
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by SamPatt 1y ago
A few uses for me: • Memorizing Geoguessr metas. Made it to Master I rank this way. • Memorizing new words. When I come across a word I don't know, I make a new flashcard for it. • Memorizing things about people. My wife's favorit
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I always felt the derision around the term "prompt engineering" was partially due to people overestimating the importance of the initial prompt and underestimating the importance of managing the ongoing context. You develop a knac
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Same. To people who regularly drink, I don't drink at all. When I was young, I would always get asked why. I'm pushing 40 now, and people rarely ask anymore.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, it made for an interesting test.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
It did think outside the box and didn't rely on metadata.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
The maps can contain "unofficial coverage," also known as trekker coverage. Lots of Geoguessrs hate those locations because we're lost without our roads :) Many map makers will only include official coverage. Geoguessr map ma
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Search was irrelevant in this case. I ran it again without search and it made the same guesses. I updated the post with those details.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
You've clearly thought this through, and I agree that had I been more precise at the start it would have avoided some confusion. I'm glad you like the updated post.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Nice photo. Here's what it told me: Where on Earth the photographer had to be Because M 13 sits at +36 ° declination, it never rises for far-southern latitudes and hugs the horizon below about 30 ° S. The high elevation in the shot (no
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by SamPatt 1y ago
>The goal of the blog post was to show that O3 wasn't cheating. No, the goal of the post was to show that o3 has incredible geolocation abilities. It's through the lens of a Geoguessr player who has experience doing geolocation
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Yes, I re-ran those rounds and it made the same guesses without search, within 1km I believe. You're right about not having a map - I cannot imagine trying to line up the Ireland coast round without referencing the map.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I thought it might matter somewhat in that one Austria round. I was incorrect - I re-ran both rounds where the model used search, without search this time, and the results were nearly identical. I updated the post with the details. That&#x2
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Absolutely! It happens occasionally - the most common example I can think of it getting a license plate or other location from a tractor-trailer (semi) on the highway. Those are very unreliable. You also sometimes get flags in the wrong cou
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I hear you - but I had already read through the chain of thought which identified the right region before search, and had already seen the capabilities in many other rounds. It was self-evident to me that the search wasn't an essential
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by SamPatt 1y ago
>Will people still derive pleasure from playing it, like with chess? Exactly - I see it just like chess, which I also play and enjoy. The only problem is cheating. I don't have an answer for that, except right now it's too slow
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by SamPatt 1y ago
That isn't what's happening though. I re-ran those two rounds, this time without search, and it changed nothing. I updated the post with details, you can verify it yourself. Claiming the AI is just using Google is false and dismis
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I disagree. I ran those rounds again, without search this time, and the results were nearly identical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43837832
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Done. Here's o3's reply: >That’s not Earth at all—this is the floor of Jezero Crater on Mars, the dusty plain and low ridge captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover (the Mastcam-Z color cameras give away the muted tan-pink sky and
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by SamPatt 1y ago
>1) O3 cheated by using Google search. This is both against the rules of the game and OP didn't use search either I re-ran it without search, and it made no difference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43837832
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I did repeat the test without search, and updated the post. It made no difference. Details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43837832
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Author here, I'm glad to see folks find this interesting. I encourage everyone to try Geoguessr! I love it. I'm seeing a lot of comments saying that the fact that the o3 model used web search in 2 of 5 rounds made this unfair, and
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I do understand the skepticism, and I'll run it again without search to see what happens. But a serious question for you: what would you need to see in order to be properly impressed? I ask because I made this post largely to push back
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Geoguessr is great fun, try it sometime.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
That's really not a fair assessment. It used search in 2 of 5 rounds, and it already knew the correct road in one of those rounds (just look at the search terms it used). If you read the chain of thought output, you cannot dismiss thei
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Yeah I added a "My skill level" section to talk through that. I'm far from a professional. But I know enough to be able to determine if the chain of thought it outputs is nonsense or comparable to a good human player. I found
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by SamPatt 1y ago
That's inaccurate. It beat me by 1,100 points, and given the chain of thought demonstrated that it knew the general region of both guesses before it employed search, it would likely have still beaten me in those rounds. Though probably

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