![]() ![]() Most benchmarks aren't there to tell you the theoretical maximum performance of a phone in lab conditions that aren't reproducible in day to day use, but rather they are there to give you a point of reference for real world comparisons between phones. ![]() There was substantial outrage when it was discovered, as these attempts at benchmark cheating ran counter to the very point of the benchmarks themselves. These development efforts ran the whole gamut, from setting clock speed floors, to forcing the clock speeds to their maximum settings, to even creating special higher power states and special clock speeds that were only available when benchmarking, with these efforts often resulting in just a couple percentage point increases in benchmark. They were all investing time and money into attempts to eke a little bit extra performance out of their phones in benchmarks, in ways that wouldn't have any positive effect on everyday usage, in an attempt to fool users into thinking that their phones were faster than they actually were. At the time, the investigation found that almost every manufacturer except for Google/Motorola were engaging in benchmark cheating. OEMs of all sizes (including Samsung, HTC, Sony, and LG) took part in this arms race of attempting to fool users without getting caught, but thankfully they eventually stopped their benchmark cheating after some frank discussions with industry experts and journalists.īack in 2013, it was discovered that the Samsung was artificially boosting its GPU clock speeds in certain applications, sparking a series of investigations into benchmark cheating across the whole range of manufacturers. Interested in technology news? Bored of this content? You may find these sites interesting:Ĭomments? Suggestions? Criticism? Praise? I'm happy to hear you out - just send me a PM or leave a comment in the stickied thread.A few years ago there was a considerable uproar, when numerous major manufacturers were caught cheating on benchmarks. Multiple posts with similar titles are filtered out via a string comparison filter function, which mostly eliminates the flood of articles that follow major news announcements. A simple additional additional spam filter is used by the bot to filter out posts that /r/technology's moderators/spam filter didn't catch. Content that ends up in the spam filter usually stays in the spam filter (it's usually from site-wide banned domains that /r/technology for some reason approves). WSJ posts automatically get a comment with a paywall bypass link (feature removed due to WSJ disabling Google cache), all posts get a comment with a link to the original /r/technology thread. The bot currently scrapes the "top" page of /r/technology once every ten minutes.Īccidentally mirrored spam, non-news, and other irrelevant content is removed manually. The system is crude but very effective, eliminating most undesirable posts and leaving behind many posts that are usually buried by /r/technology's subscribers. Aladdin ( /u/RealtechPostBot) is a simple bot I made to combat how /r/technology has became a highly political, repetitive, and somewhat circlejerky subreddit.Īladdin scans the top 100 posts from /r/technology, calculates a simple keyword-based score, and reposts submissions whose score is below a certain threshold to /r/realtech. ![]()
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