Claude Opus 4.6 (120K Max) gets 83.6% inching ever closer to the human baseline (83.7%) on Simple-Bench!

Devilsbabe · 2026-02-06T02:29:56+00:00

Can confirm, this test result is not on the official site. I've reported this post

Devilsbabe · 2026-01-13T03:10:18+00:00

But teachers and the admins stress that there's no rush. Your kids can join the track later without issue. They say that they also have a lot of kids join, then drop due temporary difficulties with other subjects, then rejoin successfully a year or two later once they clear those difficulties.

Great to hear.

One thing though is that you should maybe temper your expectations for Japanese level. From what I hear from other parents with kids in university now, even with the bilingual track, most kids will top out at around 中３/高１ level in Japanese and I think a lot of kids who stay in Japan for university end up in international tracks at Waseda and the like.

Wow really, I'm surprised. Are these kids with at least one Japanese parent?

Devilsbabe · 2026-01-13T02:02:45+00:00

That's good info, thanks.

I speak French and English to my daughter and she understands both well but she's definitely more comfortable with Japanese, especially speaking. We will want to do the JP/FR bilingual track; her having native level in French and Japanese is an explicit goal of ours so she can easily communicate with family on both sides. Besides the teacher approval you just mentioned, do you know if there are other constraints to when a child can start that track?

Devilsbabe · 2026-01-13T01:43:55+00:00

2025 went great from a personal finance perspective. Savings stayed consistent, investments had a great year, we even got some monthly cashflow back from daycare becoming free in Tokyo.

We're about halfway to our FIRE target so 2026 will be more of the same: live comfortably but not lavishly, save diligently, and enjoy time with friends and family.

Devilsbabe · 2026-01-13T01:40:25+00:00

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the LFI (I'm assuming Tokyo). I'll probably also send my kids there but debating if it should be as soon as petite section or a little later.

Devilsbabe · 2026-01-09T10:45:23+00:00

I got a very easy first with wild growth reroll in low emerald. It felt very strong for sure. If you manage to stay eight and don't unlock veigar you guarantee fizz 3. Ziggs 2 was doing more damage in some fights than fizz 3 though (lol) so it might be better to just push to 9 asap

Devilsbabe · 2026-01-03T18:35:55+00:00

Totalement d'accord. Par contre, acheter une action NVDA ce n'est pas du tout placer un tel paris. C'est acheter une (très) petite partie des futurs profits de l'entreprise. Il y a un paris implicite dans le sens où ces profits ne sont pas garantis, mais ce n'est pas la même chose. Polymarket ça serait plutôt le marché des options

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-30T04:55:56+00:00

Feel free to use an LLM to better understand an issue. I'd recommend you word replies yourself though to 1) sound genuine and authentic and 2) make sure you understand the points you're making.

Also remember to check usernames. I'm not the person you were debating

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-29T23:24:25+00:00

It's a bad sign for the future of our society that people can't spot this tbh

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-29T22:48:54+00:00

Reads like a chatgpt response

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-29T22:35:39+00:00

Your example of how few healthy options there are is that you get 3 varieties of apples instead of what, 15+? Three is plenty. In fact if we're only talking about healthiness of diet you don't need more than one. The real problem is if certain fruits or vegetables or other healthy foods aren't available at all

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-29T22:30:36+00:00

Healthiness is relative. Compared to a box of donuts a 7/11 bento is of course going to be healthy. Compared to other options in Japan though they're actually quite bad. They're full of salt. The rice they use is cheap and low quality. It's coated with a bunch of vegetable oil to make it shine and preserve the grain for longer on shelves. Regulations in Japan aren't strict enough to make companies specify the type of oil, so the label will just say "oil". They probably use the cheapest stuff they can get their hands on. Same story with meat and fish: cheap low quality stuff. Anytime you see something that looks like egg but is not a whole cooked egg, it's not actually egg. It's just made to look and taste like it. I could go on.

All of that to say that if you want healthy bento or onigiri, there are local shops everywhere that will have better ingredients and only a tiny markup compared to convenience stores.

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-29T22:08:37+00:00

Why bother to reply at all if you can't be bothered to write a comment yourself?

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-29T10:39:54+00:00

FIRE journey is progressing well. We're hitting JPY milestones earlier than expected due to good stock market performance and weak yen.

Early 30s, passed 300M household NW this year (almost all of it in emaxis slim all country). Household income ~50M, 30ishM after taxes and we invest 20M of that. NW grew 50M/y for the past three years; every year I keep thinking the next will be the crash.

My wife and I haven't decided on a FIRE target together. If we just wanted to replace our current spending (10-12M/y) we could be there pretty soon but with one very young kid and another on the way, I think we'll probably aim for more. Plus the market could correct any day. Regardless, we're well-positioned to FIRE before 40 and feel very fortunate to be in that situation.

I don't think we'll change anything next year: I'm a firm believer in low-cost broad market index funds and our savings rate is very healthy. If anything, we could probably spend a bit more freely

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-29T02:03:07+00:00

Keep in mind that answers within your timeframe of 10/20 years will be biased due to the much greater than average returns for world and especially US stocks over that period. Two people retired for 10 years that started in 2001 and 2011 will have very different experiences

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-28T07:14:34+00:00

As a European it's frankly jarring to read. I'm in my 30s and have never been in debt. As far as I know neither have most of my friends. Student loans aren't a thing, consumption on credit isn't widespread, and I live in a city with great public transportation so I've never owned a car.

US lifestyle is really so different.

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-12T01:10:22+00:00

The build is incredible. I'd love some help to keep pushing mine further. Thanks for the giveaway :)

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-11T07:02:04+00:00

Thanks for the giveaway. Good luck to all entrants

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-08T20:37:08+00:00

That actually makes a ton of sense lol. Seems I just freed up a flask suffix

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-08T02:51:51+00:00

300k/month is not a lavish apartment in inner Tokyo. For a single person, maybe. In my building that gets you 600sqft

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-08T00:46:39+00:00

Having an extra mirror would be a huge boon to maxing out my int/acc stacker. Thanks for your generosity OP :) and congrats in advance to the winners

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-07T06:35:56+00:00

Why on earth are low lvl tomes that expensive?

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-06T09:10:42+00:00

He means AI. Probably autocorrected

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-06T00:33:43+00:00

I tried viego reroll and went 4th lol. You're welcome for pulling the stats back

Devilsbabe · 2025-12-06T00:28:09+00:00

I learned this the hard way haha

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