https://sebastianspicker.github.io/tags/benchmarks/ Recent content in Benchmarks on Sebastian Spicker https://sebastianspicker.github.io/og-image.png https://sebastianspicker.github.io/og-image.png Hugo -- 0.160.0 en Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://sebastianspicker.github.io/posts/pelican-on-a-bicycle-new-carwash/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://sebastianspicker.github.io/posts/pelican-on-a-bicycle-new-carwash/ In the same February week, the car-wash prompt went viral and Google’s Jeff Dean posted an animated pelican riding a bicycle. Seven months later the car wash has been absorbed into proper benchmarks, and as a single pass/fail prompt it has little left to say. The pelican has become the launch-day ritual instead. This post looks at why a generated artifact outlasts a question with one right answer: information theory, paired comparisons, SVG geometry, the psychology of drawing bicycles, and what happens when the pelican starts to move and has to obey kinematics. It also looks at why the pelican is heading for the car wash’s fate.