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Have LLMs Mastered Geolocation?

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2025/06/06/have-llms-finally-mastered-geolocation/
5•LichenStone•12h ago

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jqpabc123•9h ago
"Publishing them here would compromise the integrity of future tests."

This statement calls into question the ability of LLMs to really "master" anything but statistics.

Given examples of counting "r's" in "strawberry", an LLM may be able to answer correctly.

But given a word/letter combination that doesn't exist in it's training data and it may fail. And if so, does it really "understand" how to count letters at all?

In other words, statistics can be used to "fake" reasoning ability that doesn't really exist. Any ability to "think" may just be a statistical illusion.

So give an LLM enough geolocated photos and it's not surprising that it may appear to get better at geolocation. But the only thing it has really "mastered" is statistical pattern matching and similarity. Which may be impressive and even useful in some cases but is likely to always be error prone.

Roman Elementary Mathematics: The Operations

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CJ/47/2/Roman_Elementary_Mathematics%2A.html
1•rawgabbit•1m ago•0 comments

Examples of linkedSignal() usage in Angular applications

https://medium.com/@eugeniyoz/examples-of-linkedsignal-usage-in-angular-applications-415fcd5e243a
1•EugeneOZ•2m ago•0 comments

New gene therapy can target airway and lungs via nasal spray

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-gene-therapy-airway-lungs-nasal.html
1•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

La carte bancaire, une solution simple, rapide et sécurisée

https://www.cmi.co.ma/fr/particuliers-detenteur-carte-bancaire
1•tomcatmaousse•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Asteroid Impact Probability Tool

https://b612foundation.org/asteroid-institute-launch-of-adamimpact-probability-demo-to-analyze-and-visualize-future-impact-risk/
1•dremy•8m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Marketing Speak

https://sustainableviews.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-marketing-speak
1•spyckie2•9m ago•0 comments

Semi-Sync Meetings: Stop Wasting Our Time

https://lukebechtel.com/blog/semi-sync-meetings-stop-wasting-our-time
1•marviel•9m ago•0 comments

Higher Order Continuity for Smooth As-Rigid-as-Possible Shape Modeling

https://jcgt.org/published/0014/01/10/
1•ibobev•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turn Moments into Memorable Postcards

https://www.pictocard.app
1•damnnnnnn•12m ago•0 comments

Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp

https://storytotell.org/smalltalk-haskell-and-lisp
4•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%) and X (+20%)

https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/1931023755083456867
3•emot•14m ago•0 comments

More than 40 'narco-boat' drug smugglers arrested in major police sting

https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-40-narco-boat-drug-smugglers-arrested-in-major-police-sting-13380253
1•austinallegro•14m ago•0 comments

We Sold Our Fisker Ocean for $10k

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1•RickJWagner•15m ago•1 comments

New Social Network

https://qqpost.netlify.app/home
1•random175•17m ago•1 comments

Khrushchevka, Kibbutz, Taylor Swift

https://substack.com/sign-in
2•alighadirli•19m ago•0 comments

AI Audio Guide for the World

https://tourguy.vercel.app/
1•edwinarbus•19m ago•0 comments

The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/
2•simonw•19m ago•0 comments

Experts in the Internet Age: The Power of Email

https://brianschrader.com/archive/experts-in-the-internet-age-the-power-of-email/
1•sonicrocketman•20m ago•0 comments

Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/supreme-court-gives-doge-access-to-social-security-data
5•speckx•26m ago•0 comments

WASM SpecTec has been adopted

https://webassembly.org/news/2025-03-27-spectec/
1•fanf2•26m ago•0 comments

FrankenPHP is now under PHP org

https://github.com/php/frankenphp
2•mirzap•32m ago•0 comments

Rust for Foundational Software

https://corrode.dev/blog/foundational-software/
1•emschwartz•38m ago•0 comments

NeuroCluster – AI-native business automation platform built in Europe

https://www.neurocluster.ai
1•dcnl1980•38m ago•0 comments

Using the Python Match Statement

https://tonybaloney.github.io/posts/python-match-statement.html
1•radus•38m ago•0 comments

Gemini confidentially files for US IPO as crypto markets heat up

https://www.reuters.com/business/crypto-firm-gemini-confidentially-files-us-ipo-2025-06-06/
1•petethomas•39m ago•0 comments

Our kids are under surveillance: The hidden privacy crisis in Ed Tech

https://proton.me/blog/ed-tech-trackers
2•matteogauthier•40m ago•0 comments

GizmoEdge runs 10TB TPC-H queries in under 5 seconds [video]

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1•philbe77•40m ago•0 comments

About 20% of tech startups worth more than US$1B will fail, Accel says

https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/758115
1•speckx•41m ago•0 comments

RedHat censored a lead Xorg dev – it's been forked as Xlibre

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2025-June/059396.html
6•itvision•42m ago•2 comments

Traqer: Track keyword rankings in AI Search

https://www.traqer.ai/
1•pizzathyme•43m ago•0 comments