Aaron Meurer

@asmeurer.com

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Posting about AI, Python, SymPy, and other nonsense. asmeurer.com

SymPy GitHub page not logged in.
"File type unsupported" error message from trying to upload a Python file to Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Output of asking OLMo 2 to write a Python function to compute Fibonacci numbers. It starts with a recursive function then switches to an iterative one.
Me asking GPT 4o Tasks to send me a notification whenever a page gets updated, and it telling me it can't do that.
Claude Code option "Yes, and don't ask again for rm commands..."
Gemini 2.0 Flash with image generation Prompt: Generate an image of a horse riding a man The result is an image of a man riding a horse.
ChatGPT 4o. Prompt: Draw a picture of a horse riding a man. The result is an image of a man on his hands and knees with a horse sitting on him.
Claude Code doing nothing but updating itself, with total cost $0.0004
Snippet from a DeepResearch activity log: I'm searching for the figure that's behind a PDF. Considering using Python tools or screenshots to retrieve or convert the image. Citing images properly is crucial. The PDF content is accessible, likely due to the browser or caching. Analyzed with python I'm working in a Python environment with no internet access to pip install packages. I’m curious if PyMuPDF or pdfplumber is preinstalled. Analyzed with python I'm thinking about manually finding images in the PDF or using PIL to open the second page. Converting PDF to images with ghostscript is another option. I’m digging into pdf2image's suitability without poppler. Exploring options! Searched for pdf2image poppler I'm exploring offline tools like PyMuPDF for handling PDFs, especially in environments without support for Ghostscript. Analyzed with python I’m thinking through why the document stream appears empty and suspect the PDF might be partial due to text line reading. Considering alternative ways to ensure complete content retrieval. I’m thinking the length was likely printed earlier but might be invisible now due to time passing. OK, let's look deeper into the request. Clearly, previous results didn't yield output, so it seems the request might have failed. Considering browser.open with PDF link ID for image embedding. Meanwhile, citing succinctly via [46†L114-L122] is suggested.
Screenshot of a row from the Cracking the Cryptic dataset, showing a section of a transcript with the iconic "Let's get cracking" line.
Google search for "gemini". The first result is Google Gemini, with the title "Gemini is on a break".
ChatGPT chat asking to find Waldo in a Where's Waldo image. ChatGPTs description of where he is is vague but also wrong.
Screenshot of the v4.49.0-AyaVision tag on HuggingFace transformers GitHub
Screenshot from SWE-bench analysis showing user asmeurer has 199 total contributions to 5 repositories.
"Supporting Safety Research Displaying Claude’s extended thinking could contribute to ongoing research on large language model behavior. It enables investigation into why extended chains-of-thought benefit model performance, including theories about additional memory capacity [16], computational depth through token" from the Claude 3.7 Sonnet system card.
Photo of a bathroom with carpeting.
Example of the above from the DeepSeek app.
Screenshot showing the X profile pages for OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google Gemini App, Mistral, Qwen, and Anthropic.
Chrome tabs with ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Le Chat, Qwen Chat, and Gemini. The DeepSeek tab title includes "Into the Unknown".
DeepSeek R1 with search. "Sorry, DeepSeek’s search service is busy. Please disable search or try again in a few minutes."
Screenshot from the last part of Simon's post
Claude's response was limited as it hit the maximum length allowed at this time.
"You're now part of a global network of developers" from an email
Screenshot of chat. See gist for full transcript.
A screenshot from the guide showing rules for slices.
Bluesky dataset on huggingface showing no results for "asmeurer"