what is the most disappointing piece of software you use on a daily/weekly basis, purely on software quality terms

you're laughing. you were born by chance during the final stage of The Great Work, the transmutation of all humanity’s work into a new form of life, the final boss of the anthropocene, the flower bloom of billions of years of biological life, and you’re laughing.

claude strikes back

my commentary on the IMO is that no sentient being, human or AI, should be subjected to solving P4. the outline of the solution is clear 5 minutes in, and then you spend like 90 minutes you will never get back trying not to fail at casework. otoh P1 and P5 are fantastic

"advanced usage patterns like running Claude 24/7 in the background" gang

Also, "snowball effect" is not exponential growth. The size of a snowball after time t, when rolled down the hill, is clearly at most t^3, and velocity grows almost linearly after a while.

Naming an energy source used in the grid that is not ultimately nuclear fusion or fission is a neat trivia question

subliminal learning from training on Dostoevsky

vibes are that Gemini 3 solved a task of mine GPT 5.1 Thinking and Opus 4.1 couldn't do in two tries each

NeurIPS folks, I've lots of 1on1 space on Saturday; feel free to DM if you want to meet! Also what are the good workshops on Saturday?